n00b totals 250 on first ride

[DevinWolfe]

I don't think it's overhyped, I would be so pissed if I died for 15 minutes (in my version I choose to believe it wasn't the heroin), you're lucky she didn't make you turn dead long term. Plus, she's female and therefore crazy.

[xMoises831]

god damn i want a lil piece of that cash ur going to get

[Jiggles]

Originally Posted by DevinWolfe

I don't think it's overhyped, I would be so pissed if I died for 15 minutes (in my version I choose to believe it wasn't the heroin), you're lucky she didn't make you turn dead long term. Plus, she's female and therefore crazy.

I uh, what?

[Jiggles]

Originally Posted by xMoises831

god damn i want a lil piece of that cash ur going to get

Alright I'll split it with you also the debt that its going to pay off. I'll tell you what you can have 25% of it. I have 42k in loans and going to pay off 32k which leaves 10k so you only owe me $2500. Get it to me by thursday or I break your ****ing legs, capisce?

[xMoises831]

hahaha ok ill go sell myself in the streets lol jk and shouldn't she be covering everything thats f'd up you didn't try to crash into her on purpose

[Jiggles]

Originally Posted by xMoises831

hahaha ok ill go sell myself in the streets lol jk and shouldn't she be covering everything thats f'd up you didn't try to crash into her on purpose

Says who? Why do you think I had 3 cameras on all pointed forward?

[Jono]

Originally Posted by Jiggles

Says who? Why do you think I had 3 cameras on all pointed forward?

This was planned wasn't it?!? You know there are less painful ways to get 32K.

[Vergil]

Originally Posted by Jiggles

Well you can hear me breathing pretty hard until I kinda settled down. I knew my leg was broken from the moment I looked at it, I put my hands on it and tried to move it and it felt like jello, really painful jello. The amount of pain I was in was more than I have ever experienced but screaming and freaking out isn't going to really help (you know, like that one guy, HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP, lol). I do yell at the end of the video when they put me in a splint, but it was cuz the EMT yanked on my leg WAY too hard.

I think I have a pretty high tolerance for pain.

Still, you barely made any noise. You can take a beating, more than I ever could.

[Jiggles]

Originally Posted by Vergil

Still, you barely made any noise. You can take a beating, more than I ever could.

I think it comes from years of my brother practicing UFC moves on me haha

[Motofool]

Originally Posted by Ninjedi

Man i get the whole defensive riding thing and i try to be as safe as possible... but for real dont make excuses for this bitch? .............. Come on man dont make excuses for idiot drivers who cant take a second to turn there head and look.

excuses?excuses?

Ninjedi,

Somewhere along your motorcycling carer, you will reach a point at which you will realize that it doesn't matter how right you are and how stupid and wrong the people driving around you are: the result will be the same.

Is that painful and costly result what we have to avoid by all means; nobody else will do it for us.

Sadly, life is not what it should be or how we believe it should be, and so are most of the drivers at there.

I have no reason to excuse or condemn any of the persons that collided, but I do have a reason to believe that this experience will change the way in which Jiggles will ride in the future.

[dubojr1]

Hey Jiggles... when do we get to see the actual video with the speedo uncovered? Not that I don't trust you...LOL

[miss_syn]

Originally Posted by Ninjedi

. This chick didnt even think to look before she pulled out and was probably ****ing with her phone or the radio or somthing.

Unfortunately you can see both hands on the wheel at the moment of impact. I wanted to blame it on dumb people texting and driving.

[dfox]

Originally Posted by Jiggles

Tensing up breaks bones

That seems to be a good comment, and something that's probably hard to put in action unless you've had experience. Training can help, but ultimately, if your brain doesn't recall that information in the split second that it needs to, you're effed.

Originally Posted by Motofool

I have no reason to excuse or condemn any of the persons that collided, but I do have a reason to believe that this experience will change the way in which Jiggles will ride in the future.

Agreed, and this was what I was actually intending to get at with my original question. Jiggles, what are your thoughts? I personally look at the video and think you were riding too fast for the road. Then again, I ride urban roads, and situations like this happen to me daily, so I have a slightly different experience than you might.

[Ptdoughnut]

you had such a tiny window to react! has to make you wish you got free health care?

similar situation happened to my sister. A jacked up super duty truck ran over the hood of her car making an illegal uturn in the street. Totalled the car, completely scared her for life.

People just don't feel like they have to look while driving a car. They feel invincible!

[Renner]

28mph on a residential street, which most likely should be posted limit at 20mph...nobody wants to say that this could of been avoided by not exceeding the speed limit.

If you were going 20mph, that car would of completed the U turn by the time you got to it....not trying to be a dick or anything, just pointing out the facts.

Good luck on your recovery

[xSean13]

Originally Posted by Ptdoughnut

you had such a tiny window to react! has to make you wish you got free health care?

similar situation happened to my sister. A jacked up super duty truck ran over the hood of her car making an illegal uturn in the street. Totalled the car, completely scared her for life.

People just don't feel like they have to look while driving a car. They feel invincible!

Lol, free health care. Then he'd be waiting a month for them to do anything, and any physical therapy would take ages.

[akima]

Originally Posted by Jiggles

If I make it public I'll need a better name for the title. Thoughts?

If you want to get hits on youtube I'd call it:
"Biker Snaps Leg In Slow Speed Collision"

Accurate, concise and sure to get attention!

Enable some of the youtube advertising and if you're lucky the video will be popular and you'll make a bit more money to help yourself out.

[miss_syn]

Originally Posted by Renner

28mph on a residential street, which most likely should be posted limit at 20mph...nobody wants to say that this could of been avoided by not exceeding the speed limit.

If you were going 20mph, that car would of completed the U turn by the time you got to it....not trying to be a dick or anything, just pointing out the facts.

Good luck on your recovery

Looks like the CA speed limit is 25 in residential areas. Yes, he was going over but not by much.

If Jiggles had left a few seconds earlier and had been going 20-25 he still would have been hit. I don't think the +-8 mph makes a huge difference.

Having lived on a residential street similar to that, I can say residents get lax on their own streets and generally act like morons. Ask my friend who had their car doored because the person opened it about a half second before my friend passed the car. Yeah sure if she had been going a little slower she may have avoided it, but the other person should have been paying attention to what they were doing.

ETA: I like @akima 's title.

[Ptdoughnut]

Originally Posted by xSean13

Lol, free health care. Then he'd be waiting a month for them to do anything, and any physical therapy would take ages.

Right... never had any issues like that around here with my healthcare.
Physical therapy is immediate around here for sure, in my small city we have 3 PT places. (mind you 1 is only for women)

Getting his leg fixed would have been immediate, i know my foot was done and casted in a couple hours.

I think they have you brainwashed as to how ****** canadian healthcare is.

[Stingray1000]

Originally Posted by miss_syn

Looks like the CA speed limit is 25 in residential areas. Yes, he was going over but not by much.

If Jiggles had left a few seconds earlier and had been going 20-25 he still would have been hit. I don't think the +-8 mph makes a huge difference.

Having lived on a residential street similar to that, I can say residents get lax on their own streets and generally act like morons. Ask my friend who had their car doored because the person opened it about a half second before my friend passed the car. Yeah sure if she had been going a little slower she may have avoided it, but the other person should have been paying attention to what they were doing.

ETA: I like @akima 's title.

Look @miss_syn Jiggles leg matched your hair and your bike! LOL

[akima]

Originally Posted by Ptdoughnut

Right... never had any issues like that around here with my healthcare.
Physical therapy is immediate around here for sure, in my small city we have 3 PT places. (mind you 1 is only for women)

Getting his leg fixed would have been immediate, i know my foot was done and casted in a couple hours.

I think they have you brainwashed as to how ****** canadian healthcare is.

Same in England. I would have received immediate treatment if I broke my leg like that.

Y'all need to stop watching Fox news!

[DevinWolfe]

Originally Posted by Jiggles

I uh, what?

Upon (sober) review, I don't really know what I was trying to say myself. It seems tequila is a hell of drug. Maybe not as good as percoset, but we can't all have broken femurs can we?

[xSean13]

Originally Posted by Ptdoughnut

Right... never had any issues like that around here with my healthcare.
Physical therapy is immediate around here for sure, in my small city we have 3 PT places. (mind you 1 is only for women)

Getting his leg fixed would have been immediate, i know my foot was done and casted in a couple hours.

I think they have you brainwashed as to how ****** canadian healthcare is.

Nah, it's simple facts. Obviously serious injuries require immediate care (such as surgeries), but if you need to schedule anything other than that, wait time is ~4 weeks, 15% had to wait up to 90 days.

Anyways, your health care isn't free. Higher tax rates pay for it. Fortunately the income tax rates aren't as high in Canada as they are in England and across Europe.

[250rr]

Originally Posted by Ptdoughnut

Right... never had any issues like that around here with my healthcare.
Physical therapy is immediate around here for sure, in my small city we have 3 PT places. (mind you 1 is only for women)

Getting his leg fixed would have been immediate, i know my foot was done and casted in a couple hours.

I think they have you brainwashed as to how ****** canadian healthcare is.

Originally Posted by akima

Same in England. I would have received immediate treatment if I broke my leg like that.

Y'all need to stop watching Fox news!

You Canadians and Englishmans are so smart. Will you all come over here and show us how to run everything and how to vote on stuff and stuff like that? I can't do it!

[massacremasses]

hahaha what a big stupid n00bie face!

[Old Lemon]

Originally Posted by akima

"Biker Snaps Leg In Slow Speed Collision"
.

Yes, make it a featured video or something and enable monotizing (playing ads)

[Jiggles]

Originally Posted by Motofool

excuses?excuses?

Ninjedi,

Somewhere along your motorcycling carer, you will reach a point at which you will realize that it doesn't matter how right you are and how stupid and wrong the people driving around you are: the result will be the same.

Is that painful and costly result what we have to avoid by all means; nobody else will do it for us.

Sadly, life is not what it should be or how we believe it should be, and so are most of the drivers at there.

I have no reason to excuse or condemn any of the persons that collided, but I do have a reason to believe that this experience will change the way in which Jiggles will ride in the future.

Honestly I don't know if it will, the speed limit on these streets is 25 and if you think I'm going to ride slower than that, well thats just silly. Certainly I need to practice braking, I locked up the front in this crash at the last second, not that it would have made a difference. Honestly I don't know how I could improve upon my riding from this crash. The situation was so out of my control that there's nothing I could have done besides have been riding slower. And the speed I would have needed to be going to evade this crash if she turned when I was at the same distance away, would probably be 10-15mph.

Originally Posted by dubojr1

Hey Jiggles... when do we get to see the actual video with the speedo uncovered? Not that I don't trust you...LOL

I don't have an edited version with the speedo and I'm too lazy to edit and upload another video just so you can see a speedo which is wildly off from my actual speed

Originally Posted by dfox

That seems to be a good comment, and something that's probably hard to put in action unless you've had experience. Training can help, but ultimately, if your brain doesn't recall that information in the split second that it needs to, you're effed.



Agreed, and this was what I was actually intending to get at with my original question. Jiggles, what are your thoughts? I personally look at the video and think you were riding too fast for the road. Then again, I ride urban roads, and situations like this happen to me daily, so I have a slightly different experience than you might.

I mean the speed limit is 25mph and I was going 28mph. Honestly I don't think my speed was unreasonable. Just as well I'm not going to tiptoe while on a motorcycle. How would you guys feel if I had been in a car going the same speed and this crash happened? Just throwing a question out

Originally Posted by Ptdoughnut

you had such a tiny window to react! has to make you wish you got free health care?

Yea I was like Oh no ima crash! Dammit I wish I *crash* had free healthcare D:

No, I have health insurance which is better

Originally Posted by Ptdoughnut

similar situation happened to my sister. A jacked up super duty truck ran over the hood of her car making an illegal uturn in the street. Totalled the car, completely scared her for life.

People just don't feel like they have to look while driving a car. They feel invincible!

Especially 17 yr old girls. 17 yr old girls should all just go die, at least until they turn 18

Originally Posted by Renner

28mph on a residential street, which most likely should be posted limit at 20mph...nobody wants to say that this could of been avoided by not exceeding the speed limit.

If you were going 20mph, that car would of completed the U turn by the time you got to it....not trying to be a dick or anything, just pointing out the facts.

Good luck on your recovery

If I would have been going 35 I would have evaded the situation altogether. See the problem with your logic? Altering speed or leave time of any situation will completely alter said situation but would also possibly set you up for another unpredictable situation. The only way we could really look at this is to say, Had I been going 20mph at the same distance from the car when she turned would I have evaded the crash. And the answer is no. I would have less serious injuries but I still would have crashed. The fact is I was so close to her when she initiated the turn that there was no hope to evade it unless I was hobbling along on an electric scooter

Posted limit is also 25mph, not sure I would consider 28mph speeding. So if you want to point out a fact, make sure its a fact before you do so

[PsHYk]

Maybe the wrong thing to ask about this but..
What kind of cameras did you have on there? =D

[massacremasses]

GoPro

[Jiggles]

Originally Posted by massacremasses

GoPro

x2 + ContourRoam

[Felipe the Ant]

Originally Posted by Jiggles

Honestly I don't know how I could improve upon my riding from this crash.

The only thing I can think of is maybe you would have been better off if you jumped over the car. Yeah it would have sucked but I doubt you would have broken your femur. Though now that I think of it, the point where you would decide "hey, I'd be better off jumping" you were just making contact

But think about how many style points you would have got if you slid across the hood dukes of hazzard style yelling out yeehaw!

[PsHYk]

Originally Posted by Jiggles

x2 + ContourRoam

Sweet

[Jiggles]

Originally Posted by Felipe the Ant

The only thing I can think of is maybe you would have been better off if you jumped over the car. Yeah it would have sucked but I doubt you would have broken your femur. Though now that I think of it, the point where you would decide "hey, I'd be better off jumping" you were just making contact

But think about how many style points you would have got if you slid across the hood dukes of hazzard style yelling out yeehaw!

That's not an improvement, just another way to crash lol

[dubojr1]

Well I know you kept a copy of the video file. PM/email it over to me

J/k.... You don't owe me anything and at this point it really don't even matter.

[Jiggles]

Yes let me just send you this 4gb file, shouldn't take too long right?

[Ptdoughnut]

Did you manage to get on your bike today?

[Jiggles]

I'm in the process of it. I just went out and tried to lift it and I can lift it off the kickstand with my bad leg. I attached a new gopro mount to the windshield so I can record myself. However my leg is feeling kinda tired because of how many trips up and down the stairs I've made today so I'm going to take a break and let the gopro mount adhere and then I'll go out for a short ride.

[akima]

^ take it easy Jiggles

I can only imagine how much you want to get back on your bike.

[Renner]

Originally Posted by Jiggles

Posted limit is also 25mph, not sure I would consider 28mph speeding. So if you want to point out a fact, make sure its a fact before you do so

Anything over the posted limit...IS speeding...just FYI

[Jiggles]

Originally Posted by Renner

Anything over the posted limit...IS speeding...just FYI

So is anything under slowing? That's an awfully small mark to hit

When you take the driving test for your license you are allowed to go 2 under and 3 over the speed limit and not get dinged any points