Crashes ?

[BlueDevil]

I have personally crashed a 2 wheeled vehicle 4 times in my life. Seems like a lot to me...... But what do I know?


How many times U all crashed in your lifetime? (Morotcycles that is)

Dirt, street, what ever.

1
2
3

Too many to count?

[Feathered upstart!]

Counting both, dozens.

[Cleveland]

with both dirt and street, there are too many to count. i expect to fall off when i'm dirt riding. i have had one nasty on the street and a couple get offs that werent so bad.

[Ytry2]

Street
1st in a Kmart parking lot off of 52nd and Federal (behind Regis University)- Guy pulled out of the parking space and i T-boned him on a Suzuki sp200 3 cracked ribs, bruised lung and heart
2nd - 44th and Newcomb car was making a left hand turn over a double yellow, smacked that fucker at 55 + 3 broken ribs, broken collor bone, fractured petella, ripped out all the legiments of my left knee except my acl.


Racing

1 highside at SCR compund fracture of the fiblia, dislocated ankle
3 lowsides at SCR l
1 lowside at Pueblo sprained ankle
1 Jump off the bike at Sandia motor speedway dislocated hip, brusied kidney.

[Hoopty]

I've crashed about 10, maybe a few more times on street bikes, mostly at the track. On dirtbikes? I couldn't count that on fingers and toes, in my first year alone! It's almost expected to crash dirt biking though, it's a bit different than street.

[ebazyl]

2003 Street: 2
2003 track: 3
2004 track: Lucky 7
2005 track: 1 :321:


10 - Low sides
1 - High side
1 - collision
1 - Don't have the slightest clue :o

[Bertha]

1 - Don't have the slightest clue :o

I bet someone showed you some titties!

[Ytry2]

1 - Don't have the slightest clue :o

Dude that scares me :lol:

[ebazyl]

1 - Don't have the slightest clue :o

Dude that scares me :lol:

Whats scary is that I was running 54s, with a broken thumb and wasted fork seals about an hour after that.

[Ytry2]

2003 Street: 2
2003 track: 3
2004 track: Lucky 7
2005 track: 1 :321:


10 - Low sides
1 - High side
1 - collision
1 - Don't have the slightest clue :o BUT I AM GENE BAZYL, BITCH

[Ytry2]

1 - Don't have the slightest clue :o

Dude that scares me :lol:

Whats scary is that I was running 54s, with a broken thumb and wasted fork seals about an hour after that.

Your right, that is scary :lol:

[BlueDevil]

Shew..... Maybe Im doing ok so far....

Im assuming not injured in all of these huh? Thats a lot of recovery time.....

Broken thumb and still racing... ?

I raced PPIR with ribs... Broke, cracked, bruised...Im not sure. Never went to the Dr. and they all feel about the same and the treatment is the same as well..... So Y bother ?

Ive onlyu had 1 on a dirt bike and it was the worst of all of them... Still aint right after that one in 12/03....... Ill stay off those for a long while

[Hoopty]

Only 1 broken bone in all of my wrecks. LOTS of cuts, scrapes, and bruises though.

[Anonymous]

1 street wreck, totalled the bike and partially separated my right shoulder (still pops from that). Flew over the bars and hit the ground headfirst, always wear your gear!!

1 dirtbike wreck at SCR in the 88's. Lesson: Knobbies just let go when you lean too far. No permanent injuries, but I did get a very slight concussion.

1 pocketbike wreck at SCR in the 88's. Lesson: Achieve full tuck position *before* reaching max speed. Managed to both highside and lowside, with a flip! Other lesson: Even after crashing I still kicked Dean's ass. Could be because he was laughing too hard. Injuries: Rash on arm and knee, scars still present. Girlfriend will not let me ride the pocketbike without full racing gear anymore.

So far that's it, I'm sure I have a nice racebike one coming at me sometime soon.

[Big-J]

Wrecked about 5 times street and track! One broke collar bone, and one broken bone on right hand (5th metacarpal)! :) I never really rode dirt bike's, mostly quads. I have crashed doing that more times then I can count on both hands and feet! :D What Im really surprized about is that I never got hurt except for a few cuts and bruises, and we were always doing crazy/stupid shit too!! :shock:

[~Barn~]

1.) hit by car on a '99 R6
2.) lowside in parking lot on '00 R1
3.) flipped over stoppie on '00 R1
4.) flipped over wheelie on '00 R1

[Gramps]

1 street in '95 or so


also too many on a dirtbike to count

but safe to say i just about kill myself every time i ride a dirtbike

i like to get in fights with trees :lol:

[cu360r6]

7 total crashes in 3 years, 2 on the track, one head injury that almost killed me.

[Anonymous]

I think I win. :oops:

1996 - 1 (street) - sore shoulder but nothing broken
1998 - 1 (street) - a bit of road rash
2001 - 1 (street) - bruised ego
2002 - 2 (1 street - 1 track) - no injury
2003 - 2 (1 street - 1 track) - minor injury in street crash, but nothing broken
2004 - 5 (track) - 1 concussion. Got run over too, but nothing broken.
2005 - 1 (track) - another concussion :(

Total: 13

No dirtbike crashes (never rode one), and it seems that, for most people, they don't fall into the same category.

[Mel]

wow, enough talks about crashes....you are gonna curse me!
I have been riding over 6 years on the street, same bike and no get offs. Been hit by cars 3-4 times, nothing that caused me to "go down" (though one guy picked a fight with me, hit me with his truck at a stop light, then got out and tried to kick me as I was trying to get the bike off my leg).
I think I am hitting the end of my luck though...went canyon carving like a month ago, had the back end come out on me 3 times (enough that it made my heart jump) then got side swiped and knocked into another lane at about 65MPH on I-25 on the way home.

[Vance]

...went canyon carving like a month ago, had the back end come out on me 3 times (enough that it made my heart jump)

Check your tire pressure. Make sure its within specs. I know that can definately cause issues - speaking from the experience of the exact same thing happening to me on the Daytona the first time I took her into the canyons feaking out that my tires were balder than I thought the way she was sliding out on me. Turns out tires were fine. Tire pressure was WAYYYYY off.

[Dysco]

5 street wrecks= 1 broken leg
2 track wrecks= cracked ribs
1 bad dirt wreck= 2 broken ribs

50s are a different story- I'm not gonna talk about that :D

[AshliRider44]

Only crashed on dirt bikes so far..... guess thats what happens when your dad starts you out on a 250 when youre 5"4 :lol: Lucky in the street so far, havent started racing yet so..... hopefully I'm not jinxing myself right now... :shock:

[Mel]

Vance, lost the back end in the gravel....just a lil when you are laid over in a turn will cause a lot of issue.

[~Barn~]

Vance, lost the back end in the gravel....just a lil when you are laid over in a turn will cause a lot of issue.

If you did it 3 times though, you're not paying very close attention to that gravel. :lol:

[Mel]

:321:

[Filo]

Street - 0
Track/racing - 0 (but I am *really* slow)
Dirt Bikes - too many. Broke 2 fingers.

[BlueDevil]

Only crashed on dirt bikes so far..... guess thats what happens when your dad starts you out on a 250 when youre 5"4 :lol: Lucky in the street so far, havent started racing yet so..... hopefully I'm not jinxing myself right now... :shock:


No doubt, Im 5'8 or so and a 250 is still to big for me.... haha



So far my injuries include:

1 dirt bike: Broken collar bone (Never mended even with a plate and 6 screws. , scratched head, huge bruise and lump on side (Might get that removed at the end of this season. Lost the big toe nail too haha

3 track: Lowside at IMI when I first started learning track riding. I was trying to catch Alex K on his F4I....I lost. No injuries

1 Low side: SCR Cold tires and ate it. No injuries

1: Well Im not sure: Brake lever caught a dudes fairing and locked my front wheel at PPIR and ate it on my ribs and head. (Ribs ??? Pulled muscle in back, sprained finger)

[Boy Scout]

2005 - 1 Street - lowside turning into gas station :oops: - a little sore from the fall, but not a scratch on me

2005 - 1 Track - lowside at IMI - a little sore from the fall, but not a scratch on me

Mid-1980's - 1 Street - swerved on a banked curve to avoid obstacle, failed to recover from resulting front-end wobble, went over top side of the curve - a little shook up from unplanned detour, but not a scratch on me

Prior to Mid-1980's - I'm sure I crashed a few times on mini-bikes growing up, but none of them resulted in anything more than a bruise or two, if that.All bikes were ridden home from the crash. :up:

[Jenny]

2 crashes, both on the track, both left turns, both ltimes lost the rear, both lowsides, both just scrubbed in my leathers and did minimal damage to the bike. :D

March '04 @ IMI
May '05 @ PPIR. Woohoo!

[Lel]

My list begins in Jan of 03 when I bought my bike

2003 - 1 street (january, yea long 'make fun of self' story :) in this one)

- 1 Track/Practice (low sided ccw in the horseshoe at SCR)

2004 - 1 Race (burned off of turn 1 at pueblo, was on the brakes to hard
in the dirt I flipped over the front)

- 1 Race (ccw at SCR coming into the House)

- 1 Track/Practice (cw at SCR, second 88, false neutral got nervous, locked up and went off the track and just tucked the front in the dirt)

2005 - 1 Race (low sided coming on to the short straight at ASMA)

[Ytry2]

My list begins in Jan of 03 when I bought my bike

2003 - 1 street (january, yea long 'make fun of self' story :) in this one)


*lol* i know this one *lol* :lol:

[Nick_Ninja]

1982 - Wadded Honda XLR-500 through barbed-wire fence ---- no injuries.

1983 - hit deer on Honda XL-500S --- bruised knee

1984 - Involved in hit & run accident -- fractured / dislocated ankle.

1984 - Hit deer @ ~ 90mph on McClure Pass --- broken thumb and bruised ego. BBQ'd the basted the next month.

No crashes since. 8)


** looks around to find wood to knock on ** :D

[Lel]

My list begins in Jan of 03 when I bought my bike

2003 - 1 street (january, yea long 'make fun of self' story :) in this one)


*lol* i know this one *lol* :lol:

hahah shhh :( yea SADLY it does being in jan of 03 lol

[hcr25]

You kids crack me up. Remember the movie roadhouse with Patrick Swayze,how ever you spell his name. He had his medical report with him so he could save time at the hospital. Usually when we go out of town to race we bring mine with us.
On the plus side all of the MRA ambulance crews know me personally now so no need for it in colorado.Also our doctor is Ray Rossi who is one of the AMA doctors that travels to AMA events.Its nice having a doctor who knows all about what we do.
mike

[Filo]

You kids crack me up. Remember the movie roadhouse with Patrick Swayze,how ever you spell his name. He had his medical report with him so he could save time at the hospital. Usually when we go out of town to race we bring mine with us.
On the plus side all of the MRA ambulance crews know me personally now so no need for it in colorado.Also our doctor is Ray Rossi who is one of the AMA doctors that travels to AMA events.Its nice having a doctor who knows all about what we do.
mike

Yes, Mike, but this doesn't answer the question, now does it :D I seem to remember picking you up at least twice in my years as a corner worker. So tell us - how many crashes?

[hcr25]

1 street crash
27 road race/practice crashes
mike

[Cleveland]

27 road race/practice crashes


:shock:

[ebazyl]

1 street crash
27 road race/practice crashes
mike

Damn, I better start crashing more if I hope to beat that record. :P

Any got some shaged out tires?

[Bertha]

hmm

Mike takes a licken and keeps on ticken!

[Mista Black]

dirt - way too many to count. first really good one at 7 and many many more in the 29 years since.

street - 3 (rear ended twice - once by a car, once by a motorhome - and a highside on monarch pass). i've been hit by 1 car, 1 commercial van and a 70,000lb semi :shock: but didnt go down in any of those... do they count?? if so then 6 all together.

damages to street bikes - 2 totaled bikes and a lot of repairs to my first BMW

damages to me - sprained back, twisted ankle, sprained both wrists, broken wrist, cracked 4 vertabre, broke 4 ribs, collapsed lung, numerous shattered teeth (still workin on that one), broken shoulder, plus LOTS of lacerations, bruises and rash

[BlueDevil]

You kids crack me up. Remember the movie roadhouse with Patrick Swayze,how ever you spell his name. He had his medical report with him so he could save time at the hospital. Usually when we go out of town to race we bring mine with us.
On the plus side all of the MRA ambulance crews know me personally now so no need for it in colorado.Also our doctor is Ray Rossi who is one of the AMA doctors that travels to AMA events.Its nice having a doctor who knows all about what we do.
mike


Ray Rossi is a family doctor or some sort of specialist? My last "Specialist" Had no idea what we do....and whe was the olympic ski team doctor....U think he would have related a bit....

[Ytry2]

1 street crash
27 road race/practice crashes
mike

Dam dude, and you get up and do it again... I like that!

[mra828]

27 road race/practice crashes
mike

I don't even thing Ruben Xaus has crashed that much...

:D

geoff

[Khalid 171]

I have crashed 7 or 8 times in the street/track. Broken bones include arm, hand, collar, femor, tibia, fibula, ankle, a few ribs and my sternum. About 3 concusions.

As far as dirt goes I never rode to much but sure did crash a lot. :oops: Hell I even manage to flip my quad over a few times and just a few weeks ago broke my hip on the quad.. :oops:


Wait until we are about 50 years old and we can barley get out of bed.. :o :o That is going to be bad.

Maybe in 30 years we can have walker/wheelchair races.. :lol:

[RSVR4aCowboy]

Wait until we are about 50 years old and we can barley get out of bed.. :o :o That is going to be bad.

Maybe in 30 years we can have walker/wheelchair races.. :lol:

I am 50 :D
2 street crashes with no injuries, except for my pride.
3 crashes in 04 during race season. Injures in one... Knocked out cold :crazy: Broken scapula, broken collarbone, 6 ribs and bruised kidney and lung.
And it does get harder to get out of bed as you get older ;)
Now, about that Formula 40 class the MRA needs... :twisted:

[hcr25]

one thing you need to take into acount.The end of this year will be my 10th year racing.On average over the 10 years i race 5 races a weekend.
if i count only MRA races i have raced approx. 500 races in the MRA.
If i was to count the CCS,SMRI,CRA,AMA races it might be another 75 or so more races.
So if i crashed 27 times in 500 races what is my crash percentage?
i suck at math so someone figure it out for me :D

[Hoopty]

Looks like a 4.7% crash rate if you count 575 races. :D

[hcr25]

4.7% crash rating! i think that is really good
I think we made up a whole new way to compare against each other :lol:

[Anonymous]

So if i crashed 27 times
...
i suck at math so someone figure it out for me :D

Anyone else seeing some cause and effect here? :lol: :shock:

[Ytry2]

Looks like a 4.7% crash rate if you count 575 races. :D

How did you figur that? i figured 21.29 % crash rate

[Anonymous]

How did you figur that? i figured 21.29 % crash rate
27 divided by 575 (not the other way around) = 4.69% & change.

[Ytry2]

How did you figur that? i figured 21.29 % crash rate
27 divided by 575 (not the other way around) = 4.69% & change.

*lol* oh yea :lol: :oops:

DAM :x i have a 5.76 crash rate out of 104 races Thanx spidy :lol:
double dam, 104 races... gotta love those 2 heat novice races the SMRI had..
1998 2 races
2002 10 races
2003 79 races *smri has 2 heat races per race class*
2004 5 races
2005 8 races

Ahh i know, lets do it per lap precentage

[Anonymous]

Ahh i know, lets do it per lap precentage

:slap:

[Hoopty]

You gotta add in track days too, IMO. :shock:

[Ytry2]

You gotta add in track days too, IMO. :shock:

that makes it harder to count... i would have to take my shoe off to get that high

[hcr25]

mine is total crashes on the race bike, practice and races.Basicaly
i crash 2.7 times a year.Crashing sucks but i hate it when people tell me i crash alot. Since my first full year i have finished in the top 5 in at least 1 class every year.I dont think i could continue to do that if i crashed as much as people think i do.They probably think that because i sometimes crash in a very big way :D
The bottom line is crashing is the shitty part of racing.Some of us crash by making mistakes, others because they ride way above their skills.
We just need to understand and learn from our crashes.
mike

[Bueller]

I wasn't going reply due to the possible jinx factor :|
But the percentage thing got my interest up.
1 really good street highside. bruises and a pressure contusion "popped" the skin open on the side of my elbow, 32 stitches.

4 track, bruises and one real good concussion.
New Racer=5 races
Crash percentage = 80% :oops:

Dirt bikes :lol:
torn ACL left knee
torn ACL and MCL right knee
rode dirt for 33 years and can count only maybe a dozen times that I rode all day without some kind of a get off. :D