Those butt clenching moments

[beast rider]

We have all had them, the ones where we think 'oh f**k this is gonna hurt'.

Well i just had one, i went to see a mate who lives on the other side of Chatam, so off i set, i get onto the A2 at bexleyheath and sped off at a reasonable pace. As i went past the M25 turn off the traffic got lighter so i wound the throttle round a little more, as i passed slightly illegal speeds the front got a little twitchy, then alot twitchy, then i thought F**K!!!! as i wobbled up the A2 at quite a speed.

I then done what most people do and i closed the throttle........ big mistake, the a lot twitchy became mega twitchy, but strangely i had the time to pull over to the 1st lane while handle bars wobbled around threatening to pitch me off at any time, then i remembered to open the throttle again and ride through the shake.

Needless to say i rode a little more sedately after that and i went home to change my under wear.

So lets have your stories of those proper butt clenching, heart stopping, 'SHIT I'M GONNA DIE' moments.

[willis1337]

Back in the dim and distant, I overcooked a corner, went wide and was faced with a very large lorry coming towards me. As I was very inexperienced at the time I didn't have the bottle to lean it over more and accelerate, so to avoid a head on I went wide - I just about fitted between the approaching lorry and the kerb on the other side of the road (which had a drop into bushes / trees just over the barrier running alongside).

I realise I very nearly died that day.

[thx1138]

cornering an mz 250 in the wet, left hand bend, front wheel hit white line, front wheel skid, corrected by reflex, then headed across a blind corner into a hedge. nothing coming, nothing damaged, over in seconds, shaking for ages.

[Paxovasa]

Missed the rear of a tractor / trailor by less than an inch, I was getting ready to overtaking him and he swung into the centre of the road to enter a field.

After that day I give them a very wide berth when overtaking them.
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[Wilson12345]

Went too fast in to a very sharp end-of-motorway bend and nearly killed myself on the pa's sv1000
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[Nai]

About 15 years ago, when I was inexperienced on the road, I was on a push bike heading down the uxbridge road at a heck of a sprint. It was quiet early morning, the road was empty. I was on a 2 lane part of the road and I was approaching a parked lorry I checked behind to see a car which looked a rather long way up the road.

I had time, I moved over into his lane to give myself good clearance on the lorry. The car came belting up behind me, tooted his horn, revved the engine, shoved the nose of his car next to my right leg.

What I should have done was put myself in a position where he couldnt do that to me in the first place and rode the middle of that lane.

What I did, was to move over closer to the lorry to let him past.

The door of the lorry was suddenly flung open as wide as it could go.

Now, I was learning forward in a 'racey' position so I was fairly low. This also meant the bottom of the door was about in line with my neck. Oh crap I was about to lose my head.... I swerved right, hit the back of the car as he romped past, just ducked under the door, ricocheted into the curb, where my ninja skills (or luck and physics) propped my bike back up and I sorta rolled to a calm stop.

No damage done, the car driver shot up the road and away, no bumps or scratches or anything. But good lord where my pants brown.

Thats been about the only time in my life where I have really had to stop and get a coffee to calm down from crapping myself.

The upside of the experience was I learned to never allow myself to be 'bullied' into something I am uncomfortable with on the road.

[Slacker24seve...]

My main one was passing a turning on my left. I'd been chasing a Fazer along the A44, just leaving Bormyard so we were leaving the 30mph bit. Cock in a beemer waits for the Fazer, didn't see me following and almost turns into me but stops at the last second. My boots brushed along the side of the car... felt very sick and promptly pulled over to smoke half a pack of fags in one go
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[fozzym]

Not long passed my test so inexperienced, I was overtaking a couple of cars heading towards a corner but thought i had plenty of time, as i got upside the second car a car came round the approaching corner fairly quick (obviously I'm now heading towards it!) knocked it down a cog and got passed without drama but I'd it 80 odd by now and the corner was on me .
I lent in but started to run wide and stupidly looked across the road and not round the bend. Luckily nothing was coming the other way and i got round the corner only just crossing the white line.

Shit my pants lol, then when i thought about it and that by going over the white line on to the other side i could have hit something and been no more, i shit my pants again!!

I was on my way to work and a bit late and that day i vowed to never be rushing on the bike again. Better to be late and alive.

[HD]

Beemer again!!

Coming around a long left hander. Big green on the left so you could see around the bend. I was looking and tanking it, probably 35 This is a 2 lane road but cars are always parked on the right side so as I am coming around banked over a bit flat out. Then on the side of the green there is a tree so it gets in my line of vision for about 1 second. As the tree gets out of sight there is a beemer about 5-10m away. FUCCCCKKKKK!!!! Front brake jammed on. Back end sliding everywhere. Stopped within a metre of his bumper. He had a wife and kids in there and whats more, that was before my CBT so no test, no insurance I used to do my papers on it for about 2 weeks how silly of me. As they are trials tires I just rode on the green around his car, back on the rode and fucking screamed it up some back roads

So that must have meant either I missed him or he pulled out of a space as the tree was in my line of sight. Either way it was obviously his fault as he drove a Big Moron Wagon
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[Glenben92]

nothing REALLY scary.

Worst one was when I was 16 and still on the ped. On the way to school for a GCSE, was morning and I was nackered and half asleep. I came to a set of lights that i navigate daily and know well. They're the type that (turning right btw) have a green light and a green arrow. Light = go IF ITS CLEAR. Arrow = Other lights are red so you're clear to go.

Well I saw a green light and thought "lovely, green" and turned. I promptly noticed the bus rapidly approaching my left, beeping. He missed the back of me by about a metre. I shat myself, woke up sharpish and rode very fucking carefully the rest of the way.
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[grantp]

was the other week, i've only been riding for just coming up 4 months on the 27th, was going through the city centre round my way and there was two lanes, i was in the right hand lane and the car was in the left hand lane, the person then decided stupidly to change lanes, not seeing me on my moped! (only 16) managed to brake quickly and not hit her car but shook me up big time!
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[potato]

Went around a corner at a bit of speed to be greeted with a speed bump....while still in my "rossi lean" need i say more....

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[dextersaurus]

Was just after i'd passed my test, on the 500, went to my work to meet a mate to go for a band session.

Decided we needed to go to the petrol station first, shot down the road and came alongside him, looked over to him to give him a friendly 'wanker' sign, looked ahead and there was a car stopped dead about 15m in front of me.

Cue me slaming the brakes on and the rear locking up as i fishtailed to a stop just behind the car.

Near enough filled my pants, couldn't play at all till i had a bit to drink, i was still shaking.

First near miss after the accident that put me out for a year.

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[tk338]

Had not long upgraded from a 125 to a restricted cbr600f, rode for an hour to get to an 'awesome' road, got there and got stuck behind a bus. Wasn't having any of it and with my new found power gunned it past it, only to get stuck behind 2 cars and a van all traveling at 30 in a 60 almost bumper to bumper. At the first sight of open road again i opened her up but not knowing the road the next corner had blended it and before a new it where I originally saw road there was now a car, no where to pull in stop or anything so I just pinned the throttle open and went for it.

To this day I don't know how I missed the front of the van and the car but I did, I know I was doing a stupid speed and a stupid thing, and I'm well aware I probably wouldn't have been the only one that was killed or seriously injured. It has honesty made me a much more careful rider
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[killa]

This…

Travelling along this long’ish sweeping right hander, probably doing around 60 instead of the limit 40.
As I banked I reaslied someone had taken a long time to turn into the Gupshill pub. This meant there was a trail of cars behind.
The only option, as the car was blocking the oncoming lane. Was to take the passenger side of cars between them and the curb. Doing about 50-60 past them was a heart stopping moment.

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[FBSF]

The 2CV incident was the one that sticks in my mind - I think it was '92ish.

I was filtering down the outside of a two-lane road in heavy traffic. Maybe a little quicker than I should have been.

A 2CV pulled out to perform a U-ey, leaving me nowhere to go.

My AR125 went straight into the rear side of it, and I went over the top, landing in a crumpled heap on the floor. Apparantly my technical scores were all 5.8s for the triple salko with a twist. I lost points for artistic interpretation though.

Needless to say the AR125 was written off, and I spent a reasonable amount of time on crutches, with badly bruised feet and crushed ligaments.

What was more annoying was that the woman wouldn't get out of her car as "I've been too traumatised and it might hurt my unborn baby". So I had to crawl to the nearest shop to call myself an ambulance, as I couldn't walk. Tree-hugging B1tch.

[Kris]

I've had a few "Oooh shit!" moments in over ten years of biking. I can only describe the feeling is a mixture of impending doom and ever tightening stomach muscles... You certainly feel alive after getting away with it, what with the subsequent endorphin rush.

Anyhow, yes. In no particular order:

Overtaking a lorry round a blind bend, only for a dustcart to come the other way
Jumping a humpback bridge at speed only to find a traffic jam the other side
Going through a nightime motorway crash scene at over 80mph with debris and the husks of dead cars all over the road
On a nightime rideout mistakenly speeding up thinking the road continued straight (I could see road ahead in distance) when infact that was a private road and the real road swept round a nasty downhill left hander
Rabbit running across road passing between front and rear wheels
Attempting to get KD 30 seconds in to a ride and almost highsiding the ZX9 (ended up hanging over the front light)


etc etc, probably a few more.
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