CRASH

bczoom said:
Jamie - That means they're working. They're supposed to do that.
>>>>>>>>>>>I believe they do on some of the newer bikes. I've been noticing bikes who's headlight strobes during the day. It does seem to help.
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Zoom,
They must be working. They also make me ignore wife.
Can you believe I did not even open my eyes until 0800 this morning. I was so dern mad. The world cranked up without me, done turned on it's axis some, without me greasing it. Morning was over before I even started drinking coffee. Talk about " ZONKED" >>>>
Open my eyes up, hurt is still there. Don't want to take another until I know I can settle down and don't have to go outside or move around. I can barely walk now, limping around like a three legged goat. Done brushed and walked into so many things. Bumped and brushed my arm so many times on door facings, constantly screaming " DAMMIT" .... Mrs. Two Guns said I am not a good patient at all. She has fussed at me constantly calling hard head.
Got the bike home yesterday. Looks ruff, but could be worst. Crash bars saved much.
Going to take big $$$ to fix. Insurance adjuster suppose to be here Monday, I hope he does, ready to get this thing fixed back, or replaced. As you know, I have a back-up, the Red / White Honda ACE.
My boys have called & come by non stop, checking on me. We walked outside in the back, they both looked at me and
starting crying, both telling me how much they loved me, and don't ever want this to happen again.

To sore to even throw a leg into it. Heck, I'm to stoved up to even get into the RTV.
Went out back to the shop a little bit ago, sat on a bucket next to the bike, stared at it awhile,
and was thanking God so much for saving me. This is not the first time he could have taken me.
I broke down, it got my attention friends.

I want to thank you folks for everything, your prayers for my father, and your prayers and support for me, for it means so much to have so many people who care, I mean that !!!!!

....... jamie
 
You prick. I was ready to yell at you but by time I was done with your post, you had me in tears.
[looking through foggy glasses]
You take care of yourself. Those meds are intended to make you take it easy. Do it. You shouldn't be out.
 
just remeber when takin them meds .when you take them it makes the pain go away but the injury is still there so don't be fooled and think sisne you feel good you can go out and do something .just sit back and take it easy buddy.
 
Glad you are ok But thats the reason I dont drive a Bike.To Many AssHats done pay enough attention to whats around them and will hit a bike in a second.I lost way to many friends on Bikes due to the AssHat population
 
If i may ask you a question as i ride also, you said there was nothing left to do but lay it down, i am always going over what i would do and the ABATE class i took years ago said if a crash was comming to crash where it hurt the least, i know things happen fast but when you lay it down isn't all control is lost.
 
whatscookin said:
If i may ask you a question as i ride also, you said there was nothing left to do but lay it down, i am always going over what i would do and the ABATE class i took years ago said if a crash was comming to crash where it hurt the least, i know things happen fast but when you lay it down isn't all control is lost.
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Did you not read his post and understand it?

State Troopers come to the hospital emergency room and told me if I would have done anything different that what I did, I would be dead for sure.

Art
 
Art454 said:
Did you not read his post and understand it?

State Troopers come to the hospital emergency room and told me if I would have done anything different that what I did, I would be dead for sure.

Art
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Don't know if I put the words right, what I ment was State Trooper made a statement to me, That if I would have went to the left, I would have hit on coming traffic, if I would have went straight, I would have went threw the cars, I went to the right which the only way I could have come out of this crash alive. Anything else would have killed me on the spot .
Hope I explained it better this time.
 
whatscookin said:
If i may ask you a question as i ride also, you said there was nothing left to do but lay it down, i am always going over what i would do and the ABATE class i took years ago said if a crash was comming to crash where it hurt the least, i know things happen fast but when you lay it down isn't all control is lost.
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Nothing goes right in a crash. In my case, I was already slidding and headed where I needed to go when I laid it down. It does happen fast. To Fast . But I would have to somewhat agree with you, control is really lost when you lay it down. Just pray you are going where it would likely hurt the least.
 
yea you made the right choice for sure.i have been in a few dirt bike wrecks when i was growin up and when they happen you just keep think to yourself maybe if i done this? or maybe if i done that? but bike wrecks happen so fast you have split seconds to react. and in most cases on a bike you have no choice but to try to ditch the bike and hope all ends well.i have been in a total of 6 car accidents most of them with my little chevy aveo everyone that hit me said they just didn't see me.i'm so parinoid about intersections that i look at everycar way before i get to cross it.i had lots of loud car stroes but everytime i got to an intersection or was pulling out into traffic i turned it down or off. that little car was the best little gas sipper i ever had but i was forced to sell it before it killed me.i used to joke about that car to people saying that if your a sueing person this little car could make you very rich.lmao i remebr one tome i just got the car out of the body shop andtwo weeks later some kids skipped out of school they just about hit me hed on and slipped down the side of my car .our windows was just about even when we came to a stop i banged my hand on the steering wheel and was saying a few choice words.i think i scared the poor kids cause he huried up and dialed 911 .he told the lady on the phone that i was mad and he thought i was gonna attack him. i looked at him and said man i'm not gonna attack you i'm just mad because i just got the car back from the body shop from the last accident. it was a small car but it was a safe one because out of all the times i got hit in it i only hurt myself one time and that was because when i seen the yukon backing out i swung around suddenly and that ruptured a disc in my thorasic spine.the nearly head on accident the air bag never went off and i'm glad for that because from what i seen them air bags really do some damage to the people.i asked the peopl at the chev place why the bag didn't go off and they said that you have to hit the bumper in the right place for it to deploy and they missed the sensor .i now drive a big dodge with a cummins in it it's big and white so i think they see me cummin now.
 
Twice i have seen the whites of their eyes as they have pulled out in front of me and i have been lucky enough i could go for the grass and keep it up but i was not doing seventy five mph more like 55. I for sure am not trying to muddy up anything here i just want to talk to someone who has survived a high speed crash so i can do the same.
 
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Twice i have seen the whites of their eyes as they have pulled out in front of me and i have been lucky enough i could go for the grass and keep it up but i was not doing seventy five mph more like 55. I for sure am not trying to muddy up anything here i just want to talk to someone who has survived a high speed crash so i can do the same.
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I understand. I know that you are NOT trying to muddy up anything .Can honestly say, I've done got WAY to comfortable. Just telling my boys this same thing today. For I have Found myself on open streach really going to fast.

Something else. For several times in the last few months. Be rolling down the road and come across things in the highway. Everything from pieces of " I " beams, angle iron, pieces of steel, three & four inches, enough to cut a tires in half if hit. Pieces of lumber, just different items that one cannot see until he is right upon it. Something else I have been telling my friends & folks about, even though you give yourself plenty of room to stop, if there is something in the road, and you are behind a car, you don't have enough time to respond to moving over, only if it's just inches that you need to move.
Things just " pop " out in front of you that is laying in the road, where if you have enough "looking" room, you can see the item as if comes under the auto in front of you.
Hope this makes sense what I am trying to say.
The car in front see the piece of iron in the road, they staddle it , you are behind the car, all of the sudden it visually pops out in behind that car, and you then have a problem... Where if you had given yourself some looking room, it will give one time to move over and miss the hazard in the road.
Hundreds of times I've pulled over and walk out and pick up iron, wood, things that would make a biker crash.
And God, can't tell you the times I've dodged pieces of fire wood that have fell off of peoples loads .....
............... jamie

whatscookin, I don't ever want you, or anybody else to have to go threw what just happened to me. This bike is getting fixed, and I own another that I can ride right now. But have to wait until I recover from this crash. Yes, it scared the hell out of me. And going to get back just as soon as the stiches & soreness leaves me. But this time around, I will have to just be a little more careful >>>> Crashes hurt much more that they did years ago. Must be something with the ozone layer or global warming that does it.
 

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whatscookin said:
Can you recall if you were using both front and rear brake before it slid out from under you or were you dodging and dancing?
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Let me say this, When riding, I use BOTH.
But that day, at that moment of disaster, I just don't know. Don't remember.

But I can
guarantee you this, without any doubt, I was doing some dodging & dancing until impact with the ground.
That impact shut down everything in my body >>>> Bet I looked like some crash test dummy after impact and I started skidding down the road into the ditch.
 

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Sigh... I go away for a couple of weeks and look what happens. Thank goodness your OK 2G's... Nothing I can say that hasn't been said already, so take care and good luck on the rehab.
 
Two Guns - I've got two Harleys, one that I've had for nearly 45 years - bought it as a teenager. Both are old school iron heads and the 1962 is a kick start.

I miss kicking that thing into a lopey idle and taking a leisurely drive in the country. But I don't ride them much anymore because the automobile drivers have become so bad. The distraction of texting, phoning, video players, rushing to work and school, trying to get everything done in a day, etc., etc., has become so much of our lives that it is much more dangerous to ride than it ever was before.

I had a crash or two in my youth - one from a buckled section of pavement and one from pool of hydraulic fluid that covered the road. They're not any fun but they come with the 2 wheel experience.

These days I've climbed back into the cockpit and enjoy flying low and slow. There's a risk, too, but traffic is different up there...

Hope you heal up fast and get to go pester those white tails with a little lead...
 
doggman said:
Two Guns - I've got two Harleys, one that I've had for nearly 45 years - bought it as a teenager. Both are old school iron heads and the 1962 is a kick start.

I miss kicking that thing into a lopey idle and taking a leisurely drive in the country. But I don't
Hope you heal up fast and get to go pester those white tails with a little lead...
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doggman,
Thanks for the kind words. You have you some prize bikes for sure !!!!!!

Just got my stiches out, legs is still some sort black, still stoved up, but alive and wabbly.
Parts started coming in for the bike. Most is cosmetic parts. Some add-ons like saddlebags, crash-bars, lowers. Have a bunch of Kuryakyn pertties on that bike. Handlebars, windshield,
floorboards, fog lights and turn singles, etc .. etc ....are being replaced.
Cranked bike up this morning and put about five miles on it. Wanted to make sure everything mechanical was working proper before I started replaceing everything . Not that I actually hit anything ( but my speeding axx on the blacktop onto the grass & the bike landing on top of me ). But just something I thought one should do. IT SHIFTED AND RUN PERFECT !!!
Like nothing ever happened. But looks of this bike being scratched up kills me. Everything scratched is on the right side...
It will be a rolling perfect in a week or so, without a scratch on it.
...... and yes, deer season is creeping up on us >>>>

...... two guns
 
Glad to hear it's running an shifting good.
Any chance of you sharing some pics of the bike before and after?
Good luck with the repair.
 
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