Last Saturday was first time I've ever seen a bike street crash

[fnfalman]

I've seen a lot of crash aftermaths but I've never seen anybody crash on the street before. Usually they've crashed and I would come upon them but I finally busted my cherry on that issue.

I took two guys from work riding this Saturday and after we've done with the twisties, getting ready to head home via the freeway, a group of three came up: 1 enduro (Honda?) and two Harleys. One of the Harley boys challenged my guy with the Street Rod for a drag and my guy was sensible enough to laugh it off and went on his merry way along with his riding partner. Well, I should have known better but I didn't. Not to mention that the Austrian Orange tends to make me behave naughtily.

So all four of us had a little drag race going. I gave'em all a head start just to make things interesting and as I passed Harley #1 tailing the pack and approaching Harley #2 with the Honda enduro leading the way, suddenly guy on Harley #2 decided to stomp on the rear brake and locked it up then let the brake out. The bike proceeded to high side threw him off to the left while it tumbled maybe three times to the right. I saw in slow motion the guy flying off to the left spread eagle and said to myself, "This is gonna be ugly." The guy had a chrome dome on, wifebeater, jeans and tennis shoes. Since that he was heading to the pavement face down, I expected the worst to happen, but amazingly enough he hit the pavement, bounced up and started rolling without his head even touching the ground. One of his shoes flew up about twenty feet in the air. I jammed on my brakes and trusted in the ABS, hoping to keep myself from running over his ass.

The enduro guy stopped, I stopped, but his other buddy on Harley #1 kept on going passed all of us. I looked in the mirror and amazingly enough, the guy popped up and started hobbling while the enduro guy ran back to prop up the bike. Since that he was up and running without anything broken, and the enduro guy had everything well in hand, I took off as well.

I'm sure that something significant must have broken off because you don't tumble a 800-lbs bike without bad things happening to the bike. But the guy seemed to have gotten away without much blood loss and serious wounding. I hope that he learned from his lesson and put on some proper gears next time.

[marko138]

Wow. Although I'm sure he did not learn anything and would not hesitate to do the same thing again.

[Shift]

Originally Posted by fnfalman

I hope that he learned from his lesson and put on some proper gears next time.

Perhaps he's not the only one who should have learned a lesson.

Street racing is bad mmk.

[Rider]

Why the hell would the guy lock up his rear brake?

[MikeSP1]

Originally Posted by Rider

Why the hell would the guy lock up his rear brake?

Did you leave without actually atopping to make sure that the guy was ok? Other than just seeing that he could hobble around.

[Gunther1000]

Originally Posted by Rider

Why the hell would the guy lock up his rear brake?

Lol, I wonder if he forgot which was the shifter and which was the rear brake!

Why on earth would any sane person do this?

[fnfalman]

Originally Posted by Shift

Perhaps he's not the only one who should have learned a lesson.

Street racing is bad mmk.

Bah! As long as there are no innocent bystanders around, and all participants know the risks involved, it's all for fun...until somebody gets hurt.

Originally Posted by Rider

Why the hell would the guy lock up his rear brake?

I have no idea. He locked up the rear brake, the bike slid and he let the brake go, the traction caught and threw his ass off the bike.

Originally Posted by MikeSP1

Did you leave without actually atopping to make sure that the guy was ok? Other than just seeing that he could hobble around.

He wasn't my buddy. Hate to sound like an asshole, but the guy popped up and hobbled around while the Honda enduro guy stopped and propped up the bike. He seemed to be OK. If he were squirming on the ground, I would have hopped off and went to help.

[Shift]

Sorry but thats a very hypocrite attitude to rag on the guy for not wearing gear but its ok for you to be squidly and street race. And obviously they DONT know the risk involved (they think they are impervious to going down) or they would have gear on. So for you to help contribute to their reckless driving is a shame on you. Not saying your a bad guy just think you made a bad decision.

[itgirl]

Originally Posted by fnfalman

He wasn't my buddy. Hate to sound like an asshole, but the guy popped up and hobbled around while the Honda enduro guy stopped and propped up the bike. He seemed to be OK. If he were squirming on the ground, I would have hopped off and went to help.

wow. i thought we were all brothers and sisters on two wheels, whether we know eachother personally or not. i woulda stopped to see if he was okay, whether he was squirming or not. i thought that's what bikers do. i am kinda disappointed.