The official PIR race day / tack day report... and the reason Moe crashed

[Gator]

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[Gator]

Ha, I didn't know you crashed Moe, I just assumed.

[ryandalling]

Hey ... speaking of crashes ... http://www.onsightproductions.net/

Click on the May 8th Cascade Track Time... and then on the Crash link... shows the MV Agusta stoppie whipe out.... insane... plus the bike is sitting in the shop at MotoCorsa right now. I would not wish that on anybody. Plus, his insurance may not be covering off on any of it.

[Tailgunner]

Is the rider okay? That looks really bad, messed up!

[Visolara]

His bike is completed shot, Kent got a great series of photo's from the crash.  He mentioned submitting them to road racing world crash page.

He is ok, and a really nice guy.  He was in good spirits even tho he yarded his only means of transportation. 


Maurice

[duc_fan]

Wait... that MV F4 was the rider's only vehicle?

Ouch, that sucks. 

Those photos are pretty gnarly.  Wish the previews weren't worthlessly small...

Glad to hear he's okay, though.

[Mother]

If Kent isnt cool with this I will remove them

[Tailgunner]

Sweet looking get off, glad he was not seriously injurded.

I'll go 25 bucks towards his next set of wheels 

In the other pics it looked to me like the MV landed on him.

[desmosome]

Looks like he went grass trackn' and tried to bring it back to the track instead of standing it up.....

no?

[ryandalling]

The pics not shown... show him grabbed too much front and doing a stoppie... then he lets go and ends up in the grass and is still fighting it... then all hell breaks loose.

[desmosome]

oh...ok.... that seems more "reasonable"

[Mother]

there are two or three flips between each of those photo's

to me it appeared he was off track and sliding then got back on the track and had too much front brake

[Visolara]

He went wide in T3, ran into the dirt (a little) and instead of simply standing it up, he lost the back and it hi-sided him into the dirt.  Riders behind him say they saw a huge dust cloud, then he popped out, then his bike and they were like WTF is going on!   

The kid was in great spirits after yarding such a nice bike, surprisingly, but I guess what else could he do. 

oh and Jacob sucks!

[ryandalling]

Mo - I wish you guys could have checked out the track from our view point... you could easily have seen which lines were safe and which had standing water. Something that is hard to do at speed... but easy to do from the corner worker side. From the turn three corner podium... you could see 1-4 and which lines were safe. You could spot who was going to slide by where they tried to pass. It wasn't fun knowing that people were going to go down. Glad none of you got hurt.

[scott_araujo]

The kid was in great spirits after yarding such a nice bike, surprisingly, but I guess what else could he do. 

Escaping death can do that. 

Just looking at the pics I can't imagine how insane it must have looked to see that bike flipping through the air as he cartwheeled right in front of it.  I'm really glad he's OK.  As to insurance, sometimes they pay and sometimes not.  It often depends on whether you were racing or not, street or track.  A race is a race and a track day is not, though I'm sure the final decision is at their discretion.  I know a guy who wadded up his BMW M3 on a track day and the insurance paid out.  I hope his does too.

Scott