CRAZY motorcycle rider!

[Zootoxin]

He probably thinks he's pretty awesome, but I wonder how often he'd get away with this without becoming an organ donor!!

The breaking ability of the R1 looks really impressive though.

[video=youtube;XihQeZpwqpE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XihQeZpwqpE[/video]

[Gorion]

Granted, the bike is nice, but the guy is an absolute nutjob.

Speeding on the wrong side of the road, and barely dodging cars... road hazard.

I'd be tempted to punch him through the window.

[Slider 46]

Welcome to my world. Seriously though, i wouldnt do that on an R1, its far to slow. If you look closely in the mirrors when he wheelies, you can see me right on his tail waving from my Honda Fireblade. He Just wouldnt get out of the way! Last one to the Gorky Park Mcdonalds gets the bacon mcmuffins in.

[Snokio]

Idiot! fun to watch when it goes right, not when it goes wrong, and at that speed, he would kill the occupants of the car too

[Benny]

I can feel myself getting older as I type. I sincerely hope the guy is dead. For this simple and compelling reason.

Should he wish to endanger his own life, that is fine, do it somewhere like a track day. If he hit some unsuspecting schmuck he could kill them, worse still he could kill a child in a car....and thinking of my own, if someone were to endanger them in any way, shape or form...

Now, young hat back on, that's pretty nippy.

[smilodon]

He's probably a smear on the road by now. Riding like that is 70% blind luck and 30% skill. So many times he lived because someone else did what he hoped they'd do. I agree with Benny we'd probably be better of without him. Still idiots have a tendency to remove themselves from the gene pool all by themselves.

Still nice vid but if he had ral balls he would have done that on a Hayabusa :norty:

[smite]

He wasn't going that quick... the size of the camera made it look faster than it actually was. Still a pratt.

[T-Bag]

I'm not too worried about him dying, when you sign up for a motorcycle licence organ donation should be opt out. He clearly will and it won't take him too long, and someone that needs it can have his organs. I'm more worried about all the scratches he must put down the sides of car until then. I'd be really ****ed off if I were sat in traffic and some tw*t came speeding between my car and the next one over at 30mph and put a scratch down it. No chance of him stopping or even catching the plate. No matter where in the world you are, that would be annoying.

[Dewey]

Me and Benny are sharing a zimmer on this one - what he said!
 

I can feel myself getting older as I type. I sincerely hope the guy is dead. For this simple and compelling reason.

Should he wish to endanger his own life, that is fine, do it somewhere like a track day. If he hit some unsuspecting schmuck he could kill them, worse still he could kill a child in a car....and thinking of my own, if someone were to endanger them in any way, shape or form...

Now, young hat back on, that's pretty nippy.

[Slider 46]

Oh dear, i see there's some thinking from 'inside' the box going on here.
Im talking about he box with a wheel in each corner of course, and a radio to fiddle with, and a sat nav, and a hands free (if it actualy get used) so that other people can distract you, oh and a mirror to aid the application of lipstick or the use of a shaver. And a nice big spare seat so you can have your laptop running or thumb through your filofax or the daily telegraph. Theres a cup holder too so you can drink your favourite beverage whilst piloting 2 tons of steel and plastic in the rough direction that everybody else is. When you hit a pothole that you havnt seen and you spill your favourite hot beverage, your allowed to use as many lanes as you like whilst looking at your lap.
Then of course there is a nice lever that turns indicators on although im led to believe modern cars dont have these anymore? Especialy taxi's and bus's. You also have a large expanse of mirror vision but again, i hear these will be phased out too due to lack of use.
Then there is an ashtray for the smokers amoung you. But of course they dont get used because there is a motorcycle rider behind you that will quite happily allow you to put your smoke out on his £1000 leathers after youve chucked out of the window without using the aformentioned mirrors.
You also have those things that squirt water on your windows to aid vision. Funny how they usualy only do the front window but as the others arent used much, who's worried. You can aslo help clean your following bikers visor, helmet, gloves, leathers and bike by using them at speed. Dont worry if he cant see anything, he's used to it, as long as your window is ok, life will be good.
Then there is the wind down side windows which are handy for "punching" bikes that filter through traffic and get places quicker than you. You can always stop this by using the often used method of turning your wheel into his path so he cant get through. If your lucky, this might even stop him filtering for the rest of his life as his wheel chair wont fit through the gaps.
There is also a cap that stops your fuel from spilling out onto the road. If you fancy it, you can leave that at the fuel station because your four tyres will keep you upright when you cover the first roundabout or corner in diesel. Even if you do come across something slippy, your atc,abs, xyz, etc.. will make it safe for you so no need to concentrate there either. And finally, should it STILL go wrong, your airbag, side impact, crumple zones, blah blah, will keep you free from unjury so you can wish certain death on anything with less wheels  that make more progress than you.

AND, AND, lol, i challenge anybody who may think this guy only has  30% skill to try wheeling my Fireblade. Please bring £10k so i can get a new one when your broken it.
Allthough a little unorthadox, this is a very very skillfull ride by this guy. It actualy looks faster than it is and closer than it is too, but i can assure you he is in control, he is paying attention and he isnt on the phone.

Right, wheres that gate that leads into the lion pit.....

[Penfold]

You're missing the point and, worse, you're trying to turn this into a car vs bike debate which it isn't.

Be it a biker or a car driver - driving like a tw*t on public roads is totally indefensible. Period.

As Benny says - if you want to do it then great, go to a track and I'll watch in stunned obeisance as you zip around the circuit. Don't go and do it on a road where you put everyone else's lives at risk.

[smilodon]

He's clearly in control of his bike but not the road. There were endless moments where things went his way because cars did what he was expecting them to do. If at any point anyone of the dozens of cars drivers he passed had done anything other than what he expected them to do i.e. panic and brake, swerve between lanes, he would have hit them. At that speed he would have been dead and more importantly he could have sent 450lb of motorbike through someones windscreen. Technically excellent but his ability to react and adapt to a changing road gets him zero points. he made it through luck, not skill.

[Snokio]

Just takes 1 door to open and goodnight to at least 2 lives, but there are plenty of bad car driers too, i see both on a daily basis

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[Penfold]

... but there are plenty of bad car driers too, i see both on a daily basis

Oh God yes - hell even doing the school run and watching mums trying to park their oversized cars is jaw-dropping when watching their ineptitude. I've done a few shifts with a friend who's a traffic sergeant (when he's by himself he occasionally brings me along to sit in the passenger seat and work the computer/anpr/pnc thingy) and I can't believe the stupidity of some drivers :sideways:

[Slider 46]

I knew i was throwing myself to the lions, lol.  
Im not trying to turn this into a car-bike debate, i mearly point out that idiotic and extremely dangerous things are done by car drivers every time i go out on the road (on two or four wheels, or sometime even eighteen). With that in mind, i do not wish those drivers dead! I do not wish them to be a smear on the road and you will probably find that most riders are organ doners wether they ride like that or not.

The view from a bike is alot different to that camera. With experience one knows exactly when car drivers are or are not paying attention and where they are going 99% of the time.  I say this as someone who has been riding for  *cough* 40yrs and on the road 27 years. I am also a DSA qualified instructor and an advanced rider. The skill and calculation in this guys riding is extremly good.
If it was not safe to ride on the wrong side of a double white line or filter through traffic or speed then the police would not be allowed to do it. The fact is, that with the right skills and attention, it is pretty safe.
 Yes, someone could change lanes but they could do that if he was just sat there at 70mph. The difference then is only he is killed by someone elses lack of attention.

So, i ask why this guy deserves to be a dead smear on the road when the car driver  looking in his mirror to shave on the way to work mows down a kid at 50mph in a 30 coz he's late, doesnt?
There is no difference BUT, from inside the box, there will always be that attitude towards bikes.

Im not saying our Rusky fellow is right, but his calculated ride is not as bad as it appears and the lack of attention from most other road users will cause more accidents and endanger life more than this guy will. :narnar:

.....more lions please.....