Nominations Please: Official Laughing Stock

[Mad Dave]

Now that Chili has gone off in search of new roads to spread his fairings across, we're going to be missing someone to wind up whenever somebody does something silly. So, instead of pining for our absent friend, I propose somebody to replace him (temporarily), to keep his spirit alive.

So, any nominations?



Dave

[Rawwr]

Maybe we need an incident totaliser?

Lets say, years riding divided by crashes resulting in bike/gear damage? Division by zero will result in zero

I'll start:

2/0 = 0

[Mad Dave]

Ooh, good idea.

I've been riding 3 years, and crashed once (wrote off the bike).

In fact, I dropped that bike on the driveway prior to that (broke brake lever), and also dropped my ZX7R whilst trying a U turn on a slope (cracked fairing).

So that's 3/3

So 1.

[Oilyyyy]

4/3 for me

[Marki]

What happend to Chilli then

[Carl-H]

I have been riding 17 days. I haven't come off yet.

[The Tramp]

That'll be 1/2

So 0.5..... not me then,

But i will welcome stick for not doing a track day yet.....it may give me the kick up the arse and get one sorted...

PS, seemed to have gained sum smilies...

[Oilyyyy]

That's an impressive statistic Carl

~I think the maths is a little skewed here -

5 years / 0 crashes = 0
5 years / 1 crash = 5
5 years / 10 crashes = 0.5

Edited by Oilyyyy on Friday 25th May 15:50

[Mad Dave]

Carl-H said:

I have been riding 17 days. I haven't come off yet.

That's already a better track record than Chili hehehe

[Rawwr]

Yeah, bad maths. I am just back from the pub, though.

[R1_JON]

Riding for 12 years, 2 crashes.

I know of a certain PH'er who recently had a wheelie go wrong, on quite a small bike, and now has his leg in plaster for 8 weeks I think he deserves this award

[m3psm]

Riding for 21 years and had about 14 crashes. 9 of those were in one year as a London courier though so don't really count as it's an occupational hazzard

[YamR1V64motion]

over 7 years, 3 crashes(of which 2 were caused by non looking car drivers), plus a friend wrote off my current bike so that doesnt count on my record thankfully

Edited by YamR1V64motion on Friday 25th May 18:45

[Carl-H]

Mad Dave said:

Carl-H said:

I have been riding 17 days. I haven't come off yet.

That's already a better track record than Chili hehehe

I have also done about 1000 miles. On a 50cc automatic that will only do about 55

[black-k1]

OK, we need to get the rules clear here. Are we talking road crashes only or do we have to count track day crashes? Does dropping the bike while wheeling it around the shed count as a crash?

Here we go with the numbers:
Riding 29 years. 6 road crashes (zero in the last 25 years – I learnt my lesson!)
1 track day crash 6 years ago.
1 bike drop in the last 16 years (in shed) – a few before that.

What total does that give me?

[StuB]

R1_JON said:

Riding for 12 years, 2 crashes.

I know of a certain PH'er who recently had a wheelie go wrong, on quite a small bike, and now has his leg in plaster for 8 weeks I think he deserves this award

Name & shame!

[anonymous-user]

black-k1 said:

OK, we need to get the rules clear here. Are we talking road crashes only or do we have to count track day crashes? Does dropping the bike while wheeling it around the shed count as a crash?

Here we go with the numbers:
Riding 29 years. 6 road crashes (zero in the last 25 years – I learnt my lesson!)
1 track day crash 6 years ago.
1 bike drop in the last 16 years (in shed) – a few before that.

What total does that give me?

Mighty impressive! Agreed - road crashing, track crashing and being a plonker and just dropping it - all different, so here goes:

6 years riding. 0 road crashes
0 track crashes (well, outbraked myself twice and went into the gravel, also hit the gravel at high speed after a brake pad had come out leaving me with no stopping power, but I choose not to count those!)
Dropped my 1 hour old MV Agusta twice . . . on each side! That pesky lack of steering lock caught me out!
Flipped my 125cc Chinese made dirt bike showing off in front of some girls at the track!

[scobby17]

My record was falling off 18 times on one event.

It was my first ever motox event, the first 2 were my fault, just crap rider, the next 16 were just plain exhaustion.

[leeross]

I crashed my year old cbr600rr 3 days after i got it.

[RemaL]

i had 2 off's in 8 days, first was a car doing a u-turn in front of me and other was hitting oil on a corner in Jan. not much damage to either me or tha bike as both times managed to slow it down before putting her down. apart from those 2 times and concidering I passed my DAS Oct 06, been ont he road every day mostly since starrt of Nov 06 thats not that bad