How many times have you crashed?

[DavidV]

How many times have you crashed in your career? Was it mostly as a novice or expert? What do you think is an acceptable amount of crashers per year?

After this past weekend at Summit I was curious.

[Woofentino Pugrossi]

twice on the bike while racing in 5 yrs. 1999 and 2004.

[zx10ragentorange]

7 times total in 3 years.  4 racing and 3 at trackdays.

[danboy]

None racing.  4 times in three years doing trackdays over 75 dates though.

[Spooner]

Once at a trackday a million years ago.  twice last season (3rd season racing) one was due to a mechanical, the other it started raining during the race.  I was in the lead and it was difficult to see how much water was coming down-luckily I found out so all the guys behind me could figure it out lol!

[funsizeracing]

Once a year.  I'm good for the season since I've already had one this year.

[PJ721]

hmmm....lemme think....

probably 2 or 3 times a year....and I've been doing this since 2003...
I've stopped counting...so let's say 8 or 10 total?


got my first one this year at Summit on Sunday...lowside T5

acceptable number? for me it would be zero...costs $$$$ to put the bike down...not to mention any injuries....
this lowside will cost about $300 - new rearsets and frame sliders....would be more but a little bit of duct tape on the upper and she's good to go.....

thankfully - no injuries...gear did it's job

[Jimmy_D]

Once back in 2005 at a trackday with new bike, and then once this season at the homestead race.   Like he said 0 is an acceptable amount, lol  1 bad crash (even with no injury) and money wise could be done for the season.

[Ducmarc]

seems like once a year 2 track days 2 races  last put me out for the rest of this season [so much for my points lead] some guys seem to crash all the time and never get hurt. i must need more practice lol

[Jeff]

avg 3/yr.  Early on it was because I was stupid.  Later it was because I got faster and continued pushing the envelope...

And before anyone gets all excited, 3/yr is nothing.  3/weekend is something to talk about...  (or 3x race right PJ?)

[Ducmarc]

my question is for the fla boys . ive won at all three of our tracks homestead palm beach and jennings .but all crashes have been at jennings . which seems to be the choice track of the three.

[DanO966]

HaHa....I fall down all the time...lol
I've crashed to many times to count....I've lost track...
Tho in '05 I crashed out of the LEAD like 6 or 7 times....I'm tough on equipment