[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Motorcycle Rear Ended/Video (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/7/2011 6:32:46 AM EDT
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Quoted: You wouldn't believe the shitstorm that's going on over at advrider over this video.. The guy is just plain lucky. Link please. Heres a thread the rider started and the follow up thread after his was locked.............. |
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Quoted: Quoted: You wouldn't believe the shitstorm that's going on over at advrider over this video.. The guy is just plain lucky. Link please. It's in Jo'moma, someone posted it in the WTF thread and you have to be a member to see it. Linking won't help, unfortunately..  |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: You wouldn't believe the shitstorm that's going on over at advrider over this video.. The guy is just plain lucky. Link please. It's in Jo'moma, someone posted it in the WTF thread and you have to be a member to see it. Linking won't help, unfortunately.. Im a member, thanks ill go look for it. |
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Quoted: I just looked at it again, Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: You wouldn't believe the shitstorm that's going on over at advrider over this video.. The guy is just plain lucky. Link please. It's in Jo'moma, someone posted it in the WTF thread and you have to be a member to see it. Linking won't help, unfortunately.. Im a member, thanks ill go look for it. A lot of pruning has gone on.. Pilot went on a rampage I think. It's kinda lame at the present moment. |
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Quoted: Quoted: You wouldn't believe the shitstorm that's going on over at advrider over this video.. The guy is just plain lucky. I can't find the thread. Linky? eta: nevermind http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=488985&page=2353 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Gqmfa7qog I've been rear ended in my car, not on the bike... yet. been VERY close to being taken out from the side and front though 
and I ride a K1200LT, not a small bike at all. |
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I didn't mean to get the thread off track.. BUMP. .. and, I've almost been rear-ended twice that I'm aware of. One time it was by an idiot in an SUV and the other a gal in a rusted out shitbox. I love motorcycling but there are days when I want to give it up. People just don't care. edit: I ride an r1200r atm. |
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Yeah you have to check your 6, I know a couple of guys who saw the person behind them was not going to stop so they pulled beside the vehicle in front of them and sure enough that person got rear ended.
That guy was real lucky, his bike was stuck under that van, he could have been stuck under that van. I bet he was hurting the next day. |
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Quoted: Quoted: You gotta look back as much as you look forward. No shit. He saw traffic stopped and didn't leave himself an out. 100% of the time I come to a hard stop like that I am watching what is going behind me. At that point I could care less what is going on in front of me. |
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Quoted: Crap like this is why I stopped riding... (wasn't my primary passion anyway) Traffic is your enemy. Stay out of it, and don't overcook turns, and you've eliminated nearly every fatal motorcycle incident statistically. There's a reason I ride out in the country on back roads. Oh, and it's about 1000x prettier and more relaxing than riding around with a bunch of cages. |
| me and a few friends were having a talk just the other day about how many different ways women can kill you while using cell phones, about 20 minutes afterward on the way to eat a woman pulled out onto a six lane road going the wrong way in the fast lane and guess what, she was on the phone. |
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Quoted: @ 20 secs sure looks like it to meQuoted: she was on the phone and likely distracted. you can see her holding it to her ear as she closes the door and puts it into her pocket. i'd sue her fully into bankruptcy. It does kinda look like she has a phone to her ear for a sec when she gets out. |
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The motorcyclist put himself in a classic bad position at the end of stopped traffic, when he had a clear and obvious "out" to the left and right approaching a slowing car in front of him....he was too close to begin with. Situational awareness, it matters. If I'm left no alternative but to stop in back of a line of cars, I'll line myself up against the curb side, right on the line and watch my six. If someone isn't slowing I can rev off or even bail and avoid being flattened. |
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Brings back a couple memories, except: 1. I didn't land on my feet. I think it went head, ass, teakettle, head, ass, teakettle, and on and on and on ........ 2. There was no dumb old lady to punch afterward after I got rear ended. 3. He seems to be moving around ok. After I came to rest, the most important thing in the world, by far, was not moving. |
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she was on the phone and likely distracted. you can see her holding it to her ear as she closes the door and puts it into her pocket. i'd sue her fully into bankruptcy. and as a former insurance adjuster you have about a 99.5% chance of failure to get her into bankruptcy. Sorry to rain on your righteous indignation there. |
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That is worth a lot of money to the MC rider. He should have laid down in the road and started mumbling incoherently and continued to do so in the back of the ambulance all the way to the trauma center. Video of the woman who ran into him talking on the phone, she failed to stop, look at the condition of the motorcycle after the accident. Her insurance company can't possibly win or avoid paying big $$$ in this one.
Woman: "Are you ok?" MC Dude: "pancakes, bunny rabbits, fuck obama, 87, i don't own a unicorn, why did it get dark all of a sudden, i like pie, where am i, what happened, i can't feel my cock" |
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Agreed on all points.
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Crap like this is why I stopped riding... (wasn't my primary passion anyway) Traffic is your enemy. Stay out of it, and don't overcook turns, and you've eliminated nearly every fatal motorcycle incident statistically. There's a reason I ride out in the country on back roads. Oh, and it's about 1000x prettier and more relaxing than riding around with a bunch of cages. My primary reason for getting back on bikes is to reduce my driving expenses, and then I (re)discovered why I liked motorcycles so much. Between the morning and evening commute I spend ~2 hours a day in heavy traffic. So far the biggest problem has been 20-something women with a cell-phone pressed to their left ear changing lanes into me. I installed a LOUD Stebel horn, and that helps. Yes, I enjoy the commute a lot more on a bike than on 4 wheels. |
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That is worth a lot of money to the MC rider. He should have laid down in the road and started mumbling incoherently and continued to do so in the back of the ambulance all the way to the trauma center. Video of the woman who ran into him talking on the phone, she failed to stop, look at the condition of the motorcycle after the accident. Her insurance company can't possibly win or avoid paying big $$$ in this one. Woman: "Are you ok?" MC Dude: "pancakes, bunny rabbits, fuck obama, 87, i don't own a unicorn, why did it get dark all of a sudden, i like pie, where am i, what happened, i can't feel my cock" I would have immediately fallen to the ground yelling about my neck and my back calling 911 for an ambulance. |
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I've been rear ended while sitting in my car at a stop light. I ALWAYS take forever to slow down now, just so the idiots behind me get all the brake light I can give them, I'm also religiously looking in the rear-view. That's one hell of an experience on a Bike though!  |