Petty things that give you the shits…

[sladden road]

Well here’s mine.
I’m riding my new bike, modified 700(after sone merkins stole my 950) back from Bryon. I see this 250 ride past the round about I’m about 800 metres behind. I already had in my head I was going to go ride hard going back to Mullum but up Myocum road.
This bike In front goes to the same road…Still about 600 metres ahead.
I rode this road a bit, I am wearing full protection gear on a modded bike.
I’m like cool, got ‘em easy.
Takes a little bit to catch up and I’m like WTF. When I get in distance I see the bikes got L plates. And the rider has no jacket and sneakers on. Plus he wobbling thought the corners on what looks like a rep repco 250 on small wheels, at easy 120ks.

So I crack it, over take them and wave them off the road in a 50 zone.
Had a stern word about speed and cornering .Kid how long you been riding , 2 months was the answer. I was line wtf are you doing riding like that . How old are you . 18 he says . I’m like damn you got a family to have dog.
You got a jacket I ask. He’s like na can’t afford one.
I am 5ks out from home and literally wearing my worst one out of 5, yet it has all the protective gear in it .
I take the jacket off and after another stern word give it to him and tell him to take 40ks off his speed.

He was grateful, but fugg id be suprised if he lives.

 

[DJDL]

Sounds like the kind of guy the term "temporary Australian" was invented for.
f**king crazy.
They're mad over here, but not that mad.

 

[sladden road]

Ye

Sounds like the kind of guy the term "temporary Australian" was invented for.
f**king crazy.
They're mad over here, but not that mad.

It was so nuts. I could not understand the wobbles through the corners at speed.

That is motorcycle death.

I have crashed twice and don’t want to do it again. Both at low speed but still broken bones.

 

[DJDL]

Ye

It was so nuts. I could not understand the wobbles through the corners at speed.

That is motorcycle death.

I have crashed twice and don’t want to do it again. Both at low speed but still broken bones.

I hear you.
It’s a different ballgame, but I came off our motorbike earlier this year - Honda Wave 125 moped.

It was low speed as well, as we were going over a speed bump, but pharque me it hurt!!!
Aside from the broken collar bone my whole body hurt.

No hurry to do that again.

 

[Cheese sandwich]

I hear you.
It’s a different ballgame, but I came off our motorbike earlier this year - Honda Wave 125 moped.

It was low speed as well, as we were going over a speed bump, but pharque me it hurt!!!
Aside from the broken collar bone my whole body hurt.

No hurry to do that again.

Me and my mate rode a shopping trolley down a hill once when we were blind drunk (as in got in it). That wasn't pleasant when it flipped over at a good speed

 

[fizzgig]

Mine was drunken rollerskating. Probably doing 30km/hr down a hill and started getting "death wobbles". Was going to go on my arse or my head so sat down....

 

[Quigs]

I have had the unfortunate and never want to happen again experience of a motor cycle go up over my bonnet and roof and the rider go under my car. He died.

At the time of impact I had reduced my speed down from 100k and was doing maybe 15 to 20kph.

Prior to impact the only part of the riders body that were on his bike was his two hands on the handle bar. His torso and legs were like a rodeo rider getting tossed by a wild bull.

He was oncoming and racing with his mate and from witnesses had been doing so for a decent time prior to the collision

I was prepared in the split second to go up the embankment on my left in attempt to avoid him but I had four other people in the car. (including the wife, son and two other work mates - we were on our way to the afternoon shift at the Rocky Meatworks at the time)

It was as I mentioned very sad with the loss of the riders life but we were so lucky that the bike went up and over the car and not through the windscreen. It was that close.

This happened about 30 years ago.

 

[Frenzy.]

Well here’s mine.
I’m riding my new bike, modified 700(after sone merkins stole my 950) back from Bryon. I see this 250 ride past the round about I’m about 800 metres behind. I already had in my head I was going to go ride hard going back to Mullum but up Myocum road.
This bike In front goes to the same road…Still about 600 metres ahead.
I rode this road a bit, I am wearing full protection gear on a modded bike.
I’m like cool, got ‘em easy.
Takes a little bit to catch up and I’m like WTF. When I get in distance I see the bikes got L plates. And the rider has no jacket and sneakers on. Plus he wobbling thought the corners on what looks like a rep repco 250 on small wheels, at easy 120ks.

So I crack it, over take them and wave them off the road in a 50 zone.
Had a stern word about speed and cornering .Kid how long you been riding , 2 months was the answer. I was line wtf are you doing riding like that . How old are you . 18 he says . I’m like damn you got a family to have dog.
You got a jacket I ask. He’s like na can’t afford one.
I am 5ks out from home and literally wearing my worst one out of 5, yet it has all the protective gear in it .
I take the jacket off and after another stern word give it to him and tell him to take 40ks off his speed.

He was grateful, but fugg id be suprised if he lives.

Brian

 

[Frenzy.]

I crashed my Malvern Star dragster.

 

[shadowboxer]

My folks were reasonably strict as a kid in the 1970s but reasonably loose as well. The only think they were ever truly serious about was that if my siblings or myself came home on a motor bike, we would be out on the street.
Stories like @Quigs and @sladden road are the tip of the ice berg. I came off a bike in Greek Islands back in the day round a bend, how I only had a graze on my arm and a torn jacket is a gift from whoever or whatever:

 

[DJDL]

I used to share a house with a dude who told me a tale of a bike accident he'd had in South Australia years earlier.

He was flying along a country road - about 100km/h or so - when he was approaching a t-intersection with a road joining on the left.

As he got to the intersection a car pulled out straight into his path.
No time to brake, nothing. Just slammed into the car at 100 km/h.
Apparently one of his legs wrapped underneath the front of the car from the knee (Tony Caine injury-like), and countless other horrific injuries I can't recall the nature of.

He ended up in traction for 9 months.
Apparently he was strapped to a some sort of device to keep his spine in order so he wouldn't become paralyzed if he moved.
For 9 months, every 6 hours, they would rotate him so he was either looking at the ceiling or the floor.
I really can't remember the full details of it, but I remember that.
I don't know how anyone could go through that.

 

[roboshark]

I've hit a kid in my car. He came from the right on a skateboard I was in n the left lane but the right lane was stopped so he just went straight through. Rolled up on my Bonnett and into the window and rolled off onto the ground near my driver's door. When I opened the door to see if he was ok I smacked him in the head with the door

You should of seen the filthy looks I got from his parents when they came because I run over him but it was his fault he didn't even look. Lucky the cops were there

Haha poor bastard

 

[DJDL]

The old "smack him in the head with the door while I pretend to see if he's ok trick", eh?

 

[Cheese sandwich]

I wrote my car off a few years ago when I hit a cow at 80ks in the middle of the night, didn't even see it till the point of impact. I'll chuck a couple of photos of the car up, luckily it was a 4wd with bullbar.

 

[Cheese sandwich]

 

[roboshark]

The old "smack him in the head with the door while I pretend to see if he's ok trick", eh?

I was in such shock I just opened the door without thinking. And whack right in the head. Poor bloke just got hit by a car and rolled off onto the concrete

 

[Frenzy.]

I wrote my car off a few years ago when I hit a cow at 80ks in the middle of the night, didn't even see it till the point of impact. I'll chuck a couple of photos of the car up, luckily it was a 4wd with bullbar.

How were the steaks?

 

[roboshark]

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Omg mate U were lucky. I hate driving at night on county roads for roos

 

[Frenzy.]

I keep aiming at Deliveroo drivers on King Street, Newtown on the way home from work but they are elusive. Arrogant, stupid cunks.

 

[Cheese sandwich]

How were the steaks?

Haha, I'll continue the story and I swear I'm not bullshitting here btw. So after limping the car off the road I ring the cops, they turn up about 10-15 minutes later and the cow had crawled off the road and was somehow still alive - the cop decides to put it out of its misery and fires a shot into its head - still alive. Empties his whole clip into the poor thing and its still not dead, calls another car out, same thing 2nd cop empties another clip of bullets into it and the fkn thing is still hanging on. 27 bullets I stopped counting at. Then they take off and just leave me, my wife and son who wasn't even a year old on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere at like 3am.

Imbeciles.