My girlfriend crashed couple hours ago learning to ride :'( thank god it is not too serious may have broken hand and elbow....at hospital now. she wanted to ride it home even though there was no..... way what a trooper....
Local guy was riding down one of the major streets here when some girl in a minivan didn't bother looking and turned left cutting right in front of the biker, he didn't have time, and plowed right into the passenger side of the van, he lost his left leg below the knee , and has been in a medically induced coma for 2 weeks now. The doctors say he won't be able to ride again.
Can you share with us what happened? Did someone cut her off or was it just a noob mistake? As my wife is learning, knowing what other people had issues with might help me make sure she has the skills before setting her loose on the streets.
Hopefully she'll have a quick recovery.
For the guy who hit the van- never believe when they say you can't ride again. I know guys with two prosthetic limbs riding and I was told I'd never walk again once, let alone ride a bike.
Is she familiar with the 'counter' steering concept? I knew a guy who I was in the Air Force with who bought a new bike and laid it down on the way home from the dealer because he didn't know how to reel it in on turns by pushing the bars.
I think the leaning kinda freaks her out kinda like the feeling your bike wants to go off the cliff if there are any trail riders on here they will know what I'm talking about
She might try some low speed maneuvers on a bicycle in the yard. Leaning, steering, counter steering, counter balancing. That helped me some when I was nervous about low speed RIGHT hand U turns, etc.
She had permit done some street ridding lots of passenger but panicked making left turn hit opposite curb at about 15 mph was not traveling fast enough to keep her on good path saw whole thing in mirror freaked out she went down hard first 180 burnout done on my first Harley
I see your point, but to say she is a Darwin Award winner is pretty harsh. If that's the case, I should have been eliminated from the gene pool at about the age of three with all the bonehead stuff that I've pulled.