So my girl and I are on our way home from the drive in movie, rolling down Fair Oaks blvd toward home and an SRT4 rolls up on me and continully wants to run. I dont really street race anymore so I just keep ignoring and he just continued to slow dawn then blow past me with his BOV just a whooooshing. Some people never get the hint I guess. ANyway, Im glad I didnt race him cause as we roll up to a light I see 3 motorcycles on the ground and people all over the place around several bodies on the ground. We stop because we were the first along with another lady to the scene even though we werent witnesses my girl does know CPR and stuff like that cause she had to get certified for all of it for her daycare license. We get out and as I walk up to the first guy who has several people around him his head is really really messed up and there are like parts and blood all over the place. The guy was not moving either but a closer look he apperead to be awake. A little farther down the road there is another guy laying in the road with his helmet on and he isnt moving either, he is the first one we go up to. He is awake so my girl checks his pulse and heas ok but you can tell he has a broke ankle, shin and a couple ribs at the least. The other guy on the ground has gotten up and appers to be ok save for a scraped elbow. This guy now starts yelling about whos gonna pay for his bike and yadda yadda. I didnt tell him to shut up but I think I should have, this guy was just wondering around yelling and screaming about dumb stuff. Tho ambualce showed up pretty quickly and the guy finally quites down and lays down and holds his stomach from some type of injury. Now we kinda back off and let the paramedics do their job, and I look around and see one of the bikes is a dirt bike with no lights or anything. It still has the dirt tires on it. I also notice 4 bikes (one isnt wrecked) and 3 helmets. Turns out the guy on the dirt bike lives down the street and just took of to go around the block with no helmet and in the process ran a red light while the 3 other bikes were going through the green and hit two of them narrowly missing the 3rd.


Not really sure why I psoted this, just cant stop thinking about it right now. Kinda crazy that bikes ran into each other. Also a good thing I didtnt run that guy in the SRT (he was stock anyway) cause who knows how much closer we would have been. I am thinking of getting a bike this winter too but this deffinatly made me think more about it, not sure if I still will or not.

 

Damn.. crazy story man. Bikes are definitely a blast, but i gave mine up for good reason a few years back. Drunk driver ran a stop sign and me and my buddy both had to lay our bikes down. I walked away with some devent cuts and bruises, my friend Matt was not as lucky. He spent two months in the hospital recovering.. Its dangerous **** thats for sure...

 

yeh man thats some crazy sh*t. Forty04 sorry about your friend hope everything else in life turns out great for you and him. im planning on getting a bike but i've seen some pretty bad accidents of bikes and now getting second thoughts of getting one. anyways sorry you had to go through seeing that LEVIII.

 

i know this may sound cliche, but, life itself is dangerous. personally i dont worry about what "might" happen too often. you only live once, i say if you want the bike and can afford it why not. i had a gsx-r untill recently when i burned up the motor. turns out someone loosened the oil plug when it was parked one day. only thing i can figure. anyway, i'm going down the highway at about 80 and the oil light starts flashing. i figure i'm safe to the next gas station, wrong. the bike starts bogging down not even a mile later. i immediately pull it over and call a buddy to pick me up. no oil = burnt everything. i was told 3000 plus labor for a new motor. i didnt even owe that much on the bike. anyway, i scrapped the bike and am 4 wheel bound for now. moral of the story? i want another bike and will have one someday, also if the oil light so much as blinks at you one time, pull over and check the oil right there, not at the gas station up ahead, you might end up regretting it like i did.

 

This happened over the weekend. I knew this kid as a younger boy. I used to eat lunch with him and hang out and wed go to each others birthday parties and stuff. After I left 7th grade, I never talked to him again. Now he dead. Its really weird that hes gone. He got tanked up with his buddies in a neon and ended up running into a Volvo head on on the 16th (the night the new bridge opened up, see the topic in the HCF o/t section "cooper river bridge") of july which was a couple of days ago. Well, here tis:

 

Last month, I'm at SpeedWorld to pick the CAI for my car and all of sudden we hear tire screeching and a crash. We all run outside to see a guy in a motorcycle laying by the curb at the corner of the intersection. We race towards him to see if he's ok. He's not, he's unconsious on the cement floor.

His head was bleeding from the side. Word is that he wore his helmet halfway. If it wore strapped on properly, he would've walked away with minor cut and scratches.

We found out later that he was okay but the bike was no good. A minivan had ate the red light and hit him as he was turning.
He flew about 15 feet on top of the curb and banged his helmet on the metal part of the curb. He was one block from his job.

 

I know what you mean when you say you can't stop thinking about it. I was first on the scene when a girl ran her car off the road and hit a tree. She had her seatbelt on and the airbag knocked all of her front teeth out. Her head hit the side window and she was bleeding pretty badly from that. The impact had also broken her collarbone where the seatbelt was. When I cam up on the car I looked in and she was slumped over. It was scary looking. I called to her and tried to open the door and that's when she woke up and looked at me. It looked like a horror movie. Bleeding from the head and mouth and shoulder all crooked. She started wailing in pain. I can still hear that shat. Scary.

As far as motorcycles go... it's just not worth it to me anymore. I was on the back when my buddy was trying to pass a line of cars at about 80mph. The first car decided to turn left and WHAMMO!! You cannot even imagine the violence of it. I was in the hospital for a month. I still have a titanium rod in my femur and can't run or jump like I used to. I can't sit or lay certain ways and it hurts if I stand on it for too long.

Even if you are the greatest rider on the planet you can't account for all of the terrible drivers on the road and other's stupidity.

 

i agree. a motorbike is extremely dangerous. But i agree with elfreaky. i hate thinking of what might happen. i used to be very cautious in life, but i realized i had got nothiing accomplished in life, and i was wasting my dull time. so i said 'fudge' it. now i dont think of any consequences really. However you HAVE to draw a certain line. I ride a cbr, but im not retarded and lane split, gun it 100mph or wear no helmet. i was always afraid to ask out this 1 girl from my econ 202 class, bam! did it the other day and in 2 weeks im taking sky diving lessons. I can die, i know, but whats life without the risk?

 

i guess your views change when you meet the right person. I know that when i was single, i used to be pretty off the wall risky. i would race people all the time and drive fast and wreckless daily. now im much more sedate except in controlled enviroments. and a few solitary jaunts through the hills.
but my boss was telling me about one time recently he was driving down Sunrise Ave (a really busy 3-lane each way street in sac) and he was like the first car behind an accident. there was a guy going about 60-65 (posted is 40) on a chopper style bike, and he apparently wasnt paying attention to the road and traffic was stoped in front of him. well, he was going way to fast to stop in time, so he tried to save himself by laying the bike down to stop quicker. didnt work. he slammed into the back of a truck, still straddling the prone bike, and the bike actually lifted the entire back end of the truck off of the ground. the guy was completely pinned under the truck, and was killed quickly (not sure if it was instant, but i would hope so) but i guess it was so gory that a car full of girls pulled into a gas station nearby, got out and started puking. even my boss, who isnt really a squeamish guy, was still getting nauseous telling the story days later.

 

I understand that you cant live your life being scared. But its a fact that if you wreck on a bike it is more often then not going to be worse then in a car. If I was trying to live my life as from from the edge as possible I wouldnt be driving around a 300+ all wheel drive monster. Its just that wreck ast night was pretty friggen serious, if that had been all cars instead of bikes, the drives would have got out and exchanged info to get theirs cars fixed and worse case they couldnt have driven their car home and ave it towed. But it was bikes, and they werent going very fast (no way they going over 40 and I guess quite a bit less) and it seems one of the guys has a real good chance of dying. The other guy will most deff be in a cast for at least 4 or 5 months, not to mention all the financial loos cause Im pretty sure the dirt bike didnt have insurance.

Hey elfreaky, do you still have the suzuki?