Crashes

**DX Rider12** · 08-01-2005, 06:55 PM

Post your stories about the worst crashes you've had riding trikes. The worst I got is I tapped my grab bar on my DX but no crashes... Oh, then there was the time my cousin (who rides quads) grrr thinks that trikes and quads are the same, so I was riding with him and he wasn't paying attention and he almost rear ended me so I moved and he clipped the left side of my fork and almost tipped over sideways. But Iv'e had no crashes yet *knock on wood*

**1984kxtTECATE** · 08-01-2005, 07:48 PM

I was doin a little hill shootin on a tree farm on the SX, went a little to fast hit a 45 degree corner and you know when you cant make the turn, the SX and me went straight into black berries but never rolled it, i had a few scratches. Then one time on the Tecate I was doin about 20 and tried hittina 90 degree corner, couldnt make it either, so I really trie to get on the brakes but as fate has it I rolled the twist throttle and trust me those breaks aint gonna stop 45 ponies, so I went straight into about 4 ft tall black berries and got more scratches, but I have never rolled any of my bikes, knock on wood. Later I hit the same corner doin about 15 on the Tecate, I slide it perfect then the rear wheels jsut suddenly hooked up and next thing I know that front tire popped up and I shot 15 feet forward in a split second, didnt crash but it made me learn to respect the power of the bike. And once on the Tri-Z i was doin a 3 rd gear wheelie hit the grab bar but luckly I got the rear brakes in time, no damage or crash just a little freaked out becuase it was on gravel and I could have got torn apart, lol. So really I have only "crashed twice." But have had some close calls.

**Yamaha Tri-Moto** · 08-01-2005, 08:13 PM

A few years back I was riding my 3 wheeler which at the time had no brakes and i was going to fast to make the corner, hit a tree rolled the 3 wheeler and was thrown into a rusty barbed wire fence. Surprisingly i was not injured to bad but still have a few scars to show for it. Oh well totaly worth it.

**wheelie king** · 08-01-2005, 08:27 PM

While trying to work out a fuel problem......I was getting pull-started on the 200s, my wife driving the Xterra and me on the trike...a 20 ft tow strap in between us. I tell her "ten miles an hour, honey...TOPS." "OK" she says. As we get moving down the shell rock road, she accellerates.....and ACCELLERATES....and at about 25 mph, when the trike started to sway back and forth and wobble as if to tip over.. I scream...and SCREAM....."STOP!" and I was fighting it with the handlebars to no avail...... I BAILED. Swan dive off the trike onto the road, looking up in the cloud of dust to see her continue, still accellerating, and the trike flipping upside down. There. My cherry 200s going 25+ mph upside down on a shellrock road. Nice. She finally realized the screwup, and slamms on brakes, and runs back to me. I got road rash like a mother, and I am bleeding everywhere. Broken glasses, trashed cell phone, and torn shorts.

It sucked. Needless to say, My wife never pull started me on anything else, and never will.

**Yamaha Tri-Moto** · 08-01-2005, 08:37 PM

hows the trike man??? lol

**wheelie king** · 08-01-2005, 08:40 PM

Actually, the trike was fine. Little scrape on the top of the headlight switch, and some scuff on the left rear fender on the plastic. You gotta stare to see it though.

Me: Permanant scars on my left arm that are purple. Yes, purple.

**DX Rider12** · 08-01-2005, 08:49 PM

Wheelie King... Man that really sucks. (I know this doesn't pertain to trikes but I just have to tell it) I was at my friends house jumping bike off his ramp, and my bike is a piece of s^&% so I had to use his little brother's bike with like no tread on the pedals. So I lined up got some speed and then my foot slipped off and I was like a foot from the ramp and I went off the side then flew off the handlebars and I had no gloves or helmet but my hands skidded on the gravel and I tore em' up pretty bad.

Now this is about trikes... I was like 9 and my mom, dad, and little brother went riding to my dad's friend's house to pick up a part for the dune buggy I have up north. So on the way back we took the trails instead of the road (I know thats illegal, but now you can ride trikes or quads or any off-road vehicle on the shoulder anywhere in Ogemaw County.) Anyway, back to the ride. I was riding with my mom ,and she hasn't ridden a trike in 20 years so, we were going up this big hill and my mom hit a big pothole and tipped sideways. I jumped off I was fine, but my mom scraped her arm on a tree and had like a 9" gash on her arm. But that was the only actual crash I've been in.

**200xadam** · 08-01-2005, 09:30 PM

lol heres an idiot crash, and yes it was on a QUAD but it wasnt mine so its ok lol.

i was rideing my friends YFZ in the snow right after he got his brand new curtis sparks pipe and dirt digger clutch. i thought hey its just a quad not goona be too powerfull for me so im off throwin around some snow without a helmet on n i think hey lets top it out see what shes got. im going full throttle down a straightaway in a field and the yfz is so low to the ground that the rear skidplate was sliding on the snow and somehow it got me squirley n the front tire hit the snow bank and i was instantly thrown from the quad...as im flying through the air with no helmet im flying like with my back down and im looking at the quad flipping twords me i get that instant "OH ****" thought n i blacked out on impact and i instantly jumped up to make sure i was still alive...i look over at the quad sittin on its tires n i think Phew maybe it just got sideways fell back down, we then look at the tracks from teh quad and then the 10 feet of fresh snow without tracks, and then a quad sitting there...n then another 10 feet of fresh powder and a big slide mark of where i hit and slid for about 10 feet...and that is why i will never have a YFZ lol

**Maine_Triker** · 08-01-2005, 09:53 PM

I have only crashed once on a trike. KNOCK ON WOOD!!!!!!
I was on the old 200s, going around a corner that was also downhill, and it just flipped. I jumped off in time though. No damage to the trike not even a broken brake lever!
I ride my trikes carefully. The only one I beat around with (jumps, wheelies, etc...) is the SX.

**LonesomeTriZ** · 08-01-2005, 09:54 PM

I got my Warrior stuck upside down in the top of a tree once.

**Maine_Triker** · 08-01-2005, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by LonesomeTriZ

I got my Warrior stuck upside down in the top of a tree once.

You wouldn't happen to have a pic of that would you???

**monster 84r** · 08-01-2005, 09:59 PM

i wheelied too far and ended up on my rear last week on the 'r, but thats the only wreck ive had on it.

6 months ago i was messing around on a friends 300ex after he put on a t4 exhaust.... anyway i was in 3rd gear going about 35 in a retention basin, and took a corner going way too fast. the rear end locked up and started sliding out, the back rear tire hit a root, and flipped the 300 over onto its side. i flew 7feet off of the bike without a helmet on. i was ok, a little sore but nothing major. the handle bars were bent, but thats it.

**Dammit!** · 08-01-2005, 10:00 PM

I don't even know where to start there's been so many. lol

Weirdest one was a collision with a dirtbike (and I've had several of those). I was going around a blind corner one way, this other dude on a little CR60 was coming the other way. I had a friend on the back of my 200x and he managed to see it coming somehow, he bailed which distracted me and the next thing I know I'm in a good amount of pain and my bike is completely upside down next to me. Somehow, the rear tire of the CR60 managed to hit me square in the spine. Nobody saw exactly how it happened though but there was a tire tread there to prove it. No real serious injuries though and the bikes were fine.

Funniest one wasn't on a trike at all. It was my very first bicycle. I was about 5 or 6 I suppose and just learned to jump curbs on it. Jumped a curb, front wheel flew off in the air, landed on the front forks and endo'd into the pavement. Didn't cry. Just picked up the two pieces, carried them home and set them in front of my dad giving him a dirty look. I figured he put it together so it was his fault. lol

**LonesomeTriZ** · 08-01-2005, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by Maine_Triker

You wouldn't happen to have a pic of that would you???

I wish, I would have sent it to Dirt Wheels.

**DX Rider12** · 08-01-2005, 10:24 PM

Weirdest one was a collision with a dirtbike (and I've had several of those). I was going around a blind corner one way, this other dude on a little CR60 was coming the other way. I had a friend on the back of my 200x and he managed to see it coming somehow, he bailed which distracted me and the next thing I know I'm in a good amount of pain and my bike is completely upside down next to me. Somehow, the rear tire of the CR60 managed to hit me square in the spine. Nobody saw exactly how it happened though but there was a tire tread there to prove it. No real serious injuries though and the bikes were fine.

!... What happened to the CR 60 rider? Did he get messed up? I mean c'mon 200x v.s. CR 60 in a crash.

No damage to your spine huh? You are really lucky.

Oh yeah, what happened to your friend?

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