Re: Tell me your wreck stories
First crash, was riding my 2001 gsxr 750 in i guess 2003 on broad street with a group of friends, one of them starts a wheelie behind me in the left lane and starts to loop it right nex to me, he flips off the back and then the bike lands sideways and shoots over directly in front of me, i hit it and go over the bars, thanks to good gear all i got was a rashed knee, which wouldn't have happened if i had been wearing more than jeans, and broke my shoulder socket, which would have been worse if i hadn't been wearing my vanson with armor, you could see in the armor where it took alot of the impact, bike was totaled
second crash was at VIR's south course last year on my track bike, i think it was like first lap of the second session, coming into the downhill carosel section there was a group of slower riders, they entered and i couldn't see them after because its kind of blind from where i was, i was coming in pretty fast but misjudged their speed and distance, thought they would be through that part by the time i got into it, but when i get into it they are still just in the middle, your turning and downhill so i didn't try and touch the brakes but stood the bike up and jumped the curb on the right trying to go around the guy but its a series left right left turns and as i came off the curb he flicked the bike to the right directly in front of me and i ran into his rear and went down and tumbled, totally my fault, i lay there and watch as my bike is till upright and it goes around the turn with a group of riders all doing double takes at this riderless bike in their group, then it loses speed and stability and just falls over, i just hurt my toe a little bit when i tumbled, messed my helmet and leathers up pretty good but i was fine, the bike was slightly rashed but not bad at all, and the most important thing is the other guy didn't go down, and no one ever came to me in the paddock and cussed me out or even acknowledge that they had a bike ran up their ass
i've had a couple dirt bike and scooter crashes since but not really worth noting