Ever crashed?

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Originally Posted by Viirin

good story

Thanks, Viirin

Originally Posted by Viirin

I had no idea the GZ could wheelie

Motivation. It was trying to kill me... Abandonment issues I suspect.
Anyone here try to do a wheelie?
Back in ancient times I had a 250 Duke. I loaned it to a guy, and the first thing he did was to pull a wheelie, all the way down the dock (I lived on a boat), a pretty long dock, in Sausalito, on a weekend, with a whole lot of tourists jumping out of the way... Probably surprised them more than it surprised me, and I was pretty surprised!
Back to your question, "Ever crashed?" Yes. Sort of. On the Duke, going down a steep, steep, deeply rutted dirt and gravel road, with a passenger, and going too slow. The scariest time(s), however, were crossing the Golden Gate Bridge... Keeping up with traffic on a heavily traveled freeway, and crossing those metal grates that cause everything to go all squirrely.

[alanmcorcoran]

When I was 18, summer after freshman year of CU, I worked at a drive in theater, where we had little booths to sell the tickets (looks like a toll booth.) Given your typical drive-in demographic (the working poor) most of the cars were oil-leakers and over time, those few minutes they sat at the booth paying for admission, created a little oil slick. The theater had a No Motorcycles (in the gravel, scalloped parking lot [there was a little "hill" separating each row to aim your car up at the screen]) policy, and it was up to skinny, pizza-faced, 145 pound weakling me to enforce said policy. (You could park it in our MC lot and walk in and watch the movie from a picnic table. Right!) So one day, Mr. Badass biker club member pulls up to my window complete with his MC regalia, loud pipes and nasty skank on the pillion. After I gently explained the bike/picnic table option to him he made some threats, legal and bodily harm-wise, and proceeded to ride on into the theater - without paying! Before I could alert the authorities, he executed a tight u turn, and came back through my booth heading in the opposite direction. After glaring at me, showing me his middle finger, he proceeded to rev the engine until the glass on the booth almost popped out from the deafening roar of his mighty V-twin and tuned pipes. When he let out the clutch, his rear tire was sitting at ground zero of the aforementioned oil slick and it just spun. The lack of any forward progress caused him to twist the throttle even more and, slowly, a millimeter at a time, the bike inched forward on the greasy patch. After about a half foot, the back tire bit on clean concrete and up went the front. From the look on his face, Mr. Biker had never had the front off the ground. To his credit, he held the wheelie for about twenty feet before he lost it and he, skank and bike all came a-tumbling down. Skank had minor cuts and bruises, but Sir Bad Ass busted his tibia (or his fibula - I'm not a doctor) and was down for the count. We pulled the bike off him, called a meat wagon, and parked his now dinged up scooter over in the motorcycle parking area. One of his club colleagues came down later that night and rode it home for him. Did we laugh at him? Well, not while he was actually lying there in road moaning and cursing. But I did have the presence of mind, when I walked over to help untangle the mess to tell him, "That, sir, is why we don't allow motorcycles into the theater!"

[Water Warrior 2]

That's a good one Alan. Got a little story about Benny and his Busa, a bad A$$ rocket. A couple weekends ago Benny and 3 others went for a local ride around the area here. Now First you must realize Benny is not always truthful and never speeds or does twisties at super sonic velocities. Yeah right !! Absolutely no chicken strips on his tires so we do know different. So we know he can be fast and must be pretty good.
Anyway to make a long story short he pulled a wheelie and passed eveyone scaring them half to death. As the front end was coming down he decided to lift it again. He did in fine fashion and went over backwards. Probably at about 80 MPH. Benny landed within eye sight of the local RCMP detachment so they might have even heard the crash and commotion. Benny spent 2 days in the local hospital before being shipped off to one closer to home. The Busa was just a pile of parts scattered down the road.
Benny himself lost a fair bit of his hide when he landed on his backside in jeans. After that he just rolled and flopped down the road till he stopped.
2 of the 3 riders that saw this were certain they would never ride with Benny again and glad he got what was coming to him. Cruel to say but it is pretty much the truth. The 3rd rider hasn't been seen since. He was very tramatized by the whole thing.

[alanmcorcoran]

When we were doing our parking lot MSF course exercises, dudes on Ninja's and the like would taunt us by driving past doing wheelies the whole length of the thing (at least a football field if not longer.) Have to admit, I was jealous of their skills...

[Water Warrior 2]

Don't be jealous Alan. They will eventually wind up like Benny if things go bad. Got an update on his condition...............OUCH. A really big OUCH. Still in the hospital after being put back together with some new parts. Yup, a partial artificial shoulder, both feet broken, all toes broken, one hand just salvageable and the other barely useable at the present time. Severe road rash and other stuff to make things more interesting during the healing. Benny will be a long time healing and regaining his strength to say the least. Should be a lasting memory for him. I do wish him well but he is his own worst enemy.

[blaine]

With his body messed up so bad,his little stunt probably ended his riding career,so he can't jeopardize himself or anyone else on the highway.

:skull:

[Water Warrior 2]

I doubt I will see him any while soon. He still has another bike but I think he will be in a cage for a long time to come. If I was ever hurt that bad in an accident my fault or not I would probably give up riding and be thankful to be alive.

[alanmcorcoran]

It's that sort of thing that riles up people about universal health care. I'll bet Benny's wheelie will cost taxpayers/ratepayers several millions of dollars (US or Canadian) over the course of his convalesence - if it ever really ends. At least he gets to bear all the physical pain.

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Originally Posted by alanmcorcoran

At least he gets to bear all the physical pain.

Sheesh

[cayuse]

Originally Posted by alanmcorcoran

It's that sort of thing that riles up people about universal health care.

just ignorant people :whistle: