Fell off a few times at speed. Never once had a leg caught under the bike....
Not picking on you in particular, just relating the real-world consequences of the wreck.
All three leg bones broken, spiral above the knee, double compound above the ankle. Gets to the hospital and it’s touch and go if they can save the leg. To keep the swelling from cutting off the ciculation, they make an incision from hip to ankle down the outside of his leg.
In a few days they’ve done everything they can and he’s bedridden at home. His wife stood by him through it all, they had three high school age kids who were all in shock. Wife works so he was alone all day laying on pee pads so he won’t foul the bed. Six months before he could go back to work. Fortunately they .had his wife’s paycheck and his boss is a biker, so he kept his job open. Else they woulda been screwed
Most folks don’t think beyond the wreck, including me before this.
That can happen tho that one seems a tad unusual, I’m wondering if he got on the front brake..
Anyhow, what happens after all the medical stuff and lost wages is insurance claims and bill collectors, so on top of everything else you’ll be needing to pay for a lawyer, and that can go on for years.
He says in the second video that his rear tire broke traction and started sliding on a little loose or spilled gravel/rocks/debris on the pavement and down he went. Said too that he was only traveling at 35 mph right before he went down.
Loose gravel washed out of driveways after a good size rain, spilled sand, fresh mowed grass clippings blown out on the road surface, oily residue that builds up from motor vehicle leaks at stop lights and signs, even small amounts of grain -- soybeans, corn, etc., -- spilled from farm trucks, can all cause a motorcycle to suddenly break traction and go down.
A guy came to work a little late one afternoon all scraped and bruised up. Said he was not even a 1/2 mile from work when his motorcycle hit some soybeans spilled on the road at an intersection where grain trucks often turn and down he went.
Had both the loose gravel and oily residue happen myself. The oily residue happened in city traffic, taking off from a dead stop at a stoplight right after a light rain.
The gravel incident was on a rural paved road traveling at barely 10 miles an hour, mid left turn at a yellow caution light intersection onto a another paved road. Other than a few light scratches on the motorcycles, luckily nothing that wouldn't heal up and hair over in a couple of days happened to me personally either time.
