Kids gotta learn the hard way.

Oct 30, 2025, 12:22 PM

It's just science, or something.

Friend of mine has a wife and a toddler, and also inherited a stepdaughter. Stepdaughter graduated from HS last year, so that makes her...19ish? Maybe 20? Anyway, I see her posts on social media here and there, and gathered that at some point in the last 12-18 months, she decided she was all about that crotchrocket lyfe--the riceburner go-fast sport bikes and that culture around that. Got herself a boyfriend into the same, and what I occasionally saw of her social media presence was motorcycles, sitting on motorcycles, high-speed videos of motorcycles, even a drone video a few weeks ago on one of the highways in CHS, maybe around the Mark Clark.

Don't get me wrong, I wanted one of those when I was 19, because it would have been GLORIOUS to drive from offcampus to park right in front of Sirrine or wherever, instead of driving a car a mile to park half a mile away from my classes, but alas...broke college student, couldn't afford one, and that's fine because I would have ended up drunk on it at some point. We're invincible at 19.

She apparently had a bunch of people reach out to her telling her to be careful, or that she was making a mistake by going down this proverbial road, and some of those people even reached out to her mother. Mom is like "what am I gonna do, she's an adult?" Stepdaughter made a few somewhat belligerant posts about how old people just don't understand, and that she's careful, and everybody else is stupid, and shut up.

Then this week, I see a GoFundMe pop up for....yep, stepdaughter. The boyfriend shared that she got into a wreck on Oct. 26, and has roadrash all over her body and will need multiple skin grafts; also "a piece of her knee missing, a dislocated wrist, a fractured foot, and a deep cut on her palm". If she didn't have a helmet on, she'd probably be dead, but that was the ONLY protective gear she had on, apparently. Also, no insurance, hence the GFM.

I can't imagine how many people are biting their tongues to keep from slipping the earned and deserved "I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO." I'm glad she's alive. We'll find out soon enough if she's any wiser.

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A Honda V45 750 Interceptor like this:

During my first week at Clemson, some genius decided to drive in the wrong lane in front of the convenience store beside TD’s—and hit me head-on. I went over the handlebars, hit his hood, did a flip, landed on myass behind his car, then smacked my unhelmeted head on the asphalt. Because, you know, cool people don’t wear helmets, right? One of my shoes ended up halfway down the hill to the soccer field.

I woke up three days later in a bed at Redfern. My left knee and ankles were wrapped up, and the walls were covered with papers the nurses had taped up with answers to the questions I kept asking every fifteen seconds. They’d just point at them each time I'd ask something I forgot. I don’t remember any of that, but apparently it happened. I had road-rash scars on my ankles for twenty+ years afterward, and the worst ones even seemed to migrate over time—one ended up as a purple-red dot a quarter way up my ankle.

Larry Bowman removed the cartilage from my left knee a few days later, and I spent the next six to eight weeks on crutches. Ever since, I’ve had flashes of CRS disease—and sometimes still can’t piece together words I know to complete a sentence. So when someone jokes that I must’ve been dropped on my head as a kid, the answer is… kind of, yeah.

I tried to ride a motorcycle a few times after that, but it never was the same, so I don't do it anymore. If this girl you know lives through her injuries, she may do the same if she's able. However, the fear of being hit and sliding down the road again takes all the enjoyment out of riding. Even at 19-20.

Kids gotta learn the hard way.

I was gonna ask for pigs of what sits on that rocket but

100mph on a donor cycle is like playing Russian Roulette

Re: Kids gotta learn the hard way.

Shut up, old man.

I had sport bike at Clemson.

Dayum.

Friend in D-Square had one, drove it for a month, similar to Ineligible's wreck

I had a similar accident a few months back

Re: I had a similar accident a few months back

LOLLERS OUT LOUD

Actual footage

Re: I had sport bike at Clemson.

wait

Sorry for ever beefing with you bro!***

Gonna sound a little weak sauce but...

I've owned a motorcycle as long as I have been able to balance a bike

Those are bulletproof little Hondas, for sure.

The worst is when they ride these without helmets

They really don't. They make you look like you were

She knows she messed up no doubt.

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