Another motorcyclist bites the dust.....

[MotoGoosy]

Terrrribbblle accident on the way to work this morning.  Young guy on a sport bike going too fast on a residential street and a vehicle pulls out of a driveway and BAMMM!!!  Don't know if the rider survived, but from the looks of the bike, he hit HARD!!  Pieces scattered all over the place.  Do be careful out there.  I see this too often.

[oldmxdog61u]

I still remember years ago seeing a guy hit hard. I jumped out of my truck to help and he sat up groaning and started trying to stuff his brains back into the cavity. No helmet. I could only try to keep him from moving and tell him help was on the way.  I can still see it if i think about it. Be aafe.

[Lannis]

I still remember years ago seeing a guy hit hard. I jumped out of my truck to help and he sat up groaning and started trying to stuff his brains back into the cavity. No helmet. I could only try to keep him from moving and tell him help was on the way.  I can still see it if i think about it. Be aafe.

First week I had my new 1971 Yamaha CS3 twin, I was riding US 60 west into West Virginia, and was passed by a guy FLYING on a 250 Ducati single.   I halfheartedly tried to keep up for a bit but no way, he was using the whole road and I wasn't even close.    30 minutes later, near Sam Black Church, there was a knot of people and cars.   I pulled up as far as I could and saw the Ducati sticking out of the now-V-shaped front end of a car on the left side of the road.   I didn't recognize the twisted little pile of clothes next to it as a human body for a second - looked like Beetle Bailey after Sarge got through beating him.    Man next to me said "Well, he won't be ridin' no more."   I went on, a sobered 17-year-old, and I believe it's one of the reasons that I'm not posting Jackass videos from a Go Pro with me bragging about riding like a mindless idiot, and still rolling, unbowed and unbroken, 44 years later.   

No need in rushing upon your fate ....

Lannis

[Idontwantapickle]

No need in rushing upon your fate ....

Lannis

Amen brother.

[Sasquatch Jim]

 Many years ago, a police officer was trying to scare me into not riding anymore.  He showed me some photos of a Harley Sportster that had hit or been hit head on.  The front wheel was jambed into the engine so deep it was only looking like a wheel if you knew what the hub parts were supposed to be.  The rider was in a spread legged sitting position with head and shoulders slumped forward.  There was a bloody void space where his legs joined the body with basically nothing in between the hip sockets.  From the look of the bike it appeared that the handlebars and triple trees had passed completely through between the hip joints taking out everything from scrote to about 4 inches up.   I seriously doubt if he felt any pain.
  It was a gruesome set of photos.   I have no idea why the officer felt that it should make me quit riding though.
  Okay, that's my morbid post for the day.

[nc43bsa]

I can still recall watching my friend's KZ1000 cartwheel 10 feet in the air after he was hit by another friend after HE did a carom off a Ford.  They were the first two in a line of bikes;  I was third.

The KZ ended up sitting upright straddling a stone wall, front wheel on one side, rear wheel on the other.

[steven c]

 We had four fatal crash's this weekend here in CT. Two that I read about where solo crashes.

[sib]

Maybe this thread should be merged with the "Ride like a maniac" thread.

[Dilliw]

Terrrribbblle accident on the way to work this morning.  Young guy on a sport bike going too fast on a residential street and a vehicle pulls out of a driveway and BAMMM!!!  Don't know if the rider survived, but from the looks of the bike, he hit HARD!!  Pieces scattered all over the place.  Do be careful out there.  I see this too often.

Anything in the local news? 

[MotoGoosy]

Didn't see it in the news, on this one, but there's one on the news here every day.  Each one sticks with me, though.  A corporate exec was run over and killed on his bike Sunday on a country road by a woman who was texting and veered into the bicycle lane.  This happens almost daily, too. 

[sib]

Two dead in RI yesterday.

http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20150616/NEWS/150619490/14110

[Lannis]

Two dead in RI yesterday.

http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20150616/NEWS/150619490/14110

Just from what I see based on women in Toyotas in the oncoming lane .... I'm guess she was on the phone.   Most of them are.

Drunk and kill two people - Jail and loss of license.

On a cell phone and kill two people - Probably "failure to yield" and a fine.   Watch and see.   Still socially acceptable.

lannis

[cj750]

Here's what bugs me. We read story after story of responsible motorcyclists killed by drivers who were drunk, texting or just plain not paying attention. If not killed, riders are often left with life-altering injuries and/or financially ruined because the at-fault driver didn't have nearly enough insurance to cover the damage they caused.
Yet a few days ago, an escaped inmate stole a (Honda) motorcycle from the Guzzi dealer in Tulsa, crashed (helmetless) into a parked truck at high speed while fleeing the police, was thrown 200 feet, absolutely demolished the motorcycle, and is expected to fully recover. With all his medical expenses paid by the taxpayers.
I believe there is justice in the world, but its hard to see it, sometimes.



http://www.fox23.com/news/news/local/escaped-inmate-custody-after-chase/nmbkL/

[rodekyll]

I hope you're not trying to tell us that nicely stacked pile of bike is the natural result of the crash.

[cj750]

I hope you're not trying to tell us that nicely stacked pile of bike is the natural result of the crash.

Certainly not. It's a post-crash photo of the bike, but taken after the many pieces had been gathered up from a several hundred foot area and laid out in something approaching a motorcycle shape by investigators.

[frans belgium]

I just come home from a trip to my dealer.  Would you believe I actually stopped on the way to check if my headlight was working? There were so many morons doing stupid and unexpected things in front of me, that I began to doubt.
Half of them were doing.... what the hell they were doing (talking to each other, in their cell phones, texting, listening to the news, shaving, waxing their legs, who knows what else)
My fluo warnings  signs (all over the place) obvioously didn't pay out today.  Guess I was having a bad day and was even more invisible than usual.

[JeffOlson]

^ I've taken to riding with my brights on. Stupid cagers. Yesterday, four pulled out in front of me at different times on my commute to work. The first two, upon realizing their stupidity, immediately pulled over and stopped. I wish I could write traffic citations...