Chasem
Well-known member
On the bright side, you will not be raped by insurance and you learned a valuable life lesson.
Who know's, with all the practice (you will be doing) you may have prevented a much worse accident down the road
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I crashed!!
- Thread starter ravensix
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On the bright side, you will not be raped by insurance and you learned a valuable life lesson.
Who know's, with all the practice (you will be doing) you may have prevented a much worse accident down the road
Thanks for making me feel less like a dbag about myself
I just felt obligated to post in this forum about what happend. Hope y'all can learn from my dumb mistakes. Even better, I hope y'all dont even need to read about my mistake to know better for your self to not make any lol.
I just felt obligated to post in this forum about what happend. Hope y'all can learn from my dumb mistakes. Even better, I hope y'all dont even need to read about my mistake to know better for your self to not make any lol.
TheRealKnex
Well-known member
Thats crazy man good thing your ok tho, good to know that safety gear works as good as it did. Be safe gws
cbcanada
Banned
1. I am very very glad you are okay!
2. The lesson learned are not any of the ones you listed.
3. You were going too fast and or too close OR just too fast for your reaction time.
"If i was educated, I'd be a damn fool"
Your right, now that I had more time to analyze the accident, It was entirely due to the fact I was too close and reacted too slow. Poor judgement
Yah, my buddy did the same thing on the 401. Sounds like you need a bike with ABS
Holy crap, on the 401?! Is he alright?!
I'm really starting to realize practice of hard braking is key.
Boots
Well-known member
This almost happened to me in my car today. I'm in the passing lane (when I totally forgot this is Canada and these idiots on the road don't know how to use this lane) I look to my blindspot for a quick sec and this guy in front of me is at a complete stop. I panic braked in my cage and locked the wheel since it has no abs. Good thing I didn't ride my bike to work that day.
Glad you are all right. Could have happened to anyone of us when taking that split second to check a blindspot, check your cluster, observe a potential hazard from the side of the road etc etc.
Glad you are all right. Could have happened to anyone of us when taking that split second to check a blindspot, check your cluster, observe a potential hazard from the side of the road etc etc.
brucewayne
Well-known member
its a lesson. it only cost you money and not health. right now it will seem expensive lesson but in the long run when you look back at it, it will be a cheap lesson. learn everything you can about what went wrong and make sure you don't repeat the same mistakes. good luck!
You learn from situations like this so that the next time in a similar situation you will react or handle differently. Experience is your best friend here. There are 2 things I have learned over the years which I can suggest.
1.) Work on your peripheral vision, it's important to have a big picture of whats going on.
2.) When I'm following someone, I tend to keep 1 or 2 fingers resting on the brake lever at all times.
In fact I pretty much keep a finger on the brake lever at all times and when I brake, the word "squeeze" pops up in my head, this was learned by repeated track time.
Glad your ok, and don't beat yourself up.
1.) Work on your peripheral vision, it's important to have a big picture of whats going on.
2.) When I'm following someone, I tend to keep 1 or 2 fingers resting on the brake lever at all times.
In fact I pretty much keep a finger on the brake lever at all times and when I brake, the word "squeeze" pops up in my head, this was learned by repeated track time.
Glad your ok, and don't beat yourself up.
Bikes can be fixed, lives can't, call it a lesson. Unfortunately, experience is a harsh teacher. At least your doing the right thing and fixing for what you broke. Strongly consider doing the racer5 course or a few trackdays. You will learn how to brake in a controlled environment, with appropriate medical staff and no one coming the other way if it goes wrong. No coolant, gravel, or other crap laying around either. The nice part is, skill is an investment you take with you even when you change bikes. Even if you never plan to race, you will learn more in 1 track day than a season of street riding. Confidence and control are a good investment.
Yah, my buddy did the same thing on the 401. Sounds like you need a bike with ABS
How does the saying go? Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
"...was following behind him, he starts to rip it and I started to follow him and I couldnt tell what rpm band I was in..."
That was bad judgement. How many riders have crashed trying to keep up with someone? On an unfamiliar bike this time. Glad you aren't hurt. If you have lucky stars somewhere, thank them.
Avoid posting critical clues the government/insurance might use to get involved--you mention your previous bike, current bike, friend's bike, protective gear selection (with identifying damage) and rough timeframe of the incident. Someone may have seen something and reported it. Not sure if GTAM would resist the demands of police for your contact info.
Maybe a bit paranoid, but LEO already use Facebook as evidence to connect the dots. Good luck, Mr. R. Six.
"...was following behind him, he starts to rip it and I started to follow him and I couldnt tell what rpm band I was in..."
That was bad judgement. How many riders have crashed trying to keep up with someone? On an unfamiliar bike this time. Glad you aren't hurt. If you have lucky stars somewhere, thank them.
Avoid posting critical clues the government/insurance might use to get involved--you mention your previous bike, current bike, friend's bike, protective gear selection (with identifying damage) and rough timeframe of the incident. Someone may have seen something and reported it. Not sure if GTAM would resist the demands of police for your contact info.
Maybe a bit paranoid, but LEO already use Facebook as evidence to connect the dots. Good luck, Mr. R. Six.
Very best advice above.....
Well ok folks let's put our helmets on as this will require the removal of the tin foil caps..LOL The police have no interest in "looking into this". They have enough to do then create more work for themselves given that no location was given a Toronto copper isn't going to "start an investigation" on an accident that could have happened ANYWHERE including the US.
Insurer "may" be slightly interested, But they would have no authority to seek identifiers from GTAM and the police aren't going to go get a warrant so, an insurance investigator can "investigate" They "MIGHT" care a bit more if there was blantant fraud involved. IE OP said he had a single bike crash but he needed new exhaust for his bike so they were going thru insurance saying it was a rear end, and that they knew someone who knew someone, who would hep them get rehab paid for and split the rehab payments with the provider for cash.
Insurer "may" be slightly interested, But they would have no authority to seek identifiers from GTAM and the police aren't going to go get a warrant so, an insurance investigator can "investigate" They "MIGHT" care a bit more if there was blantant fraud involved. IE OP said he had a single bike crash but he needed new exhaust for his bike so they were going thru insurance saying it was a rear end, and that they knew someone who knew someone, who would hep them get rehab paid for and split the rehab payments with the provider for cash.
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