So on the way to work today i saw an L plater scooter get cleaned up. It looked messy. And with no gear on (only sloppy joe, cargos and sneakers and open faced lid) the odds were seriously stacked against him. I hope he does makes it.
With my broken shoulder, bone graft, plate and 8 screws still all slinged up, which granted is only a scratch compared to our dear forementioned scooty i thought id start a thread to see what you lot have done to yourselves in order to prematurely try to meet your maker.
To set some ground rules. If you saw the light but didnt return, please don't respond. We dont want to hear ghosts' stories. Also it must be bike related. No 'my wife shot me', 'backed over me accidentally with the jeep' and my favourite "my husband threw the hairdryer into the bath' kinda stuff.
Pics will also gain additional credits.
May the scar off begin!
With my entire riding experiance consisting of riding a mates 380 suzuki for about 8minutes before crashing it I went out and swapped my car for my first bike, a 500cc triple cylinder 2 stroke Kawasaki Mach 111. This infamous machine had a wicked power band, very flexible frame and tendency too wobble and tankslap at the mere sight of a corner. Called the Widowmaker, it had "performance to make your hair stand on end,handling to make it fall out". A more unsuitable first bike could not be found.
After the third accident landed me in Nowra hospital with concussion (could explain a lot) my Dad threatened to chop it up with an axe, so I traded it in on a much more sensible 250 Ducati . . . and thereby started my Ducati fixation, Thanks Dad [thumbsup]
Mine was a later model than this, but you get the idea.
1970 Kawasaki Mach III (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie0gBFLS3yc&feature=fvwrel#normal)
I hope the guy on the scooter is OK.
With such fabulous credentials I love to see the protective gear the rider is wearing. [thumbsup]
Quote from: mattyvas on February 14, 2011, 11:36:18 PM
With such fabulous credentials I love to see the protective gear the rider is wearing. [thumbsup]
Yes I guess he's going to learn his lessons the hard way.
hmm, ok here goes.
shattered knee cap (Postie bike!)
compression fracture of 4 vertibrae (13 weeks in traction) (RC30)
fracture dislocation right wrist
fractured right forearm, radius and ulna
cracked sternum
two broken ribs
two broken index fingers
knotted testicle
fracture to left scapula (748SP)
fracture to left shoulder
friction burns about 14 of them on knees, ankles, forearms, upper arms, back, including two almost to the bone on my right scapula.
three serious spills, the postie bike was entirely my fault, i was looking at the mail and rode into a pole.
the last one i got hit from behind by another bike on an organised charity ride, i was in jeans and a T-shirt.
the middle one a car pulled out from behind a parked truck and i T-boned it, i was paralysed for a bit as my muscles spasmed around my spine cutting off circulation, luckily i was such a mess on the road i couldn't move and was handled very professionally by the NSW ambos. I'm lucky to be walking, let alone riding so i always wear my gear!
paul.
Farout Paul you better quit while your ahead [roll]
Oh and those knotted testicles a gotta hurt :-\
'93, '96 & '97 so i've been on a decent run (touch wood!) for a while now, and yeah, the testicle issue was painful to say the least, i couldn't feel anything for days, then when my feeling came back i almost wish it hadn't, emergency surgery sorted it though. [thumbsup]
You lost me at knotted testicle. Thanks for not posting a pic. No seriously. Thanks.
i had a bruised and lacerated scrotum (try saying that without grinning) once thanks to a 906 paso fuel tank. only good thing to do with a 906, wheelie into a council works caravan. really destroyed it, but only the stitched up ball bag and broken scaphoid (i think, wrist) to show for it. lost a crappy old leather jacket and a tism great trucking songs t shirt to the big scissors.
hit a 120y with a 900m some years later, rolled the 120y over. which no doubt woke the blind 80 year old pregnant dog driving it up with a start. was only doing 60km/h too. compound tib/fib, humerus, death tooth (wacky huh). apparantly they sent a cop in the ambulance with me to hospital which they do when they think you're going to die. which was pointless, as i told the ambos where i was and what was wrong and they clearly believed me. not really life threatening at all. lost a nice tiger angel jacket and everything else i was wearing to the big scissors. second time i've been buck naked on an er table. at least my nuts weren't pounding so hard it was making me hyperventilate that time.
note: female er doctors have no concept of what a nasty whack to the nuts feels like and, given their neck paranoia, have little sensitivity left in the poke test by the time they've made it down that far. does this hurt? - jab. you make the beast with two backsen bet love. after being pumped full of morphine the first time round and being told i'd feel a little spacy i think i told them to call their dealer cause they'd been ripped off.
Looney wins
Mmick
These stories make me soooo glad I haven't got dangly bits. [laugh] [thumbsup]
Quote from: monstermick58 on February 15, 2011, 04:13:29 AM
Looney wins
Mmick
I dunno mmick, it's a close call between loony and brad at the moment.... Both with horror ball bag stories...
Quote from: heatherp on February 15, 2011, 04:15:39 AM
These stories make me soooo glad I haven't got dangly bits. [laugh] [thumbsup]
And makes those of us who have wince in sympathy pain!
wow it is a close call between brad and loony - but I think brad wins for losing a tism t-shirt as well!
Quote from: heatherp on February 15, 2011, 04:15:39 AM
These stories make me soooo glad I haven't got dangly bits. [laugh] [thumbsup]
From what I have witnessed Heather women can too suffer a similar fate upon receiving a blow to that region. Wasn't a bike accident - pub fight...although I would believe women would not be as susceptible to the road bumps that make men wince every now and again... :o
I am so pleased to be running last in this competition, and hope it stay's that way !
Broken collar bone, finger ,ankle, fluid in the knee (very painful) cracked rib all separate accidents, racing enduro >:(
i think scrotums are the real losers so far.