davegtt

I found this is the Bikes section but felt it could do with a bit more coverage in NSR (that and its dead in here at the mo)

www.2wheelsonline.com - HRC race kit, spares, tuning, dyno testing, motorcycle race preparation

Amazingly he was only bruised and feeling a bit sore afterwards

fitzscoob

it wouldnt have happened if he had ET sat on the front of his bike.

Odds on

Looks like he had time to s**t himself just before impact.

Wurzel

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would have been cool if he landed it

fast bloke

sore nuts for a week or two as well

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

Serves the power ranger wannabe right Seriously though he is lucky to come out of that with only scratches and bruises

TopBanana

Bikes are nasty things. Still nursing a broken rib after my last incident a month ago

Abdabz

I sent the link on to a few mates with the title "I didnt know Power Rangers could fly"...
I wouldnt have done it had the dude have been badly injured though. The miracle here is that he was "ok"...
My uncle had a similar accident on a public road a few years ago and is now held together by bits of metal

fitzscoob

I have no knowledge of bikes whatsoever, how much difference is there between the protective equipment used by the pro's in this case and your average joe on his kawasaki?

Leathers, helmets, etc.

Odds on

Not much difference. Its the conditions that are different. Race tracks are smooth, no grit in them. There's also no kerb's/ lamp posts/ drains/ buildings etc to hit, hence they normally just roll abit and then get up.

davyboy

I'd imagine the broken pelvis and fractured ribs and a week in intensive care would make him a bit sore

unclebuck

Me too. Well, bruised ribs in my case, after I came off the trials bike and the handlebar end jabbed into my ribcage. Hurt like f**k the next day and for 3 weeks afterwards. Still sore now.

SiPie

As Davyboy says it's hardly just bruising and feeling sore afterwards

Brno MotoGP: Taro Sekiguchi breaks pelvis in 250 horror crash - Motorcycle Sport - MCN

davegtt

Sorry, I was only going off what I read in the bikes section when I posted this.

SiPie

Forgiven

davegtt

Dont get smug with me...

SiPie

First opportunity I've had to use it mate

Luminous

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Another good advert to not get a bike. Glad he lived, but I am surprised that so many people are prepared to take those risks. Still, it is their choice to do so.

Wizzbang

Spoken by a complete non biker


Those that ride bikes will understand fully why they take the risks, those that dont just wont.

Sbradley

I just posted the link on the basis of the information about his condition that came in a press release from his team...

Waiting to find out whether MCN are talking bollocks (wouldn't be the first time) or not.

SB

PS There's not much difference in the gear used by racers and the top end stuff used by road riders. The big difference, as Odds on says, is the lack of things to hit.

PPS Luminous, your post is utterly pointless as well as being massively out of context. What did it add?

Muerde

I love bikes, they are fantastic, the acceleration alone is enought reason to own one, let alone the handling.. really rewarding when it all goes right.... Do your CBT and the test just to see what they are like and get that understanding of what biking is like.

However I will never ride a bike on the road ever again....

5th of Arpil I broke both my shoulders, both my hands, my Left arm and a few ribs just for fun.. getting lifted out of bed every day and not able to pee without assistance started to get boring.... the Road and Mondeo's are quite hard you know..... And I was wearing all the right kit... expensive helmet, 1 peice leathers, fantastic gloves and boots.. frankly I am a very lucky boy.

Luminous

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Agreed, and as tempted as I on occasions to climb on one and give it a go, I just hope I never do. Performance cars are like an addictive drug to me, I dread to think what a fast bike would be like

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

Sorry if you found it out of context, but I thought we were talking about bike crashes, and the consequences of those crashes. I'll wander off now to another thread.

The Snug Rhino

actually you have a sort of point - i understand why people ride on a track - i do and have (the bloke that crashed also gets paid lots!) but i DONT understand why anyone would ride on the road? You have to go twice as slow yet it twice as dangerous and half as much fun?

Sbradley

Fair enough, but really it's as in context as seeing Ayrton Senna's crash and using that as evidence as to why you won't drive on the road...

But thanks, at least, for being polite in your disagreement

SB

Luminous

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Damn, I wandered back into the thread

My comments were about bikes as a whole, road, track or otherwise (I never mentioned road or track). I just don't have the ***** to do it. There just seems to be so much risk. Just as another example, I was flicking around the channels last weekend, and stumbled on a Moto GP event. I don't remember the track, but the racing was really good. Then, nearing the end of the first lap you saw all these bikes shooting up into the air over the crest of this hill. I was gobsmacked at how the first rider got away with it, and then to see all the riders do the same thing was just amazing.

I was thinking to myself just how cool it would feel to do that, but also feeling how bad it would be if you got it only slightly wrong. By the end of the race someone did just that, and I got to watch them go smacking into the tarmac. It left me feeling numb/sad/dunno really.

If you want to do it, then thats great. Clips like these do highlight the dangers. For me seeing crashes like that keeps me off bikes, as its only the injuries that I would sustain that put me off. I've crashed enough karts and cars to know that without something around me I'd have one broken body. As long as you know what you are getting into then I have no issue. Enjoy yourself, and this time I really will try to leave this thread alone

Nido

Luminous, that'd have been British Superbikes from Cadwell Park (over the mountain), the only bit of MGP that gets near that is the corkscrew at Laguna Seca, the bikes don't get air there though.

As a track & sometimes road rider the dangers don't bother me, I think that's generally true of many motorcylists. If not getting hurt is a major factor in your thinking then getting on a bike perhaps isn't the best move!

jjones

adrenaline, pure and simple. you cannot get close to the rush of riding a bike in a car, even in a veyron you are still insular from the environment. ride a bike, feel alive part of the machine or sit in your car with the air con on and chris moyles talking ****e in your ears.

Lisawrx

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All I wanted to do for alot of years was learn to ride a bike, and get myself out there, until my uncle had a major accident.

He was on his way back from work, and due to a cyclist, he was forced to swerve to avoid wiping him out, and was left with 2 shattered legs, a collapsed lung along with other injuries, and a long spell in hospital. That put me off for life.

An accident is possibly a risk a biker takes, but for such serious injuries, just to avoid killing an irresponsible road user, it's not worth it to me.

jjones

life is for living, if you looked around you and applied your logic to everything you would do nothing.

they say that when you are on your last legs you do not regret the things you have done, only the things you didn't.

this applies to anything you may want to do not just ride a bike.