This one hit home for me... I spent 5 months laid up with my kneecap pounded into my Femur when I dumped my Honda Interceptor way back when... and I was wearing everything except leather riding pants... Originally sent to me by Johnny "Airtime" Jensen... all credit to JAT for finding this.... http://www.cmyoung.com/bikewreck.html T
Wow he must have been one of those "cool" guys ripping around in a tank top shorts and flip flops on he street bike.
unsympathetic ain't the word or it... I don't know why these jackass rednecks always think that being a good rider keeps them from getting injured. Being a "good rider" does not put a force-field between your body and the highway. Safety equipment isn't for people who are "no-so-great riders". Safety equipment is for every rider. It isn't about "when" you fall, it's about "if" you fall. You can NEVER tell WHEN it will happen. The one time you don't wear it MAY be the one and only time in your life you will need it. I have a friend who used to have the same attitude and ride the same way. He too was not intelligent enough to figure out before hand that the road does not give a damn if you are a "good rider" or not and now he has a permanent mohawk. People are killed wearing safety equipment every day, but many more would be killed if they weren't wearing it. Further more Idiot, the road is NOT a race track. It is not prepped nor smoothed or planed for racing at high speeds. Since it is obvious that you are not a physics major, let me explain what happened: You hit a very small anomaly on the road that would have been painstakingly smoothed and planed on a race track. At your idiotic rate of speed, the effect of this anomaly on your suspension was multiplied several times. Your suspension (which is probably stock and setup for absorbing hits at highway speeds) reacted violently and tossed you like a salad. Race tracks are flat and planed much more carefully than are blacktop highways-especially in GA an even SC. If GA became part of NC next year, the first thing that would happen is the state would repave 98% of the roads down there because they just are not up to snuff. That's why we pay $0.46 per gallon tax. This site is a very good example for other geniuses out there who think that they are Big Billy Badass. By the way he could have killed someone else or a family with his reckless behavior. He should keep his racing on the track and stay under the speed limit on our roads. I'm glad he survived to learn this lesson the hard way, but this idiot gets NO sympathy from me and I fully support vehicle confiscation for speeding in excess of 50% over the speed limit. This time it was himself, next time, who will it be? Do we give back deadly weapons to convicted felons? We should not give back deadly weapons to convicted speeders either. His site is all about what this wreck did and could have done to him. I'm more worried about what it could have done to an innocent family, swept away from this life by the likes of this foolish idiot! After all, guns don't pull their own triggers and cars and bikes don't smash themselves into carloads of innocent people-idiots like this do. Hey Jackass, keep your racing on the race track and wear some gear 'cause physics is a b$@%*
"Dress for the crash not for the ride" has always been my moto. I can't remember how many times I've said that to my kid.
