Near misses and crashes - What's you're story?

[DjPete]

Just had a crash myself. Most of us have been there. Had a near miss or crash. How did you go? What did you learn? Has anything changed?

What's your story?...

[jamdonut]

Biggest near miss, Mr big fat bastard Goanna on the Old Pac 2011, banked over at 50 degrees on a single laned road and there he was across the road, he just moved out of the way, reckon I would of been gone if I hit him, the same again the next week. Goood to have a loud pipe to be heard coming. Last year had a head on with a granny that pulled out in front of me at a t-junction, went over her car landed helmet and shoulder first. Walked away from that one. Still going to court, she denies being at fault. Headbutted a crow on a ride, and a few other close ones. I'm a little careful now on the old pac, but see other riders go flying around corners with no safe outs.

[revhead]

i got taken out by a police car ,i was in a 60k zone ,he was in the left lane i was in the right lane ,(dual carriage way)when all of a sudden he chucked a u turn ,keep in mind i was beside his drivers door when he did this ,re-regardless to say i spent 9 months in hospital ,with a lot of problems
broken left ankle,broken right knee,2 broken little fingers ,half of the skin missing on my back,bruised the right side of my brain and was paralyzed down the whole left side of my body,also had the gear lever go completely through my left foot and break 4 toes,and ive had a lot of near miss,s since bc i expect idiots in cars to not see me!

[jamdonut]

Worst case of police brutality I have ever heard of. Did they compensate you adequately?

[revhead]

Worst case of police brutality I have ever heard of. Did they compensate you adequately?

no never saw a penny the n.s.w police force hide the officer who hit me ,and the funny thing was although there were 20 people around me helping me ,there were no witness,s funny how that works,

[storm]

Just before Fitzroy crossing.hot day making some time.saw a cow on the right side grazing peacefully.thought I will go past quick, open the taps and see 2 calves from the left side running side by side to join the cow.on the brakes on the centre line decelerating fast and thinking getting new bus a and 2 calves pass in front of my wheel side by side,( usuallyi look both sides when I am riding but that day did not look left hmmmm).
T boned fully cranked into corner , thrown 50 ft gsxr1k in 3 pieces just sore released from hospital next day.thanks to full leathers, protectors.

[DAD]

I have had a lot of close ones over the years but the funniest was about 28 years back.
I was on my way to work in the rain early hours of the morning and it was still dark a cop car is heading towards me in the opposite direction then all of a sudden he hits the brakes get its all side ways I think crap this dude is going to hit me so I gas it up to get out of the way and thank my luck stars he didn't hit me only to get pulled over by this cop and booked for speeding. I love our Police Force

[pan]

Going around a left corner in the National Park (Sydney) back in 2005, doing about 70, cranked over moderately, had a fallen tree branch laying all the way across the road, about 2 inches thick. Relaxed muscles, weight on pegs, looked through the corner.

Bike jumped to the right about 1m (felt like 3m), onto the other side of the road, and kept turning in back to the left side of the road. No oncoming traffic, kept it upright, changed my undies when I got home.

[Batfink]

not sure you would call this a near miss.. but definetly something that makes me stop and check weather these days LOL
A ride from Launceston to Coles Bay on east coast of Tassie up over Lake Leak in mid October. I was on my old GSXR750 a lot of years ago wearing my squid gear back then.. boots, jeans, t-shirt, denim jacket and fingerless gloves. There was a cold snap in hills that afternoon and was snowing as I got up near the top (needless to say I was bloody freezing) so I pulled off main road and went to local pub. I can still remember my mind freaking out as I stopped the bike out front and found my legs and hands were locked in position from the cold. Bike and me fell sideways and I was lucky not to break my leg or get serious burns.
Once the people in the pub stopped laughing they helped me out... took me many days to fully get he cold outta my hands

[DjPete]

I have a recent one similar to Batfink. About a yr ago I'm off to Parkour as I do every Sunday. I wear my Parkour gear so no protection unfortunately, hey I don't crash anyway. :-)
I have my Dunlop volleys on.
Stop at a set of lights go to put my foot down and the shoe lace loop has tangled in the foot peg. Just managed to rip my foot down before I dropped the bike.

Always tie laced shoes in double knots with no big loops.
Lesson learnt.
Sometimes it's the stupid little things that can bring you unstuck.

[revhead]

hahahaha pete, i had a mate many years ago ,we were both on z1000, for me z900 for him.we pulled up at a stop sign ,i looked to my left to see said mate and z900 laying on the groundit ,i said wtf are you doing ,he said,theres lose rocks ,i put my foot down and well fell over,lol

the same guy about 6 months after this was perving on some chics at a bus stop ,and at 30k ran up the arse of a car ,i was right behind him,and there was a cop behind me ,the cop said ,um you were looking at the girls werent you ,he said um yup!

[pan]

Thought I'd mention this, before bloody Loafie does!

Picture tells 1000 words...

[CeeJay07]

Nice pipes Pan.

[revhead]

Thought I'd mention this, before bloody Loafie does!

Picture tells 1000 words...

thats um pretty dam horrible

[pan]

Shut up CJ!

Looks bad. Rode out of the dirt slowly. Came through it with zero damage rev!