Have you ever crashed a motorcycle?

[Val]

Simple question and I expect simple answers.

Dropping your bike counts as yes.

Off road slip counts as yes.

No ifs no buts. Just answer yes or no please

EDIT: I see some No votes. I will assume these are Google bots and some people has hit the wrong button

Read the terms, dropping your mate's bike counts as yes too.

EDIT 2: IMO we can do much better

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[Skudd]

I ride a bike.............................. DUH!
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[natefz6]

I can imagine this poll in the daily mail already. 100% of bikers have crashed!
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[Mudshark]

strange poll, should be more like only choices are

1-10
10-20
30 or more


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[c_dug]

Agree you'd probably get more useful information by asking how many times, or average times per year over riding 'career'.

Probably averaged at least once a year since 2006, heavily weighted by the first 5 years
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[MCN]

My insurance proposals always state I have not crashed.
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[doggone]

Does others hitting your invisible body count as you crashing

[Skudd]

In over thirty years of riding a bike I have lost the front wheel at 5mph on gravel, lost the rear end at 15mph on oil going round a round about, collided with a pedestrian at 5mph (almost stopped when she walked from behind a bus and she walked into the side of my bike), Ran over a pedestrian at 30mph when he was pushed out by his mates into the road. Hit a wall going round a bend on the Cat & Fiddle doing silly speeds, dropped the bike at a petrol station because the floor was wet and that is all my little mishaps over the years all except the petrol station done in the first 10 years of riding.
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[weasley]

Dropped a bike a couple of times on a try-your-hand-at-off-road thing. Also laid mine down during a manoeuvring incident. But properly crashed, whilst riding... no. Voted 'yes' though, because rulez.
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[thx1138]

Off road, all the time, often daily sometimes more frequently.

[Nexus Icon]

I crashed the same bike 5 times when I was 17, including a couple of reasonably big ones, so I voted yes despite them being in a different lifetime.
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[DrSnoosnoo]

Dropped my ZZR trying to get it onto the centre stand a few months after having it.

When I got the CG and bringing it home from the failed MOT, I pulled out from a side road and the back end came right round. Wooden tyres and the raw power of that 1983 single cylinder machine. That was about 0.1 mph and the "fall" was less harsh than falling from my office chair.
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[wizzzard]

1 x Bus reversed over me and bike. Not overly sure if that counts.

1 x Lost front wheel while trying to mount a kerb at an odd angle in ridiculously deep snow. Definitely counts
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[grr666]

Not this time around biking yet but yes, quite a few times the first time around when I was a teen.
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[dodgydog]

Regularly on winter commutes years back, in snow, ice, rain. No proper gear back then, just coal board wellies, jeans, combat jacket. Didn't even have any gloves for a time one winter, (no wonder my hands are fucked now). Plenty gravel rash, one possibly broken wrist, ( they couldn't decide from the x ray, so potted it anyway). My boss at the time was a star, he'd let me bring the bike into the mechanics shop and fix it up so I could get home ok. Even put the other blokes onto my section of machines so I could get it done.

Just once this century, on the Isle of Man. Got the bend badly wrong and went up the verge, then back on the road. My mate was behind me, and he was in a worse state than me, he had to sit down for ten minutes before he'd get back on his bike, and he wasn't the one with the gravel rash. (bike had minor fairing rash, slight exhaust scrape, bent brake pedal and brake lever)....but rideable.
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[pepperami]

Destroyed my lovely LC 250 of lovelyness, back in the day of Freddie Spencer.
Long wide bend and all of the power?, err that`s not good? as the back wheel overtook the front wheel

Many other smaller "offs" since, so I can say YES
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[Val]

5 guys voted No???

I have to say I am pleasantly surpised and in the same way gobsmacked

Who are you people reveal yourself?

Are you real people or just some google bots are messing with my poll

I kind of expected to have 100% yes vote here.
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[hellkat]

Yeah, this poll is totes poo-dash.
I'm not answering, cos the word "crash" is pejorative, man.

It gives the impression of like big bumps and falling-offery with much pain and broken bikes.

I've come off, yeah, but never actually crashed, like big-time
*hastily touches wood in superstition mode*

Dinged a bike off a car once, and then dropped it, own stupid fault,

Some extraordinarily drunken gonk wandered out in front of me on Brompton Road once, causing me to put the bike down and bump my knee.

Assorted other prangery.

... but nothing big style smashy that warrants the word "crash".
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[Val]

[Baffler186]

Dropped one when I hadn't put side stand down properly. Dropped another at 1mph when I rolled to a stop on an adverse camber. Off-road as a youth, 10+ crashes in a field
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[hellkat]

[pompousporcup...]

if dropping it whilst stationary counts.. then its a yes from me.

although.. i wasn't technically "on" the bike so the bike crashed by itself no?

[notbike]

My own bikes never.

Back when I worked in domino's I crashed their bikes four times.