Comments on: Stunters a nuisance on road: Part-2 http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/ Thoughts of a tourer at home… Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:11:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Pulkit http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/#comment-166 Pulkit Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:08:03 +0000 http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/#comment-166 This is off-topic, but I thought I'd share my blog about the accident that I have posted on hi5. Here goes ... *********************************************************************************Kissing Kissing the Tarmac : That's what they say I was trying to do ... "There are better ways to do that", I told them. Jumping from a bike at 80kmph while trying to stand still on top of it ain't no ice cream treat. That's exactly what I found out many Sundays ago. I had thought to myself, "I have done this before, I might not be too confident but I can manage to get a pic clicked just to prove I can do it". 'Uh huh ... not happening dude' that's what god mustve thought. So, I get on top of da bike n try to balance. I promptly fall into the illusion that everything's going all right and the bike will stop wobbling soon. BIG MISTAKE, having controlled wobbling bikes before, I should have remembered that it only gets worse from there. Seconds later, I find the bike deciding to head down to the right because it won't take much more of my stupidity. I decided to go straight ahead where my friend was waiting for me to take the snap. Click !! Crash !! Awwww !! CRASH !! That's the sequence ... I saw the pic on my friend's phone about an hour later in the hospital. It looked like I had decided to quit riding and decided to crawl like a baby while jumping off the beast. Then again, I wasn't exactly posing while falling. Later, I saw the pics of the bike. Fragged front end, bumps in the tank and a very scratched exhaust are the only differences I could make out. My only thought, "Me n my bike are made for each other". Apparently, going separate ways didn't go too well for me or the Pulsar :) Bruises, blood loss, bent tooth, swollen lip, bandages on both hands for weeks, torn clothes,destroyed front on the Pulsar,medical expenses,mechanical expenses(costs were 20 times more than medical !!) : all these were no match compared to the pain which I suffered for the duration I was separated from my bike. 3 torturous weeks. Moral of the story : Don't do stunts ?? ... Um, I'm not gonna follow that, Don't know about u ... **************************************************************************** This is off-topic, but I thought I’d share my blog about the accident that I have posted on hi5.
Here goes …

*********************************************************************************Kissing Kissing the Tarmac : That’s what they say I was trying to do … “There are better ways to do that”, I told them. Jumping from a bike at 80kmph while trying to stand still on top of it ain’t no ice cream treat. That’s exactly what I found out many Sundays ago. I had thought to myself, “I have done this before, I might not be too confident but I can manage to get a pic clicked just to prove I can do it”. ‘Uh huh … not happening dude’ that’s what god mustve thought.

So, I get on top of da bike n try to balance. I promptly fall into the illusion that everything’s going all right and the bike will stop wobbling soon. BIG MISTAKE, having controlled wobbling bikes before, I should have remembered that it only gets worse from there. Seconds later, I find the bike deciding to head down to the right because it won’t take much more of my stupidity. I decided to go straight ahead where my friend was waiting for me to take the snap.

Click !!

Crash !! Awwww !!

CRASH !!

That’s the sequence … I saw the pic on my friend’s phone about an hour later in the hospital. It looked like I had decided to quit riding and decided to crawl like a baby while jumping off the beast. Then again, I wasn’t exactly posing while falling. Later, I saw the pics of the bike. Fragged front end, bumps in the tank and a very scratched exhaust are the only differences I could make out. My only thought, “Me n my bike are made for each other”. Apparently, going separate ways didn’t go too well for me or the Pulsar :)

Bruises, blood loss, bent tooth, swollen lip, bandages on both hands for weeks, torn clothes,destroyed front on the Pulsar,medical expenses,mechanical expenses(costs were 20 times more than medical !!) : all these were no match compared to the pain which I suffered for the duration I was separated from my bike. 3 torturous weeks.

Moral of the story : Don’t do stunts ?? … Um, I’m not gonna follow that, Don’t know about u …
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]]> By: Pulkit http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/#comment-162 Pulkit Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:15:49 +0000 http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/#comment-162 http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8306/snapshot1538wo.jpg http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8306/snapshot1538wo.jpg

]]> By: Pulkit http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/#comment-161 Pulkit Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:14:53 +0000 http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/#comment-161 http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8024/307779079vs.jpg http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8024/307779079vs.jpg

]]> By: Pulkit http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/#comment-160 Pulkit Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:14:14 +0000 http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/#comment-160 Rightly said. I missed out on a few of those points in my last post on this topic. I was injured in a bike-stunt related accident myself, a few months back. The best thing I could ask for (apart from not getting injured) is for a hospital close to the stunting place. I was not seriously hurt but I did realize the value of a hospital being there. Another point that I would like to add is to have some friends around you who can help you in case of an accident. If you are hurt, it helps quite a lot. You can use my photographs as a proof of a stunt gone bad. <a href="http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=307779079vs.jpg" rel="nofollow"></a> As you can see I was not wearing knee pads and elbow pads. Rightly said. I missed out on a few of those points in my last post on this topic.
I was injured in a bike-stunt related accident myself, a few months back. The best thing I could ask for (apart from not getting injured) is for a hospital close to the stunting place. I was not seriously hurt but I did realize the value of a hospital being there.
Another point that I would like to add is to have some friends around you who can help you in case of an accident. If you are hurt, it helps quite a lot.
You can use my photographs as a proof of a stunt gone bad.

As you can see I was not wearing knee pads and elbow pads.

]]> By: Editor http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/#comment-63 Editor Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:35:48 +0000 http://www.bcmtouring.com/sitting_idle/2006/12/15/stunters-a-nuisance-on-road-part-2/#comment-63 Manas rightly said Shamik I was waiting for you to do the honor :) Manas rightly said

Shamik I was waiting for you to do the honor :)

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