Memorable Crashes

[George Henry]

While riding a 1985 Honda ATC 200S in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey I had my most memorable crash.  This was over thirty years ago and no injury happened to my trike, me or my buddy Joe.  I was hammering the gas to try to keep up with Joe's faster 1986 Honda ATC 250SX when out of nowhere he stopped.  His brake light wasn't working so by the time I realised he was stopped it was too late.  I lined up my front wheel to his right rear wheel and SMACK!  I flew over the bars and Joe's right shoulder.  I did a flip landing flat on my back in soft sand.  While I flipped over Joe he looked over his left shoulder and missed the whole thing.  We laughed it off and kept riding. 

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[Shoogaze]

My worst crash was on my Rokon during Elk season towing my trailer with a full load of wood down hill in the mountains. Brakes went out and could not stop. Ended up crashing on the side of the gravel road, landed on a boulder and bruised my kidneys. It made for a terrible trip for the next week. The bike was just fine, not a dent on it.

BTW, Rokon brakes are not the best!

 

[George Henry]

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[kp3004x4]

I experienced a crash that ended not so well.Going to work one day as I live far off of the highway some 15 miles.I come upon a bunch of skids on the gravel road ,as I kept following they had gotten extremely worce about a mile, and then I saw what was left of quad it hit a tree off of the ditch ,the front wheels were almost equal to the back .then I saw the rider he was about 100 ft from quad .I quickly stopped to see if I could help .Called 911 soon a helicopter came and got him,I found out later that he died 2 days after from internal bleeding.it was caused by him partying that night and getting on his ride after drinking to much.so if anyone reads this drinking and driving is bad but drinking and riding can even be  deadly. Stay safe.

[jatho]

Front handbrake failed on my suzuki king quad, rolled down a slope for roughly 100m then crashed into a large manuka forest. plastics and mudguards etc were not in good shape when we pulled her out of the trees.