Why you don't ride 11/10ths on public roads

[wfooshee]

The interesting part is about 2:50.

 

[johnny80s]

and ends at 2:51...

Don't blink it is quick.

 

[kaitsdad]

So, if that guy had loud pipes, would this have happened? :blink:

 

[johnny80s]

So, if that guy had loud pipes, would this have happened? :blink:

If he had loud pipes he would have been going slower so no it would not have happened.

 

[dcarver]

Did you see that cager politely waiting to turn left, blinker on, patiently waiting for the motobiker? It IS Friday, right?

 

[Geezer]

Those must be the only two curves within 500 miles for those guys to be riding like that with all the cager traffic there.

 

[wfooshee]

I can see where the driver is coming from. The bike was a hundred miles away when he started his turn, then he saw it was a LOT closer very suddenly, and froze. I really don't blame him at all, from what we see here; the rider was way over what conditions allowed.

Just points out to us as riders that our sight distance may not be the same as others'.

Lane discipline was amazing, too! The pass at 1:03, and the guy that pulls out at 1:30 pulls into the opposing lane and STAYS there for a while, just seconds ahead of another bike coming full tilt.

 

[El Toro Joe]

Those crazy :wacko: Europeans

 

[exskibum]

So, if that guy had loud pipes, would this have happened? :blink:

If he had loud pipes he would have been going slower so no it would not have happened.

Yeah but . . . he still wouldn't have been able to stop in time or to maneuver around the van turning left. That's where he'd have hit.

Seriously, though, this is EXACTLY the kind of situation that Dr. Harry Hurt has helped me avoid for 30 years now. It's not just doing 11/10ths there, it's where he's doing it -- 7/10ths wouldn't work there. No escape route at all, congested area with 3 different dangerous turning movements, traffic congestion and other obstacles limiting choices (parked cars/bikes, pedestrians and standing spectators. If you EVER see anything like that ahead, you better be slowing down, watching EVERYTHING like a hawk and looking to where you have to go to avoid getting terminated. The guy is lucky that the worst didn't happen (due only to the relative diligence of the oncoming/signaling/turning van driver who probably and predictably had all he could handle to judge the distance and compressed time of a bike closing on him way too fast). 4 out of 5 times, the rider isn't so lucky and broadsides the van with even greater speed.

That was an exercise in Darwin thinning the herd of those who don't bring their common sense to the task. Riding motorcycles is just NOT for everyone, I don't care what anyone says.

 

[madmike2]

Hey...I've got a great idea. Let's all go up into the Sierras and find a rest area, like the one on the Feather River. Then, with all the cars, trucks and vans full of tourists pulling in and out, we can take turns riding by as fast as we can.

It should provide opportunity for some great videos. What do you think?

He said...shaking his head in disbelief. I would have been out of there after the first exhibition...not wanting to witness any carnage. I hope they played the video for the police and ambulance crews that responded and sent copies to the insurance companies.

 

[dcarver]

Riding motorcycles is just NOT for everyone, I don't care what anyone says.

I agree, but have to admit I've done similarly stupid acts like that before - but got away with it. Sometimes lady luck is your friend. Sometimes not. I can remember making an entirely stupid pass in my F250 one day, on a blind corner, and the guy coming the other way saved about 5 lives. It happens. How often it happens, I guess, is the key to survival.

Said respectfully.

 

[exskibum]

I . . . have to admit I've done similarly stupid acts like that before - but got away with it. Sometimes lady luck is your friend. Sometimes not.

I wholeheartedly agree, Don. For me, the miracle was that I got past age 21, since my REAL STOOPID period on motorcycles was from about 19 to 21. Before that, I did a couple stupid things on them**, but I got much more stupider there for a few years. You now -- when I knew everything and was invincible and cool. And there was no helmet law. And I thought I could drink and ride without consequence. And that chopping a BSA 650 and riding it to its limit while drunk was do-able. Somehow, there was no consequence in that for me, but that was pure dumb luck or I had an amazingly competent guardian angel. (I mean, locking up the wheels to skid all the way through a red lighted intersection one weekend night was just one example, a near tank slapper at 2 am, intoxicated, while being clocked at 115 was another.)

**BTW, this is not to say that I didn't do stupid things off the bike. I did!

 

[madmike2]

We've all (Wellllll....most of us) done really stupid and dangerous things for which we have no reasonable explanation as to why we are still present in this life.

Hopefully others will listen and learn what NOT to do, aided by the multi-media presentations like the posted You Tube exhibit. In my youth, I likely would have been one of those milling about as a spectator/witness/participant. Thankfully some of that youthful exuberance (read: lack of comprehension, understanding and application) is being replaced with a small amount of wisdom.

[SIZE=8pt]Wisdom: Lessons learned from bad judgment.[/SIZE]

 

[Khunajawdge]

(I mean, locking up the wheels to skid all the way through a red lighted intersection one weekend night was just one example, ...)

Night skids are a ******! If you decide to do this one again, better cover the underside of your belly pan with reflective tape so the cagers can see the bike through the shower of sparks. Might save yer life? :blink:

 

[exskibum]

(I mean, locking up the wheels to skid all the way through a red lighted intersection one weekend night was just one example, ...)

Night skids are a ******! If you decide to do this one again, better cover the underside of your belly pan with reflective tape so the cagers can see the bike through the shower of sparks. Might save yer life? :blink:

Nah -- have a better solution these days, George. Don't remember any specific incident that made me smarter, but I know that by the time I had my Kaw Z1 at 25, I had completely stopped drinking while riding. I know I stopped drinking while skiing at 21 for performance reasons, and maybe that just leached some stoopid outta my riding, too.

 

[fjrchooser]

I have a tough time considering this an accident. It looked to me as though several of them had a death wish going on.