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zenwhipper
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Wow. Intense. :blink:
bigtallguy
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10 style points for the landing though :clapping: Could have been much worse...glad it wasn't.
TomInPA
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Pretty shocking. :dribble:
The reason lane splitting and filtering needs to be permitted, and you always need to have an exit.
The reason lane splitting and filtering needs to be permitted, and you always need to have an exit.
SkooterG
Purveyor of Crooked Facts
Wow!
protondecay123
No Delusions of Significance
10 points in pretty cheap IMHO
The SUV faceplant was worth 10
Landing on your feet????
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PRICELESS!! :clapping:
Eric L
Not that kind of a doctor
Unless he was watching, and scooted, I don't think lane position would have made much difference. He was kind of close to the guy in front too.
I admit it I always keep an eye on the guy coming up behind me at a light, but don't really know if I would get out of the way fast enough.
Amazing video. I doubt any non biker has the same reaction to it that we do.
I admit it I always keep an eye on the guy coming up behind me at a light, but don't really know if I would get out of the way fast enough.
Amazing video. I doubt any non biker has the same reaction to it that we do.
jzzmusician
Official Hoon
Da yum!
wfooshee
O, Woe is me!!
I was there myself once. I always pull up behind someone at a light on one side of the lane or the other, and with the nose pointed to the space around that vehicle. Saved my bacon once, but once was enough to make it a conscious habit always.
Mirror is full of Jeep slowing down hard, and he stopped, but not until he was in the space I had just vacated. He was 4 feet behind the bumper of the car that had been in front of me, and we all know the Feej is a bit more than four feet long. I was in the space by the driver's door of that front car. Don't think he ever really knew why I pulled up there, as the light changed just about then and he drove off. The Jeep tried to let me back in the lane, but I was having none of it and went ahead and turned left to get a different traffic pattern.
From his head motion, that rider was either looking in his mirrors just in time to know he was about to be hit, or he was looking around and had no clue. I'm glad he came out as well as he did. I also respect the self control it took to walk away from that woman instead of trying to make her look like the bike.
Mirror is full of Jeep slowing down hard, and he stopped, but not until he was in the space I had just vacated. He was 4 feet behind the bumper of the car that had been in front of me, and we all know the Feej is a bit more than four feet long. I was in the space by the driver's door of that front car. Don't think he ever really knew why I pulled up there, as the light changed just about then and he drove off. The Jeep tried to let me back in the lane, but I was having none of it and went ahead and turned left to get a different traffic pattern.
From his head motion, that rider was either looking in his mirrors just in time to know he was about to be hit, or he was looking around and had no clue. I'm glad he came out as well as he did. I also respect the self control it took to walk away from that woman instead of trying to make her look like the bike.
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BwanaDik
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WTF? Flagged as "inappropriate ", any way to see it without signing up for a Youtube account?
kolonial72
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Surprise at 0:18. Ol' lady gets out of the accident vehicle. Last time I got rear-ended (in the car, not on the bike thank FSM) it was an old lady who did it.
Had to evade one on the MC when a big-*** truck stopped short in front of me while I was being tailgated. Bit of a different situation, as I was still moving, but the survival plan is the same - give plenty of room in front and always have an escape plan.
Walking away to calm down is probably the only way I'd avoid going to jail.
The landing was, in fact, priceless.
Had to evade one on the MC when a big-*** truck stopped short in front of me while I was being tailgated. Bit of a different situation, as I was still moving, but the survival plan is the same - give plenty of room in front and always have an escape plan.
Walking away to calm down is probably the only way I'd avoid going to jail.
The landing was, in fact, priceless.
Geezer
Parsimonious Curmudgeon
I bet the rider has no idea how he ended up on his feet. That stuff happens so fast it was either an unconscious reaction or just plain luck.
I do sometimes run these worse case scenarios through my head and think about what I would try to do if it happened to me. I find it helps me react much more quickly when there isn't time to think if I have already thought things through in an imaginary situation.
I do sometimes run these worse case scenarios through my head and think about what I would try to do if it happened to me. I find it helps me react much more quickly when there isn't time to think if I have already thought things through in an imaginary situation.
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Checkswrecks
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I got rear-ended by an kid in LA around 1980 and just about pulled him out through the VW bug driver door window. Virtually never since have sat behind a car and it's saved my bacon a couple of times.
cota95
RI Beach Pop
Can someone please add the video directly here as I don't have an account
squeezer
Squirrelly Geezer
My son sent that clip to me this morning. Scary stuff. Wow.
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ionbeam
2 FUN
squeezer
Squirrelly Geezer
[Never mind. ionbeam took care of it...]
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dcarver
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Freaking amazing lucky landing. I bet he didn't continue on to work that day..
John d
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Sometimes things are not always as they seem. There may have been enough of an injury to keep him from speaking. I have personally witnessed what seemed like a minor motorcycle crash, where everthing initially looked ok, but later the person ended up in the hospital diagnosed with severe internal injuries.
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