OK, I posted this on another forum, but it has served me well in terms of beers for stories. I lay down the challenge for others and at some stage we will pay up with a few cold ones. graemlins/cheers.gif It may not be in this life but......

Originally posted by Alchemist:
Ha ! Call that scary !!! Drum roll please and get a beer if you can be bothered to wade through this. graemlins/thumbup.gif

Its dusk in the Northern Territory in Australia. Outback country. No fences, lots of cattle. Cattle that like the road at night cause its warm.

I've spent 4 days riding about 3-3500 kms mostly dirt(no doubt GetafixOz will correct my distances). I am very tired but need to get to Alice Springs, the city in the Geographic centre of Australia.

Stupidly going too fast, and wait for it....about 40K out from AS (reminder- this is after 3-3500 kms images/icons/mad.gif and mostly dirt) I try to overtake a car carrier, you know, big long thing with about 15 cars on it.

This is where it gets interesting. I look out carefully for cattle knowing its about time for them to come out. Pull out and about half way thru passing the truck, he slams his brakes on and veers to the side of the road to miss....all the cattle running across the road that I couldn't see on the opposite side of the truck. images/icons/shocked.gif

My wife and friends in the 4WD behind explained what happened next coz I didn't remember. I hit brakes, slide sideways, I hit big boofy cow (buffalo actually sounds more impressive), fly through the air and land on large rocks beside road, breaking ribs. graemlins/crying.gif Apparently the silhouette of me flying through the night sky was pretty impressive.

I woke up to the sound of my non-biker friend trying to start and ride my bike (very dented by rideable) into Alice Springs. Not liking the loud cruncing noises, I get all macho, drag myself over to the bike, bite my lip really hard, swing leg over and ride that last 40kms into Alice Springs Hospital to collapse in their emergency room.

And the best bit, when I woke up on the ground, to the sounds of my wife crying "are you all right, speak to me, speak to me" I had the presence of mind to utter those immortal words that we've all said at one time...."is the bike OK". graemlins/bounce.gif

I swear she was gunna kill me. PS the scariest bit was the medical "assistance" at the hospital.<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">C'mon, someone has got to do something more stupid/scary than this images/icons/rolleyes.gif

thats an awesome story! graemlins/thumbup.gif so much so, i cant think of anything to top it!...

mate...you're a bloody legend! graemlins/cheers.gif

Hows the bike?.....

It happened about 10 years ago. BIke was shipped bake to Sydney and repaired. It was a BMW R100GS Paris Dakar only 1 month old and bought for thr trip graemlins/crying.gif . Sold about 5 years ago. Wish I could get it back. Fantastic touring bike graemlins/thumbup.gif

i got one for ya.....

on friday night i went to have thai with a few mates and ended up meeting few girls over from Perth....at and drank....actually, had half a plate or rice, and just drank drank drank....

said bye to the women ended up in leichardt had coffee, and the urge to buy more beer images/icons/grin.gif

on the way home i needed to yack so i got my mate to pull over....as soon as he did i open the door yacked and ripped out a fart at the same time...

it was so damn funny that i couldnt contain my laughter and when you are throwing up at the same time it really isnt pleasant....i think i was going to choke on my damn vomit!

well there u go, not the greatest of beer stories but one nonetheless images/icons/grin.gif

Well, at least it had beer in it, and I mean HAD graemlins/laugh.gif

Anyone else ? Stories about beer, for beer, listen to over beer etc. graemlins/cheers.gif

this is one for the campfire with beers images/icons/smile.gif

This happened around 10yrs ago now on one of my RG250;s

It was a slow speed crash (bout 40kmh), come into a right hand (35kmh) corner in the dark (no street lights etc) as entered the corner, both wheels started to drift, when I looked closer I noticed the corner was covered in gravel, instead of dropping it there an sliding into the wall on the left, I straightened it, an put it in along side the cliff wall, into a rain water drainage, was good plan till i saw the 2 feet high concrete pipe that went underneath a side road (not one sign indicated there was one there an you cannot see it in the dark even with high beam on.

Short trip through the air an landing like javelin (thank god for full face helmets) few tumbles, etc, ended up on my back, an right thigh bent at 45 degrees (wierdest thing i saw, since there was no pain).

Straightened the leg my self, while i waited for my friends that were about 5 mins behind me in a car. When they did arrive they did not believe it was broken, as I was rather calm (shit load of shock and adrenalin) then i moved the thigh, and soon became believers, I also had to get them to turn the bike off as it was still running, dont know how as later i found that the header pipe was ripped off the cylinder head.. but i did ask them how my bike was, not that i could ride it, but i was more worried about my bike then my leg at the time.

Spose to spend 12 months in hospital with traction

Surgoen operated again week later an put still plate in an 17 screws into the thigh an I was out of hospital in 6 weeks (wonders of modern medicine

http://users.bigpond.net.au/drizzt/PAUL1.JPG

I still have the plate in my leg, one day i might scan some more xrays, i have LOTS, also a few good ones from the 2nd time i broke my leg, this time just above the right ankle and badly. that is a story for another camp night images/icons/smile.gif

[ 12-04-2002, 07:53 PM: Message edited by: Drizzt ]