Motorcycle crash :(

tsiah · 10-27-2009, 04:52 AM

2 saturdays ago someone decided they were in enough of a hurry to cut me off on my motorcycle.
I had just come around a turn and there's a driveway entrance about 150ft down after you come around the corner. I started accelerating out of my turn, got up to ~45mph and saw a guy going the other direction change lanes into the center turn lane. I saw his signal, I saw him change lanes, I never expected him to immediately turn in front of me! I mean really, who pulls in the center turn lane and doesn't bother to stop!?

I had maybe 10 feet to try and stop so I wouldn't run into the side of the car. I tried to stop. Used both brakes and downshifted as we learned in MSF. It was a bad combination of cold road, cold tires, adrenaline and speed. I locked the front tire up and down I went.
I went down the road on my back a ways, then on my arm and something caught and I flipped feet over head and landed on the grass. The bike went another 200 feet and ended up facing back towards me.

My jacket has a hole in the sleeve, the helmet has a couple of knicks where it hit (I need to have an x-ray taken of it to make sure its still safe to wear...$400 helmet I hope its not ruined! its only 3 months old!) I'm gonna see if I can get the sleeve patched...its a $300 jacket :S

The bike is pretty beat up. The whole left side is ground up pretty good, the frame slider has seen better days, my left muffler, grab handle, mirror are all chewed up. Left inner bar weight broke, bar end weight got thrashed...broken clutch handle, shifter ground down to a stub...

lucky for me, all I picked up was a little road rash on my ankle and scraped on my wrist, and 2 of my fingers.

Pics to follow-

tsiah · 10-27-2009, 05:27 AM

I forgot...the damage to me!

I got some road rash on my back too. Its almost healed already.

zoldrin · 10-27-2009, 05:51 AM

That's so fucked up man! Glad you are alright! Did the other party stop or do a runner? Will their insurance pay for your bike? Some people are complete fuckwits when it comes to driving, they probably didn't even look!

rocket2000 · 10-27-2009, 07:35 AM

I've had to kick a many car doors to keep people from merging into me. That sucks dude I know sliding across asphalt doesn't feel very good.

hondaprelude88 · 10-27-2009, 07:35 AM

Glad your alright, 300 bucks for a helmet, worth every penny.

prelude1897 · 10-27-2009, 08:12 AM

damn man, at least you're alright. I hope the guy stopped and helped out

Busabos77 · 10-27-2009, 08:27 AM

well important thing is that you are okay and that the bike is not totalled... That happened to me too and I have road rash on my shoulder and my knees... almost 90% of the time... its the car's fault... they always say that they did not see us... If you really think about it... car drivers that own and ride bikes pay more attention and become more courteous to riders since we already know how it is to be on both bikes and car. Keep riding and overcome that fear of crashing since that will be haunting you for quite some time... get back in there and just ride like you did before.. RIDE SAFE man!!!

team123luder · 10-27-2009, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by hondaprelude88

Glad your alright, 300 bucks for a helmet, worth every penny.

Amen!!!!! A few of my boys have gone down!!!!! Things like this make me want go slow down.

MommysLittleMonster · 10-27-2009, 05:34 PM

So, did they stop or keep on rolling?

I would have followed the cocksucker and kicked them in the face. Glad to hear you're okay man, you can't trust ANYONE anymore.

josh_schul · 10-27-2009, 06:25 PM

we must know if he stopped!! lol

Shocker5thgen · 10-28-2009, 12:16 AM

People that don't ride are clueless. Everyone that has ridden for a period of time has had some dumb sh*t pull out in front of him/her. Hope you get over it and get on two wheels again. Thank god for that helmet, and jacket rite! I never ride without at least my textile jacket. Road rash sucks. Too bad about your bike too. Glad you made it through that alive, too many people die because of unaware drivers every year.

Lude944 · 10-28-2009, 01:09 AM

what an freaking jerk cutting you off and turning right away. I hate people who just cut you off to sit infront of you and dont move...well either way glad you walked away...having ridden in the past i always try al look out for riders...have the insurance get you some new gear i wouldn't trust a helmet once its been hard.

The'Lude · 10-28-2009, 08:46 AM

Glad to hear your okay man that $400 dollar helmet is worth every penny and so will a new one. They say once you drop it from any height it should be replaced, so you might want to look into that. sorry about the bike and hope you get back on the road soon

JLude · 10-28-2009, 09:52 AM

Glad you are not hurt! The bike can be fixed. So tell us if the car stopped? did you get a police report. The driver should be found at fault even without no vehicle on vehicle impact. A witness would have secured this though.

I have been riding for almost 4 years now.

Oncoming cars turning left across a motorcycles path account for a great number of motorcycle crashes each year. I am always wary of this situation and slow way down when an oncoming car appears to be turning left. You can stop your bike from 35mph much faster than from 50 mph.

People on the roads these days are becoming increasingly idiotic and the number of people using cell phones for texting and internet access WHILE DRIVING is astounding! I've seen it many times.

Wear your gear all the time! I don't care if it's 95 degrees. You're an idiot if you're on a motorcycle with nothing but a helmet and a T-shirt and shorts.

Xander_Lounsbury · 10-28-2009, 10:21 AM

Glad to hear your alright. I wouldn't send the helmet in if I was you. The smallest dent in the foam, they call it unsafe, and destroy it for you. You'll just get a letter back saying it is no good and they destroyed it. I personally don't believe in that whole, one drop its dead thing. I'm sure it did loose a little absorbing ability, but I can't imagine it was enough to make it unsafe.

One thing riding has taught me is you always have to be the defensive driver, and always expect someone to do something stupid. I take it you didn't get the ABS on the Intercepter? Locking up the brakes is a reflex you have to fight. If you lock up the front wheel on a motorcycle, no matter how short a time, its almost a sure bet your going down. Hope your covered by insurance, once again, glad your alright

sotvotkong · 10-28-2009, 11:16 AM

man your out on the road what 3 months with that thing? at least you didnt have it painted already! what road were you on?

tsiah · 10-28-2009, 05:28 PM

The driver took off, like an asshole. There were many people that stopped, one an off duty officer (he stopped after the accident...unfortunately he didn't witness it or that son of a bitch that cut me off would have been in a world of hurt!) I wish I'd been in any state of mind to jump on the bike and chase after him myself! Believe you me, I would have! ...unfortunately, even if I had, the clutch handle was broken so I wouldn't have been able to.

One witness came up to me and said "I've been riding for a lot of years and I think I saw that happening before you did. I tried to follow the guy and get his plate but he was gone"

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Originally Posted by sotvotkong

man your out on the road what 3 months with that thing? at least you didnt have it painted already! what road were you on?

It was just east of the intersection at 9000 south and 4000 west.

Yep...bought it back in July.
I went off the road 3 days after I bought it and had some damage on the left side...but not this much! I have a new set of plastics here (thankfully I hadn't installed them!) The insurance came out and cut me a check for new gear and to fix the bike that time...I probably could have called again but I didn't want to make another claim so close to the last one... I'll just have to suck it up and get new gear out of my own pocket.

I'm glad I had the frame sliders or there would have been WAY more damage. I'd be installing a new radiator and fan, and that whole left handle bar(instead of just the weights), new mirror...ick. That $50 nylon puck saved me a world of hurt!

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Originally Posted by Xander_Lounsbury

Glad to hear your alright. I wouldn't send the helmet in if I was you. The smallest dent in the foam, they call it unsafe, and destroy it for you. You'll just get a letter back saying it is no good and they destroyed it. I personally don't believe in that whole, one drop its dead thing. I'm sure it did loose a little absorbing ability, but I can't imagine it was enough to make it unsafe.

One thing riding has taught me is you always have to be the defensive driver, and always expect someone to do something stupid. I take it you didn't get the ABS on the Intercepter? Locking up the brakes is a reflex you have to fight. If you lock up the front wheel on a motorcycle, no matter how short a time, its almost a sure bet your going down. Hope your covered by insurance, once again, glad your alright

People are idiots. They get behind the wheel and turn off their freakin' brain.
I hope the guy feels good about himself (my guess is he probably didn't even know what happened)

No, I didn't get the ABS model. I wish I had done a little more research before I went and bought this.

My next bike will have ABS for sure!

I wish my instinct had been to try and turn instead of brake, I might have made it around him in time...then again, I might have run into the back door of his car.

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Originally Posted by JLude

Glad you are not hurt! The bike can be fixed. So tell us if the car stopped? did you get a police report. The driver should be found at fault even without no vehicle on vehicle impact. A witness would have secured this though.

I have been riding for almost 4 years now.

Oncoming cars turning left across a motorcycles path account for a great number of motorcycle crashes each year. I am always wary of this situation and slow way down when an oncoming car appears to be turning left. You can stop your bike from 35mph much faster than from 50 mph.

People on the roads these days are becoming increasingly idiotic and the number of people using cell phones for texting and internet access WHILE DRIVING is astounding! I've seen it many times.

Wear your gear all the time! I don't care if it's 95 degrees. You're an idiot if you're on a motorcycle with nothing but a helmet and a T-shirt and shorts.

I wear my gear if its 100*+ out. I don't care how sweaty I get (not all that bad actually...mesh jacket FTW) I won't even let anyone else take my bike if they won't wear at least a helmet. That's just asking for the worst to happen.

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Originally Posted by The'Lude

Glad to hear your okay man that $400 dollar helmet is worth every penny and so will a new one. They say once you drop it from any height it should be replaced, so you might want to look into that. sorry about the bike and hope you get back on the road soon

I plan on it...new gear and being back in the saddle next spring.

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Originally Posted by Lude944

what an freaking jerk cutting you off and turning right away. I hate people who just cut you off to sit infront of you and dont move...well either way glad you walked away...having ridden in the past i always try al look out for riders...have the insurance get you some new gear i wouldn't trust a helmet once its been hard.

Oh it wasn't cutting me off like that...he cut a left turn across my lane.
I wish I had his info and insurance to cover all these damages.
My bike is beat up and my body still hurts like hell.

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Originally Posted by hondaprelude88

Glad your alright, 300 bucks for a helmet, worth every penny.

closer to $400...and that was a 20% discount!

I never thought riding would be so expensive!

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Originally Posted by rocket2000

I've had to kick a many car doors to keep people from merging into me. That sucks dude I know sliding across asphalt doesn't feel very good.

I'm grateful for the jacket, won't ever ride without it. The little road rash I got hurts bad enough....I never want to be covered in it! I've had some friends that picked up road rash up half their body because they had shorts and a t-shirt.

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Originally Posted by zoldrin

That's so fucked up man! Glad you are alright! Did the other party stop or do a runner? Will their insurance pay for your bike? Some people are complete fuckwits when it comes to driving, they probably didn't even look!

yea...my guess is the driver probably didn't even know they caused a wreck.

Shimee · 10-28-2009, 05:33 PM

You are truly a master at multi-quote replying.

nordicBBsex · 10-28-2009, 05:53 PM

^ Seriously, but I'm glad you are okay. People who don't care for others lives on the roads ftmfl

tsiah · 10-28-2009, 06:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shimee

You are truly a master at multi-quote replying.

I figured everyone has their questions and since I'm not on the internet all that often, I'd get all the answers out I could before work

Quote:

Originally Posted by nordicninjalude

People who don't care for others lives on the roads ftmfl

Indeed.
This experience has already made me drive a lot more cautiously.

LudaPower · 10-28-2009, 07:04 PM

Good thing you had that jacket on

Watch your ass Tyler!

jnew · 10-28-2009, 09:14 PM

damn sorry to see and hear about it! glad your ok, atleast that stuff can be fixed and no real damage was done to yourself... for the driver that drove off, hopefully karma will get his ass! i have been lucky enough to not go down on mine, i have plenty of people almost pull out in front of me and see me at the last and slam on their brakes, even a cop! lol if your thinking bout having to get a new helmet look at scorpion. just as good as the real expensive brands like arai and shoe but much cheaper. i got mine for 250.

FaV605 · 10-28-2009, 09:21 PM

lets get those plastic carbon fibered lol.

glad to see you're okay.

sotvotkong · 10-28-2009, 10:06 PM

aw man that sucks, i cant even go that way because of the train track bumps on 90th right there.. in my lude anyways. people drive like idiots on that strech of road more then the rest of 90th for sure.

takahiro · 10-28-2009, 10:56 PM

Sucks to hear of another new rider from this forum get hurt on their bike. Just glad to hear that you are ok. Just keep paranoid and it'll help.

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zoldrin Hepcat Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: AUS Posts: 2,244 iTrader: (2)	That's so fucked up man! Glad you are alright! Did the other party stop or do a runner? Will their insurance pay for your bike? Some people are complete fuckwits when it comes to driving, they probably didn't even look! __________________ "To me, absurdity is the only reality." -FZ A20 Build: To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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