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Slid out his Bike....then....

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I like the way the car really tried hard to avoid him....NOT!
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CentralOzzy wrote:I like the way the car really tried hard to avoid him....NOT!
The cager may not even have seen him until it was too late....Ouch...ouch...Ouch!
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#3 Unread post by flynrider »

I agree. Assuming the car is a left-hand drive, the driver may not have ever seen the bike at all. The bike and rider sliding are going to have a profile all of two feet high, or less. That would effectively mask them behind the hood and fender of the car, from the driver's perspective.
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Even after the car impacted with the M/C it didn't even try to slow down it just kept on cruisin' :?
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That's even hard just to watch.
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#6 Unread post by CentralOzzy »

Ya NOT wrong!

One second your Valentino Rossi, the next your Mince Meat....Ouch :(
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#7 Unread post by Sev »

It's very tough for me to realize that is real. I know it actually happened, but it doesn't seem real to me, thank god.

I guess there's something to be said for not riding at the very limit of your bikes potential on the street.
Of course I'm generalizing from a single example here, but everyone does that. At least I do.

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That's just effing awful. :shock: wtf
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#9 Unread post by 1will »

ask and ye shall receive...

oh, and that clip reminds me of the chariot scene from ben hur.
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#10 Unread post by SuperRookie »

flynrider wrote:I agree. Assuming the car is a left-hand drive, the driver may not have ever seen the bike at all. The bike and rider sliding are going to have a profile all of two feet high, or less. That would effectively mask them behind the hood and fender of the car, from the driver's perspective.
True...but, I know I'm pretty acutely aware of traffic merging from onramps and such. He should have seen the bike, at least coming around, I think...Even if he did see the bike go down, you're right flynrider that the low profile of a sliding bike would prevent seeing much else...forget about anticipating/calculating the vector of a sliding bike.

WTF was the guy just going too fast? How did he lose it like that?
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