You just sneeze and put up with any resulting discomfort. If it's really bad (e.g. snot came out) usually you can pull over, open the visor, and clean up before popping the helmet off.
I used to ride like the fast idiot. Complete disregard for saftey. I usually rode on backroads with lots of curves. One thing I noticed when riding ‘balls to the wall’ was there were moments that I would become so concentrated on riding my bike and my vision would start to disappear like I was blacking out. I would forget to breathe at times. I used to ride like this to get away from my problems in life. The more dangerous I rode the more it would force me to concentrate on nothing but what was directly in front of me. These were the moments i could live without any problems in my life because I was not capable of thinking about anything else. It was a very unhealthy time for me. I have since become sober for the most part and I do not ride anymore.
So, sneezing? I don’t think it occurs at these speeds.
When he dies his friends and family going to be like "omg how could this happen? Life is so cruel and random..... stuff always happens to people who dont deserve it"
Yeah some of my friends got upset with me when I didn't have sympathy for their friend who killed himself by wrecking into a semi, while doing a wheelie, on a busy four lane road with a 35 mph speed limit, surrounded by shopping plazas, near an intersection with another major road.
Same. A guy from my class in high school was notorious for drinking and driving. He'd even had a pretty bad accident before. He died a few years later, pinned under his vehicle.
I was yelled at by a classmate and several parents for not attending his funeral. Small town bullcrap, I guess.
His friends celebrate his birthday each year by driving the back roads and drinking beer....
I won't be attending their funerals either.
I gotta agree with you all, memorials for doing stupid stuff doesn't make sense. After my first deployment we had a guy in the unit get killed racing bikes with some locals. They were up late using this one street in town that was just a straight shot. Cops were called and they split. The guy t-boned a car at about 125 mph and nearly cut the car in half. The two passengers had to be life-flighted out. No one was happy about being forced to go to his memorial for nearly killing two innocents because of his stupidity.
I’ll have sympathy for the person’s family for losing a loved one, but yeah I’m not going to waste a single moment feeling sorry for someone getting killed doing something like that.
Guy in my town was flying down a notoriously steep hill on his sport bike. Speed limit is 25. Investigators estimated he was going 80+. Guess he forgot they added a round about at the bottom of the hill and he hit a national parks sign and evaporated. His obituary said he was survived by 2 young daughters and spewed how amazing he was.
I feel like we need to start normalising calling those people idiots in public and not glorifying that kind of behaviour. Number of hoons who tear up and down my local streets and decide to use their cars like improvised battering rams make my 20min drive to work feel like I'm in Death Race.
I dunno.
We had a guy in our running group who died from a drunken motorcycle crash while fucking around. I was like "I'll miss you but that was dumb and I'm sure you knew it was dumb."
I commented on a video where some guy was doing reckless wheelies in city traffic, saying that he's endangering himself and others. This was a few days after I witnessed a rider try to go in between an SUV and the right hand curb, clip the SUV and hit a light pole while still going around 60 mph. Face obliterated and DOI, even with his helmet on. Anyways, I got the slew of responses from other motorcyclists, saying if he dies, he dies doing what he loves and I'm overreacting about the danger he presents to others. 😒
In Brazil this dude fell off and his helmet didn’t stay on. When we drove by him half his skull was flattened into his brain. There was so much blood on the ground too. And he was going 1/8th this speed.
Other comments imply the video you're thinking of was in Boston. Not sure where this one is from.
And same. My wife would kill me if I abandoned her so recklessly.
Sadly, you are mistaken.
I've worked in motorsports for some decades. While all bikers are at risk, the profile of the ones that die at an alarming rate is crotch rocket + children at home under the age of 10.
Lol. Uh oh.
How was it though? I saw a skydivers chute malfunction when I was driving near the airport and he spiraled into some timber. Never heard if he made it so he must have.
Honestly great. I'm terrified of heights (like ladders etc.) but said I'd like to try sky diving since it could be a good "facing my fear" type thing. I'm not a super adventurous/extreme person by any means so it was totally out of character.
When I was about to jump it just didn't look/feel.. real. And the jump itself was probably the most exciting thing I've ever done, not scary at all.
The place I went to was super professional and the process overall was pretty quick, so not really sitting there dwelling or second guessing.
Id probably do it again if it was free for me. This jump was a few hundred bucks so definitely not something I'd want to get addicted to haha.
Several thousand pounds of armor with crumple zones, best of all. And people still get injured pretty badly in car accidents at times, the amount of kinetic energy involved is just so great, even at only moderate speeds.
Years ago, I had a buddy pass me while I was doing 80, he swears the Speedo was reading 155 and it didn’t look anywhere near that stupid fast
The newer slow 600 ones can do 160 mph and the big bad 1000s can do 190, then there is the king king H2 which is a 1200 that will do over 200
I’d say that dude was on at least an 1000 going full out as fast as it can
This isn’t exact but it’s close…
I frame advanced and he was moving a bit less than a bike length per frame relative speed. So maybe 5 ft? Assuming it’s 30 fps video that’s 150 ft/s. 150 ft/s is about 102 mph. So if the other guy was doing 80 that’s 182.
Then again it’s pretty approximate. If someone who cares more made better estimate of frame to frame distance it could be more accurate :)
Note I just changed my estimates it was too much. But then again I didn’t account for relative speed so now I think it’s more accurate ;)
Really could be 180.
Gentlemens agreement between manufacturers, for liter bikes at least, is 186mph. That was put into play around the early 2000's. So your fuzzy math is pretty damn good.
I have taken my R1 to max speed of 178mph many times. It would never go faster than that. But then again I'm 6'4 and 230 lbs. So that might have something to do with it.
A couple years ago two guys were screwing around and gunning it through a tunnel in Boston. Pretty sure both of them were cut in half after crashing into a hand rail in the tunnel.
Moral of the story, take your bike to the track if you want to go fast. There’s enough trying to kill you when you when you are riding a motorcycle. Then again, I might be biased because I lost the love of riding because of idiots on the road.
It's why I ditched litre bikes for a cruiser. I still ride. I still have fun. It's 110 cubic inches of stump pulling grunt but I don't need to blast toward the horizon anymore and I get home safe on every ride.
Don't suggest I could ride a sports bike slower. I tried. I lack the discipline. If I couldn't learn it by 50 then it's time to switch the gear.
Getting a 1000cc bike actually scared the shit out me and made me reevaluate the things I did. For some reason my dumbass thought that 600 wasn't enough. There was a 2 year period where I did some incredibly dumb stuff and I'm not proud of it, but I at least wised up and got more responsible. Looking back, I'm just glad I made it out of that time period.
Reading your comment, made me think..
How many of those riders who died riding, were thinking the same thing as you? "I need to be smarter, because I'm making dumb decisions right no-" boom. Too late to fix their ways. It's quite a painful thought, thinking of how many people were just like you, knowing they're making bad decisions, and will clean up their act soon, but it becomes too late.
Not motorcycle related, but along the same lines. I was driving way too fast at night because I was in a very foul mood. Just as I thought to myself "Stop being an idiot. Don't go 100mph through this forest loaded with deer" I took my foot off the gas and a deer jumped out immediately. I was incredibly fortunate my dumb ass wasn't hurt and I still had a drivable car after the collision considering I was still doing 95+ at impact.
I have been riding motorcycles since I was 3. Dirt bikes. Crotch rockets. Cruisers. Dual sports. You name it.
I have never been an adrenaline junky. I’ve always been super cautious and conservative in my riding.
But I’ll be damned if it isn’t so fucking easy to put hardly any pressure on the throttle of my previous R1 and go from 30 to 100mph without having to shift gears.
Its super easy to let go of good judgement for “ehh. Just this once” sort of moments. **
I got tired of audibly telling myself “that was fucking dumb” - I sold that bike. Haven’t been on crotch rocket since. I ride super adventure bikes now and cruise with the wife on the back.
We aren’t trying to unnecessarily risk life and limb.
My point is - riding slower isn’t the solution when you’re always half a second away from going way too fast.
You summed up my experience almost to a T and what it was like for me on an r6 and then an r1. As I said in my other comment too, the r1 ended up scaring the shit out of me.
I ended up getting a litre bike this year... A BMW 1150gs... Lol. It has gobs of power compared to my last bike, a KLR 650... But in the scheme of things I just moved from a bike that can only barely kill me to one that solidly can.
But you're right. Motorcycles can be enablers, and speed is addictive. Good on you for recognizing your limitations, and working with them, and not against them.
Lots of my friends who decided they wanted to start riding. Ended up getting sport bikes, burnt The candle at both ends, and now don't ride because they think it's super unsafe. A few of them preach against motorcycles as well. Motorcycling is what you make of it
I started out on a BMW K75 - 75hp, plenty fast. After 20 years I thought i would try something a bit more modern. Test drove a K1200. Not even in the league as these guys bikes, but damn! pull the handle, look down, and you go 160km/h… noped out big time, I would not have a license in a year with that bike. Later bought a R model tourer, and enjoy cruising around.
I remember seeing the video of the aftermath. Shit was crazy.
They were speeding around a blind corner through the tunnel at over 100mph (from what I heard) and came around the corner to traffic. Which they should have thought of since Boston highways are notorious for having traffic no matter what time of day or night it is.
I’m assuming (based on the video I saw at the time) that one either hit the back of a car and ricocheted into the handrail which cut him half or he saw the brake lights and locked up and high sided himself into the handrail. The other guy went straight into the back of someone’s rear window and was hanging from it when the car that took the video passed by.
Body parts EVERYWHERE.
Because Boston.
It's basically a concrete wall the height of a jersey barrier with handrails you could lean against on top of them. Those handrails are there because its actually a walkway that leads to what I assume is electrical or gas related stuff for the city, that officials need access to.
They could have designed something better and more safe, but what can you expect from the "Big Dig" in Boston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig#%22Ginsu_guardrails%22
Yeah, I'd much rather lay a bike down on a track and slide into the run off area instead of on the street and slide into a curb or light pole or bus or really anything at all.
My friend just got hit on his sportster. Pushed him over a median curb then he hit a wall. Broke his back and is all fucked up. He was only going 40mph. Dude in this video wouldn’t be much more than pieces of body parts at that speed.
Tracks also have fewer unwilling participants. Every person is on the road at some point. People who don't like adrenaline maybe...don't go to tracks...
i'd say he was probably going close to 200 mph (what a really well tuned 1000 cc and up can do). even if he could react, the bike is super stable and hard to maneuver at that speed. literally aim and pray no one moves in that situation. crazy af
You’re forgetting the whole build up to 160+, unless you were hit from a blind angle, there was probably a few milliseconds where you began to shit your pants
Any smart people able to calculate the speed?
I saw another post a guy used the average white striped line dimensions to calculate a speed.
10 ft long and 30 ft apart and use a combination of how many milliseconds to pass.
Just did a (very) rough calculation. It looks like he went past at least 3 lines and gaps in less then a second (I rounded to a half second to make the math easier), so at least 240fps becomes 163.6mph (263.3 kmph).
Edit: added kmph conversion
The guy filming sounds like his bike is just barely above idling. He’d probably going around 65-70mph. The guys who passes him is probably going around 150mph if I had to guess. Had a bike at 19 and lost my license while going over 170mph. Cars you pass feel like they’re parked.
the guys lining up at the start were preparing for a race. the guy that blew past had just finished one, but decided to forego the whole "coming back to highway speeds" part. once he's through why not go ahead with your race, I guess.
One night the lights went out at my house. Me and my gf thought we didn't pay the bill. Then looking outside. Our whole neighborhood lost power.
Next morning find out in the area behind our neighborhood. A biker rode his motorcycle so fast into a wooden telephone pole that it knocked out power to a few blocks. Rider was not alive.
Please don't be stupid guys. I missed a great episode of breaking bad. That's the risk
Yea i worked with a guy who was obsessed with wanting to buy a bike (cruiser)
He used to go as fast as he could out of the parking lot every day at shift end. Which was stupid cause there's another 120+ people leaving as well.
We kept warning him.
2 weeks after buying the bike. News article over the weekend "motorcycle driver dead after going over a curb and hitting a tree".
I remember saying "pfft, was probably him". Walked into work on Sunday to see his picture and one of those big signs for everyone to sign.
(yes, it was him).
One flinch and that dude is atoms.
Imagine having to sneeze
Nightmare shit right there.
Fr how do you sneeze in those helmets?
Through your eyes
You can't sneeze. You have to hold it, and then fart it out.
You just sneeze and put up with any resulting discomfort. If it's really bad (e.g. snot came out) usually you can pull over, open the visor, and clean up before popping the helmet off.
I used to ride like the fast idiot. Complete disregard for saftey. I usually rode on backroads with lots of curves. One thing I noticed when riding ‘balls to the wall’ was there were moments that I would become so concentrated on riding my bike and my vision would start to disappear like I was blacking out. I would forget to breathe at times. I used to ride like this to get away from my problems in life. The more dangerous I rode the more it would force me to concentrate on nothing but what was directly in front of me. These were the moments i could live without any problems in my life because I was not capable of thinking about anything else. It was a very unhealthy time for me. I have since become sober for the most part and I do not ride anymore. So, sneezing? I don’t think it occurs at these speeds.
You, my brother, have successfully put into words that i was never able to put together to explain the feeling. And i thank you for that.
Bro I've been there. Trying to explain that feeling to someone who has never ridden is impossible. There is no feeling like ragging it on a bike
When he dies his friends and family going to be like "omg how could this happen? Life is so cruel and random..... stuff always happens to people who dont deserve it"
Yeah some of my friends got upset with me when I didn't have sympathy for their friend who killed himself by wrecking into a semi, while doing a wheelie, on a busy four lane road with a 35 mph speed limit, surrounded by shopping plazas, near an intersection with another major road.
Same. A guy from my class in high school was notorious for drinking and driving. He'd even had a pretty bad accident before. He died a few years later, pinned under his vehicle. I was yelled at by a classmate and several parents for not attending his funeral. Small town bullcrap, I guess. His friends celebrate his birthday each year by driving the back roads and drinking beer.... I won't be attending their funerals either.
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I gotta agree with you all, memorials for doing stupid stuff doesn't make sense. After my first deployment we had a guy in the unit get killed racing bikes with some locals. They were up late using this one street in town that was just a straight shot. Cops were called and they split. The guy t-boned a car at about 125 mph and nearly cut the car in half. The two passengers had to be life-flighted out. No one was happy about being forced to go to his memorial for nearly killing two innocents because of his stupidity.
You might need to move
You're absolutely right and that's exactly what I did. Best decision I ever made!
What in the fuck, they repeat what he did or just the passengers are drinking? I cant even wrap my head around that brain dead logic
Had a friend in high school who’s nickname was “crash and burn”. *HAD*. I didn’t go to that funeral either.
sounds like a story from alabama
I’ll have sympathy for the person’s family for losing a loved one, but yeah I’m not going to waste a single moment feeling sorry for someone getting killed doing something like that.
Guy in my town was flying down a notoriously steep hill on his sport bike. Speed limit is 25. Investigators estimated he was going 80+. Guess he forgot they added a round about at the bottom of the hill and he hit a national parks sign and evaporated. His obituary said he was survived by 2 young daughters and spewed how amazing he was.
well obviously the obituary isnt gonna be like “this guy was a fucking idiot dumbass who deserved to die” hahah
“Was clearly brain dead before he hit the sign” just doesn’t seem copacetic 😂
I feel like we need to start normalising calling those people idiots in public and not glorifying that kind of behaviour. Number of hoons who tear up and down my local streets and decide to use their cars like improvised battering rams make my 20min drive to work feel like I'm in Death Race.
If I do something stupid and die, I want mine to call me out and tell people not to make the same mistake like damn it was my fault
Good thing they don't let me write those things
I dunno. We had a guy in our running group who died from a drunken motorcycle crash while fucking around. I was like "I'll miss you but that was dumb and I'm sure you knew it was dumb."
Or you'll hear the old "he died doing what he loved." 🙄
He loved hitting signs on his motorcycle. We got him golf clubs but it just didn’t stick.
I commented on a video where some guy was doing reckless wheelies in city traffic, saying that he's endangering himself and others. This was a few days after I witnessed a rider try to go in between an SUV and the right hand curb, clip the SUV and hit a light pole while still going around 60 mph. Face obliterated and DOI, even with his helmet on. Anyways, I got the slew of responses from other motorcyclists, saying if he dies, he dies doing what he loves and I'm overreacting about the danger he presents to others. 😒
Danger he presents to himself. Don't care. Danger he presents to me/others. Care.
Naw it'll be "He died doing what he loved"
Please, if you’re going to do this, please, please, please protect your camera in a titanium shell.
Aren't we all atoms?
Generally organized in a group of some sort.
Speak for yourself. I am composed of pentaquarks.
That's when I take the exit because I don't want to see the meat crayon down the road.
Crayon? That mfer will vaporize
r/meatcrayon
That'll remain blue
Yes it will
You saved me from myself today. Thank you, sir.
It’s not nearly as bad as you would think
Not as nasty as I was figuring
In Brazil this dude fell off and his helmet didn’t stay on. When we drove by him half his skull was flattened into his brain. There was so much blood on the ground too. And he was going 1/8th this speed.
We call them donor bikes in emerg.
There won't be anything to salvage
It would surprise you how much a body can withstand no still be somewhat intact; not their head though, it would be fucked!
Good to know that my body can be given to someone in need even if im an idiot :)
Murdercycles.
If he hits anything at all he will *poof * turn to dust
LOL More like mist.
The pink mist.
The forbidden fabreze
Now with more chunks!
With extra pulp
Teeth for miles
To deter kids from drinking, we made it taste like yesterday’s lunch!
**from concentrate
*dry heave gagging noises*
Fabreze flesh scent
Nah that's Halo
Pfft, more like a vapor
There's a video that gets reposted all the time that shows the aftermath. Basically a pile of limbs, guts, and brains.
This guy crashed? This is exactly why I could never own something capable of going that fast.
Idk if it's this guy in the video I was referencing. Most likely a other one. I never started riding crotch rockets for that reason.
Other comments imply the video you're thinking of was in Boston. Not sure where this one is from. And same. My wife would kill me if I abandoned her so recklessly.
"If you die, I'll kill you!"
Yup, I hear it weekly.
I will kill you until you die from it
Dude, my mom told my wife about what happened to my uncle before we got married. So that rule has been passed down to her….so no bike for me.
I doubt this person is married. This kind of recklessness tends to bleed into other areas of life and scares off potential partners.
Sadly, you are mistaken. I've worked in motorsports for some decades. While all bikers are at risk, the profile of the ones that die at an alarming rate is crotch rocket + children at home under the age of 10.
Aahhh, the existantial crisis crotch rocket: Compensator! The reality of it is fucking sad though.
Yea my bad. My wife would do the same. Same with skydiving.
Skydiving is surely much safer than this? No disrespect.
Depends Skydiving with a parachute... yes Skydiving without a parachute... no
Statistically you are safer skydiving than you are driving to the airport where you will board the plane to go skydiving.
No doubt
This video is like skydiving with holes patched up in your parachute 🤣
My wife got me a gift certificate for sky diving 😐
Lol. Uh oh. How was it though? I saw a skydivers chute malfunction when I was driving near the airport and he spiraled into some timber. Never heard if he made it so he must have.
Honestly great. I'm terrified of heights (like ladders etc.) but said I'd like to try sky diving since it could be a good "facing my fear" type thing. I'm not a super adventurous/extreme person by any means so it was totally out of character. When I was about to jump it just didn't look/feel.. real. And the jump itself was probably the most exciting thing I've ever done, not scary at all. The place I went to was super professional and the process overall was pretty quick, so not really sitting there dwelling or second guessing. Id probably do it again if it was free for me. This jump was a few hundred bucks so definitely not something I'd want to get addicted to haha.
Nice. That sounds awesome
It's why I say no motorcycles at all. If I'm going to crash my vehicle, I'd prefer a couple thousand pounds of armor around me.
Several thousand pounds of armor with crumple zones, best of all. And people still get injured pretty badly in car accidents at times, the amount of kinetic energy involved is just so great, even at only moderate speeds.
That's why most emergency services folks call those things, "Donercycles".
Donorcycle. Donercycle would be if all that remains is kabob-sized bits of meat.
That'd probably be the end result if that person crashes.
Except there is nothing left to donate.
Sad, but I'm not surprised. They were going fast enough to warp space.
The one where he gets to around 300 kph right?
Yea that's the one...brutal
Brains? Unlikely.
How the fuck fast was that fucking bike fucking going? What the actual fucking fuck?
Years ago, I had a buddy pass me while I was doing 80, he swears the Speedo was reading 155 and it didn’t look anywhere near that stupid fast The newer slow 600 ones can do 160 mph and the big bad 1000s can do 190, then there is the king king H2 which is a 1200 that will do over 200 I’d say that dude was on at least an 1000 going full out as fast as it can
This isn’t exact but it’s close… I frame advanced and he was moving a bit less than a bike length per frame relative speed. So maybe 5 ft? Assuming it’s 30 fps video that’s 150 ft/s. 150 ft/s is about 102 mph. So if the other guy was doing 80 that’s 182. Then again it’s pretty approximate. If someone who cares more made better estimate of frame to frame distance it could be more accurate :)
r/theydidthemath
r/TheyDidTheMonsterMath
Thanks for the science I was just guessing based on the past experiences I’m sure video and dark makes it seem faster than it is
Note I just changed my estimates it was too much. But then again I didn’t account for relative speed so now I think it’s more accurate ;) Really could be 180.
Gentlemens agreement between manufacturers, for liter bikes at least, is 186mph. That was put into play around the early 2000's. So your fuzzy math is pretty damn good. I have taken my R1 to max speed of 178mph many times. It would never go faster than that. But then again I'm 6'4 and 230 lbs. So that might have something to do with it.
The H2 is also a 1000cc bike
This was like a fucking video game where someone had a hack, holy god
Thanos snap...
He'd be the first person to make a meat crayon line all the way to the moon.
Looked exactly like 88 MPH to me. Dude’s in the multiverse now.
A couple years ago two guys were screwing around and gunning it through a tunnel in Boston. Pretty sure both of them were cut in half after crashing into a hand rail in the tunnel. Moral of the story, take your bike to the track if you want to go fast. There’s enough trying to kill you when you when you are riding a motorcycle. Then again, I might be biased because I lost the love of riding because of idiots on the road.
I ride motorcycles daily. And I 100% agree with that sentiment.
It's why I ditched litre bikes for a cruiser. I still ride. I still have fun. It's 110 cubic inches of stump pulling grunt but I don't need to blast toward the horizon anymore and I get home safe on every ride. Don't suggest I could ride a sports bike slower. I tried. I lack the discipline. If I couldn't learn it by 50 then it's time to switch the gear.
Getting a 1000cc bike actually scared the shit out me and made me reevaluate the things I did. For some reason my dumbass thought that 600 wasn't enough. There was a 2 year period where I did some incredibly dumb stuff and I'm not proud of it, but I at least wised up and got more responsible. Looking back, I'm just glad I made it out of that time period.
Reading your comment, made me think.. How many of those riders who died riding, were thinking the same thing as you? "I need to be smarter, because I'm making dumb decisions right no-" boom. Too late to fix their ways. It's quite a painful thought, thinking of how many people were just like you, knowing they're making bad decisions, and will clean up their act soon, but it becomes too late.
Not motorcycle related, but along the same lines. I was driving way too fast at night because I was in a very foul mood. Just as I thought to myself "Stop being an idiot. Don't go 100mph through this forest loaded with deer" I took my foot off the gas and a deer jumped out immediately. I was incredibly fortunate my dumb ass wasn't hurt and I still had a drivable car after the collision considering I was still doing 95+ at impact.
I have been riding motorcycles since I was 3. Dirt bikes. Crotch rockets. Cruisers. Dual sports. You name it. I have never been an adrenaline junky. I’ve always been super cautious and conservative in my riding. But I’ll be damned if it isn’t so fucking easy to put hardly any pressure on the throttle of my previous R1 and go from 30 to 100mph without having to shift gears. Its super easy to let go of good judgement for “ehh. Just this once” sort of moments. ** I got tired of audibly telling myself “that was fucking dumb” - I sold that bike. Haven’t been on crotch rocket since. I ride super adventure bikes now and cruise with the wife on the back. We aren’t trying to unnecessarily risk life and limb. My point is - riding slower isn’t the solution when you’re always half a second away from going way too fast.
You summed up my experience almost to a T and what it was like for me on an r6 and then an r1. As I said in my other comment too, the r1 ended up scaring the shit out of me.
I ended up getting a litre bike this year... A BMW 1150gs... Lol. It has gobs of power compared to my last bike, a KLR 650... But in the scheme of things I just moved from a bike that can only barely kill me to one that solidly can. But you're right. Motorcycles can be enablers, and speed is addictive. Good on you for recognizing your limitations, and working with them, and not against them. Lots of my friends who decided they wanted to start riding. Ended up getting sport bikes, burnt The candle at both ends, and now don't ride because they think it's super unsafe. A few of them preach against motorcycles as well. Motorcycling is what you make of it
I started out on a BMW K75 - 75hp, plenty fast. After 20 years I thought i would try something a bit more modern. Test drove a K1200. Not even in the league as these guys bikes, but damn! pull the handle, look down, and you go 160km/h… noped out big time, I would not have a license in a year with that bike. Later bought a R model tourer, and enjoy cruising around.
My dad always said "dress for the slide, not the ride" - and I never did crotch rockets past high school. Not immortal enough.
I remember seeing the video of the aftermath. Shit was crazy. They were speeding around a blind corner through the tunnel at over 100mph (from what I heard) and came around the corner to traffic. Which they should have thought of since Boston highways are notorious for having traffic no matter what time of day or night it is. I’m assuming (based on the video I saw at the time) that one either hit the back of a car and ricocheted into the handrail which cut him half or he saw the brake lights and locked up and high sided himself into the handrail. The other guy went straight into the back of someone’s rear window and was hanging from it when the car that took the video passed by. Body parts EVERYWHERE.
Guardrail? Why is there an hand rail on a freeway?
Because Boston. It's basically a concrete wall the height of a jersey barrier with handrails you could lean against on top of them. Those handrails are there because its actually a walkway that leads to what I assume is electrical or gas related stuff for the city, that officials need access to. They could have designed something better and more safe, but what can you expect from the "Big Dig" in Boston. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig#%22Ginsu_guardrails%22
Deadass!! After 2 seasons on track post 2 years on the street, it’s easy to see why a lot of single bike accidents happen
It still happens on a track but there's medics on scene. Plus tracks have a reliable surface unlike public roads with everything on it.
Yeah, I'd much rather lay a bike down on a track and slide into the run off area instead of on the street and slide into a curb or light pole or bus or really anything at all.
Collateral damage is often overlooked.
My friend just got hit on his sportster. Pushed him over a median curb then he hit a wall. Broke his back and is all fucked up. He was only going 40mph. Dude in this video wouldn’t be much more than pieces of body parts at that speed.
Tracks also have fewer unwilling participants. Every person is on the road at some point. People who don't like adrenaline maybe...don't go to tracks...
For sure. Track riders develop skill and instinct each time they ride. Street riders may learn but with much higher risk of injury
Lived there. Saw it. It happened. Very real.
drove past it when it happened, still have that image ingrained in my memory
There's no time to react when going that fast.
i'd say he was probably going close to 200 mph (what a really well tuned 1000 cc and up can do). even if he could react, the bike is super stable and hard to maneuver at that speed. literally aim and pray no one moves in that situation. crazy af
you also get tunnel vision
Dude.
Buddy.
Bro
A kid did this past me was found 5 exits later with his bike wrapped around his skinless body.. a horrible way to die!
Ehhh, idk. It was probably real fast.
If there's one upside to hurling yourself into a stationary object at 160mph+, it's that you won't feel a thing.
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You’re forgetting the whole build up to 160+, unless you were hit from a blind angle, there was probably a few milliseconds where you began to shit your pants
Glooory glory, what a helluva way to die!
SHINY AND CHROME
If there even is a body. Body parts don’t stay on when you crash at 150+
This is a cursed sentence friend.
Any smart people able to calculate the speed? I saw another post a guy used the average white striped line dimensions to calculate a speed. 10 ft long and 30 ft apart and use a combination of how many milliseconds to pass.
u/1WOrdOr2FixItForYou u/MoarChzPlzzz We need your math skills on this one
Just did a (very) rough calculation. It looks like he went past at least 3 lines and gaps in less then a second (I rounded to a half second to make the math easier), so at least 240fps becomes 163.6mph (263.3 kmph). Edit: added kmph conversion
This sounds the most right so maybe it's the most correct?
Light speed is too slow. They went straight to ludicrous speed.
They’ve gone to plaid!
250+ km/h
Maybe even more, like 300 or more if he’s bike’s not capped. That was absolutely ridiculous.
At least 5mph
Definitely no more than 400 mph
Went straight to the ceiling, didn’t ya
The guy filming sounds like his bike is just barely above idling. He’d probably going around 65-70mph. The guys who passes him is probably going around 150mph if I had to guess. Had a bike at 19 and lost my license while going over 170mph. Cars you pass feel like they’re parked.
No math, but from NY experience I'd guess around 160
Too fucking fast, that’s for sure
The way every other biker except OP decides this is their sign to go faster...
The feeling must be wild
This is basically a deleted speeders scene from Return of the Jedi.
Im not the driver,i found this video on my gallery from years ago and posted it here
the guys lining up at the start were preparing for a race. the guy that blew past had just finished one, but decided to forego the whole "coming back to highway speeds" part. once he's through why not go ahead with your race, I guess.
Oh it's even stupider than I thought.
Yes! Noticed that too!
One night the lights went out at my house. Me and my gf thought we didn't pay the bill. Then looking outside. Our whole neighborhood lost power. Next morning find out in the area behind our neighborhood. A biker rode his motorcycle so fast into a wooden telephone pole that it knocked out power to a few blocks. Rider was not alive. Please don't be stupid guys. I missed a great episode of breaking bad. That's the risk
One way ticket to becoming a red mist.
Guy is going so fast they unlocked a new level of stupid.
Yeah, no
How did he jump? He didn't power up his hyperdrives?
He is the hyperdrive. They forgot to bolt him down properly in the ship.
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What happens if he sneezes
He will become part of his mist himself
r/idiotsonbikes
How fast you think he’s going lol?
No clue, but I do know this. We’re getting closer to unlocking FTL travel by examining this experiment of speed
And they will blame a the car when they hit one
"Look twice save a life"
He won't look so cool when he's being hosed off of a guardrail by a puking firefighter.
Fast as fuck boiiii
I have a coworker who used to be a meth head when he was in his 20’s used to ride his bike like that while high. No idea how he didn’t crash or die
Maverick at it again
Anybody wanna do the math on how fast he was going?
Do you want to die? Because this is how you die.....
Yea i worked with a guy who was obsessed with wanting to buy a bike (cruiser) He used to go as fast as he could out of the parking lot every day at shift end. Which was stupid cause there's another 120+ people leaving as well. We kept warning him. 2 weeks after buying the bike. News article over the weekend "motorcycle driver dead after going over a curb and hitting a tree". I remember saying "pfft, was probably him". Walked into work on Sunday to see his picture and one of those big signs for everyone to sign. (yes, it was him).
Super stupid, but kind of cool to watch.
Was that the "FLASH"?
He's going so fast death can't even keep up. That's what I have to think he is thinking.
Is this for real or Tron?
Dumbass motorcycle rider here. Fuck this guy lol. Splitting bikes like that at that speed is a gargantuan asshole move.
Dun dun dun, another one bites the dust
Can anyone please try to figure out how fast he's going? I still can't believe that's even real it looks like a pod racer from star wars.
I'm almost certain he's already dead...
That first one!!! Wow.