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OzSTOC Ride Reports, Pictures & Videos => Pictures & Video's and Games => Topic started by: Marcus on August 01, 2013, 08:00:39 AM
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Although I do like his comments right before the trucks
Shit shit smash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erBbM3TUSj0#ws)
Edit user has removed the video:
Video can be viewed from here
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ebc_1375334565 (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ebc_1375334565)
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:eek :eek :eek :eek :eek :eek
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:wht11 py
what a wanker :well :law :fp
Tipsy
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It sounds like he wasn't happy with his decision.
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And we wonder why the law makers are against lane splitting. I see this alot on my way to work and just shake my head. Why he thought he would fit through that gap is mind blowing.
:-(((
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I have no sympathy for him at all. Idiots like him are why our insurance costs are so high.
Just glad that others involved were not traumatised by having to scrape him off the road after being run over by a truck.
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And we wonder why the law makers are against lane splitting. I see this alot on my way to work and just shake my head. Why he thought he would fit through that gap is mind blowing.
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I don't think he ever thought he could fit, once he saw the trucks just knew he would not be able to stop in time.
With that sort of riding you just keep getting faster and faster until.................
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Yep, the gap is a better choice that the solid back of a truck.
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It's a pity an extreme case of lane filtering like this ruins it for everyone.
The type of lane splitting most sensible riders want is moving down a sensible gap between lanes of stationary vehicles stopped for whatever reason- traffic lights, roadworks or traffic jam.
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His problem started before lane-splitting.... speeding. He was doing possibly 20-30 kph more than the cars around him. His final comments of "there was no way I was gonna stop" says it all. If he was paying attention he could have stopped.
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Yep, the gap is a better choice that the solid back of a truck.
If he's as hot a dog as he seems to think he is, there is a wide edge lane to the left he could have gone for if he couldn't slow down enough to stop.
Assuming he was on the brakes when he hit, it seems he wasn't going very fast at the time of impact so should have been able to swing to the left.
Anyway... we weren't there to know any of it for sure. 8)
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His problem started before lane-splitting.... speeding. He was doing possibly 20-30 kph more than the cars around him. His final comments of "there was no way I was gonna stop" says it all. If he was paying attention he could have stopped.
Nailed it.....!!! Think him self lucky he wasn't being picked out of the tyre tread on one of the trucks......but it wouldn't have been his fault NO !!!?........Hospitals, Nursing homes and Cemetaries are full of poor decision makers like this fool......
You may believe my views harsh but thats my informed view.....
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He wasn't paying attention and was distracted by something. You will notice about the 5 sec mark his left arm comes up for a sec or so near his left mirror as if he was adjusting something. By the time he picked up the trucks were stopped he has ridden past his skill level, hence the crash :spank
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(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e276/marcusstringer/ScreenShot2013-08-01at120428PM_zps3e016f06.png)
Obviously no ABS...
I reckon on my ST, if I started braking here where he says he started I'd be stopped at least by the time I got to the front of the car.
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I've pretty well made my thoughts and feelings known on lane splitting and filtering. As ST2UP says in his post that his comment is an informed one, and you can bet it is that's for sure.
I've had to wash more than my share of motorbike riders off the highway. What's not seen is the impact on Ambo's, Firey, Coppers, Nurses and Doctors, and yes it does have an impact it may not necessarily be acute or immediate most times its chronic, to many times over to many years.
Has it had an impact on me? Yes is the short answer. Although its not something I dwell on for example; the recent overnight to Biloela I went past an old motorcycle accident site which I had attended when I was a Firey at Boyne Island (about 120k east of Biloela) as I past the site and saw the memorial that has been erected it brought back all the memories of that event, which I hadn't thought of for years.
So this guys decision to ride in that way not only has a potential impact on himself and his family, but the people in the cars, the truck drivers and emergency crews.
Fortunately, this time, he was lucky with the result of his decision to speed, lane filter and very poor forward planning.
Sab
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well said
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What a DICK!!! He should be thanking God that he is still alive!
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It's been removed ,Sabbie i agree whole heartely with you.
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It's been removed ,Sabbie i agree whole heartely with you.
Fixed found a new link
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Almost a candidate for a Darwin award.
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I agree with Tony. It has nothing to do with lane splitting. Just an idiot riding way to fast and recklessly in traffic while not paying attention and fiddling with his mirror. He only realised the trucks were stopped at the first "Shit" about 20 metres out. No ABS in the world would compensate for this stupidity. He had no hope of stopping and, I'm sorry, but he got what he deserved. Just lucky he did not hurt anyone else in the process. Just shows what a real idiot he is by putting his own video up on the net as if it is something to be proud of!.
Here endeth my rant!!!
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What a cock!! He needs his :spank
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Speed and inattention. Pretty sure there were brake lights visible on the last couple of cars he flew passed. But he was obviously going too quick to notice.