Warning to all motorcyclists

[Pinepig]

i get around. Hahaha with a limp. But i dont really care, i can walk nice, but i choose not to.

lol

[txtorquemade]

Sorry to hear about your friend. This is exactly why I sold my bikes. Just too dangerous these days.

[Wh33lhop]

I'm sorry to hear that man. :( I've sworn off of bikes since a few years ago. Every once in awhile I hear something that affirms my decision--just a week or two ago one of my friends broke his neck on a dirtbike--luckily he's not paralyzed. His neck will just hurt for the rest of his life.

[merrrr]

Thats terrible. i really hope your friend gets better fast. one of my friends got cut off a few months ago going 70 mph by some stupid lady in a ford explorer. he got flung through the rear tailgate window and the front windshield and slid across the road and somehow was uninjured. he since then turned his r1 into a superquad.

I also ride a zx10r that i recently bought. its my first street bike. every time i ride i scope out intersections and make sure ppl arent coming but sometimes bad shit happens in a split second. i get pretty nervous sometimes i see moms talking away on there cellphones in excessively big suv's getting into accidents all the time.

[deutschman]

I hope your friend who drives the X3 understands now how easy it is to pick us riders off. This is more like a warning to drivers not warnings to riders. Our forums are full of stories like this. Its nothing new. The last day of the first season I rode, I was riding through a small downtown area with a green separating the directions. This woman just pulls halfway out because she is looking the WRONG direction for pulling out. Almost took me out. You learn quick that you have no control of your surroundings. After riding for just 4 years, I could fill a page with my close calls.

My friend was on the bike not in the car...

I agree that riding like you are invisible will save you %90 of the time, but the 0ther %10 of the time you can do nothing about it.
Your riding along and some one pulls out of a parking space abruptly right next to you. What can you do about that. Nothing.
I am not trying to say "do not ride a bike."
Just remember that you are a sack of bones and flesh on two wheels with nothing around you. :-|

[LJ851]

Sorry to hear about your friend, i hope he has a speedy, full recovery. I have been a professional Ducati mechanic since the 90s and have seen my share motorcycle crashes and their aftermath. I have permanently injured friends and have lost people that i love .I also have lost friends in car crashes and have permanently injured friends from the same. Life is not safe. Each of us choose the way we live our lives based on a simple risk/reward equation. Riding a motorcycle is something not to be taken lightly especially in an urban environment if you want to stay alive and even then there are situations beyond our control. Riding a motorcycle for me is one of the more pleasurable activities i participate in on many different levels so i tend to get a little tweaked when people get on their soapbox and talk about how dangerous motorcycles are, etc. I appreciate the OPs reminder for all of us to stay safe and not telling us how to live our lives. That is not the easiest thing to do in his situation. My riding style has already been said in this thread but is worth repeating. Ride like you are invisible, and always have more than one escape route. Stay safe my 2 wheeled brothers, and also my 4 and 3 wheeled brothers, but do what you love!



BTW, if your friend is rebuilding his monster i have a shit ton of Ducati parts in my basement and would be glad to help.

Lorin.

[5spoke]

Coincidently just got back from a ride. Sorry to hear about your friend, sometimes depending on the circumstance and a number of different factors things like this just cannot be avoided. I'm not going to reiterate the riding like you are invisible speech but doing it will give you the highest chances of being prepared when something goes wrong. Tell your buddy his fellow two-wheelers hope he gets things back together quickly and gets a chance to ride once again. If things don't go in his favor and he never gets feeling back, I say at least he did it doing something he loved and not slipping on some ice on the front step.

[5Toes]

lol

Its true. Hahaha Im too lazy to learn how to run also.

[freeride53]

So sorry man.
My condolences.

[bennym39]

damn thats terrible man, i hope your friend feels better soon

[deutschman]

Sorry to hear about your friend, i hope he has a speedy, full recovery. I have been a professional Ducati mechanic since the 90s and have seen my share motorcycle crashes and their aftermath. I have permanently injured friends and have lost people that i love .I also have lost friends in car crashes and have permanently injured friends from the same. Life is not safe. Each of us choose the way we live our lives based on a simple risk/reward equation. Riding a motorcycle is something not to be taken lightly especially in an urban environment if you want to stay alive and even then there are situations beyond our control. Riding a motorcycle for me is one of the more pleasurable activities i participate in on many different levels so i tend to get a little tweaked when people get on their soapbox and talk about how dangerous motorcycles are, etc. I appreciate the OPs reminder for all of us to stay safe and not telling us how to live our lives. That is not the easiest thing to do in his situation. My riding style has already been said in this thread but is worth repeating. Ride like you are invisible, and always have more than one escape route. Stay safe my 2 wheeled brothers, and also my 4 and 3 wheeled brothers, but do what you love!



BTW, if your friend is rebuilding his monster i have a shit ton of Ducati parts in my basement and would be glad to help.

Lorin.

yeah we should all do what we love/makes us happy.
if he gets better and wants to rebuild his bike i will let him know he has help.

cheers

[kingston]

Please keep us updated with your friends condition. We're all pulling for him

[deutschman]

Update

My friend currently has a fever, and the doctors are fighting a small infection in his lungs waffleswaffleswaffles to the breathing tube.
When the fever goes down, hopefully this weekend, he will go in for his second operation.
The doctors will go in threw the back of the neck to further realign and strengthen the area around his C5 vertebra which was damaged during his crash.
Considering his condition he is doing well and can nod his head and shrug his shoulders.
I will update when I know more.

cheers

[accident]

Just expect them to drive and behave like you aren't there, you will be prepared to stop/avoid.

Hell, I do this in my car.

I try my best to be conscious of motorcycle riders, I would never want to be in this situation again.

Hope your friend recovers. :(

[txtorquemade]

Update

My friend currently has a fever, and the doctors are fighting a small infection in his lungs waffleswaffleswaffles to the breathing tube.
When the fever goes down, hopefully this weekend, he will go in for his second operation.
The doctors will go in threw the back of the neck to further realign and strengthen the area around his C5 vertebra which was damaged during his crash.
Considering his condition he is doing well and can nod his head and shrug his shoulders.
I will update when I know more.

cheers

Your friend has a VAP (ventilator acquired pneumonia) and that is a serious complication. Im a respiratory therapy instructor so been there done that, too many times.

Stats are misleading sometimes, but 40% of vent patients acquire a pneumonia. 10% of those die from the complication. Your friend has a ways to go before he is out of the woods. Im afraid.

Good luck to him and his recovery.