View Poll Results: What's your top speed? Any vehicle any type of road or racetrack.
75-85mph
41
1.46%
86-95mph
50
1.78%
96-105mph
93
3.31%
106-115mph
175
6.22%
116-125mph
271
9.63%
126-135mph
360
12.80%
136-145mph
485
17.24%
146-155mph
488
17.35%
156-165mph
403
14.33%
166-175mph
146
5.19%
176-185mph
89
3.16%
186-195mph
63
2.24%
196-205mph
39
1.39%
205mph+
110
3.91%
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How fast have you gone?
01-09-2009, 06:06 PM
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01-09-2009, 06:20 PM
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Two broken femurs, torn acl and mcl (left leg), broken fibula and tibia(left), dislocated hip(right), two broken wrists, 4 broken ribs, punctured right lung, lacerated liver and left kidney, dislocated sternum(didn't know you could do that). 16 days of hospital stay were due to pulmonary pneumonia resulting from breathing tube and lung embolism which did not allow me to breath on my own, hence the extended breathing tube.
01-09-2009, 06:40 PM
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Unbelievable. You were wearing full leathers I'm assuming. Didn't mean to sound like a dick earlier, but I don't hear of many that survive a 70mph+ wreck in public roads.
01-09-2009, 06:48 PM
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I was wearing my gear. Long and short of it, I was on the state road from Ocala, FL to Daytona which at the time was a two lane with several 1+ mile straights along the way. Hit one and checked the speedo at 135 and looked up to see a car pull up to the road from a driveway. Guy looked right at me and pulled out. I swerved to miss to the rear of the car and high sided over trunk. The bike removed the axle from under the car. Paramedics said gear for sure saved me but also that I landed in the grass and sand and not road or palmetto. Just took a long tumble through tall grass but enough to mess one up.
01-09-2009, 06:57 PM
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You could've tumbled on 400ft of mattress, at 135 mph the momentum of your body mass combined with the centrifugal force from tumbling and turning is enough to break every limb and anything connected to it. Lucky you didn't have to go through the excruciating process of skin grafting.
01-09-2009, 07:06 PM
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I was wearing my gear. Long and short of it, I was on the state road from Ocala, FL to Daytona which at the time was a two lane with several 1+ mile straights along the way. Hit one and checked the speedo at 135 and looked up to see a car pull up to the road from a driveway. Guy looked right at me and pulled out. I swerved to miss to the rear of the car and high sided over trunk. The bike removed the axle from under the car. Paramedics said gear for sure saved me but also that I landed in the grass and sand and not road or palmetto. Just took a long tumble through tall grass but enough to mess one up.
01-09-2009, 07:22 PM
#396
i can imagine grafts...had 3rd and 4th degree burns on my left leg when i was seven and had to have skin grafts done....not a nice process let me tell you, nothing but dead skin being shaved off and whirlpools for a while, lotts of morphine and then the grafts stapled on...worst part was when the staples had to come out!! u ever see those staples...kind of like a staple for paper but backwards
01-09-2009, 07:24 PM
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I had a friend who lowsided his bike at about 50mph wearing regular jeans about 2yrs. ago. The cuff of his jeans caught on to the footpeg, which got his leg stuck under the bike as it dragged him to a stop. The asphalt was literally embedded in his skin. They had to scrub his fresh leg with a course compound to get all the asphalt out before the procedure. Horrible.
01-09-2009, 07:36 PM
#398
yeah man...ive never put either of my bikes down but few of my friends been down and few killed...anytime someone goes down it is not good, especially when your rippin...still though im basically just afraid of other people when i go out riding..stupid drivers not paying attention daily!!
