Author Topic: Lessons to be learned here? (Read 2218 times)

Scott S · « **on:** October 19, 2012, 03:19:33 AM »

I think so. One: Never way at the camera. Two: Target fixation is bad!

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Be sure to click the "next" button and follow the sequence through.

Frostyboy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 19, 2012, 03:58:31 AM »

Certainly proves that you can't afford to be distracted hey? Point taken, thanks.

dhall57 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 19, 2012, 04:01:57 AM »

WOW!! It makes me hurt just sitting here watching it. Very stupid on the bikers part, maybe he wasn't hurt to bad. If he wasn't the guy in the Vette might change his condition though.

brandEn · « **Reply #3 on:** October 19, 2012, 04:03:16 AM »

holy #$%*e

Killer Canary · « **Reply #4 on:** October 19, 2012, 07:13:10 AM »

There was a sequence out there that was pretty much the same; Joe Cool on a barge wearing a wifebeater(!) waving at the camera and crashing. Hard to feel sorry for guys who aren't serious enough to buy a bike that can lean.

flybox1 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 19, 2012, 08:21:47 AM »

STICK YOUR DISMOUNT!!!!!!

see #21

liPPy · « **Reply #6 on:** October 19, 2012, 11:52:00 AM »

Picture 18 to picture 19 - classic!

Basic errors - horrible line, target fixation and for some reason he goes from full lean in picture 10 to standing it up in picture 11. Maybe he scraped his pegs and shat himself?

Killer Canary · « **Reply #7 on:** October 19, 2012, 01:47:50 PM »

His right header was well and truly planted. He could've bought a Bonny or Speed Triple and saved the situation but noooo.....

Trav-i · « **Reply #8 on:** October 19, 2012, 02:00:36 PM »

I'm willing to bet he paniced and grabbed way to much front brake, that will stand you straight up in any curve.

Gordon · « **Reply #9 on:** October 19, 2012, 02:10:24 PM »

Quote from: Trav-i on October 19, 2012, 02:00:36 PM

I'm willing to bet he paniced and grabbed way to much front brake, that will stand you straight up in any curve.

His brake light didn't come on until he was already upright and about to hit the vette.

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #10 on:** October 19, 2012, 02:42:44 PM »

Thats just poor riding skills, he fixated on the car instead of looking where he should be going, its a common factor in a lot of motorcycle crashes. Its like playing soccer, if you look at the goal keeper while taking a shot, 9 times out of ten you will hit the keeper....

DH · « **Reply #11 on:** October 19, 2012, 07:15:32 PM »

Sadly, that guy is gonna add ornaments to the "Tree of shame" at the end of the Dragon. I hope he's ok, and will ride again on a better day.
Agreed, he made mistakes. Hopefully for all, it'll make him a better rider. And yeah, a real wake up call to watch.

dave500 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 19, 2012, 08:08:59 PM »

retrospect of course but he wouldve been better off to have locked the rear wheel and laid it down maybe?

chung · « **Reply #13 on:** November 04, 2012, 10:45:17 PM »

I'll admit my mistakes... I did almost the same thing.

One Sunday morn, I was taking a girl home, still half drunk, on a road that I didn't know too well and on a bike that I had just got. I came upon a 90deg corner way too hot and thought" damn, I'm gonna drag hard" So I lifted.
Then me thinks "bad idea, I'm gonna run off the road and a car might be coming"
So I pulled it back down and pried the front tire off the road and down we went. I went in on my face/chest and she came off my back and went flying through the trees and broke a couple fingers. The bike went flying off the bank and I simply slid to a halt in the grass. I fell no pain except for the agony of defeat.
Brand new FJ1100 with a tree wedged between the front tire and the pipes. Some good-ole-boys stopped and helped me lift it out of the tree and I was on my way again. A few quarters at the car wash to get the mud out of my jacket zipper and I was good to go. She was a real trooper, never complained and I didn't even know her fingers were broke for a couple days. The lesson here is "Pay Attention"

Trevor from Warragul · « **Reply #14 on:** November 05, 2012, 03:14:19 PM »

Apparently a sports bike rider hit the debris, came off & was seriously injured...

ofreen · « **Reply #15 on:** November 05, 2012, 06:37:04 PM »

I've had fun riding cruisers since about anything with a motor can be fun in some context. Some of the cruiser engines are entertaining as hell, but at some point you are going to have to convince the thing to go around a curve because every road has one sooner or later. (Even in Florida.) And the bike will argue with you about it. Sometimes bitterly, while grinding away something shiny and expensive, shaking its head and jacking its own tires off the road. I get the same 'aw #$%*' feeling when coming up behind a flock of cruisers on a winding mountain road as I do a herd of Winnebagos, but I can't blame them for poking along. Discretion is the better part of valor on a cruiser out in the wild. Actually the flock of cruisers is worse to overtake, the Winnebagos are usually easier to get around.

Past the point of no return, that guy was screwed no matter what he did, but he probably would have been better off with the lowside. I'll bet he wishes he could have that one back for a do-over. I know the feeling.

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #16 on:** November 05, 2012, 07:30:44 PM »

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Past the point of no return, that guy was screwed no matter what he did,

Greg, i will have to disagree with you here, there's plenty he could have done if he knew what he was doing, ever seen the way your cops ride their police bikes, they are more maneuverable than just riding into someone, he was lacking in preventative skills, could have been easily avoided if he knew what to do...

ofreen · « **Reply #17 on:** November 05, 2012, 07:42:36 PM »

That is why I said "past the point of no return." Once over the centerline there probably was no recovery likely given the proximity of the vette, just a dwindling set of possible outcomes, none very pretty. Plenty of things he could have done better before that, including staying in bed.

Retro Rocket · « **Reply #18 on:** November 06, 2012, 02:23:19 PM »

Quote from: ofreen on November 05, 2012, 07:42:36 PM

Plenty of things he could have done better before that, including staying in bed.

I like that....

dave500 · « **Reply #19 on:** November 06, 2012, 11:24:28 PM »

what makes it all worse is hearing another rider hit the debris and crashed aswell in morinis post.

Magilla · « **Reply #20 on:** November 07, 2012, 11:54:41 AM »

Picture 19 looks like all the spokes on his front wheel are now missing. Its just a ring and a tire yet they are still round. How the hell is that possible? Poor guy in the Vette just out having a mid life crisis and BAM now he has to get out the crazy glue. I hope he was really into building model cars when he was a kid.

brandEn · « **Reply #21 on:** November 10, 2012, 01:58:34 PM »

sangyo soichiro · « **Reply #22 on:** November 16, 2012, 01:24:12 PM »

Looks like he might have been able to complete the turn (with only a close call) but panicked when he saw the car. Of course, he should have been watching the road the whole time too!

CycleRanger · « **Reply #23 on:** November 16, 2012, 01:56:18 PM »

Quote from: brandEn on November 10, 2012, 01:58:34 PM

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Author Topic: Lessons to be learned here? (Read 2218 times)

DH