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Z3n posted:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9dd_1295772850 What a stupid gently caress, he froze and just rammed into the wall after he took out the biker. Then he checks out the damage to his car instead of checking on the people that he just hit.
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schreibs posted:Then he checks out the damage to his car instead of checking on the people that he just hit. This is pretty much par for the course in Taiwan. I saw a cab driver cut off a scooter rider and force her head-on into a telephone pole one time. She went flying through the air, did a full flip, landed on her back, and skidded. He checked out his bumper, and then started yelling at her to be more careful.
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Jan 25, 2011 00:05
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Christ, dumb poo poo like that would have me seeing red. They ought to give the guy a few "accident related injuries" before the authorities show up.
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Jan 25, 2011 02:31
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Armyman25 posted:Australian biker gang funeral procession, circa 1975. Look at these people who haven't seen Stone. Piss-poor.
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Jan 25, 2011 02:36
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Two months till NETRA round 2. My favorite race as it's the biggest poo poo hole. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ij3SLIHEw 14 miles of joy. All the guys race this one, even if they're not in the series they sign up for the sportsman class.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Look at these people who haven't seen Stone. Piss-poor. I didn't realize the Toecutter was actually a bikie prior to Mad Max. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6rXy6WjMG8&NR=1
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Jan 25, 2011 08:39
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Z3n posted:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9dd_1295772850 I think i've driven that road... or many like it. theyre all like that in taiwan. sometimes only 1 lane. Russian Bear posted:I always try to overtake into a blind corner yeah the taiwanese do that. especially trucks.
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Jan 25, 2011 14:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IbMA1c_aZo Got mud?
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Jan 25, 2011 23:50
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ZccvWaLDM A stellar example of how not to ride. 2 up.
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Jan 26, 2011 20:37
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Can't impress the lady on the back unless you're dropping knees. Look like a fun road, though. Content - 
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Jan 26, 2011 20:41
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Christoff posted:Can't impress the lady on the back unless you're dropping knees. The commentary is my favorite part. Also, I'm not sure what he target fixated on. The inside of the corner? The pole? I can't even make any sense of his choices for lines. And all of that an he still managed to get an exhaust on his R6 before crashing it. Needs that extra powa, yo! 
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Jan 26, 2011 20:44
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haha he had no idea where he wanted to ride on the road. There was absolutely no reason to cross the double yellow with his speed, he was just too scared to lean with a passenger I am guessing. edit:  you wanna ride with him? ya.
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Jan 26, 2011 21:00
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Z3n posted:The commentary is my favorite part. At least it looks like he provided a kind of pillow for her to hit so she didn't get hurt as badly. Or maybe she's just not a pussy like he is? It's hard to tell.
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Jan 26, 2011 21:03
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"Dude I went in that hole in the corner!!! " That's not target fixation, that's a guy on a bike with a big fear of corners.
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Jan 26, 2011 21:14
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Z3n posted:The commentary is my favorite part. One thing I don't like about terms such as "target fixation", "loss of traction", "apexed too early" etc is that it gives the idiot some technical, fancy terms to dress up what is simply and clearly "lovely riding".
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Jan 26, 2011 21:18
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Ola posted:One thing I don't like about terms such as "target fixation", "loss of traction", "apexed too early" etc is that it gives the idiot some technical, fancy terms to dress up what is simply and clearly "lovely riding". This is true. Too bad, that was a nice bike. 
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Jan 26, 2011 21:27
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Z3n posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ZccvWaLDM His co-rider is an absolute oval office. His friend has just been involved in a serious accident and all he is concerned with is dicking around with the bike. He tries to pull him up when he clutching his back, can barely move and is crying out in pain. He then starts the bike up, which may have suffered significant damage (besides the bent wheel) in the crash and could be unsafe to ride. To top it all off, he expects him to ride back, minutes after crashing, on a clearly damaged bike. Not safe at the best of times, but especially when you are disorientated and IN loving AGONY.
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Jan 26, 2011 21:51
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Forty Two posted:His co-rider is an absolute oval office. His friend has just been involved in a serious accident and all he is concerned with is dicking around with the bike. He tries to pull him up when he clutching his back, can barely move and is crying out in pain. He then starts the bike up, which may have suffered significant damage (besides the bent wheel) in the crash and could be unsafe to ride. Pretty much this. There's a lot of retardation going on there, but when he's just crawling around on the road on all fours and his "friend" is loving with the bike, it borders on bizarre.
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Jan 26, 2011 22:16
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Let's go. She's gotta be at work.
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Jan 26, 2011 22:25
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When you don't care that your very unskilled friend is riding his girl around on a new bike, you're not really going to star caring when the friend's in pain.
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Jan 26, 2011 22:36
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Speaking of target fixation... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR816Iyikrs
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Jesus christ he just straightened up and went right towards the car wtf is wrong with people.
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MrZig posted:Speaking of target fixation... Incredible. I feel sorry for the people in the car. I've experienced the "oh poo poo car" jiggle many times and have sort of figured a way to deal with it. Even though I'm usually slow enough or well placed enough to not have a really close call, I still do a little jiggle. Brownest moment was 2 up, girl with expensive camera on the back, around a blind corner, "oh poo poo tourist bus", expensive lens bumped on my helmet as I white knuckled the brake ending up with the bus 10 cm from my left handlebar and the 1 ft cement wall protecting us from a nice drop 10 cm from the tires. In my rider's training we were taught to stay wide and apex late. This guy is doing the opposite, hugging the inside of his turn and then going wide. If he started wide he would've seen the car earlier and his escape route would in the worst case be simply tightening up the turn. Or most likely he would be on his escape route already, cutting in and away from the car.
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Forty Two posted:His co-rider is an absolute oval office. His friend has just been involved in a serious accident and all he is concerned with is dicking around with the bike. He tries to pull him up when he clutching his back, can barely move and is crying out in pain. He then starts the bike up, which may have suffered significant damage (besides the bent wheel) in the crash and could be unsafe to ride. He doesnt look in agony. When i pranged my car i was the same. cursing and swearing at how ive just hosed up my vehicle and what i was going to do from there. how do you get home, how do you get to work, i havnt even paid it off yet. gently caress!
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schreibs posted:
Did no one else catch her bonk him in the helmet like "you dumb rear end" right after they stopped crashing and the vid went back up to full speed? I was  at that part.
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Kommando posted:He doesnt look in agony. When i pranged my car i was the same. cursing and swearing at how ive just hosed up my vehicle and what i was going to do from there. how do you get home, how do you get to work, i havnt even paid it off yet. gently caress! Dude fell over while trying to get up a couple of times and had clearly injured his arm And that's definitely not target fixation but garden-variety "doing it wrong"
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Silver posted:Did no one else catch her bonk him in the helmet like "you dumb rear end" right after they stopped crashing and the vid went back up to full speed? I was I was actually going to cite that as part of the retardation going on, but then realized it was the only logical thing to have taken place in the whole video.
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By the way - here's the whole BARF thread for that video: http://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=357755 Some guy on BARF posted:This guy came into the local cyclegear and was looking for a brain bucket for his girl... luckily the salesman there talked him into a fullface. But when he told him she'd probably need more gear like a jacket and gloves, this tool says she doesn't need it.... Check out all his other "badass" stunt videos.
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Coredump posted:You know I'm starting to notice between you and a few others that if something doesn't fit in your narrow confines of what you think a motorcycle should be you guys bitch about it. It gets tiring after a while. Its not that, I'm certainly all over the map about things I like and dont like, its that I've been watching bikes long enough to know how it will turn out. A million people have done the front swingarm before, and its never as good as traditional forks. Its the same reason I said that 2.4L V6 crazy bike probably wont be as fast as a Hayabusa despite having way more power. There have also been a million people who made crazy bikes with the intention of beating Bike X at Task X, and most times they fall short and are nothing more than a flash in the pan. Its not that I dont like things that dont fit whatever views I have, its that the motorcycle world is an endlessly cycling (lol) pool of general designs that pop up every once in a while, and after a while you just know how it will turn out.
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The thing about development of stuff like different front ends is that standard forks have so much time and money invested in them, they're basically leaps and bounds ahead of anything else. A swingarm type front end might be technically superior, but it has to battle with years of chassis development and racers trained on standard forks. It's an uphill battle that gets more uphill ever year. I think Ron Haslam on the ELF swingarmed bike claimed that there were advantages there, but there just wasn't enough time to make it work right because they were striking out in a completely new direction and needed a lot of time and data to make it work better than what they already had.
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Kommando posted:He doesnt look in agony. When i pranged my car i was the same. cursing and swearing at how ive just hosed up my vehicle and what i was going to do from there. how do you get home, how do you get to work, i havnt even paid it off yet. gently caress! He can barely stand and is bent over in pain. I know what it's like to wreck a car and I know the sickening feeling very well. However, I was not lurching about, looking like I was about to pass out. Even if he was physically ok, he's not going to be calm and collected when he's riding. All he will be thinking about is the crash and his concentration will be severly impaired.
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Z3n posted:The commentary is my favorite part. I thought he was simply going wide on the turns, either cause he's new or whatever. It looked like he was uncomfortable with where his passenger's weight was, but who knows. We only have a few seconds to judge. He goes over the double yellow first, running the turn wide, then runs next one wide as well, finally "target fixating" on the pole. It could be he was just running wide (and possibly doing it the whole time as he described it on the video as "coming out of the ez turns"). When he ran wide the last time it was too tight of a turn and too short till the next turn, so he simply ran out of road. Gnaghi posted:Jesus christ he just straightened up and went right towards the car wtf is wrong with people. An MSF instructor or someone else when warning me about target fixation/running hot and wide in a turn said something to the effect of "Train yourself not to think, just push it a little harder. After all, one way is guaranteed to end in a wreck, the other you might get lucky." I've had a few times myself where I've had it happen and that's stuck with me, and since I'm like 95% of riders and not riding near the limit of the bike, I've come out okay. This poor guy didn't, he just froze. Just push it a little harder man. Tired of edit, brain no work from school, hope sentences flow make sense now. nsaP fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Jan 27, 2011 |
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MrZig posted:Speaking of target fixation... I feel like I just watched a suicide attempt. What the gently caress was that?
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Paytizzle posted:I feel like I just watched a suicide attempt. What the gently caress was that? I'm guessing he panicked and hit his front brakes which had the effect of up-righting the bike and then target fixated on the car.
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nsaP posted:I thought he was simply going wide on the turns, either cause he's new or whatever. It looked like he was uncomfortable with where his passenger's weight was, but who knows. We only have a few seconds to judge. He goes over the double yellow first, running the turn wide, then runs next one wide as well, finally "target fixating" on the pole. It could be he was just running wide (and possibly doing it the whole time as he described it on the video as "coming out of the ez turns"). When he ran wide the last time it was too tight of a turn and too short till the next turn, so he simply ran out of road. I would have liked to see the footage leading up to the crash. And yeah, video 2 is target fixation in a huge way.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMvHNeFEzmw&feature=channel A short 6 minute film narrated by Keith Buckley from Every Time I Die following a 500 mile ride he took with friends in CA. If this has already been posted, I apologize, I haven't really been following the thread like I used to. Their are a few gems of Keith showing off how talented and intelligent a writer he is in what is said, but what I noticed from it most is it really is spoken in the way that my mind thought whenever I would go on a longer motorcycle ride. Regardless its a fun watch.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b51L0-4-x-U&feature=player_embedded Jesus. He was going pretty drat fast.
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Forty Two posted:Even if he was physically ok, he's not going to be calm and collected when he's riding. All he will be thinking about is the crash and his concentration will be severly impaired. This is a gigantic problem even in cars. Spin a car and have a near miss and starting back up again and you're going to be missing shifts and crossing the center line and getting tunnel vision. It's one of the worst feelings. Ugh.
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these were in the related videos. figured they were worth bringing up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H51OGH12R_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezAKnuUfq1Y
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nsaP posted:
While he has a point, you most certainly need to think. Fighting target fixation, heaving up your dead gaze from the object of your undoing, forcing your eyes to look at the clear road and allowing your hands to steer the bike towards it is an incredibly conscious and deliberate action the first times you experience it. Look, lean and believe! Whenever you go slightly fast through corners you can practice this. It will not be second nature the first time you need it but you will be surprised how big the margins are.
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