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Ouch

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:38 am
by maddiedog

Re: Ouch

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:46 pm
by Woolley
Thats a whole lotta crashes. And the majority could have been easily prevented...
2:13 kinda looks like a pcx, but hard to tell.
Also, LOL at 4:04 and 4:47

Re: Ouch

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:59 am
by maddiedog
Yeah, a lot of it is people riding way too fast, or people skimming parked cars and getting hit by doors.

This also serves as a testament to how much more dangerous 2-up riding is. Much of the riding where control was lost and an accident occurred as a result was with 2-up riding.

I liked this set crash videos because no one died in any of them. Makes me feel less morbid. :lol:

Re: Ouch

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:42 pm
by Esdain
some of them made me cringe, some made me laugh but most i thought "look at that fucking idiot" and that was either about the biker taking stupid risks or the driver not having a clue about spacial awareness

Re: Ouch

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:48 am
by woozy-uk
most of those make me cringe as a lot of that could happen at any moment, and did for me 2 week ago and i still have close calls, this week i had a pedestrian run out into my path from traffic while at a crossing but lights were green for me, and a coach moved lanes without indicating

Re: Ouch

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:15 am
by Scottish
Brings it home how vulnerable we are on a bike....some of them are just plain stupid tho, theres no excuse for riding straight into a lampost !

Re: Ouch

Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:04 pm
by Fiah
Scottish wrote:Brings it home how vulnerable we are on a bike....some of them are just plain stupid tho, theres no excuse for riding straight into a lampost !
no excuse, but target fixation can be a powerful thing

Re: Ouch

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:34 pm
by Woolley
Were lacking a youtube thread on this forum. Ill start one. 'scurries off to find videos...'