Never Crashed? Please read


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latony007

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There seem to me to be way too many crash posts on here. Makes me think twice. Some people are convinced that everyone goes down eventually. id like to think that's not true and its possible I could survive being a rider into my 50's. I would have to question mine, and really everyones sanity if 100% of bike riders went down. Id like to hear from people who have never been in an accident with a number of some kind. 10 years and accident free, 10,000 miles and accident free etc.

I learned to ride when I was about 12 on dirt bikes and have ridden friends bikes both on the dirt and on street since then but have never bought my own until January. I bought a cruiser which I love to cruise around with the wife or my daughter but was no good for keeping up with my riding buddies street triple or even a can am so enter the FZ6R.

Ill start with me which is about 3000 miles so far no accidents.
My oldest brother road for about 10 years and had no accidents.
My other brother is on about 6 years with no accidents either. He recently changed to a can am and that highly reduces his risk going forward but he had a ninja 650 and concourse before that.

Who else? :)
 
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Pinarello Rider

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Karma and forces greater than me in the universe indicate I should not answer that question. You would do well to not ever ask it. You talking to the pitcher who's got a no-hitter into the 8th.
 
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latony007

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Pinarello Rider said:
Karma and forces greater than me in the universe indicate I should not answer that question. You would do well to not ever ask it. You talking to the pitcher who's got a no-hitter into the 8th.
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LMAO you know I thought someone was going to say that, but I love the pitcher reference. Not a believer in that either. How come mentioning crashing is not bad Karma but mentioning not crashing is? Oh well im guessing there wont be a big list here LOL. Sorry if I broke some forum rule! I'll just stay away from the crash posts from now on :)
 
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BKP

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100 miles, and wrecked 50 times... So, if the God of Averages is watching, you can stop looking in on me, and move on... nothing to see here...
 
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VRIIClubby

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3000km's since my last...
 
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16,800-ish miles, no crashes. If I was gonna crash I expected it to be last weekend down at ROC in STL but it really wasn't that bad, I didn't see any wheelies, just burn outs and some dumb asses speeding (lots of engine revving and loud pipes though).

Although my bike has been down twice (once due to wind, I think the other somebody knock it over while drunk) so maybe the gremlins are all shook out by now.
 
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dart1963

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You're on two wheels, the odds are against you...

gravel, oil, painted lines n the wet, other drivers, other riders, deer, birds, sand, dogs, cats, squirrels, leaves... it goes on and on...

to me the biggest mentality of "it's going to happen", is a rider who thinks "it can never happen to me" will give up riding when (if) it does happen... as opposed to shrugging it off as "well, got my first out of the way, saddle up!"

dropped mine within a week of riding on a little bit of sand... a "crash", more of a drop, but none the less, learned to stay away from the edges of the road when there's sand there.

high side at ten mph... crazy, never thought it could happen, but add a spot oil and a bit of rear end slide and bam, next thing I know, I'm superman (er, or not)... I'm going one way, the bike the other...

can you ride forever without a crash, sure, but the odds are against you and the house usually wins in the end...
 
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arse

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Ending my third season on the streets this year. Somewhere around 40k right now. On my sixth bike. Started on 78 gs750 and quickly realized modern technology is my friend. Owned all sorts of sport bikes, including a cbr1000rr, and I have not yet had any mishaps. Haven't even had a bike of mine tip over yet.

With this said, every year I've been riding I grasp the concept of safe motorcycling and accident avoidance more and more. I ride with the thought of mechanical failure, driver error, and critters all the time. Some of the best advice I've been given is not that you must ride as if your invisible, but to always be planning escape routes in traffic. I know that someday I will go down, and generally I ride suited up enough that if its a rather minor get off I have great odds of walking away. It's the high speed, obstacles in the roadway crash that worries me. There are so many preventative things one can do to offset the scales from the average. I didn't get into motorcycling to be a mediocre rider.
 
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Anthony

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Anyone who talks about NEVER having crashed is jinxing themselves IMO.
 
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arse

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I think about crashing every day. I'd have to be superstitious to believe talking about it today will make me go down tomorrow. You just said in another thread it's inevitable, so why's it matter ?
 
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arse

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To the op, as I stated in Anthony's crash thread, check out the adv rider community forum. Quite a few silver haired, high mileage geezers out there with great track records.

I also ride a snowboard at speeds around 60mph... My idea of crashing is hitting something that does not move. Everything else is sliding around. That's what the gear is for.
 
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JT

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I have not wrecked but I was hit at a 4 way stop sign so that counts. I've dropped my bike twice while stationary

I have about 13000 of street riding


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xleeb0y13x

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Haven't had any issues yet but crashing isn't something I fixate on. I'm aware of things but one never knows.


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Bert-Aus

Bert-Aus

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I try to watch crash videos weekly to keep myself centred and remind myself to not get squidy.
Cant say that I have crashed a moto (as yet) but I have dropped my ride after locking the front wheel and tipping her over in the shed when I firgot the stand was up.
There are somehings you have no control about in this world and that is where ATGATT comes to play.
 
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MistahT

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Car accidents aside, I rode a few scooters above the 3,000 mile mark, put about another 3,000 on my first motorcycle (GS500E), and just ticked 4,000 on my FZ6R in my first year of ownership (last year I had a 3 mile round trip commute, gimme a break :D).

Of course, I thought the same thing. Maybe I'll never go down! I said this to a friend of mine the night before I went down. And I thought about not wearing armor cause my commute is literally under 5 minutes. Glad I did or I would have possibly broken my knee cap!

The important thing is to always be prepared if God, fate, luck, a cager, that patch of gravel, or your tires decide it's time to go down.
 
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Rabbitman109

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I put on close to 16,000 miles before having an accident. I haven't been involved with another vehicle thankfully, but like Don said, the odds are against you. So many scenarios, and really, it is hard to be prepared for them all. I am going to disagree with you, I feel that everyone will go down at some point. Even if it is a minor mistake, it still counts. Especially as time goes on and more and more drivers continue to not pay attention. How will you avoid the car that pulls out in front of you that didn't see you, and you have a split second to respond? Everyone likes to think that they could avoid it, but you have no real way of knowing until you are in the situation. The longer someone goes accident free, the more likely it is that they become complacent. I think having accidents can make someone a better rider, if they use it as a learning experience. I know I have used mine that way.
 
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leem00

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latony007 said:
There seem to me to be way too many crash posts on here. Makes me think twice. Some people are convinced that everyone goes down eventually. id like to think that's not true and its possible I could survive being a rider into my 50's. I would have to question mine, and really everyones sanity if 100% of bike riders went down. Id like to hear from people who have never been in an accident with a number of some kind. 10 years and accident free, 10,000 miles and accident free etc.

I learned to ride when I was about 12 on dirt bikes and have ridden friends bikes both on the dirt and on street since then but have never bought my own until January. I bought a cruiser which I love to cruise around with the wife or my daughter but was no good for keeping up with my riding buddies street triple or even a can am so enter the FZ6R.

Ill start with me which is about 3000 miles so far no accidents.
My oldest brother road for about 10 years and had no accidents.
My other brother is on about 6 years with no accidents either. He recently changed to a can am and that highly reduces his risk going forward but he had a ninja 650 and concourse before that.

Who else? :)
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I guess it all depends on what you consider going down....

Are drops the equivelent to going down? In my book yes as it is usually a result of lack of attention to detail.


I have had my motorcycle license since 2002. Thats 11 years of being able to ride, I have had 3 different motorcycles in that time: Honda night hawk 450, Honda shadow Sabre, and now this Yamaha FZ6R.

Between the Sabre and the FZ6R I took three years off from riding as I had some health issues and a couple of incidents on the motorcycles caused me to rethink how I was using the vehicles. (I was using the motorcycles as a daily driver and got complacent-reads opened my self up to more risk)

I mainly use the fz6r for fun, occasional as my Daily driver but only when I plan to take the long way home.

All this being said in the 8 years of actually owning a bike I counted 10 times I went down (this includes drops) over the course of 80,000 miles on the three bike combined. Guess what I am still riding...

THe MSF courses back in Massachusetts stressed its not a matter of IF it is a matter of WHEN...that also why the stress good gear selection.

Personally, I may have a slight death wish... or maybe I am not afraid to die doing something I enjoy.

I also just finished 2,600 miles on the bike in 10 days (really more like 5 with other vacation plans in the middle) and pretty much have not been on it since I got home.

It is all a matter of risk vs reward...you have to make the decisions for yourself... Me I love to ride... hell its one of the few things I can still do that I enjoy...

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HotSauce

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I just hit 3660 miles, first bike I've owned, haven't crashed. I don't get on my bike every day expecting that one of these days I will go down, but then again I don't get in my car every day expecting to get into a wreck. You can't prevent everything, but you can stack the odds in your favor...check your bike regularly to narrow the chances of mechanical failure, check your surroundings regularly to narrow the chances of someone cutting you off, check the road as your riding to avoid potholes, etc.

I push the limits at times, and simply increasing your speed decreases the amount of time you have to react, but I can mitigate most of the common causes (sand, oil, potholes...) by pushing the limits only on roads I know well, or that I've scoped just before running at higher speeds.

I like the thread, it's good to hear everyone's opinions; for me I'm not superstitious (how can you be when your birthday is October 13?), but it doesn't bother me if you are. Thanks 'erbody!
 

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