Is it bad luck/bad karma to buy a crashed bike?

[burndup]

Too late, I already did... the guy was fine, tho miraculously...

Yeah, another $150 jap bike... (#6!) Dude was going 65 on the 101/405 interchange, and a guy.. no, wait, homicidal asshole behind him is making one of those 3-lane "duh, I dont want that freeway" lane changes, clips him from behind and fortuneately for him, knocks him outta the way. Dude goes down, asshole runs away.

Anyway, the guy was fine, MINOR road rash, claims the jeans he was wearing at the time are still wearable!

So, its an '84 Suz. gr650, (paralell twin) mono shock rear. (streetfighter?!)

banged up on both sides, but like the rider/former owner, in very good shape considering. I think the forks may be wasted, the front axle definately is. So, since this bike is technically F00ked already, I have no excuse for not chopping and hardtailing it for real! That was the point of buying it...

But yeah, I refuse to park it "next to" my other bikes... I cant decide if this thing is a lucky rabbit's foot, or a occursed tiki-necklace...

I tend to be of the thinking primarily that awareness and skill save your ass, but luck (grace?) has to always be accounted for...

I'll spare you a pic, its that "hella 80's" light burgundy red... fuckin looks PINK to me...

[Unkl Ian]

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... fuckin looks PINK to me...

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The new Barbie Bike ? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif





Crashed bikes are bad luck.
So are Pink bikes.

[DrJ]

Paint #13s on the tank, a black cat on the fender and park it under a ladder and you'll be perfectly safe ridiing it

If you're destined to drown, you'll never hang..!

(I dont believe in luck, superstition, or miracles, maybe why I'm not religious.)

[Smokin Joe]

Paint it green for extra bad luck/Karma points! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[DrJ]

If the forks are bent the frame's probably twisted too, so don't try any saddle surfing stunts on it.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

[Verbal Kint]

Burndup,

I've re-animated a few wrecked triumphs and BSA's, and they all stayed shiny side up with me. And of the 6 or so bikes that I've had, the only bike I ever wrecked was a factory fresh low mile '79 bonne with lester mags that I paid way too damn much for. If its been on the road, its been down, whether you know it or not. Throw some JB weld on the cracked cases and ride it like a rental....

swdobbs....

[BELLM]

No bad luck/karma. Got an SL 185 I bought bad wrecked in 82 rebuilt for my then 10 yr old son. Had 25 miles on it. Never a problem. Still runs. Around 1980 I bought a BMW R100?(1000cc), had just a few miles, mostly road rash, put AM pipes & bars on it, fixed the paint, filed down the scraped cylinder fins, rode lots of hard miles made a bunch of money when I sold it. Same story on a Sportster about that same time. Bought it wrecked/repoed from a bank, $500. Locked leather bag on back of seat had at least %500 in Snap On tools in it, every one had different initials engraved in it. I'll take a wrecked bike anytime!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Armstrong]

Crashing a bike wipes the slate clean . If you fix the bike it will like you, if you then treat it badly it will get you for it. Of course there is also just plain assed old bad luck that you just can't do shit about!

[Tony Bones]

My seat pretty much explains my feelings on luck:

[cleatus]

I once bought a motorcycle that was previously owned by a friend who was killed by a train. So far...no trains have tried to kill me.

Thus, I believe the bike carried no bad karma.

Either that or my friend was glad I ended up with it and blessed it with good karma.

[briggs&strattonChev]

theres a local panhead that has wrecked 4 times, killing my dads friend the last time. Last ive heard it was almost roadworthy again...................

[choprods]

Its all Ive ever owned till the one Im buildin now.Hope not. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[WZ JUNK]

I probably have bought about 50 bikes from the insurance salvage pool over the last 20 years. Most of them I fixed and sold. I rode a lot of them some before I got rid of them. In my research it did not seem to matter whether the bike had a history of insurance loss (crash), or not. If you are on two wheels, you are a target for everyone else on the highway. I had my last motorcycle wreck last fall. I sold that bike and used the money to buy my old Dodge Dart drag car. If you ride a bike, it is not a matter of if you will wreck or not, it is a matter of how soon it will be.

[hillbillydeluxe]

That's the truth. Everyone's got a story, but the biggest jackasses you see out there are the ones that haven't fallen down hard enough. My neighbor canes the piss outta his R6, and I'm just waiting to have to run him to the ER.

Ah, hell, I dunno about the bad luck thing. I've been down (lightly), on my thumper, and after building it up to what it needed, I'd consider it a therapy lesson in "good" luck. But maybe that was because it was me that was the idiot that tried to fight gravity. . . . .

If you enjoy it, it CAN'T be bad luck.

http://www.motorcityhotrod.com

[k9racer]

I will not paint any thing GREEN.Scooters are like dogs if you are nice to them they will not bite you. Up until the RUB EVO years HD did not offer green. Good Luck keep the rubber side down. Bobby

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Don Orosco bought the so-cal coupe. It killed one driver. I'm sure there's a fight over Indian Larry's bike right now.

[chromedRAT]

my dad took a late 80s RFVC honda 250 dual sport engine from a bike that killed a kid (well, he killed himself and the bike). put it in an earlier XR250, ran great. he went to the barn to bring the cows in back when he milked and inexplicably the thing got sideways on him in the damned yard and he cracked a tree. LOTS of stitches both in and out of his mouth. weird, my dad's a good rider. i'm not very superstitious, but that was kinda weird. broke his foot pretty good on that bike too.

[Cadillacin Marcus]

Do you own anything traditional?? Hot Rod ? Kustom? You always post about Rice Rockets and shit... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif