Your worst fear of motorcycle riding...

GearboxGeezer · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Karma :

Heya.

This may seem a bit sick to some of you, but its purely just for interest Smile

I was just wondering, whats your worst fear when you lay in your bed at night and think about riding a bike, or when your strapping your helmet buckle up getting ready to hit a fast twistie course?

Mine would have to be going into them barriers down a motorway or A road, the ones where they stop cars from going threw, but its got loads of legs on it almost making it a "cheese grator" ..

I think I started to get really paranoid of these when I siezed in the fast lane at an indicated 90mph, my rear wheel locked and I was almost certain I was going to fall into them barriers.

Blau Zedong · Banned Joined: 26 Jun 2006 Karma :

Bit of a macabre topic but worth answering. For me it's hitting another vehicle head on, be it by running wide due to cocking up a corner, or taking evasive action like dodging a car pulling out, only to be wiped out by something coming the other way. If there is any velocity involved it's usually a sticky end for the biker Sad

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T1z3R · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Karma :

something like this:

As the motorcycle contacts the front door of the car the inertia of the front wheel is
such that it penetrates 6 inches into the door
15ms (milliseconds), the wheel contacts its engine. The rider starts to slide
forwards on the seat.
At 25ms the motorcycle frame experiences a deceleration of 39g. The front wheel
continues to crush further into the door of the car and it collapses as the engine
starts to penetrate the side plane of the car.
63ms the maximum penetration reaches 34 inches. The motorcyclist's knees are
buried into the side of the car whilst he is still in a seat posture after sliding
forward onto the fuel tank.
55ms his legs sustained a deceleration of 71g. The pivotal action of the knee
contact rotates the rider to a standing position bringing his chest forcibly against
the 'A' pillar.
80ms, he experiences a deceleration of 109g. The sudden deceleration of the
chest flails the head forwards over the top of the car; the helmet strap stretches.
105ms allows the face to strike the roof at 105g. Following this the helmet latch
disengages depriving the rider of head protection during any subsequent collision
with the car or road surface.
The motorcycle and rider fall motionless to the road.
TIME ELAPSED - 1.42 seconds
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UrbanRacer · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Karma :

target fixation mid corner and crashing

ncrn · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 May 2006 Karma :

strangely enough mine is running out of fuel in the middle of no where and not being able to find my bike again once I have got fuel.
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Rob-B · Trackday Trickster Joined: 21 May 2006 Karma :

Going into a massive truck head on Shifty

Sephiroth · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Karma :

Running out of fuel on my own is a bugger Wink

killa · Won't Shut Up Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Karma :

Someone nicking another one of my bikes.

I hate cunts.
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ram_doom · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Karma :

Crashing head on with another vehicle. I have a great fear of it after 2 very near misses, both at high speed a while back.
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veeeffarr · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

Being clipped from behind when being tailgated and getting run over used to be one of mine.

I don't really have any worst fears anymore, although I do get nervous at junctions I try not to think about the worst and not push my limits.

finpos · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Karma :

Running wide on a left hander with a flatbed artic coming the other way, watching it's tie-down hooks flash by close to your head as the rear wheels rapidly approach.

Happened to me when I was young and stooopid, still get flashbacks of it, still makes me shudder.

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akaDAVE · World Chat Champion Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Karma :

Grim.

Essentially the thought of being crippled scares the shit out of me.

Target fixation is the thing I have built a healthy fear and respect for.
It is so easy to see a danger - head on car or barrier and tighten up and before you know it you're drifting towards it uncontrollably.

I don't want to be lying in a hospital bed thinking how easily avoided my accident would have been. That scares me.
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FreshAL · Sir Crashalot Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Karma :

Remember that poor bloke who crashed & lay in a field for 2 weeks before anyone found his body?

That's pretty much my worst nightmare.

Crashing in the countryside somewhere & dying slowly cold and alone. in the dark and rain.

Sad

I had a slide on wet mud 100+ miles from home, panicked stomped on the rear brake and slid into the offside verge, somehow still upright. No-one knew where I was. The thought of what would have happened if I had been going faster or hit a tree scared me silly. Since then I always try and tell someone where I'm going.

God, what a morbid thread. I'm off to find something funny now

Barry_M2 · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Karma :

The day I start worrying about what might happen to me when riding is the day I give up all together, and believe me, that wont be for a very long time.

I lay or sit there at times and cant wait to get out on my bike for a ride, and have always done so. Never the other way round.

So, my worst fear would be going to the garage and finding that someone had nicked it. And I have had a bike stolen in the past, and its not a nice feeling!

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techierob · Traffic Copper Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Karma :

the idea of getting sandwiched between two bendy busses makes me wince, but I'm more worried about stalling at traffic lights and having to answer to a long line of irate cabbies Confused

element · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Karma :

sliding out on a corner (wet manhole cover/diesel that sorta thing) and going under an oncoming car/bus/lorry or having an accident and losing movement in BOTH arms (can ride 1 handed but your pretty screwed if both are fucked). I have a mate who has no movement in his left arm all the way down to his fingers (left handed aswell) after an accident.

or hitting something head on. I ride alot of tight country lanes and ive had a few scary moments.. Recent one was going uphill on a single lane and it was just before a bend. I heard the screeching before I even saw him. Practically endo'd (uphill!!) till I came face to face with the bull bars on his landrover discovery (I thought these were illegal!). I couldve kissed his bonnet I was that close..I shat myself as I didnt think I would stop. As I let him past he asked if I was alright. I just said "yeh at least you stopped in time because I didnt think I was going to!"
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doggone · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 May 2004 Karma :

Parking in a city centre and returning to the sick feeling of realisation bike is no longer there.
Also those wire barriers on steep drops which look like a cheesewire effect would cut your leg clean off....

sickpup · Old Timer Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Karma :

Being on the same road as some of the members of this forum.

element · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Karma :

SoND · World Chat Champion Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Karma :

Being skewered by a tractor with a bale spike Neutral

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..... · Quote Me Happy Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Karma :

My worst fear is killing a pillion.

phk6 · Nearly there... Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Karma :

waking up and realising that i sold the bike for a car the night before fuck me id top my self

i arnt scared about coming off, or some one plowing into me.
i knew what i was letting my self in for when i did my test, i knew car drivers were blind stupid bastereds from riding a ped for a year and a half.

i arnt worried about lossing my front tyre round a corner coz im confident in my riding, only thing that scares me is all these 4X4's guzzling fuel because i dont want it to run out in my life time.
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irving · Traffic Copper Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Karma :

stefano · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Karma :

On this subject, I wanted to know people's opinion.
Picture the scene:
you are riding along, and a car pulls out of a juction without looking, you are going slightly over the speed limit, and have no time to stop your bike.
Do you:
1-drop the bike in a slide
or
2-let go of the bike and jump over the car?