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Would you post nasty bike crash pictures?
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Merv24
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PostPosted: 12:53 - 07 Sep 2004    Post subject: Would you post nasty bike crash pictures Reply with quote

Question

Nasty bike crash pictures.

Would you post them?

I've just seen them on another site and they really are horrific Sad

I was wondering what you people think about it?
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Ste
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PostPosted: 12:57 - 07 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Depends why they're being posted really. Seen plently of the "here is what happened to someone after they crashed wearing shorts and t-shirt", lots of the American stunt videos have crashes in them which are okay as it's part of the video. So not posted for the "look at this crash, you should wear leathers!!" as everyone has seen plently of those.
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Merv24
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PostPosted: 13:05 - 07 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
Depends why they're being posted really. Seen plently of the "here is what happened to someone after they crashed wearing shorts and t-shirt", lots of the American stunt videos have crashes in them which are okay as it's part of the video. So not posted for the "look at this crash, you should wear leathers!!" as everyone has seen plently of those.


That's more less what brought the pics up on the other site.

Someone was saying wear leathers all the time etc and someone showed these pics of a guy wearing leathers who crashed and did not look in a good way Sad
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PostPosted: 13:32 - 07 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Whats the site?
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tgabber
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PostPosted: 13:32 - 07 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
So not posted for the "look at this crash, you should wear leathers!!" as everyone has seen plently of those.


IMHO posting horrific pics to remind people of the advantages of proper protective clothing is a far more justifyable reason than simply as a form of 'entertainment'. There will always be some who haven't seen the possible consequences of a serious off before and a reminder once in a while for the rest of us is no bad thing.

Having said that I suspect that many pictures alledgedly posted to encourage safety are really just the internet equivalent of rubbernecking. I think normally only the people actually in the accident should be the ones to post explicit pictures of serious injuries.

Pictures of fatalities are only justified in exceptional circumstances and then only with the consent of the families of those involved.
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hugo-a-gogo
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PostPosted: 23:13 - 07 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, people are never killed wearing leathers Rolling Eyes

i saw some really bad pics recently of a dead biker, just a pile of barely recognisable bits, first thing on the internet that's disturbed me in a long time
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PostPosted: 00:29 - 08 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's plenty of pics & vids on www.ogrish.com, but that's mental scarring stuff, like a ped boi who didn't wear a helmet & got mashed by a juggernaut... all in the best possible taste, of course.
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hugo-a-gogo
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PostPosted: 00:41 - 08 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

the ones I saw were even worse than the ogrish stuff, it was a guy (presumably) who had been wearing full leathers and full face lid
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PostPosted: 09:45 - 08 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've lost too many mates from accidents for those sort of pictures to be really comfortable viewing any more (or perhaps I just mean "at present").

I wish I had the courage to go look at ogrish dot com, it might make me think more about wearing more protective stuff when riding

But I havent got the stomach. The last burial was too recently.
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PostPosted: 10:25 - 08 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

I really hate nasty bike crash pictures.

The odd thing is that I can have a crash, look at me knee and see it looks like raw steak, and just think "hmm, better get that cleaned up. Might take a while to heal."
But if I see the same injury on someone else in picture form, just makes me feel sick.
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PostPosted: 11:02 - 08 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

I doubt I would post other Bike crash pictures, but if it was my own crash I probably wouldn't mind too much. Confused
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Dom
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PostPosted: 12:59 - 08 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wouldn't, at least not here. It's not pleasant viewing for anyone and everyone around here's smart enough to know safety kit is a must. Just seems like unnecessarily lecturing people, to me.
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PostPosted: 14:55 - 08 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would but that's probably because I havent found a picture yet that made me feel even slightly ill.

Ogrish at 2am probably does that to you.
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PostPosted: 00:12 - 09 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd only post a picture if it illustrated the point I was trying to make.

I could post shitloads of 'Ouch' pictures, but what is the point?

We all know the damage that we may incur through riding bikes. Do we really need to see every scratch ever made through riding a bike?

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Ste
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PostPosted: 00:51 - 09 Sep 2004    Post subject: Reply with quote

Born2bVile wrote:
Do we really need to see every scratch ever made through riding a bike?

Don't say that too near the ban tobacco crowd otherwise bikes with have to be sold with big stickers of gruesome crashes and health warning all over them!! Razz
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