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Just saw on the news that there was a fatal in QLD involving a bike last night. Close up showed a red w/white stripe monster....Anyone know anything??  :(

Hope it's one and the same  :( but there was one in Melb last night involving a red/white monster and a BMW that right turned in front of it.  Saw it on channel 10

R.I.P.

Yeah, I too saw the one involving the BMW on the news last night.

I just hope everyone here is accounted for.

RIP fellow riders

Ah, maybe it was melbourne. Involved a car as well. Looked like an S2R 1000 with stock exhausts..

I believe it involved two bikes and a car and one rider dying at the scene.

yeah was Melbourne - from the Video seems to be a S4R - shows the speedo at over 200km/hr!!

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/motorbike-embedded-in-side-of-car-20110120-19wzg.html (http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/motorbike-embedded-in-side-of-car-20110120-19wzg.html)

RIP - another fallen  :(

The bloke on the video says he may have been doing as high as 120km/h (in a 60 zone). Unfortunately the footage raises more questions than answers. To me "embedded in the car" seems a bit dramatic but is used to attribute blame to a motorcyclist travelling at 'excessive speeds'.

"Police were investigating of [sic] speed contributed to the crash." Of course the police will find speed contributed to the crash ... if there was no speed there would have been no crash!

well that's just shit all round, pretty easy to see why the cops would suspect speed as a factor though, plenty of damage there. you can always rely on the media to beat up a story and with the speedo showing 210kph and 6000 rpm it does look dramatic, hope the cops have some evidence rather than just an "educated guess" if they're making comments on TV like that.
It's bad that one guy died but the poor buggers in the car had to be taken to hospital for shock, and they're going to have to deal with what happened regardless of who is deemed at fault.
take care guys and girls, it only takes the smallest error in judgement to end up as pecks paste!

paul.
sorry justo, didn't mean to put my pipe and slippers on there sonny.

I REALLY hate seeing that kind of footage.

If ya gunna speed, choose the right place to do so.







                                Mmick

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/motorcyclist-killed-on-roseville-bridge-20110122-1a0fr.html?from=smh_sb (http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/motorcyclist-killed-on-roseville-bridge-20110122-1a0fr.html?from=smh_sb)

Another... and just around the corner from home.  I heard it was an S4R.  Are all Sydney OzMos accounted for?

Stay safe and take care out there people

RIP <again...shakes head>

not good at all - take care out there people...

shite i dont know who it could be we have a few on the north side. hhm maybe we need people to check in and let us know they are ok

+1

bloody hell, monster riders seem so calm to me....hard to imagine 2 in a few days!

RIP

people - let's keep it grounded  [thumbsup]