Posted: 9/9/2014 5:44:46 AM EDT
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First off, I am ok. I came out a lot luckier than nden.
Hit a deer on hwy 281 just a couple of miles south of hwy 152. Deer ran off. My left knee hurts from the bike crashing down on it. I can hobble for now. Hopefully I can at least do that when I wake up. Otherwise I am ok. I rode the bike another 40 miles home. The bike isn't pretty or street legal but it runs. ATGATT! I probably slowed down to around 40mph or so when I hit that doe. All I have is a banged up knee. My jacket is torn up and my pants are probably still usable. I can still walk (hobble). 
On the really good side, all I really need to replace is the headlight assembly and bend the handlebar and gear shifter back and the bike will be just fine aside from some scraped/minorly cracked plastics. 
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Where was it moved from? Glad you are OK, I had a friend that was almost killed when he hit a deer over by Thunderbird lake 30+ years ago. He was in the hospital for 2 or 3 weeks after that accident. I went through my browser history and it didn't show me going into any other forums before making this thread. |
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Dang yesterday was a bad day for motorcycles. As a parent the next to worst call you can get from a child is when there first words to you are "I'm OK but I've been in a crash". My son tried to play pinball with his motorcycle yesterday afternoon. A Durango pulled out in front of him. He bounced off of her and into an oncoming pickup. He was wearing a full face helmet thank God. The worst of his injuries was a broken pinkey finger. Lots of bumps/bruises and sore muscles.
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Glad to hear that you are okay. Helmet? helmet.....................only pussies wear helmets. only place I got road rash was my right knee/shin, but when you go from highway speed to zero on a bike you don't slide far on the pavement, course you get a lot of bodily injuries, imagine it's like jumping off a tall building and smacking the ground. all my clothes were toast, only my shoes survived the crash and they are a bit scuffed |
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Dang, glad you're ok! Sorry, your bike isn't.
I only had one actual hit the ground wreck and it was relatively slow speed going around a tight corner. There was a lot of road dust that had built up since it adjoined a gravel road and my bike shot out from under me like it was on ice. Whipped me from sitting straight up to my head slamming into the pavement so hard it took me a minute or so to figure out what happened. If I hadn't been wearing a helmet it would have busted my head open like an over ripe melon. Had to replace some turn signals and right side grip and it scuffed up the side of the engine but otherwise it survived. I never ever considered riding without a helmet after that wreck. I don't have a bike any more so now I just use my helmet as a tornado shelter 
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helmet.....................only pussies wear helmets. only place I got road rash was my right knee/shin, but when you go from highway speed to zero on a bike you don't slide far on the pavement, course you get a lot of bodily injuries, imagine it's like jumping off a tall building and smacking the ground. all my clothes were toast, only my shoes survived the crash and they are a bit scuffed Quoted:
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Glad to hear that you are okay. Helmet? helmet.....................only pussies wear helmets. only place I got road rash was my right knee/shin, but when you go from highway speed to zero on a bike you don't slide far on the pavement, course you get a lot of bodily injuries, imagine it's like jumping off a tall building and smacking the ground. all my clothes were toast, only my shoes survived the crash and they are a bit scuffed You sure were scrambled for a week or two. 
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You sure were scrambled for a week or two.
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Glad to hear that you are okay. Helmet? helmet.....................only pussies wear helmets. only place I got road rash was my right knee/shin, but when you go from highway speed to zero on a bike you don't slide far on the pavement, course you get a lot of bodily injuries, imagine it's like jumping off a tall building and smacking the ground. all my clothes were toast, only my shoes survived the crash and they are a bit scuffed You sure were scrambled for a week or two.
yes I was, took a bit for those coma & brain meds to wear through so I could stop talking like a skipping record, but I didn't die or end up like a fucked up legless incoherent vegetable in a nursing home like all the docs told my woman & family I would. did test ride a couple of bikes last friday, pretty Goddamned sure I'm going to buy another one one of these days once I get funds built back up. |
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August 2005, Grand Junction CO. Lady in a Jeep Cherokee fails to yield, turns left across a state highway in front of me, I hit her in her left front wheel. Bike totaled, I was sewn up and sent on my way. http://www.pbase.com/wingman26/image/47849875.jpg some day I'll get around to posting pics of my bike after accident sitting in tow yard garage, and me sitting on the bed at house a couple of weeks after getting out of worthless wasteoftime rehab. something of how bike looks after impacting solid head on at 60+mph into quarter panel side of suv hard enough to spin suv 180deg |
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I was going maybe 20 or 25 mph when I hit that Jeep, kinda hard to say for sure, in any case I came out pretty lucky. The Jeep driver couldn't see an ORANGE 900 lb motorcycle...that bike was beautiful! Here's another lucky one.  Biker sticks the landing after an impressive accident flip OR How to run a red light and destroy a perfectly good GL1800! GL1800 rider ran the red light, he was very lucky in this accident. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=30c_1410893950 |
this has been around a while, happened in Sweden, a VW Golf and a Honda RC30.
some captions say the victims (3) were left inside, but the A pillar being cut and common sense says they were extracted and the scene re-created as a traveling display warning against speeding/reckless driving. |
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this has been around a while, happened in Sweden, a VW Golf and a Honda RC30. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/motorcycle-vw-4.jpg http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/motorcycle-vw-3.jpg some captions say the victims (3) were left inside, but the A pillar being cut and common sense says they were extracted and the scene re-created as a traveling display warning against speeding/reckless driving. That's pretty gnarly, worst one I ever dealt with was pretty gruesome. Not gonna go into the details on here but it was a fatality. |
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then there's this one that happened around Tulsa in 2007.
alas, a helmet didn't help him at all. ("i heard a thump and motorcycle pieces started passing me") |
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Quoted: then there's this one that happened around Tulsa in 2007. alas, a helmet didn't help him at all. ("i heard a thump and motorcycle pieces started passing me") Your link is dead, please test links in the preview screen when posting them. Here is the corrected link: http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/tulsacrash.asp |
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So still no helmet when you start riding again Nden? hell no, just because I love women doesn't make me a pussy shit Brandi, helmet or helmet less it don't matter, lots of people die in bike wrecks wearing a helmet and lots die helmet less, when God calls your name, you're going. how many people have been in badassed vehicle, boat, plane etc crashes that got all fucked up to hell that don't get back in a vehicle after recovering to go someplace, I know quads caused because of vehicle wrecks that still get in a van/car/vehicle to go someplace out of the house, hell I about died the first time back in 89', it didn't stop me from living the life. have consistent unyielding faith in our Creator and thank him for all the good times & for carrying you through all the hard times in life and giving you the strength and humbleness to continue in life. life is how you live it. maybe someone can get in the archives to pull up the thread where we discussed faith of God, and maybe someone cut/pasted/saved it, it was a good discussion worth reading/rereading. |
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Your link is dead, please test links in the preview screen when posting them. Here is the corrected link: http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/tulsacrash.asp Quoted:
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then there's this one that happened around Tulsa in 2007. alas, a helmet didn't help him at all. ("i heard a thump and motorcycle pieces started passing me") Your link is dead, please test links in the preview screen when posting them. Here is the corrected link: http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/tulsacrash.asp Uh, oh. Somebody found Wingy's #1 posting pet peeve!
Even a helmet can't protect against careless. Very sad for sure.
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hell no, just because I love women doesn't make me a pussy shit Brandi, helmet or helmet less it don't matter, lots of people die in bike wrecks wearing a helmet and lots die helmet less, when God calls your name, you're going. how many people have been in badassed vehicle, boat, plane etc crashes that got all fucked up to hell that don't get back in a vehicle after recovering to go someplace, I know quads caused because of vehicle wrecks that still get in a van/car/vehicle to go someplace out of the house, hell I about died the first time back in 89', it didn't stop me from living the life. have consistent unyielding faith in our Creator and thank him for all the good times & for carrying you through all the hard times in life and giving you the strength and humbleness to continue in life. life is how you live it. maybe someone can get in the archives to pull up the thread where we discussed faith of God, and maybe someone cut/pasted/saved it, it was a good discussion worth reading/rereading. Quoted:
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So still no helmet when you start riding again Nden? hell no, just because I love women doesn't make me a pussy shit Brandi, helmet or helmet less it don't matter, lots of people die in bike wrecks wearing a helmet and lots die helmet less, when God calls your name, you're going. how many people have been in badassed vehicle, boat, plane etc crashes that got all fucked up to hell that don't get back in a vehicle after recovering to go someplace, I know quads caused because of vehicle wrecks that still get in a van/car/vehicle to go someplace out of the house, hell I about died the first time back in 89', it didn't stop me from living the life. have consistent unyielding faith in our Creator and thank him for all the good times & for carrying you through all the hard times in life and giving you the strength and humbleness to continue in life. life is how you live it. maybe someone can get in the archives to pull up the thread where we discussed faith of God, and maybe someone cut/pasted/saved it, it was a good discussion worth reading/rereading. We differ on that I guess. After almost a decade of working car and motorcycle accidents and treating victims, I can say with 100% certainty that helmets save lives. Will they save everyone? No, it depends on the severity of the accident and about a million different factors but there's no doubt that your survival rate, in a survivable accident, goes up dramatically when wearing a full face helmet. Motorcycles are dangerous, we all know that so wearing a full face helmet is a smart decision. It's also a personal decision and I fully support the right for anyone, over 18, to ride lidless if they choose. I didn't like wearing a helmet and I didn't always do it but after cleaning up enough accidents and having my own close call I decided I'd rather up my survival chances and give up a small part of the enjoyment. A helmet won't save you in an unsurvivable accident but not wearing one can kill you in a survivable accident. I have no issues with you go helmetless, everyone should live their life to the most and most of us don't. I believe everyone has the right to live their life however they want, as long as it doesn't infringe on others rights of course, and I don't care if pisses off some politician or religious leader somewhere. |
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I've got right at 300,000 miles on motorcycles and you will never catch me on a bike without a helmet. When I started riding in the early 60's nobody wore a helmet, the shop down here didn't even carry helmets. In 1968 we had a helmet law for under 18, and my thinking was that since I was over 18, I didn't need no stinkin helmet! I might get one and wear it on the highway, but I don't need one around town. That was stupid, you are far more likely to get into an accident around town than on the highway, but accidents on the highway are much more severe. Anyway, in 68 I was hit head on by a drunk in a Chevy Impala, I went completely over the car and landed in the gutter, on my shoulder, I only had a small bump on my head. Thinking about it made me realize that a slight shift in my impact point, head instead of shoulder, I would have been dead or seriously brain damaged rather than treated and released, I've worn a helmet ever since. I see too many people getting killed in low speed accidents where if they had been wearing helmets they would have only had minor injuries, I've seen a couple of reports of zero speed accidents where the riders were killed by simply falling off their bikes while stopped! Very simply, it is stupid not to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle, there is too much evidence that helmets save lives to ignore that fact. In 2005 I had my second accident, I was wearing a helmet, I had no head injury but would have suffered one if not wearing a helmet, instead of head injuries I was treated and released, which is what often happens when wearing a helmet. |