Absolutely balls motorbike crash compilation

[Bismuth]

Just remember, stopping at a filling station and your laces catching your foot peg and you tip over still counts as a spill

That being said: You're the most vulnerable to have an accident within the first 6 months of getting a new bike. Even if you just change from one bike to another. After that you should be fine. But this is mostly due to rider error than anything else. You can be as safe on a bike as with a car if you ride responsibly. If you ride like a tit, you're bound to get some spills pretty often. It just looks way worse coming on a bike as opposed to being caught up in a vehicle.

I would much rather take a spill and slide it out than suffering a blunt stop. But that's the problem with bikes too. If you hit something and slide, you can't control the slide and will probably hit something blunt too. Think light pole, curb and the likes. Just be aware and ride responsibly and you'll be fine.

Damn, now you are going to make me stop at the bike shop I drive past on the way home...

The SO will NOT like you, lol!

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[SauRoNZA]

Shoe laces... on bike shoes?... I think I know the problem here

Was about to say, if you ATGATT you don't have these problems.

 

[Splinter]

Patience, brother bikers. Have compassion on Splinty for gratuitously deflecting yet another thread to his own agenda. He suffers from quite a severe God Problem. He thinks anyone (and me especially) who believes must perforce be a hypocrite, and he's out to convert them or at least show them up no matter what or where, even in the Tiddlywinks Club. Such evangelical zeal is to be admired!

@Splinty: Do you mean cheapy little ratpak meals or fullblown steak and veg with wine at a good restaurant? That makes quite a diffs. Please let me know what sort of a meal you have in mind for The Poor and I'll do the maths for you.

Just nutritional ones

 

[Splinter]

this video looks like a combination of 3 things.

case 1 FSCking pedestrians thinking they can jsut walk without looking, and a guy on a bike hitting one of them while going relatively slowly and doing something that is actually legal (lane splitting )

case 2 biker is driving like a twat and deserves it (skipping red lights, going too fast, passing on the wrong side of traffic.

case 3 Car being a dumbass, and you would have been in the same accident if you were in a car or a bike. things like turning right from the left lane, skipping red lights, turning through an intersection without checking (its about 40% of the video roughly)


I have been in 2 accidents. and I have had a few more falls (oil or sand)

my one accident was me going too fast and not being able to stop when a robot changed. 100% my fault.
the other I was stopped at a slipway with cards coming past and a dumb blond rammed into the back of me and wrote off my bike, because she was not paying attention. nothing I could have done differently would have prevented that.
I have also hit a pedestrian who walked out through traffic without looking. when he got up I punched him in the face and he went down like a bag of potatoes. trust me, him and all his friends that was with him will pay more attention in the future.

I think there is at least one other case - did you notice how many of the bike accidents shown involved a bike with a passenger? Seems to me the ability of a bike to avoid an accident is very hampered by having a plus one.

Anyway, was driving home from work today on the N1, and had two bikes come past, lane-splitting, at what I deemed, conservatively, to be 60k's faster than than the crawling traffic. Now, I know this is one of the main advantages of having a bike, but it is just plain silly when every biker I know of (and from what I've read), thinks car divers are nit-wits who do not keep an eye out for bikers. Now, if you know this, why are you you tempting fate?

Just looking at the vid, it seems even if you are a good biker, the chances are good that a car will just simply not see you and potentially take you out. And bikes simply do not have the protection of a modern car. Bikes must be awesome for people to take on the risk.