Mental Aftermath of an 80 MPH Motorcycle Crash - Part 1 [Day 46]

After a serious accident, I record and recount my experience. I was rattled and high on adrenaline.

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• KLR
• 650
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[lgarvey]

Unreal - how did the bike survive? Would have expected bent handlebars and other stuff, at the least.

[AtlasRider]

@lgarvey Nothing but scrapes and a lost highway peg. The bike fired up after like nothing happened. KLRs are tanks!

[n8tureboy]

Hey! That dog isn't wearing a helmet!

Could someone tell me what kind of devices he's using? I see a GPS, I-Pod, but what is the device on the left with the cable coming from it?

[AtlasRider]

@n8tureboy That is my VIO POV. What i use for recording videos. Been appreciating all your comments across my videos. Swiss Cake Rolls rule, lol

[Rocketdive57]

I drive through this highway every single day, and always find someone like the guy in the white car. you'll get used to them, it's like if they'd lose a dollar every time they let someone pass them

good luck in your trip! :D

[spladge123]

The aches and pains sometimes catch up with you a few days later......... as does the realisation that that it could have been game over. You were very lucky not to have been seriously injured or killed. Ride safely, enjoy the journey and come back in one piece.

[LovemyKLR]

Just found your vids. Thanks so much taking the time to do this! Glad to see you made it out of this one. Still waiting for the day my KLR dumps me off of it.

[GsxR750Speedemon]

I'm glad you walked away with nothing but a bruised. I crashed my gsxr 750 at 102 mph up in the mountains. Thank God I didn't fall off the mountain or got hit by another car. Thanks to my gears, I walked away with no broken bones. Just sore and some road rash. After paramedics checked me out, I got up and started walking around :)

[MJ4everTheKing]

BIKES ARE SAFER THEN CARS!! i was in a 50 mph carcrash and i got a broken nose and a deep cut just beneeth my eyebrow. the bone from my nose cut a snall vein and it bled like hell! this guy however gets into a 80 mph crash and he doesnt have anything. luck? Yes and No! in a car you are trapped between all the twisting metal and broken glass! but wth a motor, you actually go away from the danger, that is if you have propper GEAR! however a head on crash between motor and a car = biker dead

[MJ4everTheKing]

Im gonna do something like this too! i wanna travel the whole world before its destroyed by humanity

[TheNoobishGamer]

Hope the bike was okay :(

[Dubbledeehonkey]

@AtlasRider where did the swiss cake rolls thing come from? haha

[tokillamurderer]

@n8tureboy I'm from eastern MA. If I actually get to go, my trip would involve heading west through the northern US, south through Cali, and back east through the southern US. That would put me in West Virginia somewhere near the end of my trip. We could definitely arrange to take a ride! (Of course, this is providing I can save the dinero and possibly get a more reliable and slightly newer bike than what I'm riding now, a 1979 KZ650.)

[n8tureboy]

@tokillamurderer

I love my 650! It's a 1994 model with only 9,000 miles on it at this point, but it's been an excellent, care free bike. For my style of riding, I'd probably prefer what you have because I think it's a much lighter bike? I like to trail ride. Admittedly though, for highway use the extra CC's come in handy to get away from traffic, etc.

I live in W Virginia. If ya' ever get out this direction give me a yell and we'll take a spin. That US trip would be awesome. Where ya' from?