Topic: Ouch! Major motorcycle pile-up!

[historicjake]

Oops!  Quite a scene.  Just goes to show that group riding can be fun and dangerous....

http://neobike.net/pages/group_hug

P.S. Sorry link mistake on my part.

[Gordon]

I hope there's supposed to be a picture attached to that post, otherwise I'm a little confused.  

[ejand22]

That's insane!

[seaweb11]

Holy crap! Look at the top right corner of 1st  screen....the tennis shoes up in the air still atactched to the guy upsidedown

[mrblasty]

That's fooked!!!

[ElCheapo]

I can just hear the crunching...... left me cringing 


Porta-Potty Causes Motorcycle Wreck

08/10/2005

CUSTER, S.D. - A 55-year-old Texan died this afternoon when the motorcycle he was driving was struck by a portable toilet that had fallen off a trailer just north of Custer.

The South Dakota Highway Patrol identified the victim as Michael E. Johnson of Grand Saline, Texas.

The Patrol says a driver was transporting portable toilets when the accident occurred about 2 this afternoon on US Highway 16. After the impact, Johnson and his bike were thrown into the other lane and were struck by a second motorcycle.

Authorities say a third motorcycle tried to avoid debris on the road and ended up in the ditch.

Well... thats is just crappy

[superchode]

can anyone identify that city?

edit: some of the plates are russian - moscow, perhaps?

[Einyodeler]

Definitely Russian.
After the fall of communism and the introduction of western automobiles and motorcycles the traffic deaths rose in the hundred-fold in the former east bloc countries.
I was working in Berlin before and after the wall came down and commuted by car through East Germany twice weekly. Before they had to wait on the average of 10 years for a car and that was the Trabant,top speed 60 mph. You saw a lot of people go out and buy Golf GTI`s and the like and promptly wrap them around a tree.
The same with the bikes. All they had were the Ural and Dnepr`s which put out around 20 HP and they went out and bought bikes with 100+ HP and had no training whatsoever.
The MC that I was a member of now has a probate chapter in Moscow and  it`s like the wild west there.There are no safety rider courses available and the police and judicial system are mostly in the hands of the russian mafia.

Here are some pics from last spring outside of Moscow at one of the club parties.......

[Philly550K1]

i didn't see any of them in the mail order catalog.....

[Gordon]

i didn't see any of them in the mail order catalog.....

Ha!

Are those pictures a true representation of the average club member, or was your camera a little bit biased?