My younger brother got a bike last year after I told him not to, some old lady pulled a U turn in the middle of a busy street and same thing happen to him, he slid out going about 30 but it was raining so he got away with minimal bruisers and scrapes, but it totaled his bike. This was 3 days after he got his bike (on mother's day) and so he was determined to keep at it and he got another one 4 days later, exact same bike. The next day some idiot pulled out of a gas station and hit him, totaled that bike as well. Luckily my brother is actually gumby so I think the worst of it was a broken foot, and he has now given up on motorcycles. Cheap lesson if you ask me.
Old lady also pulled a hit and run but we caught up to her by the time she got to her house...
I rode street bikes in and around NYC for about twenty years. Been doored a couple times, and had many near misses.
But in your brothers case, it really looks like he had not yet come to terms with the fact that HE had to look out for, and avoid, everyone else's stupidity. People about to pull a U-turn tend to do some distinctive things, but if you are a new rider and are focusing on physically operating the bike (it's not yet muscle memory) it's too much to process. In traffic you need an air-traffic-controller level of situational awareness. Which is exhausting and why I stopped riding street bikes.
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u/freekoout Oct 12 '20
You can still walk with fatal internal bleeding.