Bennington Triumph Bash

At an intersection off of U.S. Hwy 30 west, A big V-Rod .....Somebody pulled out.......The Fire Dept. hosing off the pavement........As I was going by at a crawl.....All I could say was ..."oh my God , No ! Made my heart sink......Sun is shining.... 65 degrees , Ol ' Boy was getting him some air on Bike..........What a Fucking Shame ! Speed.

It is a risk we take my friend wish the rider a safe last ride home and pray it isn't you or a freind the next go around. I have lost three friends and two relatives to bike crashes and been in three myself. The last crash I took made me stop rideing for several years so I will not be driven by fear see ya on the road brother Speed.

Jimmy

My heart sinks just hearing about it but thank you Speed for posting it. Gave up riding for nearly a decade for the very same reasons as Jimmy. So now it's put on the helmet and body armor before each ride (something I never used to do) and try not becoming a statistic. The gear won't always save ya but it can't hurt. Not a very relegious person but I will say a prayer for this rider as that can't hurt either. Wishing everyone a safe season, Touko

Speedblastr wrote:All I could say was ..."oh my God , No ! Made my heart sink......Sun is shining.... 65 degrees , Ol ' Boy was getting him some air on Bike..........What a Fucking Shame !

So sad.
It always brings my spirit to a complete STOP when I come upon a bike accident scene.
You just never know what's around the next corner in life.

Summer before last, a kid on a sportbike died just up the street from my house. I came upon the accident scene shortly after he'd been hauled away in the ambulance; his smashed bike was still lying in the middle of the street, and so was the car he'd hit (classic left-turn scenario, although the kid was street-racing and was apparently doing 75 or 80 in a 30mph zone). The car's rear door was caved in, frame was bent, roof was buckled... the kid hit it hard.

The stain where goo had oozed out of the kid as he lay on the pavement stayed there for weeks, and the spray-paint markings from the accident investigators remained for months. Served as a stark reminder every time I passed.

--mark

I'm just grateful it wasn't any of us!

Last year we had two kids and I say kids 17 and 18 racing they hit a chevy suburban and flip it two times both riders dead and a six year old little girl sitting in the rear seat that one of the bikes went threw. I didn't feel anything for the two idiots but for the little girl I think racing should be done at the track speeds over 150 upon impact according to the fatal team.Delaware is a good place to be wacked by a cage because all of the city dwellers coming to the ocean they think the ocean is going to dry up before they can get there. The worst was a mid aged guy last year hit a deer dead center at 55 and cut that sumbitch in half and folded the handle bars on a harley down on his legs and he rode it out into the woods I was the first on the scene and I feared the worse but the dude asked me if the deer made it what a sence of humor.

Jimmy

One deer incident we had last year trashed the bike and killed the deer. The worst injury sustained by the rider was where the antler went through his arm. The fall off didn't do much damage but the deer nearly killed him.

LoVel wrote:One deer incident we had last year trashed the bike and killed the deer. The worst injury sustained by the rider was where the antler went through his arm. The fall off didn't do much damage but the deer nearly killed him.

You know those animals can really trash out a vehicle...let alone a rider and his bike. My 1st cousin from Ohio heading to Indiana hit one with his brand new Ford Truck, Tore it up, he made light of it since he likes to hunt as well , had a picture pose taken with deer and truck , said " I got my first one for the season" My cousin .... He ain't right.

sorry for the rider that died, RIP.

We were driving out to go hunting 5-6 years ago in a buddy's brand-new truck. He center-punches a deer going 70, but it really didn't feel "that bad", more like a bump than what I expected it would feel like, maybe I was drunk or we got lucky. The driver said, "man, that wasn't that bad, I bet there isn't much damage." Well ,the only thing left of his front end was one high beam light and the bumper. The rest of the grill/lights/etc were gone.

Then, later in the trip he lost $500 in a poker game, and took a bump-gate to the side of his truck, and had to go home to his bitch of a wife. "Honey, I wrecked the truck twice and lost $500 gambling. Can I go again next weekend?"

he hasn't been hunting with us since then.

And, I lost a friend this past weekend. Josh was 28 yrs. old and a First Grade teacher in Windham, CT. His parents were Pastors in a local Fundamentalist Christian Church. We met three years ago at a local bar called Corleone's. He rolled in on his Kawasaki and saw my 998 parked outside. A conversation ensued. Used to see each other three or four times a month at Corleone's. We had some "spirited" discussions about global warming and evolution but never stopped liking and respecting each other. We all miss him a lot. It dosen't help to know that he died because he made a mistake. Either hit sand or overshot a relatively mild turn and lost it. They tell us he hit a mailbox and then a telephone pole. Really strange because he was a very cautious rider and always wore the gear.

I'm sorry to hear of your friends passing Bruce19. Wish there was something to say that would make even a resemblance of sense out of such a traggic ending. There never is but we can hope it does where his journey takes him now.



Touko

bruce19 wrote:And, I lost a friend this past weekend. Josh was 28 yrs. old and a First Grade teacher in Windham, CT. His parents were Pastors in a local Fundamentalist Christian Church. We met three years ago at a local bar called Corleone's. He rolled in on his Kawasaki and saw my 998 parked outside. A conversation ensued. Used to see each other three or four times a month at Corleone's. We had some "spirited" discussions about global warming and evolution but never stopped liking and respecting each other. We all miss him a lot. It dosen't help to know that he died because he made a mistake. Either hit sand or overshot a relatively mild turn and lost it. They tell us he hit a mailbox and then a telephone pole. Really strange because he was a very cautious rider and always wore the gear.

Man................I'm truly sorry.

Bruce, that's awful. Sorry for your loss.

--mark