A survey. What's your crash history?

[Ilikebikes]

1. How long have you been riding? 45 years off and on. Had about 15 years I didn't ride in there.
2. Do you ride often? 6-8000 miles per year
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle?
4. How many times have you crashed?
5. When was the last time?
It would also help if you said what state you're in, or what country, if not in the US.

[Ilikebikes]

1. How long have you been riding? 45 years off and on. Had about 15 years I didn't ride in there.
2. Do you ride often? 6-8000 miles per year now. Less in earlier years.
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle? No
4. How many times have you crashed? N/A
5. When was the last time? N/A
It would also help if you said what state you're in, or what country, if not in the US. IL, Chicago suburbs.

[tastroman]

1. How long have you been riding? Been riding street bikes for 28 years.
2. Do you ride often? I commute on a scooter so pretty much daily.
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle? Yes
4. How many times have you crashed? Once, on the street.
5. When was the last time? 28 years ago
It would also help if you said what state you're in, or what country, if not in the US. Virginia

[cagiva549]

Started playing in the dirt early seventys thru the late seventys , got back into it again in 85 heavy thru 90 got rid of the X then so I didn't need the therepy for a while , bought a street bike in 99 and still riding regularly .
I dont comute so its all for fun maybe a thousand a month last couple years a peak of probly 2500 a month a few years back . currently 5 bikes .
I have never had a real street crash , have fallen over in the dirt , Broken ankle from a stupid low speed fall over without any gear in 1989 , Parked hard against a tree on loose gravel road in 01 , I had been on that road for ten miles and every cornor till then was good rock while sliding with no chance of stopping in time I parked at the tree instead of the barbed wire fence . No damage to me but some plastic damage to the bike . I hade to make it home 300 miles that afternoon , I broke the headlight . In 05 I low sided turning from pavement to a gravel road when I missjudged my speed a little , 45 mph is too fast . No damage to me or the bike . High sided off the bike on gravel about 60 mph last year . I dont remember about 15 to 20 miniutes otherwise no damage to me , messed up some plastic on the bike that time . I didnt ride much this summer . It was too dam hot . All incedents were in Texas and only one was when I said hold my beer and watch this . SEYA

[Tim-Rodriguez]

1. How long have you been riding? 4 years
2. Do you ride often? almost every day
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle? Yes
4. How many times have you crashed? 3 times
5. When was the last time? 2 years ago
It would also help if you said what state you're in, or what country, if not in the US
South West London, England

[JNG6]

1. How long have you been riding? 11 years
2. Do you ride often? approx 6,000 miles/year
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle? Yes
4. How many times have you crashed? 1 time, if you include being rear ended on the highway. Traffic stopped, I stopped, the lady behind me stopped about where my front tire was. Sent me and the bike onto the shoulder with minor damage to both. lucky, very lucky.
5. When was the last time? 5 years ago
It would also help if you said what state you're in, or what country, if not in the US
Colorado

[Mr_Snips]

1. How long have you been riding?2 years road; 12 years in the dirt
2. Do you ride often?all year round 15k+ miles a year
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle?yes
4. How many times have you crashed?road is 1
5. When was the last time?about a month ago i was hit by another motorcycle

I live in indiana

[Speed Daddy]

1. How long have you been riding? on an off 31 yrs
2. Do you ride often? Most weekends...but not lately as I'm still mending
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle? yuparooonie
4. How many times have you crashed? On Road 3
5. When was the last time? 14mths ago.
I live in NZ

[El Guero]

1. How long have you been riding? 3 years
2. Do you ride often? To work/school most days, but not as much touring as I'd like
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle? Yep
4. How many times have you crashed? Once
5. When was the last time? June
It would also help if you said what state you're in, or what country, if not in the US. Iowa

[Blakebird]

1. How long have you been riding? 41 years, street & dirt
2. Do you ride often? about 28,000 miles a year
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle? Yes
4. How many times have you crashed? Once on the street.*
5. When was the last time? May 2004
It would also help if you said what state you're in, or what country, if not in the US. Colorado



*Single rider accident - low speed low side in bad pavement in full leathers and RX7-RR4. Spent a week in a Trauma 1 hospital, a month at Craig Rehab - T12 compression fracture & moderate-severe brain trauma.

[Big Doobie]

1. How long have you been riding? Rode for a couple years, in my early 20s, didn't ride for about 15 years, been riding again about 3 years.
2. Do you ride often? approx. 10,000 miles per year, if its not raining or too cold, I take the bike.
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle? Yes
4. How many times have you crashed? Only once worth mentioning, and it wasn't really that bad, but it scared me pretty good.
5. When was the last time? Summer of 1988
It would also help if you said what state you're in, or what country, if not in the US. Rural Pennsylvania, only get to ride about half the year here.

[Foot dragger]

Im 52,started riding when I was 12,Ive crashed once on the road when I didnt break in a new back tire right and high sided on a off camber paved entrance onto a high way. Many crashes during a 10 yr flattrack career but those were just for fun. Lots of trail riding bashes and crashes,again just for fun.
Learning for years on the dirt I think saves lives.
Im in CA and mainly ride street bikes for fun,no commuting as I dont have that kind of job and riding in town really isnt any fun,dodging cars isnt my idea of a good time.
I also crashed a RD350 twice on the same bridge in different directions but that was just learning how to ride street in 1976 on my first street bike,one crash involved hitting a cyclone fence and getting stuck in it and a lady coming out with a rake and smacking me with it while I got back underway.
The other was ice.
Close calls are very rare as I usually ride where there arent many cars and street riding is easy compared to singletrack trail riding.

[Al Goodwin]

1. How long have you been riding? 34 years
2. Do you ride often? Every day, I've got 36k on my '06 KLR
3. Have you ever crashed a motorcycle? Yes...FJ1200 1986 rear-ended a VW. 1990 FZR1000 somebodies dog got me. 1993 RZ350 Talledega Gran Prix raceway, first race ever, leading until transmission trouble put me on my head...2 weeks of my life I don't remember. 3 other crashes in my 10 years of roadracing...no injuries in these.
4. How many times have you crashed? Uhhh.....street: 2, race: 4
5. When was the last time? 2000