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Originally Posted by Less

When I was a teenager I had a motorbike, there was a lad that we knew claimed to have a large bike, (though we never saw it), when asked he would always say it's in for repair, he had a leather jacket with a poorly painted ace of spades on the back of it, he wanted us to call him 'Ace', we used to call him '99 splat', because whenever he turned up (on foot), he would tell us of his latest accident on some highly inappropriate stretch of road as he was attempting to do the ton, each tale was more ridiculous than the previous and he always finished them with,

"and just as I got to 99, splat! I would fall off my bike". He never had a mark on him.

I was knocked off a motorbike when I was only doing 15m.p.h. (according to theory one third of the speed should be taken off so I was actually doing 10m.p.h.),
a fractured leg and bruising to most of the body, so I would have thought someone doing 99m.p.h. on a regular basis should at least scrape their knee or lose a tooth, so perhaps 'Ace' was telling porkies?

I wonder has one of 'Ace's' descendants has started posting on accyweb?

Whether you get injured or not falling off a bike will largely depend on how you land, what you are wearing and whether the bike lands on you or hits you.

Back in the late fifties I came off my Thunderbird at 60 plus and suffered no injuries apart from injured pride. I was told that as I landed on the deck I rolled. Not by design though, it just happened.

On the other hand when the engine cut out at a mere 5 mph, the bike bucked and kicked so that I cracked my nose on the windscreen and the bike (all 350 plus pounds of it) fell over on me and severely bruised my hip.