sounds about right, widowmaker lol, first one a 94 blade, i was stationary at a junction,car hit me head on cutting the corner, other a 2006 blade, old woman didnt stop at a t junction, wiping me out as i passed, still here though, just ; )
How can you not see a bright red bike with a headlight on, ridden by someone wearing dayglo rompers & helmet, well within the speed limit, when there's not a single other vehicle on the road and you are five feet from them? Answers, please (cause I haven't a fuggin clue ... )
Normally because (heres my theory) * headlights on makes it difficult to gauge speed and as a lone rider during daylight hours is very dangerous * they are expecting a bike to be travelling at road speeds, not warp factpr 10 * bikes merge into the background and only see them when ontop of them * they are ferkin bind!
Actually it was only a side light, as I said, I was well within the speed limit, greenery everywhere except me, no she was not blind ... but here's my (serious) theory: she was a local woman - this happened just outside my village - and as she was familiar with the junction she did not look carefully; she. scanned for car shapes and looked too far down the road. Also she had two small kids in the back & I think she paused at the junction to attend momentarily to them and didn't double check before she pulled out.
Btw that was mostly my serious theory, the lights and speed thing anyway. Only reason I haven't had loads of bikers off is I know the roads that are used by bikers locally, they will be travelling at speed, and I look at least 3 times and its the only time I look behind as I go to pull out (which in my book you shouldnt - you shouldn't be looking where you are going) all too often we bikers blame others for what is our fault, either with lack of obs or planning or excessive speed combination. not directed at anyone, just a general observation based on experience (incl my own riding) over the years tbh I find this kind of thread a bit willy waving and distasteful: each to their own :smile:
just think people are complacent, how many times do people pull out on you when you are driving? guessing most days, happens to me most days, and i wonder why a young mum with 3 kids in the car would pull out in front of a van right on top of a junction, people are real lazy and cant be arsed to wait 30 seconds, i count myself in this when i see a lorry or something coming and i dont want to get stuck behind them whip out quick , but being a biker, i dont do it to bikes as i know the danger, non bikers dont
Yup... 7/7/2012 car decided to turn right in stationary traffic just as I was filtering past, insurance paid out quickly but the claim is still ongoing as is my physio.
1995 first visit to IOM TT spaniard forgot which side of the road to ride on and in the resulting Head-on the ZZR1100 2 up made a mess of me and my '93 900SS. Broken left Hand, cracked shoulder blade and everything else on my left side was badly bruised. Insurance paid out more than I had given for the bike so I bought a '94 900SS, still got it. 2004 sitting in a short traffic queue waiting for the front car to make a right turn, heard a groaning of brakes and then my mirrors were full of Range Rover and I did a half twist in the pike position and finished up sat on my arse on the centre line inches from the oncoming traffic. Insurance paid a fair price for a 7 year old 916 biposto with 45,000 on the clock, bought the 98SPS, still got it too.
i think its human nature and bike web site nature to be liberal with the sequence of events when describing these things, more often than not they are not as clear cut as we and the rest of us would want others to believe. More often than not a simple SMIDSY explanation on here has glaring errors strewn through it or the story doesn't add up, sometimes through not getting the full story, sometimes because of the above. One mans 'filtering' is another's overtaking, one persons they didn't see me is another's well why didn't YOU do something about it before it happened.......and so on. Its about taking a responsibility for yourself through observation anticipation and planning..........which ironically is OAP. still.....
oi babes, I didn't mean your theory wasn't serious, I was referring to my first post :redface: Anyway, I haven't got a willy
Got a fella on a push bike cross the road in font of me. Took his bike fom under him, put me down and into a scaffold type fence. Thankfully nothing broken, just lots of bruising and soft tissue damage, and a bent gsx400ez (fixed up and served me for a few more years after). does make me feel lucky reading some of the stories on here.
Just thought I'd compile a list of my crashes caused by cars: 1982. Going round a roundabout. Hit by a Lancia Beta entering the roundabout. Driver did not stop. 1986. Hit by a yellow Rolls Royce in Knightsbridge driven by a Lebanese banker. Police motorcyclist following almost taken out as well. Driver couldn't see to read the form the cop gave him or the car numberplate across the street! Paid cash and over the odds for replacement of everything. Sweet. 1988. Nearly new Ford Sierra turns right out of left hand lane. Hit him on my CBR600 - wrote the Sierra off! Both CBR and rider miraculously ok. 1996. Car changing lanes on Hammersmith Fly-over clips me. Broken wrist. 1997. Sat at traffic lights. Hit at speed by car from behind. Police say impact speed was 40-50mph. 1800mile old Triumph trident written off. Neck and spinal injuries resulting in two fused vertebrae and a perpetual neck problem.
A friend of mine had his brand new Blade for a week when it was written off as a car rear ended him while he was waiting for traffic at a busy roundabout. He gave up biking after that.
2001 - Waiting to turn down road I lived on, Toyota Hilux ploughs into the back of me at 30mph, chucks me and the Transalp down the road. Knackered left knee, ankle and shoulder. Shoulder movement returns to 90% after 8 years of physio. 2004 - Dropped 1200 Trophy on icy off-camber roundabout. 2009 - Sat at T-junction waiting to pull out, OAP behind me not paying attention and decides to nail it into a non-existent gap, driving through me in the process. Knackered left wrist, cracked pelvis. 6 week old Speed Triple considerably worse.
Yes. At least two women I've met have basically taken sexual advantage of me. I felt used, dirty and knocked off. Pretty good, actually Oh, and on the bike - once. 100% other person's fault, as agreed upon by the police, the insurance companies and myself. Settled out of court. Wrote off the bike, the car that caused the collision and my biking career at that time (oh, and probably my marriage too, but that's another thread).
I was once knocked off my bike by a car suddenly turning left across me in the Commercial Road, Stepney, without looking or signalling or even slowing. The car was a Ford Capri painted in grey primer(!). It did not stop (hit-and-run) but was found abandoned in a nearby street by the police a few minutes later - at the same time as the owner was at the police station reporting the car 'had been stolen'. I was lucky I had only a cracked clavicle and contusions.
