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I started with mopeds (50 cc) like most europeans. At the age of 15 i got my first motorbike, a 125 KTM Penton which i used to jump on all motocross tracks whenever possible. Lots of bruses and broken brake/clutchlevers but i do not count those as crashs.
First, a real (and so far most serious) was at the age of 17, on my first H2. The year was 1974 and i was performing a wheelie to my friends (and a buch of gals), unluckily it was after rain and when the front wheel landed and i started to brake there was a big puddle before the end of the driveway where i was supposed to turn. And at the end were several trees and i hit one of them, or actually the bike stopped to one of them and luckily i passed the tree.
The bike was on part payment scheme so i had to have the full coverage insurance which took care of the repair costs.
It was all fixed but probably that was the moment i started to think all the dangers of driving motorcycles. And it only strenghtened my will to ride H2:s.

26 years ago. RD 250, 17 years old, wasted, 4am, fell asleep halfway round a corner, ran into the back of a parked car.

Been trying to ignore this one! 1969, Gold Suzuki T500, new girlfriend on back - car tuned right (left to most of you) into me at major intersection, relatively minor injuries (for hitting a car) but the bike was a mess, tho they actually fixed it! Girlfriend stayed around for 4 years, and the payout fixed the bike, and paid for a new red '70 H1!! The rest, as they say, is history! (Is there a crying emoticon? ) Oh yeah, that was in the days before full-face helmets were around, I bit my lip big-time!!

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

I was on a 1976 Honda Cb200 (speed was not a factor). This took place in Massachusetts, where stop signs are merely suggestions. I was driving at about 30 mph when a female driver approached and promptly blew through a stop sign intersecting the road I was traveling on. This happened about 20 feet in front of me and she had her head turned the opposite way. Never looked! I had enough time to think "Ohh Sh..." and smashed the front of her car. Somehow I got clear of the bike and car and launched right over the hood of the car and landed in the road on the other side. I was only scraped up, but the worst part- she got out of her car and started screaming at me for speeding, driving like a maniac, etc. That day was a true test for me

Where did you bury her body

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she will never be pretty but she is a fun ride.

73 KAWASAKI H1 (Sold).
82 YAMAHA RD350LC
2000 KAWI KDX200H
2001 Triumph TT600

It's a one way ticket to find out

Late '80's. Riding my very first motorcycle bout 6 months after I got it. Was a '76 KH400 and she would scream to 70 and back to zero in an eighth of a mile which was the length of the street behind my apartment. Beautiful sunny spring day after a night of rain and I was maker the bike scream... never saw the light layer of sand that had washed over the road just short of my stopping point. I don't remember hitting the ground but i do remember sliding for a good ways with my foot trapped between the bent peg and the engine. Next time was on a cb450, taking a corner that bike had no business taking.

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KH400 - almost ready for the road
H1F - carbs are kickin my behind... still!

First crash was around 1969 or 70 on a Yamaha twin jet 100 with an electric starter, nice bike top out at 98 my first bike with expansion chambers - the crash was learning wheelies.

After I grew up (I think I grew up) I got the triple, the pics below- 72 H2. Tim is currently doing bead blast on the cases, Dave recently did the crank and the forks are coming from Jessbikes.com (Jessbike was quick I paypal last night and this morning around 7:50 it was shipped...try that on ebay!).

Nevertheless, the crash below was around late 1972 in Houston, TX and I got the ticket, the officer drove to the hospital to write it out. It was my fault and I never got a chance to cross the intersection! I was going in the direction of the parked police car. This crash was not to be my last...

Well documented, great pics! If someone would have taken pictures out of my crash(s), i probably would have said NO pics, just too ashame.... now, after 35-40 years i certainly would like to take a look....

I used to ride a few dirtbikes when I was a kid. The very first bike I had, a 71 SL125, was the first bike I laid down. I was riding in the woods and decided to try this one hill. I had tried it a few times but the bike didn't have enough a** to take it. This day I decided to hit it as hard as I could and see if I could finally get it. I had that thing wound tigheter than an 8 day clock, hit the hill, just when I was about to reach the top, the bike ran out of a** again and I couldn't get it swung around when it started rolling back from the trees. The bike and myself went down, slid all the way down the hill and both fell into a 5 foot deep creek trench we had built a bridge across so we could climb the hill. It sure did hurt but it taught me a leson not to push my luck again with that hill.

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74 H2B with reeds and 34mm carbs
75 S3A Ram Air with reeds and 30mm carbs
73 S2A (wife's bike)
71 Yammi RT1B
83 HD Sportster
03 Yammi R1
06 Kaw 750 Vulcan (wife’s bike)
12 Yammi vstar 250 (wife’s bike)