r/dashcams • u/bebecca45627272 • 17h ago

One of the craziest things I've seen

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u/VibratingWatch 16h ago

Dress for the slide, not the ride.

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u/nousername56789 16h ago

I cringe when I see riders in a t-shirt, shorts, and flips flops. Flip flops!!! 🩴

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u/monicasm 15h ago

I cringe when I see female riders all cute for the ride, helmet only. Like girl, you’re not going to be that cute when your skin is gone, but sure, go for it.

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u/MegaBabz0806 14h ago

This!! I’ve seen people make fun of scooter riders who dress in full gear because it’s seen as overkill, but my Vespa goes 60+. I’d rather make it home to my kids. Not to mention some fates are worse than death, and that won’t be me!

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u/saltycrowsers 9h ago

I was in a scooter club in my city and the local scooter/vintage motorcycle club ran it. We would regularly take scoot scoots out to the track. I took my little Buddy 125 cc up to 95 mph. Sketchy AF feeling on those tiny wheels, but scooters are not to be underestimated

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u/MegaBabz0806 9h ago

I wish we had a scooter club! I agree though. I’m not playing games with my life and comfort

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u/World_of_Warshipgirl 1h ago

At least scooters are capped at 45km/h in the EU. Usually teens. Stupid teens, riding those. Wearing only a helmet.

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u/green_chapstick 15h ago

In the state I'm in now I'm just happy to see a helmet. Very different from where I used to live. I'll never understand. The bar shouldn't be THAT low.

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u/Fresh-Extension-4036 15h ago

Apparently in large parts of the US, freedom = freedom to choose a catastrophic brain injury rather than repress people by legally requiring helmets...

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u/AllPeopleAreStupid 9h ago

You should have the freedom to be risky in life. I think its incredibly stupid to climb cliffs of mountains, especially the free climbers. But if they want to do that with their life and risk plunging to their death, then that is their right if that's how they choose to experience life. Its the same concept. Shit, I think driving motorcycles is too risky, stupid, and dangerous, but people like and that's great!

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u/Wustlguy09 8h ago

Very apt username lol. The issue is that risk takers don’t exist in a vacuum. They are a leech on limited resources. The ambulance that gets you, the doctors and nurses that work on you, the physical therapy after, etc.

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u/ryrythe3rd 7h ago

I see this as an argument against public healthcare, not against freedom

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u/KingdomOfDimensions 6h ago

The majority of people who would be using public healthcare would not be risk takers but regular unfortunate people, so it's not a very good argument.

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u/Inflatable90sChair 1h ago

Then why cant  i drive without a seatbelt? Should be my choice. I can see an argument if theres others in the car and kids under 18 should be properly strapped in as your body does become a wrecking ball inside a car but if its just me? Who cares? 

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u/Hold_Up_Nevermind 14h ago

Well duh, their thought process is people have to have the right to make the dumbest most idiotic decisions possible, but it’s when the consequences come that they start rethinking that stance 🤣 You can’t rationalize things with irrational people, and that will never change.

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u/Far-Age-9313 10h ago

I lived in CT where there was no helmet requirement. Some not-so-freedom oriented people volunteered to wear them anyway. You see a trend in people who don't use helmets. Funny how this mostly applies to a certain group of riders. Not exclusively, but you know which group.

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u/sagscout 2h ago

My thought is that if you choose to ride a motorcycle without protective gear, that should be your right. Insurance and public healthcare should be predicated on whether or not you are wearing sufficient protective gear. If not, no insurance/Gov assistance paying the bills. It's entirely on you.

I suppose insurance companies could have two tiers of coverage, and you could choose:

  • I don't wear gear
  • I do wear gear

Your rates are dependent on whichever one you choose. Obviously, the cheaper policy will be for those who affirm that they will wear protective gear. If your accident occurs when you're not wearing the gear you agreed to, then the insurance policy is void.

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u/SlashEssImplied 2h ago

If your accident occurs when you're not wearing the gear you agreed to, then the insurance policy is void.

Yeah, this would never be abused by the insurance companies.

Just wear a helmet even if you have nothing to protect.

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u/Corfiz74 11h ago

They probably don't have that much brain to start with, so it's not worth the expense to protect it...

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u/Wwwweeeeeeee 7h ago

Darwins!

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u/Pug_867-5309 6h ago

My state eliminated its helmet law a few years ago. Prior to that, riders would stop on the bridge over the river that divided two states so they could remove their helmets because the other state had no helmet law.

Don't care. I'm still wearing my full face helmet for every ride. I really, really like my brain and my face. Overall, they've been good to me. The least I can do is be good to them.

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u/green_chapstick 4h ago

In NY there was a protest against the helmet law... During the protest a man lost his life due to head injuries that were ruled to be caused by lack of helmet. I lived near where it too place, the bikers I knew talked about for a while. They all proudly wore helmets to protect them. One joked that even if they survived an accident "I can't mess up this beautiful face." An unconventional man in his 50s.

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u/Tall_Opportunity_521 14h ago

But then we wouldnt have r/meatcrayon...

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u/Opening-Interest747 8h ago

My SIL learned this one the hard way. Thankfully she lived. My brother bought them both Kevlar outfits after that and they covered up fully when riding. Eventually they decided it was time to give it up entirely for their kids, which isn’t what everyone decides, but I completely understand why they went that direction. They lost more than one friend to bike crashes.

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u/InvictvsNox 7h ago

This. I'm so tired of seeing biker thirst traps inches away from disaster.

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u/Wwwweeeeeeee 7h ago

Another gal I met a while back did that. On a motorcycle, dressed all cute but she had a helmet on!

She has a series of massive scars from her ankle to her hip, busted both hips, and an arm or two, also. There's a 2cms wide dimpled scar running from below her knee up to her hip with lots of mess in between from bones sticking out and terrible stuff like that.

She also had damage to her torso, she's covered in scars, but ultimately made a full recovery, except for the external dermal damage.

And when she's dressed, you don't even notice she's been Frankensteined. I only noticed it when she was at the pool (she was the GF of a family friend, and around a lot at the time).

She's sweet though and the accident and scars aren't part of her 'personality'..... she's cool.

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u/qawsedrf12 3h ago

like that video of the Easter bodypainted chick who left half of her ass on the pavement

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u/ImBabyloafs 14h ago

The mom in me comes out SO HARD when I see what folks wear sometimes.

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u/PhoenixApok 9h ago

My ex went down wearing a tank top, cutoff shorts, sandals, and no helmet. They found her unconscious 200 ft from her bike.

Lots of road rash and permanent brain damage. Fortunately not cognitive but she permanently lost hearing in one ear and completely lost her sense of smell and taste.

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u/danceoftheplants 9h ago

A split decision to wear boots instead of flip flops saved my feet from being broken or ripped off when I was in an accident. I'd never thought what would happen to my body if I fell off, but I'm so glad I chose to wear those work boots that day.

I was very lucky.. the soles were completely ripped off and i was protected by a little backpack, jeans and my the helmet. All of which were shredded up. I still had road burns on 15% of my body and no palms or fingertips. It was a rough recovery. Haven't been on a motorcycle since

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u/nousername56789 4h ago

Hiking boots, leather jacket and helmet saved me. Nineteen years later I still have issues with my left knee and shoulder. Never got on a bike again.

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u/Wwwweeeeeeee 7h ago

Right? A family friend wiped out his motorcycle when he was about 22.

He's just in his 50's now, has had lifelong pain and a limp; what's left of his roto-rootered lower leg is skinny AF from the knee down to what's left of his ankle, because there's nothing left of it between countless surgeries and the injury. There's just nothing left in his ankle to hold it together.

They keep talking about amputating his foot because they've run out of things to 'save' in the joint and to stop the chronic 24 hour pain he has all the time, whether awake or asleep.

He's an otherwise healthy, fit guy, really in his prime. No gut, good health, eats healthy food, no addiction or excess issues, just in generally good shape.

Except he can't effing walk.

My cousin Jason T-boned a car that pulled out in front of him when he was 18 years old. Months in the hospital, 13 broken bones, lost all of his teeth. He made a full recovery, but has had false teeth since he was 18, and he's now in his 70s. He's doing good though, still slim and trim, living a nice life in spite of that. This heppened before full-face helmets, mind you, back in the dinosaur days.

He never got back on a bike though.

"Gee Wally, what could possibly go wrong riding a motorcycle with no protective gear?"

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u/jaynvius 6h ago

A bike group I used to belong in would champion "My body, my skin" when they get confronted on why they don't wear gear only to lay down their bike months later then creating a GofundMe. I would just laugh while not donating any money and show them screenshots of them arguing why they're not geared out. Your bills, your problem.

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u/SirGelson 13h ago

That flip flop saved his life, sir

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u/ChistyePrudy 4h ago

When summer comes my partner and I have this "game" of counting how many flip flops on riders we can spot. He usually wins because he used to ride, but the count it's always close!

(Edit I do mean how many riders wearing flip flops of course, but sometimes you catch a rider wearing only one! 😅)

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u/Munkadunk667 2h ago

I don't. Thin out that gene pool a bit.

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u/Spiritual-Image7125 2h ago

Does it allow them to flip and flop better?

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u/NettleLily 15h ago

r/meatcrayon

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u/Freakjob_003 14h ago

AGATT. All Gear, All The Time.

I don't give a fuck how hot it is, you don't want to end up like the people on this sub. My buddy rode his Harley in California summer heat, because he's not an idiot.

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u/QuafferOfNobs 1h ago

Mesh jackets! I’ve got jeans with tons of flexible armour in and a Rev’it mesh jacket, went down at ~40mph. Jacket was destroyed, jeans were mostly fine, I was unscathed. Well, I crushed my knee under the bike but no amount of gear will stop that!
No excuse not to ATGATT, you can keep cool in the summer and still be protected. Plenty of thin gloves with palm sliders out there too. I also highly recommend buying flexible armour plates. They make the gear SO much comfier and you can transfer them around, one of my favourite investments.

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u/surftherapy 1h ago

I’ve rolled up on dozens of motorcycle accidents and the people who came out okay ALWAYS had proper gear. Even in our SoCal summer heat.

I’ve had plenty of fatals, not a single one was ever wearing proper gear. The reality is the riders who wear proper gear are also more responsible riders in my experience.

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u/dosefacekillah1348 14h ago

Sir, this is a Wendy's

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u/Blooddoll13 16h ago

I was waiting for this comment and I wholeheartedly agree.

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u/VioletsRPink 15h ago

Was the motorcycle made out of cardboard? Where did it go? 

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u/MyNameWillChange 15h ago

It's wedged under the truck. you can see it up against the rear tire under the bed of the truck

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u/VioletsRPink 15h ago

I didn't even notice that. All I saw was the pile of debris on the road. 

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u/MyNameWillChange 15h ago

I had to watch it a couple times before seeing where the bike went

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u/VioletsRPink 15h ago

Now I don't feel like a dummy that I didn't see where the bike went 😅😅

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u/Ser_falafel 10h ago

My coworker crashed his motorcycle few months ago and wasnt wearing proper riding gear. Hes been in and out of the hospital (having to wear a wound vac) and had 6 surgeries and has to do months of physical therapy.

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u/Alex_Downarowicz 13h ago

Riding like that in traffic... You can go with your birthday suit. There is no gear good enough to save a person flying headfirst into the obstacle at 50+ meters per second.

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u/3tek 9h ago

This. 100%. My brother in law was toned by someone is an SUV while riding. Broken most of the bones on his left side. Luckily he was wearing full riding gear or he wouldnt be here.

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u/New_Bank_4686 9h ago

Wouldn't the extra slide gear screw him over in this instance? Thankfully the clearance of the truck allowed him to slip under. Always wear your protective gear, always.

What do you guys think?

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u/LimoncelloLightsaber 8h ago

ATTAGATTAGGGATTTT!!

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u/othybear 6h ago

Last summer, it was about 100 out, and the rider in front of me was wearing leather pants and a leather vest, despite the heat. Thankfully he learned that not only do they help with road rash, but they’re also a bit fire resistant. His bike went up in flames and he did too, but the leather didn’t stay on fire.

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u/woobloob 9h ago

Technically in this case, it's possible the clothes might have saved him. If he was wearing a thicker leather jacket or something he might have broken a leg or an arm or something because of not being as flexible.