The streetfighter gods have spoken (incidents)

[336LJ]

So here I am.. on my merry little way to work this afternoon.
I overtake some knob in a stato doing 70 in a 100 zone, swing round infront back off to 120... another knob coming the otherway. drives straight OVER a long, sheet metal type plank thing as long as my bike and 1 foot wide (with reo bar rolled into the sides) before I could think the word FU.... SMACK. right into me.

Now my mudguard is fucked, and the nice neat fairing on the right hand side is gouged and scratched... Much anger follows. followed by me wondering how the fuck I didnt get my leg cut off.

It was like some matrix shit, it was about head height before it dropped back down and hit me.
messaged my mate when I got to work and he sent back "streetfighter!" haha

anyone else had some close calls? I heard about a guy round here (where I live) who collected a full toolbox with his foot a while back.

soo I guess thats motivation enough for me to get this 250 out of the shed (if i ever get it back!!) sell it, and get some goodies to start off.. stuff waiting for another bike to use as my project! Just need transport tho (as in, bike cant be off the road).. bitch of a situation!!

[kevkatana]

I had a mate cop an over head cable on the chin from a car hitting a power pole. The only thing that stopped him from losing his noggin' was his clocks[:0]

[Funkenfresh]

well my story doesnt include me riding but starting my bike... as its a xt600 with a non-baffled pipe i roll it down the street in front of a street lamp to kick it over... been starting my bikes there for ages.....
one morning i woke up, got ready for work and as i was about to leave i remembered i left my bedroom light on, i then remember i needed something else and again forgot the light... wasted about 3-4mins forgeting the fricken light...
i eventually got to my bike in the drive way, when i hear a Rav4 thing squeeling is shitty little tyres over the dogleg/traffic light 3 house up, and see it fly past my house on the kurb... and booommm crash... the whole lot of street lights/powr goes out.. and i run to my front door, as i reach there, i hear the electricity buzz, and i was like fuck these guys are fried!! of course it was a stolen car that went straight through the pole (that i start my bike under) at about 80+ kph and rebounded into the island street light,..the theifs done a runner much to my suprise, and were long gone by the time coppers came... if i hadnt wasted the time in the morning turning the light off in the morning i wouldnt here today... ive never be so shaken in my life, and i now dont give a fuck about waking up the neighbours so i start the bike in the driveway..

[WATEVR]

not long ago i got hit with a rock thrown from a overpass on an expressway. hit me in the stomach, farkn little shits....

[hooligan]

I had a ladder fall off the roof of a work van while i was crossing the harbour bridge in peak hour, i dodged it but heard screeching tyres behind me... and about a month ago, a aluminium roadsign (big 1m square A frame thing) flew outta the tray of a fucking council ute as i was heading down the motorway heading to eastern creek. Really lucky that my mate wasn't sitting right on my tail. He told me he saw me swerve for no reason. Then realised what the reson was as it came towards him.

[Booster]

Had to dodge a truck once, country highway , 1 truck coming towards me, then its 2 , he mustt have been going a fair bit faster than the first as he swung rather wide , no time to stop and the road edge is full of truck so i go between.... wondering the whole time if there is a third..

[Iceman]

Riding home from work a couple of months ago I had an oncoming truck fire out a golf ball sized rock at me. I could see it coming but just couldn't get out of the way, it seemed to follow me as I moved to the far left of the road, then whop! It hit me in the thigh and fuck it hurt. I estimate the impact around 240kph, (obiviously the truck was speeding, coz I would never do anything like that;)). I'll admit I yelled in my helmet when I got hit, and ended up with a decent bruise. Just lucky I got it in the leg I reckon, don't even want to think what would've happened if it was the neck.

[Thruan]

just a wk ago i was out randomly riding around town, suddenly somthing hit my left arm really fucking hard, left a big ass bruise, im guessing it was a rock shot from a slingshot or something the way it was moving, ive got 3 chips in the paint on the top of my tank leading to my arm... i say it was a sling shot cause i was doin at least 90kph and it had to come over 4 lanes and a median strip to get to me.. swore my head off. then later i had to give them a little credit for manageing to actually hit me.

[336LJ]

quote:Originally posted by WATEVR

not long ago i got hit with a rock thrown from a overpass on an expressway. hit me in the stomach, farkn little shits....


little fuckers. what if it went through your visor! Iv got more chance of hitting a roo on the way home tho..touch wood

I'v been driving and as a truck has come past I have been cracked in the side of the skull with a rock through a window that was only down a bit.
I have also been hit in the face just driving beside cars on the highway. suprised I havnt lost an eye!

How bout that sick fuck in the states that threw a jar of acid through some girls windscreen and melted her face.

I wish I was prime minister. I'd re introduce the death penalty. or perhaps just very VERY severe beatings instead of fines. and jail with severe beatings.. for extra naughty kids who throw rocks, or pinch bikes.

[Lucas]

quote:Originally posted by 336LJ


quote:Originally posted by WATEVR

not long ago i got hit with a rock thrown from a overpass on an expressway. hit me in the stomach, farkn little shits....


little fuckers. what if it went through your visor! Iv got more chance of hitting a roo on the way home tho..touch wood

I'v been driving and as a truck has come past I have been cracked in the side of the skull with a rock through a window that was only down a bit.
I have also been hit in the face just driving beside cars on the highway. suprised I havnt lost an eye!

How bout that sick fuck in the states that threw a jar of acid through some girls windscreen and melted her face.

I wish I was prime minister. I'd re introduce the death penalty. or perhaps just very VERY severe beatings instead of fines. and jail with severe beatings.. for extra naughty kids who throw rocks, or pinch bikes.






Soooooo many fucking roo's around here too. I get a little paranoid when I'm riding home at 10pm after a long shift:D

I nearly punted a football in the middle of the road on a wet night a few weeks back. I was tired and zoning out and saw it at the last minute.

One of my little bro's mates was wringing the neck of a gixxer 11 on new years, from what I was told he was really on it hard. He had his visor up and a magpie posted itself and took him out.

[336LJ]

quote:Originally posted by WATEVR




Soooooo many fucking roo's around here too. I get a little paranoid when I'm riding home at 10pm after a long shift:D

I nearly punted a football in the middle of the road on a wet night a few weeks back. I was tired and zoning out and saw it at the last minute.

One of my little bro's mates was wringing the neck of a gixxer 11 on new years, from what I was told he was really on it hard. He had his visor up and a magpie posted itself and took him out.


Theres a few spots on the mt lindsay highway where the roo's congregate at night time. I usually slow right down to about 70-80 if no one is around to run me over from behind.
A guy was killed on his bike hitting a roo in the worst spot. his house is not even 1 min further down the road.

I think thats half the reason I'm so tired when I get home. my eyes workin like an old school printer VZZZZZZZZZT side to side the whole way home hehe. If it wasnt for sheer extreme gay factor I'd have some form of spotties pointing off to the side so I can see.

I dont know bout anyone else but fuck whoever is coming the other way I leave my high beams on when I'm out in the sticks I cant see shit, my mate got knocked off by a roo as a car came past near yatla. he dipped his lights, and the car didnt. as soon as it got past it was like a still image of a roo at chest height. I love how people are like "couldnt you swerve it" yeah with 0.001 seconds til impact.

[fimpBIKES]

quote:Originally posted by WATEVR

not long ago i got hit with a rock thrown from a overpass on an expressway. hit me in the stomach, farkn little shits....


i had some little fuckers throw a half rotten log at my subaru up here in newcastle a few years back, cunts


also had a big chunk of clay come up from a trucks tyre going along putty rd in 06, left a nice big fucking bruise on my chest!!!!


oh yeah and that roo last year, stupid fucking overgrown rabbits [XX(]

[kiwi60]

Not an object - but an insect...was following a mate up a brilliant winding road and decided to make a pass on him, opened up the bike and experience the most excruciating pain - in my balls!!!!!!!!!!

Slammed the brake on and pulled off the road.

My mate, being aware that I was about to pass him was some what surprised when I dissapeard from his mirrors, and thinking that I had come off, turned around and came back down the road to find me hopping up and down clutching the family jewels.

A bee had flown into the front of my jacket and fallen down to the seat, but being just a little pissed off at having it's own day disrupted by this bloke on a bike, it stung the nearest thing - leftly, I have never experienced pain like that before and hope I never do again.

On locating the perpetrator, I proceeded to conduct my own version of river dance on it's body.

My mate, in the meantime, having found out what had happened was rolling on the ground pissing himself laughing...to this day he has a picture of a bee on his bike - bastard!!!!

[Razorback]

Mate on an old Duke SD900 always wore an open face lid and got hit in the face with a bug in North WA... some sort of freaking great beetle thing. Fractured cheekbone LOL [B)]

[Lucas]

During a mid ride stop with a few mates one of them showed me a large marble sized rock he'd caught just before it hit him in the face. He wears an open faced helmet and was sprayed with gravel after following my thorough a patch of broken road

[xb9r]

quote:Originally posted by 336LJ




quote:Originally posted by WATEVR




Soooooo many fucking roo's around here too. I get a little paranoid when I'm riding home at 10pm after a long shift:D

I nearly punted a football in the middle of the road on a wet night a few weeks back. I was tired and zoning out and saw it at the last minute.

One of my little bro's mates was wringing the neck of a gixxer 11 on new years, from what I was told he was really on it hard. He had his visor up and a magpie posted itself and took him out.


Theres a few spots on the mt lindsay highway where the roo's congregate at night time. I usually slow right down to about 70-80 if no one is around to run me over from behind.
A guy was killed on his bike hitting a roo in the worst spot. his house is not even 1 min further down the road.

I think thats half the reason I'm so tired when I get home. my eyes workin like an old school printer VZZZZZZZZZT side to side the whole way home hehe. If it wasnt for sheer extreme gay factor I'd have some form of spotties pointing off to the side so I can see.

I dont know bout anyone else but fuck whoever is coming the other way I leave my high beams on when I'm out in the sticks I cant see shit, my mate got knocked off by a roo as a car came past near yatla. he dipped his lights, and the car didnt. as soon as it got past it was like a still image of a roo at chest height. I love how people are like "couldnt you swerve it" yeah with 0.001 seconds til impact.


I allways leave my high beam on I cant remember not having them on since I started riding road

[Fish]

Got a stick chucked up at me the other day from another bike, thank fuck for full face helmets cause it broardsided me right in the face before i could say FUC. Another one i had was going down the freeway and I felt this fucking big THUMP in my chest, I thought what the fuck was that cause i couldn't see anything. So i pull over, undo my helmet and look down... FUCK ME there's this god damned wasp that must be related to fucking king kong as long a my finger looking up at me in a daze. So before the fucker could wake up properly and get really pissed off i brush him off do the freakout dance and i'm gone.

[morrigan]

Pulled up at Buladelah this afternoon, on my way home from Taree. Opened my visor and "Ptang!!" it sprang up on the right side. The screw was missing. Damn thing wouldn't close again, so I had to take it off and ride home without. Had sunnies on, but felt more than a little bit nervous when coming up on those dirty great double tippers. And every bastard seemed to be mowing the grass at the side of the road too!

I got hit by a chunck of steel radial off a semi on South west hwy going back a while. I was on my old VTR1000 and when it hit it damn near threw my off. Broke all the plastic around the bolts holding the fairing on and almost lost the mirror. Also had a nice black pin strip on the yellow duco. Serve me right for having fairings.[:p]

[Azrael]

What we need is pics of manky wounds to go with stories..

[StuNVA]

Owned the wifes Territory for about a week and some guys esky lid blew out the back of his ute and left a bloody great dint in the back passender door. Last year a gravel truck pulled out in front of me, while I was in the ute luckily and a gooli the size of my fist hit the windscreen, damn sure if I was on the bike I wouldnt of been typing this. Bugs, man I used used to ware a half face till I scored a butterfly fair square in the mouth, they taste like shit, also threw a dirt bike down the road (in town luckily) trying to get a wasp outa me shirt once. I agree with you guys about the fuckers who throw shit at you they need a good old fashion dose of justice, beat the shit out of them.

[336LJ]

haha fuck some of these stories are funny. especially the bug ones.

Some are just insane/make me paranoid I cant think what goes through peoples heads when they chuck shit off overpasses..
I always give any kind of truck especially something with a wide load on it a wide berth.. I'v seen what chains to to cars when they swing around.

I Was riding a peewee 80 as a kid and a fucking dragon fly lookin thing smacked me fair in the temple and proceeded to sting the fuck out of the side of my face. I had no idea wat was going on and just freaked out trying to slow down and had this creepy screaming half winking face on me. everyone laughs except me of course.

I always wondered what would happen when one of those truck tires farted its guts out all over the road and a bike happened to be in the way. we were putting along side a truck in my old mans car years back and could here the "woohwooohwooooh" from the egg in the tyre (i presume)riding along side it.
the old man sped up got in front of the truck then WHAM rubber everywhere. observed from the rear view mirror thank fuck.

I agree pics would be awesome.. not sure about the swollen nutsack tho..

[Learnatic]

Had a mate who was riding open face helmet & sunnies,bug hit him and got stuck in his eye & started biting,he almost fell of because of the pain,they had to take him to hospital and remove his eye from the socket to get it out.He said the trippiest part was when they pulled the eye ball out he could kind of see in all directions but it was too blurry,took weeks to get his sight back properly.

[Fight_fan]

^^^Aaargh! Fuck that! I was riding with my visor up n got hit in the eye with a really small fly, it fuckin hurt, but the worst thing was it broke into about 3 or 4 pieces & they started goin behind my eye ball! Took 2 days to get rid of it all, my eye was so fuckin red n inflamed!

A mate of mine was riding his R1 in jeans n a singlet (I kno!) doin about 150 n got smacked in the chest with a ciccada! Fuckin horrid bruise!

[OzFighter]

Awesome stories!

I got another bug story. It was when me and 2 mates were riding out to Bundeena via the national park. Got through some nice twisties then onto the straight, so naturally we gave it a bit. Im in 2nd place and i see my mate ahead of me swerve a little and im like WTF? I was busy lookin for a pothole or something but then i see this pile of flies/wasps/insects all hanging out chest height right in front of me on the road. Now ive never been shot, but i can now kind of imagine what it might feel like to be sprayed with a machine gun! I was only wearing a thin as Dri-Rider mesh jacket with a t-shirt underneath. Friggin stung like all hell! I remember pulling up once we got to our destination and brushing wings, legs and heads off my jacket front.

[Gix11]

Again with the bugs....
A mate of mine lost the sight in one of his eyes when he went through the windscreen of a car before seatbelt laws were introduced in England. This didn't stop him from riding though. One day we were crusing down this dual carrigeway just outside of Stratford and he suddenly starts to slow down in the fast lane on a wide open road with no cars, I thought that was weird, but then he started to move over to the inside lane then back out to the outside lane then over onto the grass verge then back out again until he eventually rolled to a stop. Turns out he got a bug in his good eye and he couldn't see shit out of either! How he managed to not crash I have no idea? Saying that, a few months later he did crash but that was my fault and a totally different story....

[xb9r]

Bloody bugs I get one as soon as I open my visor without fail

[Fish]

me too.... actually some times , and i'm fucked if i know how they do it, but sometimes they hit me in the eye with the fucking visor DOWN!!!!

[336LJ]

ah the bugs... the dragon fly incident when I was a kid means I always have my visor down once I get above 60 or so. I thought I'd chance it with sunnies on.. changed my mind and shut the visor, about 3 seconds later I got NAILED by a fucking... teradactyl is the best description I can think of...
I thought I'd have whiplash from the impact!

[Rumbo]

Friggin bugs eh. I was riding my old XT500 and took a shortcut through a bike path when I saw a big spider web, too late. The big hairy fucker went straight into my helmet, onto my face then ran into my t-shirt. So I stopped the bike, put down the side stand, jumped off, got my helmet off and searched for him. Never found him but when I looked back at my bike she was sitting there in 1st still running. Slowly digging a hole in the grass. Just rebuilt the motor, 1st ever, so I was impressed.
Still forget to put the visor down, it's gunna blow off 1 day.

[Lucas]

Having some fun on a shit, twisty mountain road with no where to stop and somehow a blowie the size of a fucking budgie got inside my helmet and started going NUTS.

I've never been so distracted or disturbed. I had to put up with it for a few kms before there was anywhere to stop.

[makaveli650]

got a bug in my eye doing a buck 50 coming into casino this year, it hurt like fuck while rubbing my eye i managed to just miss a dead wallaby, just as i was getting some vission back i saw a policeman with a radar gun pointed at me. Guess i wasnt speeding buy then cause i never got a letter.