What caused you to crash and what bike where you on?

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Tank slapper from worn swing arm bearings. 82 Kawasaki GPZ 550

To hot into turn. 89 Kawasaki GPZ 900.

Loose camera bag fell into back wheel. 86 Kawasaki GPZ 600
 
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It was bloody hot, well 40c plus and I was stuck behind some idiot well under the speed limit just south of Taree, I finally got past the roadblock and immediately low-sided into a 35k bend. Slightly bloody knees and some bike scrapings. Maybe melted Tar, defiantly too hot and FAST into that bend. I promised myself I would maintain any bike I owned to the absolute max and always buy and use THE BEST tyres I could find. That was probably more than 30 years ago and I still keep that promise. That's why I use such oddball tyres, trying to adapt modern rubber to old wheels.
 
My brother never crashed in 50 years of riding, until he hit that deer on his new Gold Wing last year. Bike totaled, he got choppered out but survived to ride again.
 
'What caused me to crash, which time are you asking about?
There have been so many I could write a book about them. One crash I have no memory of the event. I did not crash as often as some of my mates. One common thread to most was carrying too much speed for the corner.
Paying the price now, these old broken bones never let me forget OUCH, the fun I had.
 
Worst was falling on my own oil when the oil tank had split and I didn't know about it. Back end of the Manx I was riding was still fairly clean, most had gone on the tyre. Nothing like dropping it in front of several thousand spectators. Bloke who picked me up I hadn't seen for several years. He was actuially dumb enough to say "Gidday Greg, what are you doing here ? " Pretty obvious I'd have thought.
 
I had a drunk lady step out in front of me once. I dodged, she dodged. I didged, she didged. So I dodgy-didgy-dodged, that foxed her and I managed to get round her, except I hooked her handbag strap on my handlebar and over I went…
I was a teenager then. Nowadays I would’ve just slowed down a bit. Too easy.
 
Andy said:
I had a drunk lady step out in front of me once. I dodged, she dodged. I didged, she didged. So I dodgy-didgy-dodged, that foxed her and I managed to get round her, except I hooked her handbag strap on my handlebar and over I went…
I was a teenager then. Nowadays I would’ve just slowed down a bit. Too easy.
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How much handbag $ did you score?
 
Tree fell right in front of my front wheel, tried to pull the bike up and accelerate but Laverda's don't do that.
Took off like Superman and when I came around thought I'd landed in Scotland, trouble being I was still in Tasmania.
Helicopter ride into Hobart Hospital with broken ribs and concussion.
Don't trust trees any more,
 
Here’s another one: I got into a tank slapper once through a fast curve that went over a slight rise. The bars were wobbling bad enough that I couldn’t see where I was going, but it wasn’t getting worse or better. I had to do something so I stabbed the back brakes, reasoning that it might straighten everything up. That fixed it but I suspect it was more the reduction in speed that fixed it, rather than my theory in the heat of the moment, or possibly a transfer of weight to the front.
I’d be interested in the opinions of the experts though!
 
Sand, gasoline or paint on the road smashed me down, once an overbraking on the front on a cold tire. Never to high speed, fortunately also no others involved except the bike sliding into the back of a car once
 
Andy said:
Here’s another one: I got into a tank slapper once through a fast curve that went over a slight rise. The bars were wobbling bad enough that I couldn’t see where I was going, but it wasn’t getting worse or better. I had to do something so I stabbed the back brakes, reasoning that it might straighten everything up. That fixed it but I suspect it was more the reduction in speed that fixed it, rather than my theory in the heat of the moment, or possibly a transfer of weight to the front.
I’d be interested in the opinions of the experts though!
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Did that on my zX7, biggest tank slapper I’ve experienced at 160kph +…. I’m talking rear tyre screaching as it bit from side to side. Just when I thought I was off, and over the bars, my arse was katipultede off the seat….., tank slapper stopped.
 
Lost the front on my edwards replica, big slide down the road trapped under the bike for about 10metres. Got to meet some lovely nurses and a very talented plastic surgeon. 11 days in hospital and some skin moved around to cover the various wounds and out the front door I walked😀
Tom
 
I had just fitted a dogleg lever to the front disc braked Bonnie I owned, that's the excuse I am sticking to. I was approaching a red traffic light at walking pace and standing beside the road was 2 teenage girls with an unleashed Rhodesian Ridgeback, the dog charged me going for the bite so I had 2 choices. Stop and get bit or go and hit the cars going through the other way. So I went with option 1, which had an addendum that involved locking that new dog leg brake lever, I wasn't used to the changed pull and crashing. I was pissed off to the max and got up abusing these teenagers who just simply walked away. I saw them regularly continuing to wonder about with that unleashed dog and it chased me a few times. Would happen these days thankfully.
 
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