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Old Nov 4, 2009, 05:01 AM
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Let's see your battle scars

Totaled my first bike riding like a fcking idiot, without a jacket to top it off. Learned my lesson, I think I came out lucky. Slid a little, then tuck n' roll. Just a little road rash. Post up your battle scars!

Old Nov 4, 2009, 06:01 AM
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glad ur ok

gear up and stop being a squid, any 'good' jacket will prevent this type of rash (yes icon too )

i am assuming this thread will be seeing a good amount of fail from riders that refuse to gear up

be safe out there
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I know it's what they all say, but the only time I've wrecked was on my little 4 mile commute to work a bit ago, and sadly, I was only wearing a helmet.






crappy old cell phone pictures that I still have on my myspace, hope everyone can see them.
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^ Looks like you got off easy for a street bike wreck. How fast were you going?
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I shattered my left leg on my K6 GSXR 1000...I'll have to see if I can find the pics.
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Originally Posted by JakeTheVIII
Totaled my first bike riding like a fcking idiot, without a jacket to top it off. Learned my lesson, I think I came out lucky. Slid a little, then tuck n' roll. Just a little road rash. Post up your battle scars!

This looks EXACTLY like what happened to my friend right infront of me.. bike slid out around a trun doin 80 and rolled 200 feet in gravel parking lot had pics on my old phone... but his whole arms were road rash with gravel and dirt in it.. litterly looked like cooked hamburger..... he was find but bike was totalled
Old Dec 27, 2009, 11:20 AM
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I have a metal plate in my left arm.

People who ride in Austin are idiots. I see more people without helmets than with! Either gear up or don't ride.
Old Dec 27, 2009, 11:38 AM
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2003 - Broken left clavicle (z-displacement fracture), chipped shoulder blade, torn left shoulder muscles.
Old Jan 14, 2010, 12:07 PM
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In '01 I tossed mine down the track. Caught an ugly highside after chopping the throttle past the apex at around 90 ended up with a fused right wrist 10% movement, fractured most of my ribs, internal bleeding and compound frac. collar bone. Great times haha
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glad u guys r ok where u gear!!!
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that aint nothin.
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i had a spill back in 07, but i always ride in gear, and ended up with just a friction burn on my right arm, and a bruise on my hip...i believed it when the experienced riders said that everyone falls...just wish more people didn't take the chance of riding without gear. if they are lucky enough to survive a spill...i'm sure it will change their minds.
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Iv had a few little spills, with gear they were a few scrapes, but without gear they would have been brutal.. ex: one tore through the leather on my boot into the steel toe
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i had a few close calls on my brothers R6 but no falls.. *cough* safe driver *cough cough*
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lost my career in the military because of my accident....im 25 and walk with a cane now. inches away from dieing that morning, i was rear ended while waiting to make a left turn....lady was guesstimated doing 50mph...i tore every ligament and tendent in my left ankle...on my second reconstructive surgery to try to replace it...next is a full ankle replacement. have pinched nerves all thru my neck, torn rotator cuff with a bunch of cyst from the impact of being flung off, ive had 2 cortisone shots for it that havent worked so up next is a shoulder scope... wedging of the t10-12 vertebral bodies in my spine (awaiting what i have to have done, most likely surgery)....and all this from the same accident lol u happy to be alive



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