http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/28716/
120 Mph into a Truck,
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Why'd he do that? :icon_confused:
Why do I have the weird feeling that could have been me????????
Its so unlucky , that bike is beyond wreaked ,must have been a hard hit
Bike: 120mph
Truck ( we'll assume he was speeding): 90mph
30mph impact: yeah, go out and hit a brick wall at 30mph and tell me how it feels and if your bike is OK :cookoo:
or i could get a loan out for 2,100 pounds , burn the 2000 quid , buy a huge hammer and smack myself in the face?
Thats what wreaking my gs would do 2 my money , and the hammer, go figure
The more I look at those pics, the more they appear fake. The dynamics of the rider hitting the back at that angle and height just don't work in my head :dunno_white:
broken toes, the fact he wet himself , police report and a ruined bike?
Nahh. look at the angle the helmet struck the door. His neck would have had to have been broken already. If it was real the angle would have been milder and there would be significantly more visible trauma to the body. FAKE
Quote from: spcterry on July 24, 2007, 07:27:22 PM
Nahh. look at the angle the helmet struck the door. His neck would have had to have been broken already. If it was real the angle would have been milder and there would be significantly more visible trauma to the body. FAKE
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im gonna say its not .as why would there be a police report
Where is the report. I didn't see it on the page. And police reports can be faked, trust me on that ;)
dunno , search google or wat not lol
god. wish I could un-see that one.
Here's the new's article about it
http://ktul.com/news/stories/0407/415038.html
Yes they are real. The rider was doing in excess of 140 and the truck was not speeding. I ride with some people who know his friends. Less than one weeks riding experience and he had just attended the funeral of another rider a few weeks previously. He accelerated out in front of a group that was already well above the speed limit. C.O.D. was a broken neck. The speed of impact was closer to 85mph he hit the truck so hard the driver thought he had been struck by a car.
I also know one of the officers who worked this scene. He's pretty good about coming up to the hang out spot and visitng with everyone.
real
Well, shaZam!, i stand corrected. Goddam gruesome, but what do you expect when you pop 100+hp under someone with no experience. :dunno_white:
Ok this has been a raging discussion on another board I am on that degenerated pretty badly. The fall out of this event locally has been even more scrutiny by LEO's if that's even possible a zero tolerance enforcement policy and a rather sad news video segment of a mourning family, and then friends of his spouting 1/2 truths, misinformation and false declarations of having learned their lesson.
I know a few of the sales guys in some of the shops around here and after the video segment ran people kept pointing to 600cc supersports asking if that was one of those "speedbikes that will go faster than 200mph".
He was part of a group of 7 bikes running well over the speed limit when he decided to pull out and hammer the the throttle.
Unfortuneately this kid never had an oppurtunity to get around the slightly more sedate old fart crowd that preaches moderation.
I have heard some more details but they aren't public knowledge so I will leave this here.
"The truck driver was not hurt"
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Quote from: spcterry on July 25, 2007, 06:16:20 AM
Well, shaZam!, i stand corrected. Goddam gruesome, but what do you expect when you pop 100+hp under someone with no experience. :dunno_white:
Bike salesmen do it all the time. The problem isn't 100 hp he coulda done the same on a 70hp fz6 or 599 or given the right circumstances he could have done this on a GS500.
New riders start with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of skill. The trick is to fill your bag of skill before luck runs out. In this case he didn't have enough luck or skill to survive whatever it was he was doing.
yea i saw this on tamparacing.com it was widely discussed there to no avail.
Quote from: bettingpythonThe problem isn't 100 hp he coulda done the same on a 70hp fz6 or 599 or given the right circumstances he could have done this on a GS500.
New riders start with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of skill. The trick is to fill your bag of skill before luck runs out. In this case he didn't have enough luck or skill to survive whatever it was he was doing.
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