Gingerbread Man on 19/8/2011 at 21:54
Ow. Ow. Owwwww.
That fucker shattered my right shoulder, showed me what the inside of my knee looks like once you have scrubbed (scrubbed, not gently picked out with tweezers) most of the rocks. Took a considerable chunk out of my hip, as well. AND fucked up my favorite helmet. And! AND! I had just washed those jeans.
Short story even shorter: shitty detour that was supposed to have ended two days previous was still in effect. Hateful detour along county roads, one of which gives up the ghost entirely for a few hundred feet and is just rocks and gravel. The transition is abrupt, but I knew it was there. Slowed right the fuck down before the gravel, got about a bike length into the new shitty surface and BLAW! Aprilia down! Alex crash! Fuck!
Good helmet, good armor, good gloves. My helmet looks like it saved me from some serious face hurt. Big ups to Alpinestars and AFX. Gear worked well.
And so in six weeks I will ride back to that spot and empty an entire clip into the ground. Fucker! You DON'T fuck with me. I will eat your SOUL.
NMS pics in a bit. >:)
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That bruise is on my bicep where the lower part of my humerus ended up. Apparently it's all smashed in there. Bastard planet!
Scots Taffer on 19/8/2011 at 22:09
3 things:
Uncomfortably low-rider
Motorcycles and all variants thereof are death traps
Get better soon :(
Matthew on 19/8/2011 at 22:47
Ow :(
theBlackman on 19/8/2011 at 23:03
Reminds me of the time when a rock caught the front wheel and threw me into a Blackberry thicket.
Leathers saved my ass, but I got cut to shreds the next day when I had to come back with pruning shears and cut that bike out of the 20 foot tunnel we made going in.
Recover soon. I've been lucky and have only picked up some road rash the time or two the bike laid down.
Yamaha 750 triple shaft drive, just in case anyone gives a rats ass.
Al_B on 19/8/2011 at 23:07
Ouch - glad it wasn't much worse. The scratches on your helmet suggest wearing a decent one paid off.
theBlackman on 19/8/2011 at 23:12
Hey, GBM. Don't waste your ammo on the planet. Go postal on the county officials who cut the work budget and didn't let the job get done. :ebil:
SubJeff on 19/8/2011 at 23:28
Wow man, that looks painful. :( I hope they hooked you up with the nice drugs.
This is the only reason I don't have a ridiculous motorbike, because I do love them. I know I'll have an accident and, well, fuck that shit. I'm not getting broken bones because I like bikes. I supposed that's why I have a stupidly inappropriate car for the type of driving I usually do. At least it sounds like a motorbike.
Get well soon fella. :thumb:
demagogue on 19/8/2011 at 23:29
Oh dear! :o
That looks terribly painful.
Hope you feel better soon.
Angel Dust on 19/8/2011 at 23:34
Jesus, that last one is your bicep? Ow. :(
The third pic makes you look like some post-apocalyptic crazy from Borderlands or something. :p
doctorfrog on 19/8/2011 at 23:46
Holy crap. Glad you're alive enough to be mightily pissed off.
I was always going to get a motorcycle one day until my dad landed a short stay in a convalescent hospital, sharing a room with a paralyzed man. Even with a helmet on, his injuries were enough to land him in a bed for the rest of his life, being elevated with the medical equivalent of an engine lift, and having his mom sponge bathe him every day. He's also incapable of expressing himself, but still retains a good amount of his intelligence, they say. So there's the whole Metallica "One" song to consider there.
That sort of thing can happen in any situation of course, because bodies are fragile and life is dangerous. And not every motorcycle accident ends in such an unhappy circumstance. But... I have no personal need to increase the chances of that happening at the moment. I'll probably still learn to ride eventually, just to have it as a skill, but that'd probably be the extent of it.
Plus, I'm a goddamn klutz.
