Ouch!! (helmet cam related)

[gh0stie]

found this while researching helmet cams
he appears to be ok


http://www.break.com/index/biker-wipes-out-at-95mph.html#id673792




btw, anyone got recommendations on a Helmet cam!

[booger]

Guy was showing off and got served with the tank slapper surprise du jour. He rolled with it quite nicely however
I can't help but think that's funny Take a lesson from it.

[Takster]

whatever camera he had, you should get that one... it didn't even drop a frame.

[duclvr]

whatever camera he had, you should get that one... it didn't even drop a frame.

+1 held up nicely.

[Snips]

Oh, that's nasty.

Any insights into why it goes wrong?

Is it that the bike is at an angle when he lands the wheelie, inducing a tank-slapper?

[rockaduc]

You can see that mess coming from 8 or 9 seconds in...

[River]

Oh, that's nasty.

Any insights into why it goes wrong?

Is it that the bike is at an angle when he lands the wheelie, inducing a tank-slapper?

Besides the fact that he was acting like an ass?

I'd say when he set the front wheel down it was at an angle that was different from his direction of travel, rendering his motorcycle temporarily unstable, which he probably tried to correct in a split second by holding on too tight rather than just relaxing and letting the bike right itself.

If you look at videos of riders doing (what I consider to be) stupid things, and they fall off their bike before rendering it completely unstable, often times the riderless bike rides much better than it did when it had a rider on it.  Bikes have quite a bit of stability built into them.  We riders are the ones that mess that up.     Lee Parks references this in his book and lectures, as does Keith Code.

Just like Zen...relaxed body, alert mind is always the way to go on a bike.   

[derby]

i'd love to see an off-bike view of this incident to confirm, but i'd bet based on the way the perspective shifts slightly before landing that he was doing a nac nac.

[Snips]

Besides the fact that he was acting like an ass?

Thanks, I'm not saying, "tell me what when wrong so I can try it" - but s'pose I inadvertently lifted the front wheel... I'd like to know how to get out of that situation as safely as possible. I'm unlikely to have time to post up with this question at the time

Thanks for the insights....

Relax, set her down with the front wheel straight, let the bike straighten itself out.

[gh0stie]

he sure showed that barbed wire fence who's boss!

[BastrdHK]

The sticker on his windscreen sums it up..............Shocker 

[CairnsDuc]

Is it just me.... Or did the guy that walked up to help him, appear to be stealing his boots?

"He won't be needing these anymore"

[mattyvas]

That's why I'm still afraid of wheelies, accidental or otherwise.

[KnightofNi]

Is it just me.... Or did the guy that walked up to help him, appear to be stealing his boots?

"He won't be needing these anymore"

looks to me like he was actually checking him over for broken bones

that's the first time i have seen anyone do that in one of these vids. either he's crashed enough to know what to do, he's been hurt enough to know what to do, or he has some training.


and now mother will come in and tell me why what he did was wrong....

[alligator]

What happened to the sound at the end?  Shouldn't the guy who helped him ask if he was okay?