havn't read through all the pages, but that first post was a bad one
mine was only a month and a half ago, decided to ride my 85 down to the corner store and get some lunch, nearly got home but then I seen a fire trail I hadn't been down before.. so I followed that for about 5 minutes and it came to a grass downhill, then sloped back up to the road at the end. so I of course start winding through the gears, but being grass, a 3m deep drainage ditch at the bottom of the hill blended in, and couldn't see it til I was already there...
luckily I was going fast enough to clear the concrete, but not fast enough to clear the grass slope just above that (like landing into a wall). thankfully I only remember seeing the ditch then bits and pieces of emergency - wasn't really with it until 2 or 3 days later.
also pretty lucky that the trail runs along behind some houses, otherwise who knows how long I would of been laying there? one bloke apparently heard my bike coming, then over the top of his back fence seen me get propelled another 20m down - minus the bike, landing in a black ants nest conveniently aha.
broke both arms in the same spot, close to the wrist, put 3 good cracks in my pelvis, and the scariest part was remembering a doctor waking me up in emergency to tell me my right nut had escaped and it needed stitching
spent a month bed rest in gc hospital, but I'm finally home on a forearm support frame for a few more weeks, before I have to go try catch up at school to pass year 12...
- in the pic that's the direction I was heading, can see the nice rut I made on the other side. pic makes it looker smaller than it really is as well.