Jack the Smack
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At around 3AM on Wednesday night my passenger, 130lbs I guess (she wont tell me her weight) fell off the back of my bike at 75mph. It was a dark, deserted straight road luckily. Alcohol was involved; she had drank a few beers and was still tipsy. I was sober after having a beer a few hours ago.
There was another 2up rider in front of me who we were riding with. The accident happened when I double tapped her leg to indicate I was going fast (we've done wheelies and gone extremely fast dozens of times with this method). Normally my passengers have their hands on the tank and squeeze with their elbows to stay on, but when I tap their leg they hold on to me really tight with their hands. I tucked forward and WOTed it for a few seconds (going 40mph to 95mph) before slowing down for around 3 seconds to 75mph and to compress the front suspension.
When I slowed down she put her hands on the tank, but I was still tucked in. With my heavy leather jacket I can't tell if the passenger's hands are on the tank or on me. When I jerked the throttle, to wheelie up, she was thrown off the back while we were going 75mph. The 2up friends that I passed said she slid on her ass before tumbling around 100 feet. This wasn't a freeway and it was in the middle of the night so we were able to make a U-turn on the one way road, move her to the side, and call a friend to drive her to a friends house.
The next day we took her to General Hospital after trying to treat her road rash at home (she didn't show me till the next day how bad it was, since it was on her ass, at which point I forced her to go). All she had was bad road rash on her ass and right palm (the worst). She had some minor road rash on her elbow, legs, and back. No other injuries. The only gear she was wearing was a helmet, and maybe the leather Giants jacket helped a little.
I know I am 100% responsible for her injuries. I just wanted people to see this and know that if 1 of these factors was changed (she said she could have held on if she wasn't tipsy, if I gave her a second warning tap after slowing down, etc) everyone would have gone home safe.
The gut wrenching feeling I had for the first few hours after she fell was the worst in my life. And I admit I cried: when I was riding to the apartment house where she was going to stay the night, and later when she was screaming in pain while in the bathroom trying to clean herself and her friend was applying bandages.
Also, because this thread is useless without pics:
You don't wanna see her ass.
There was another 2up rider in front of me who we were riding with. The accident happened when I double tapped her leg to indicate I was going fast (we've done wheelies and gone extremely fast dozens of times with this method). Normally my passengers have their hands on the tank and squeeze with their elbows to stay on, but when I tap their leg they hold on to me really tight with their hands. I tucked forward and WOTed it for a few seconds (going 40mph to 95mph) before slowing down for around 3 seconds to 75mph and to compress the front suspension.
When I slowed down she put her hands on the tank, but I was still tucked in. With my heavy leather jacket I can't tell if the passenger's hands are on the tank or on me. When I jerked the throttle, to wheelie up, she was thrown off the back while we were going 75mph. The 2up friends that I passed said she slid on her ass before tumbling around 100 feet. This wasn't a freeway and it was in the middle of the night so we were able to make a U-turn on the one way road, move her to the side, and call a friend to drive her to a friends house.
The next day we took her to General Hospital after trying to treat her road rash at home (she didn't show me till the next day how bad it was, since it was on her ass, at which point I forced her to go). All she had was bad road rash on her ass and right palm (the worst). She had some minor road rash on her elbow, legs, and back. No other injuries. The only gear she was wearing was a helmet, and maybe the leather Giants jacket helped a little.
I know I am 100% responsible for her injuries. I just wanted people to see this and know that if 1 of these factors was changed (she said she could have held on if she wasn't tipsy, if I gave her a second warning tap after slowing down, etc) everyone would have gone home safe.
The gut wrenching feeling I had for the first few hours after she fell was the worst in my life. And I admit I cried: when I was riding to the apartment house where she was going to stay the night, and later when she was screaming in pain while in the bathroom trying to clean herself and her friend was applying bandages.
Also, because this thread is useless without pics:
You don't wanna see her ass.
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