Re: How did you get injured on your motor bike?
I wasn't badly hurt, just banged up and sore from it, but I got thrown off my bike a while back when I got crowded in a curve.
It was not long after I got my first build running, and I was still learning how to handle it. I went into a curve without hitting the clutch lever, and under power the bike wanted to make a wider arc than it would otherwise. The car behind my left shoulder wasn't giving me any room to try and turn tighter. I ran out of road and my sidewalls 'snapped' upright against the curb sending me down on the sidewalk with a now-screaming motor on my leg. A guy who wanted to know more about the bike because I'd been passing him daily in traffic gridlock was nice enough to pull over behind me and shield me a bit (so traffic had to go wide of him then me) while I stood up and sorted myself out. Of course, as I calmed down I answered every question I could at the time, and told him where to buy a kit. He waited for me to try and ride, and again shielded me for a half block or so while I got it up and running, until I gave him a thumbs up and he got on with his trip home. Never got his name (or I missed it at the time).
Beyond that so far only a couple of close calls, woman cut me off to try and park her car on the side of the road so I almost rear-ended her.. Moving car on my left, parked car on my right, she pulls two thirds of the way over and blocks my lane with her car..going uphill, no less. Had to walk the beast up to the next sidestreet to restart on level ground. Too much gravel and sand in a curve combined with too much speed, but let go the throttle and recovered it before it went too squirrely.
