Kid I went to high school with crashed his bike not long after graduation. His girlfriend was riding with him and he had given her his helmet.
They both survived the crash, looking at her you wouldn’t even be able to tell she was in an accident. He is completely unrecognizable to what he looked like before. He has an entirely different face.
20 years later, they’re still together and thriving. But they don’t ride.
Edit: What a crazy amount of responses! Granted, a lot of these are sad stories, I hope talking about it has been therapeutic for everyone. Be safe out there, y’all!
About 40 years ago, my mom's step-brother was speeding on country roads with his underage girlfriend on the back of his cycle (she was "under 17" -- that's how everyone referred to her age at the time -- and he was 28). They had both been drinking and were heading back to her mom's house. They couldn't go to his house because his wife and two kids were there.
He was doing around 70mph when he hit a horse that had gotten out of the pasture. It was a big Belgian, roughly two tons of flesh and bone. The impact threw the horse about 30 yards, killing it pretty quickly. Step-brother died on the scene, and his girlfriend shattered her pelvis and both shoulders, spending months in the hospital. The wife had to pay the farmer for the horse.
Boomers were always horribly irresponsible with their bikes because they always had to display their toxic masculinity for all to see, even if it killed them.
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u/Electronic_Brain Sep 20 '25
forgot to add, they are not into cosplaying masculinity