I've been riding for (oh gawd, feeling old again) 28 years now, I've fallen off, and crashing sucks, protective gear or no.
That said, on the way down the mountain from work today my coworker suggested we stop and inspect the site of a crash he'd come up on last week (It must have been wednesday or thursday): anyway, he'd arrived just before the ambulance had and was pretty quickly shooed away by emergency personnel. He said the guy was bleeding profusely from inside his helmet and was howling and gurgling. We stopped by the scene today to check it out.
The usual stuff: too much speed, too little experience, a big bike for a new rider with wealthy parents. fairly standard uphill left with rock walls on both sides, and apparently he'd bounced off a guardrail, skipped into a jutting rock and apparently spun the bars around, impaled himself on them, got scrambled-in-the-shell for a bit and then got flung off the bars onto the road. He died on the way to the hospital. He was supposed to graduate from High School in May.
0 1. inire commented 16 years ago on video Crazy motorcycle driving
That said, on the way down the mountain from work today my coworker suggested we stop and inspect the site of a crash he'd come up on last week (It must have been wednesday or thursday): anyway, he'd arrived just before the ambulance had and was pretty quickly shooed away by emergency personnel. He said the guy was bleeding profusely from inside his helmet and was howling and gurgling. We stopped by the scene today to check it out.
The usual stuff: too much speed, too little experience, a big bike for a new rider with wealthy parents. fairly standard uphill left with rock walls on both sides, and apparently he'd bounced off a guardrail, skipped into a jutting rock and apparently spun the bars around, impaled himself on them, got scrambled-in-the-shell for a bit and then got flung off the bars onto the road. He died on the way to the hospital. He was supposed to graduate from High School in May.
Just be careful out there.