11-30-2014, 01:31 PM
I don't know this man personally, but I know he actually teaches motorcycle safety classes and is a VERY experienced rider! btw: I was told he just got a new customized BMW, but the article says 1981 so I don't know what's going on with that?
I guess it just shows that circumstances beyond our control can get to the best of any of us.
My only crash has been from sand/gravel. The one concern I kept having when riding the dragon was not my ability, not a mechanical failure, but what havoc something normally harmless such as a little shoulder dirt, gravel, lawn mowing trimmings, even someone tossing a full soft drink cup would cause in one of those turns we were blinding around on the maximum edge of losing traction. I was able to put most of those thoughts away and actually enjoy the ride. I kept thinking what a fellow motocross rider used to say, if you worry about every little bump, crest on a hill then you will crash....so I just block out all of those thoughts....until it happens....then it may not be so easy.
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Loose gravel topples motorcycle rider
November 30, 2014
By BILL POWELL
Herald Staff Writer
HAYSVILLE — Loose gravel factored into a motorcycle crash this afternoon on County Road 325E, south of State Road 56.
Chris Hancock of Newburgh was northbound on the county road on a 1981 BMW motorcycle at the time of the 12:54 p.m. accident, according to the Dubois County Sheriff’s Department.
Hancock encountered loose gravel near the top of the hill and lost control of the bike, which slid off the west side of the road and stopped against a fence.
Deputies said Hancock was ejected and complained of shoulder pain after the accident. He was transported by ambulance to Memorial Hospital in Jasper.
Damage to the motorcycle was estimated at $900.
The Dubois Volunteer Fire Department and Memorial Hospital Emergency Medical Services assisted.
Contact Bill Powell at bpowell@dcherald.com.
I guess it just shows that circumstances beyond our control can get to the best of any of us.
My only crash has been from sand/gravel. The one concern I kept having when riding the dragon was not my ability, not a mechanical failure, but what havoc something normally harmless such as a little shoulder dirt, gravel, lawn mowing trimmings, even someone tossing a full soft drink cup would cause in one of those turns we were blinding around on the maximum edge of losing traction. I was able to put most of those thoughts away and actually enjoy the ride. I kept thinking what a fellow motocross rider used to say, if you worry about every little bump, crest on a hill then you will crash....so I just block out all of those thoughts....until it happens....then it may not be so easy.
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Loose gravel topples motorcycle rider
November 30, 2014
By BILL POWELL
Herald Staff Writer
HAYSVILLE — Loose gravel factored into a motorcycle crash this afternoon on County Road 325E, south of State Road 56.
Chris Hancock of Newburgh was northbound on the county road on a 1981 BMW motorcycle at the time of the 12:54 p.m. accident, according to the Dubois County Sheriff’s Department.
Hancock encountered loose gravel near the top of the hill and lost control of the bike, which slid off the west side of the road and stopped against a fence.
Deputies said Hancock was ejected and complained of shoulder pain after the accident. He was transported by ambulance to Memorial Hospital in Jasper.
Damage to the motorcycle was estimated at $900.
The Dubois Volunteer Fire Department and Memorial Hospital Emergency Medical Services assisted.
Contact Bill Powell at bpowell@dcherald.com.