Crashing at the gap

[dolilind]

To all those who went to the bash, welcome back. Hopefully most are well and bikes are in tack. For those who had the most unfortunate adventure of crashing, i hope you are well (or soon will be)and the bikes will soon be repaired for the fall go around.

As for my crash, i can have learned a good lesson. Beware of other riders. I have read in another post that all crashes in one form or another are user/operators faults and the accident could be avoided. In some cases this is true, but put yourself in my shoes. Coming thourgh the dragon in a full left turn around 20mph.To find a out of controll cruiser comeing around the blind bend at you out of controll well over the double yellow pointed right at you and only about 20-30 ft between the 2 of you. Between you and edge of the road (where it drops over 100ft down with no real edge to talk about) is about 2 ft of distance. Your in a condition if you hit the brakes the biker hits you, if you go faster you go off the edge, remember the dragons turn at 20mph your laid over good.
In this case don't have much choice die, serious injury to you or the other rider or bail save you and the other rider (that is out of controll) and let the bike takes its own chances. Not too many choices there, some will argue this some will not.
So if you want to say yes it my fault the bike is wrecked, but you want to know something. Tomorrow I repaint the bike, and me and the other guy are here to walk and ride another day. Only body injury out of this is a cut from my frankenstien bolts to the back of my leg when i jumped off (landing on my feet standing up watching the bike slide down the road, how many folks can say that).
AS for my buddy that lost it on the skyway friday, all is well with him and I start rebuilding his bike this weekend.

Sorry for the soap box rant....just had to blow off some steam
(not all accidents are the riders fault, sometimes your caught in the middle)

picture of the damaged panels allready sanded before primer

 

[dolilind]

side panel

 

[dolilind]

tail

 

[Leo]

Glad you made it out with only a minor scratch. If you feel you made the right choice looking back, then that is the choice that should have been made at that time.

 

[dolilind]

To have stayed on the bike there would have been more risk for me and the other riders body's. Since i was still in controll i was the only one who could have prevented the 2 bike crash. So yeah bailing out letting the bike take the fall was the only way to let 2 people go home that day with no real injury's.
Plus i picked the bike up. Fired it back up and rode the rest of the weekend with no probs.

 

[BusaCruise]

there were almost two incidents like that...
an H-D ElectroGlide came around a blind corner into our lane as well...I hit the brakes hard as this was the same day of the spill on the skyway...I was exceptionally alert that afternoon and riding well below the posted limits.
the misses said if she hadn't have been bracing herself on the tank during my braking, that should could have smacked the jerk in the head...since he was so close.

 

[cobravenom39]

I heard about this, and didn't automatically assume it was driver error. Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad situation. You jumped off! That's awesome. That's how we know you're a good rider!

Glad you're ok. Too bad about your bike, I really liked the paint.

Can't wait to see the post were you have it shining again.

 

[dolilind]

Will be back up and looking new before sat. I got a show to put it in.
Yeah jumping off is something i picked up from running 4 wheelers, dirt bikes. Got the bike up to 90 degrees or close to it and jumped straight up letting the bike go out from under me. Landing on my feet, must be part CAT hahaha

 

[el stumpo]

Glad to see you're starting the painting back... Even better that you did not injure yourself seriously.

Good seeing you around! (now I know what you meant when you said "take (the picture) from this side"

Hope your friend with the turbo gets it fixed ok...

Here's the before pic...

 

[Revolution]

good to hear you made it out ok.

 

[Rayabusa0818]

Good for you, both riders are fine and your Busa will be re-painted soon. I wish people would learn to stay in their lane

 

[CrashTestDanny]

Glad you made it out without serious injury. If you were referring to my post, I am afraid you have both misunderstood what I wrote and misquoted it. I did say "crashes are preventable" and "most of the time there is more than one person who could have prevented a crash". I did not say "every driver involved in a crash is at fault." My post was intended more to make people think about what they could do to prevent someone else's crash than to cast aspursions on anybody's decision-making skills, and I certainly never intended that someone would feel that I blamed them for a moron coming at them in their own lane.

 

[Zoinks!]

I was thinkin the same when reading that other post, but figured it would be useless to post a reply over there dissagreeing. You're right, you had no control over the situation you were put in, however you had unbelievable control in the outcome. A lot of experience and some quick thinkin can do wonders out on the road. Glad to hear that for the most part, all is well.

 

[BusaWizard]

Glad you came out ok.

 

[screamin kanji]

Sounds to me like you made the right choice. sign of a smart and quick thinking rider. the only thing I dont understand is WHY wasnt a can of woop-ass brought out on that other rider

? was it an  

H-D, I damn sure woulda jacked-his-bike-up as bad as yours if I were you. then again I cant stand stupidity, irresponsibility, and I DONT have anger management skills

. so, maybe you were smart in that aspect as well.

 

[kennym4]

The fact that you could even make a decision tells us your skill !! I would LOVE to think I would have done the same thing, but honestly, how many people would just...FREEZE, and do nothing ??

 

[Robot]

Hey Darrell it was great to meet you at the Bash. I met you and your friend on the Turbo Busa as I gassed up on the way in. Didnt you say he broke his collar bone?

Sorry to hear about you crash, hope you are OK, I followed you over to the high school photoshoot. Check my pic posting in the 08Busabash section, there is a pic or two of you in there.

Hope to make the bash again next year. nice to meet you

 

[rockadaous]

good talking with your darrell. I didn't get to ride with ya, but we still have the fall. Post up the pics after the new paint

 

[Robot]

good talking with your darrell.  I didn't get to ride with ya, but we still have the fall.  Post up the pics after the new paint

Good to meet you Rock (talked briefly at the Crossroads)

 

[JR'S BUSA]

Glad to see you made it ok, and be really glad you have the skills to fix the bike