Bikers, be careful out there , you're very fragile and important to your family

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I was driving on the M6 close to J26 this morning a few cars were pulling off onto the hard shoulder because something was in the outside lane, as I passed I realised what it was, the badly twisted body of a biker, they must have seen it happen :(

a bit further up the motorway his bike was resting against the crash barrier, he had a tank bag and tent so would have been on his way to the TT.

My guess is something came loose and got tangled in the back wheel as no other vehicles were involved, it said on web he hit the crash barrier and was dead on arrival at the hospital.

There was nothing I could have done and I didn't see it happen as I was 1/2 a mile down the motorway by the time i'd got to the inside lane so I didn't stop.

I'm still shocked by it , you read about 3000 road deaths a year but until you actually see it in front of you it doesn't hit home

RIP whoever you were and condolences to your family.

anyone with a bike be careful out there :(
 
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RIP Fella :(
 
Never nice to witness a fatality.
RIP to the poor biker.
 
i work for bike shop and we brake bikes and some of the states we see the bikes i honestly wonder if people survive it always makes we look twice when pulling out and be very cautious when riding on the road or driving on the road

you hope they are still alive


my heart goes out to the family RIP
 
chrism_scotland said:
Having seen some incidents and a lot of what you see on TV its put me off getting my bike license, I was all set to do it next spring but I think I'd rather stay in the car, at least if I did have an accident I've got more chance.
RIP Fella.
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you only live once you can walk out of your house and get killed live life to the full i have bikes that will make you physically sick

in the condition the come into us but why be scared live life to the full
 
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wegotitugetit said:
you only live once you can walk out of your house and get killed live life to the full i have bikes that will make you physically sick but why be scared live life to the full
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exactly me view, hence why i have a road car that's boring, then a road legal race tuned yamaha banshee for the weekends :thumbs:
 
Hmmm

I'm a riding God, had hundreds of bikes, done flipping loads of track days, toured England, and Europe, twice... Been running my own business in the motorcycle industry for over 20 years odd now, been a dispatch rider for a full six years before that.
.. I'm the dogs *******s of a rider, you know when you know you've just been out-classed in the twisties or in heavy traffic.... well that’s me that is, me spanking your arse .... again!...whooohaaaa.

Yeah, I can ride like a complete **** me.

Thankfully I like to think I've noticed before it kills me.

Ride safe all (and in full control). :gag: :thumbs:
 
It's never a nice experience. I remember coming out of a WSB race at brands when foggy was still around. There were hundreds of us going anti clockwise round the m25 and lots of us pulled off for the firstservices after the tunnel. Everyone cranked it over turning right on a big roundabout and opened it up going to the next, all thinking we were foggy, only to be stopped by the sight of a pair of leather clad legs sticking out from under a car at the next roundabout. There was a copper consoling a very distressed woman who'd had the misfortune to be driving around the roundabout as the rider shot out in front of her. The petrol forecourt was full of very quiet and shaken bikers filling up. It certainly made me take a long hard look at how I was riding on the road and saved risk taking for track days from then on. We've all lost too many friends, RIP.
 
Yes, RIP whoever you were. Tragic story.

I'm a biker as well - I also (unfortunately) drive a tin box through necessity and the speed that I was overtaken the other day by a brace (collective noun??) of R1s made me really concerned about the lads!

Take care out there on those public roads chaps.
 
R.I.P to the poor biker. :(

It's a really shocking thing to see Wack, and I genuinely hope you're okay - I don't envy you that experience tbh. :'(

Forbiddenbiker said:
Hmmm

I'm a riding God, had hundreds of bikes, done flipping loads of track days, toured England, and Europe, twice...{snip} I'm the dogs *******s of a rider, you know when you know you've just been out-classed in the twisties or in heavy traffic.... well that’s me that is, me spanking your arse .... again!...whooohaaaa.

Yeah, I can ride like a complete **** me.

Thankfully I like to think I've noticed before it kills me.

Ride safe all (and in full control). :gag: :thumbs:
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I totally agree with all FB says above - great post mate. :clap:
 
irw1 said:
R.I.P to the poor biker. :(

It's a really shocking thing to see Wack, and I genuinely hope you're okay - I don't envy you that experience tbh. :'(
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I'm still a bit shook up by it, until I was right beside him I genuinely thought it was a bag in the road that had fallen off a roof rack, I still feel guilty about not stopping but as there were a number of people already there and I was 1/2 a mile down the road before I got to the inside lane there was nothing I could do.

The report in the wigan advertiser said he was dead on arrival at the hospital but he was dead when I saw him, no chance he could have survived.

The shocking thing was how many bike deaths I came across while searching , I have a 600cc Suzuki Bandit which is for sale as soon as it's MOT'd, this hasn't made me sell it, that decision was made last year when I noticed it had 11 miles between MOTs and my kids begged me to sell it

I really do think we need more shocking information regarding road deaths in the UK, it might make people think a bit more about what they're doing.

I went to Chesterfield on thursday, they've recently made the road 50mph because of the bikes but it didn't stop the guy on a fireblade overtaking on blind bends and just getting in by the skin of his teeth between 2 trucks when overtaking on a short straight.

It's the family I feel for, somebody's son or dad
 
All bikers sadly live with that as a strong possibilitly everytime we go out... I always say to any of my friends who are thinking of taking it up, its just a matter of when you have an accident not if.

Poor road conditions and even poorer motorists is the reason why I will never ride another bike on the road again. Might be tempted for some track action one day... but maybe not.

Its like a drug though, hard to quit even though you know it will kill you...
 
still ride on the road, but not as often as i'd like.
me and the bike look like dayglo beacons, and people still dont see you.

i certainly have a much stronger sense of self preservation as i get older.
scares the sh out of me to think some of the crap gear i rode in during my teens.
i know wear a LOT of moneys worth of protective kit.
i still occasionaly bend a speed limit or two, briefly.
and thoroughly enjoy leaving captain sad in his gti whatever standing at the lights. but generaly i'm a lot slower than i used to be..
 
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It is a horrible thing to witness.

About 6 months ago or more, I drove past an accident that had just occured on a dual carriageway. Just a bike, no other cars so lord knows what had happened. but they were recussatating the rider at the roadside, you know when you just know someone has little chance of survival. Turns your stomach a bit.. Had my 2 boys in the car aswell, 4 and 5 years old asking me what they were doing to him ......

It was in the local paper the following week and the guy had died. :(
 
Not just bikes I'm afraid.

Oct 07 I saw a Clio step out on a bend. It then swung in front of oncoming traffic and a car smashed in to the side. Approx 30-40mph combined speed as the oncoming car was only going slow. Unfortunately it killed both the 20 year old couple in the car. There is very little that can be done about side impacts as the person in the opposite side to the impact doesn't stay in the seat at all. In the one I witnessed, he ended up in the back seat of the car.
 
Well not just bikers that can get killed easy if you get my drift
 
After someone knocked me off my bike last September, i haven't ridden. I was ok, just cuts and bruises, and some cracked ribs. But my bike, an R6, was a mess, and has had to have around £900 spent on it to get it back to a good condition. I wash and polish it regularly, and start it up at least once a week, but i haven't been back on it.

The biggets thing i find riding bikes, people in cars cannot appreciate the speed a bike will travel and how quickly it will cover the ground between "Us and Them". This is why i ended up flying about 40feet through the air onto the tarmac. Some old boy started to pull out in front of me, paused, and then carried on, by the time he had realised what was wrong, i was half way past his windscreen. I wasn't speeding, and he wasn't really at fault, it was just a matter of bad timing on both of our parts.

I am now at the point of selling my bike as it seems a waste, but i will miss it like crazy.

RIP:'(
 
Rest In Peace, from a fellow biker. Also my thoughts with you, wack - it's never nice to attend a fatal accident.

Sometimes I secretly wish I could show the horrible scene you witnessed to the boy racers, the diesel reps and the white vans I see speeding through 30mph zones... just because I see this sort of thing far too often. It happens far more than you'd think.

On a related note to this, I always grimace inwardly at the line 'it's not speed that kills, it's inappropriate speed".. Speed does kill, no matter how we try and dress it up to justify it [and I'm certainly, unfortunately, not pretending to be better than anyone else]. When the dashboard's cracking your pelvis at 55 mph, every last mile per hour probably feels pretty damned inappropriate. I've heard that old line so many times, generally from folks who've never seen what can happen.

Anyway, hope that you find time for a couple of stiff drinks and a breather. Once again, my thoughts go to his family.
 
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