Reading about Nelsons bad news get me wondering how many of us have been knocked off their bike. Including just being hit by a car.
No, but I knocked off a car............. .......Ah, didn't mean that........I meant I ran into a car and knocked myself off. AL
Not yet! But I have no doubt at sometime it will happen. Unless I sell my bike and give up riding, which ain't going to happen anytime soon!
A car pulled out on me about ten years ago, knocking me off my bike. I shouted at her.. "didn't you see me". She shouted back at me, "my father died last week". ........words fail me !
Only once, about 30 years ago. Another bike knocked me off. Hit the handlebar from behind. I went down (not fast), he flipped into a hedge, but was unharmed. I've fallen off many times, nearly always from overexuberance and my own mistakes. Touch wood, not for the last 10 years, though. I did "lay the bike down" once (ridiculous expression). Still don't know how I did it. I was trying to avoid a large Fiat Ducato which had pulled out on me. Slithered feet first under the van, which had fortunately stopped. Half of me disappeared under it. The bike missed it. i only sustained a wrecked pair of jeans and a scratch on my hand. Pantah was another story.
Hit a car side on when she all of a sudden without warning turned in front of me, went straight over the top wrote her car and my bike off, they where trying to do me for wreakless driving, she said i was speeding because she looked and i wasn't there. I mentioned in court that she never checked her blind spot, she replied "her car doesn't have a blind spot" I won the case and her insurance paid for for my written off bike. Luckily I didn't break anything other than bad bruising and a concussion. At 1st when the police arrived i couldn't even remember which way up the street i was travelling!! A week later it all came back. I remembered shouting you stupid bit** as she turned in front as i was overtaking. Apart from that big one, i had loads when i was 17/18 on my GP 100, all my own fault, hitting diesel in the road and wet grids on bends. And a lot of near misses.
Twice. Once fast, once slow. F-ed my left shoulder both times Got new bikes out of it both times :smile:
Yep as in London on average down on my ass one time in every 12 months (statistics) but only half of those statistically not my fault. So far only injured pride and bike (3 times by someone, two times as I was stupid). Do not count the silly 10mph wobble to ass conversion.
Two years ago - rear ended in a line of stationary traffic, bike was a cat b write off, I had whiplash but nothing more. 28/11/2014 - the big one. Car pulled out of a side road as I was passing at about 50 mph. Broken left femur very badly, broken left hip and cracked pelvis. Still in occasional pain and undergoing treatment now. Had one operation on the leg to insert a gamma nail and screws, will be having another in 2014 to remove it. Hope to be back on a bike by Easter 2014
Yup, me too.... It's the best therapy! Fortunately I wasn't on the Duke, and was going to be selling the bike I was on within a few weeks anyway, so it saved me the hassle..
My fault / mistake - hit a vectra head on @ 40-50mph combined. Not my finest day - wrote off my bike, his car, got myself on the permanent disability register and broke Justine's leg. Every cloud etc - Justine sued me for plenty which funded another bike and hopefully our impending house move!(together still that is lol). As an aside - had dubious pleasure of listening to air ambulance crew and normal ambulance crew arguing who was gonna take me to hospital!!:smile:
Despite several crashes, only actually been knocked off once and that was by a scooter! I was stopped in the middle of the road to turn into a driveway and a guy on a Vespa ran into the back of me at about 40mph.
Hang on a sec! I'm assuming Justine is your partner/wife/lover/confidant/all of the above, and was riding pillion at the time (unless you smashed into her car) and she sued you and you got a bike out of it? I'm very curious how that worked
Does being hit side on by a lorry count ? No injuries thankfully although from my own admission I did perform some mid air acrobatic moves which were worthy of a Gold medal. The lorry driver then said "I didn't see you" haha as I looked at my crumpled yellow VFR
