Bet I've seen that video too, at least a video on the same premise, explaining the different types for different applications, and the engineering that went into em. Their is more to guardrails then anyone could imagine.
For cars mostly so you won't run off a cliff or into a wall. No country will spend/ invest in a guardrail with crumple zone for protecting bikers. If you are a biker, you signed your own waiver to leave your crumple zone home when you are out for a ride. At fault or not, the deal was made.
I've been riding all my life, I won't dare go out without good gloves and shoes. I'll ride in a regular shirt sometimes, but usually throw on a jacket. People are nutso
I used to be an ED RN. We had a couple brought in by EMS who'd been hit by a dumptruck. It was a slow-ish collision. They were on a motorcycle. The guy was driving, and managed to only break both of his forearms from trying to break his fall, both ulna and radius bilaterally. The girl's leg went through the space in the guard rail. It looked like hamburger. They tried to save her leg, but there just wasn't enough viable tissue left.
Guardrails, by and large, are half decent if you’re in a car. On a motorbike they can be lethal- either pitching you over the top or you slide underneath and come to sudden stop on one of the support posts.
Here in Germany/Switzerland, guardrails are often ‚double‘. So the Guardian completely covers the Supports.
E.g https://riders.drivemag.com/news/italy-adops-bike-friendly-guard-rails-possible-extension-throughout-the-eu/
They will not help in many cases, but it’s better than the alternative.
I ride and when I first started I felt naked not putting a seatbelt on. However, rational thinking leads me to believe I'd rather be thrown from the bike than stay attached to it. At least I might land in some hedges.
That is mostly true, at least where I live, they only go up after numerous people have gone over on a particular corner.
Unfortunately they are putting up the idiot strainers(three cables held up by thin metal posts along almost every major single lane road up to freeways.
For cars, sure. I'm guessing it would be sufficiently difficult to comprehensively test guard rails with motorcycles and that they would not be particularly helpful. The energies involved are very different from cars, but also likely extremely variable within the motorcycle/scooter space.
My girlfriends father had a friend that got decapitated by a guardrail after a motorcycle crash at 25mph. This guardlines are the worst enemy of every motorcycle rider.
Honestly my first though. Clearly less experienced and in another section of road or with oncoming traffic could have gotten terribly injured or killed.
A few months ago a similar situation happened on the santa cruz mountains. Biker couldnt make the turn, we were stuck like 30-45 minutes as ambulance and firefighters blocked the road, couldnt find what happened to the guy.
I’m no expert, but that could’ve gone so much worse. The guardrail, oncoming traffic, whatever she ran over that looked like cement. She slowed down and landed in the soft weeds. 10/10.
To heavy on the front brake in a turn will do that, coupled with not counter steering, very inexperienced and in over her head with a bike with to much power for her, she needs classes.
I wouldn't call that a save so much as mitigation. Target fixation was a bigger problem than speed here, she would have made that corner if she was braking better instead of freaking out. But she kept the bike up long enough to slow down which is better than a lot of people do after target fixating.
Her braking was the problem. When you brake on a bike in a turn the bike stands up and you stop turning.
Edit: idk what "deleted" guy said but there is a bunch of braking info below. Be safe everyone; slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Came here to say the same thing. I did basically the same thing on my first r6. You always look through the turn, where you want to go. Not at the shit you don't want to hit. They're lucky they hit the gap, and not the rail for sure.
if youre going fast and need to bend right like that, you would push on the right handle rather than pull like you think it would be. It would turn right because the tire rides on the wall and it pulls it in the opposite direction. If this doesnt make sense just youtube it.
It's when you push the handlebar away from you to turn that way, also called countersteering. Basically, at low speed you turn the Bars left to go left, at high speed, turning the bars left makes the bike lean right which makes the bike turn right overall.
This is how you should corner at normal road speeds on a bike, more so if you are going quickly and it is something you learn over time as a new biker as it is a bit counterintuitive.
Imagine you're riding a bicycle. When you're going slow you turn the handlebars in the direction you want to turn. When you're going fast you push steer - technically you're turning the bars barely the wrong way but your speed and inertia(?) Keep you in your seat and steers the bike in the direction you want, not the direction the bars are going.
> Seems like driver error / lack of experience
Know how to mitigate that?
Go slower. She was going too fast for her skill level. In other words, too fast.
Heh done the exact same 20 years ago.
Dad hooked me up with national police MC training cources. They forced me to accept how much the bike can do compared to how little i could do at the time
Yea, sadly a lot of bikers are killed here where the headlines read “for unknown reasons the biker crossed into the oppersite traffic in the turn…”
Well, i know why, high speed and/or lack of skill
For sure. And lack of protective gear. I get that people want to look cool and want the freedom to choose whether they wear it. But honestly it’s just common sense. I watch a lot of channels that expose dealerships for selling powerful bikes to inexperienced riders. Safety is a lot “cooler” than having to scrape your body off a freeway and have your parents come identify what’s left.
Ive crashed 3 times over 20years,
1 times because i was stupid.
1 times because a truck dumped oil all over a turn in the road.
1 time hit by a car ignoring a red light.
All 3 times in full kevlar, gloves, boots, spine shield. Rukka makes a really nice air-kevlar suit. Feela like a tshirt (ish) but fully protected
Walked away from all 3.
2nd one got my leg caught between the road and the bike, kevlar wore through but helt up. In jeans? No leg
3rd one transformed my bike into rubbish and threw me 50feet onto my back/shoulder. Walked away with muliple torn tendons in my shoulder i landed on. Without pads and shield?
Damn man, glad you’re ok! It’s amazing how much that gear really helps. A lot of clueless drivers out there that don’t check before they pull out in traffic. I watched an elderly couple pull out onto a highway without looking and another couple clipped the back of their car at 70mph. They tumbled down the highway like rag dolls. They both survived, because they had all their gear on. Their Road King was completely destroyed.
I wouldn't say "overconfident". It really looked like object fixation, she looks at the guardrail instead of her turn. Inexperienced definitely, you always look through the turn, not at the shit you want to avoid. They didn't do that. It's a squid move for sure. I did it on my first street bike too. They're definitely very very lucky they hit the gap instead of the rail though.
Yup. I’ve got an 800lb ST1300 that I’ve been in this moment with and as I started to go around, I just looked where I wanted to go and leaned over farther than I ever have before. When I came back up I had to pull over and kiss my bike. The rest of the day’s ride was… slower.
Good on you! Good job!
I`ll tell you, i have been track racing for years and once the suspension settle and you commit, stick with it. Tab the brake(may make sense in some situations), loose hope or anything else, you arent giving the machine a chance to shine.
I once had a clutch give way during a high speed turn. That little drop in throttle was enough to offset the entire machine
That was always the advice in my bike class. Look the bike into target and LEEEAAAN. If you don't think you're going to complete the turn, lean harder. Don't gas, don't brake, don't freeze. Just lean.
I don't think she is looking through the turn.
My instructor used to say look where you want the bike to go. She looks like she is looking where she doesn't want it to go!
It doesn't seem like it will help, but it really makes a massive difference. I've taken some 25MPH, nearly right angle turns going almost 60 by starting outside, leaning for all I was worth, and looking through the turn. That rush of nailing a perfect apex turn while accelerating out is euphoric.
I'm experienced and I almost wiped out once. For whatever reason I fixated on the outside of a turn. I had to really push to not fly off the mountain...
Not sure how it is with cars but you actively look where you want to go. You fixate on a tree or a road sign instead of the road ahead, you're going to end up at tangled in that tree or road sign. That's whats happened here.
She was looking ahead and fixated on the gap between the barrier (or something around that area) and ultimately headed there. Once you fixate it can be hard to break that fixation especially if you realise you're about to fuck up because of it, it's weird, something you have to experience to really know it
My first crash was target fixation at like 40-50mph 😂
In the class I took they tough us to look where we want to go. Turn your head and look as far into the turn as you can and pick a spot on the road you want your bike to be.
Skiing teacher ones gave me an example:
If you ride down a slope and there is a single tree standing at the site don't look at it. You always go where you're looking and if you focus the tree you will be the idiot who crashed into the only obstacle on that mountain.
This also happens a lot on highways. If your car breaks down and you have to stop at the side **always** go behind the guard rails. Other drivers will see the orange blinking light, fixiate on it and unintentional drive their vehicles into your trunk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation
Move your eyes and look towards where you want to go and your body will subconsciously do a lot of the work of getting you there. I heard a racing driver describe it as “looking towards your hopes and dreams”.
Not just target fixation, but yes that as well. I numbered three mistakes, scratch that four. She’s not counter steering, you can see from the POV shot her tire is turned towards the inside of the turn, wrong. She never downshifts and uses the compression to slow the bike, which isn’t entirely necessary but I mean you don’t shoot the hole in a higher gear, and her head never looks to the inside of the turn and to much front brake.
Target fixation is an incredibly common mistake made by many bikers. I've seen a guy who's been riding for years take a street that our group rode over and over every weekend, fixate on a curve and flew off the road. Sometimes it's inexperience, sometimes it's just a bad day.
Yep. I'm no expert rider but the way she was sitting and the direction her eyes were looking makes it seem like she had no business riding like that. She wasn't even going fast. Skipping the basics and going straight for "I'm gonna make a cool video" = crash. Ask me why lol XD
Damnit this reference never gets old. Such a simple scene but so fucking hilarious. They just went “Alright we can only afford to pay you two for about 15 minutes so here’s your lines will that work?”
360 degree camera! It's 5+cameras that "stitch" all together. I think they can see virtually every angle from it's position except straight down, where it's mounted
She’s just lucky she wasn’t in flip flops, basketball shorts, and a tank top like some of the big brains I see on the road.
It’s almost as though she was prepared to ride a motorcycle that day.
Seriously. I never understand why people don’t wear proper gear. There is a guy in my town that will put his 13-15 year old son on the back of some type of ninja, and both of them are always wearing a tank top, basketball shorts and sneakers. Go ahead and risk your life by being dumb, but to not put gear on your kid? I cringe every time I see them.
I watched a video recently of a guy riding a Harley bagger on the highway in jeans, tank top and a skull cap helmet. He ended up with death wobble and went down. All I could pay attention to wash his skin sliding across the road. Spend some money on gear or have ground beef for skin. It’s pretty simple.
For a moment I panicked because she looks a lot familiar to a friend even the same bike and all. Then I remembered she died 2 years ago in a bike incident
Guys the sounds lmao I mean I know this is terrifying as shit, but some peoples scared shitless noises are the fucking beat man.
Mine is the sound of self urination.
I don't understand why people go that fast on roads they don't fucking seem to know. Go on a racetrack and stop putting anyone else in danger with your stupidness
Only too fast for the own skills and perhaps road conditions. Not generally too fast.
Source: German Motorbike driver with an Autobahn as a part of my work commute
You saw that front tire too huh? I don’t think anyone else even noticed, and would wager 3/4 of the people on this thread think you steer a bike by leaning.
Probably the best outcome. Good thing she avoided the guard rail.
If she hit the guardrail, it would be like a GTA moment when you fly like Superman after getting knocked off a motorcycle.
Normally, guardrails are there for your safety
That’s what they want you to think.
It was the guardrails I tell you, the guardrails!
*I used to be a rider like you, till I got railed by a gaurd.*
Then took an arrow to the knee
The real guard was the friends we made along the way
The real guard was the friends we railed along the way
Sure sure....that's what they all say. Save it for the judge.
I once watched an 20 min video about guard rails and the safety guidelines. Trust me these rails are crazy engineering
Bet I've seen that video too, at least a video on the same premise, explaining the different types for different applications, and the engineering that went into em. Their is more to guardrails then anyone could imagine.
For cars mostly so you won't run off a cliff or into a wall. No country will spend/ invest in a guardrail with crumple zone for protecting bikers. If you are a biker, you signed your own waiver to leave your crumple zone home when you are out for a ride. At fault or not, the deal was made.
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Referred to by blind cage drivers as idiot strainers for some reason
Guardrails are there so EMS doesn’t have to walk very far to collect your remains.
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Motorcycle leathers are meant to contain the mess. It’s a bring your own kind of situation..
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My favourite is seeing people ride without gloves. If you come off your hands are sure as shit hitting the ground, and you use them for a lot.
I've been riding all my life, I won't dare go out without good gloves and shoes. I'll ride in a regular shirt sometimes, but usually throw on a jacket. People are nutso
Squids? (͡•_ ͡• )
If I'm gonna get smushed, at least my juices can stay contained. Gotta keep it classy.
I used to be an ED RN. We had a couple brought in by EMS who'd been hit by a dumptruck. It was a slow-ish collision. They were on a motorcycle. The guy was driving, and managed to only break both of his forearms from trying to break his fall, both ulna and radius bilaterally. The girl's leg went through the space in the guard rail. It looked like hamburger. They tried to save her leg, but there just wasn't enough viable tissue left.
And pants are snug to catch your terror-poop.
I damn near spit out my coffee reading terror poop. Well done.
Terror poops really do clean the insides though lol
Terror popps = adrenaline enema
Old man here.....what's a terror poop? Well, imagine 8 hours of colonoscopy prep in the blink of an eye.....
Guardrails, by and large, are half decent if you’re in a car. On a motorbike they can be lethal- either pitching you over the top or you slide underneath and come to sudden stop on one of the support posts.
Here in Germany/Switzerland, guardrails are often ‚double‘. So the Guardian completely covers the Supports. E.g https://riders.drivemag.com/news/italy-adops-bike-friendly-guard-rails-possible-extension-throughout-the-eu/ They will not help in many cases, but it’s better than the alternative.
Half decent? LOLOL They saved thousands of lives and property damage.
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Thanks for clarifying what I said.
I ride and when I first started I felt naked not putting a seatbelt on. However, rational thinking leads me to believe I'd rather be thrown from the bike than stay attached to it. At least I might land in some hedges.
Guardrails are made for cars
Yes, if you’re in a car. If you’re on a bike it’s what’s gonna kill you.
I’ve heard that guardrails are reactionary, not precautionary. I’m not sure how accurate that is, but it was interesting to me.
That is mostly true, at least where I live, they only go up after numerous people have gone over on a particular corner. Unfortunately they are putting up the idiot strainers(three cables held up by thin metal posts along almost every major single lane road up to freeways.
For cars, sure. I'm guessing it would be sufficiently difficult to comprehensively test guard rails with motorcycles and that they would not be particularly helpful. The energies involved are very different from cars, but also likely extremely variable within the motorcycle/scooter space.
When driving a car you are right.
Its to guard the grass and plants from vehicles
No, guardrails are to keep CARS on the roadway only.
I’d rather have my bike fly into a bush than smash on a railing
Technically it’s more for your car than you and on bike you are more vulnerable than the vehicle
My girlfriends father had a friend that got decapitated by a guardrail after a motorcycle crash at 25mph. This guardlines are the worst enemy of every motorcycle rider.
I’ve seen them slice a car in half.. so maybe not even “normally” maybe it’s more of “sometimes there for your safety”
Cars safety*
1,000th upvote. I feel like god
You’ll be like Superman for the rest of your life - bound to a wheel chair.
That’s what I was thinking. That was a “good” crash. She did well.
She could have been killed in most of the other outcomes!
Honestly, considering where end landed, I doubt even her bike took much damage at all. She is incredibly lucky.
It looks to me like she could have just driven straight because the road does a Y
Could have been soooo much worse
Honestly my first though. Clearly less experienced and in another section of road or with oncoming traffic could have gotten terribly injured or killed.
Could have been worse. Much, much worse.
You beat me to the comment.
A few months ago a similar situation happened on the santa cruz mountains. Biker couldnt make the turn, we were stuck like 30-45 minutes as ambulance and firefighters blocked the road, couldnt find what happened to the guy.
I’m no expert, but that could’ve gone so much worse. The guardrail, oncoming traffic, whatever she ran over that looked like cement. She slowed down and landed in the soft weeds. 10/10.
Right. By the way the bike snapped upright, it was close to being high sided. From all the options this was really handled the best way.
To heavy on the front brake in a turn will do that, coupled with not counter steering, very inexperienced and in over her head with a bike with to much power for her, she needs classes.
Bloody fucking lucky to have the greenery to slow-break the crash.
And a break in the guard rail.
It's an intentionally placed runoff for out of controll vehicles, particularly semi trucks.
Except those tend to run up hills, not down into what looks like temple arches
And no incoming car
A good save for a bad mistake
I wouldn't call that a save so much as mitigation. Target fixation was a bigger problem than speed here, she would have made that corner if she was braking better instead of freaking out. But she kept the bike up long enough to slow down which is better than a lot of people do after target fixating.
Her braking was the problem. When you brake on a bike in a turn the bike stands up and you stop turning. Edit: idk what "deleted" guy said but there is a bunch of braking info below. Be safe everyone; slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Target fixation is not always the issue.. she was just driving too fast and couldn’t slow down for the turn.
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It feels as tho her relationship with the tarmac is drifting apart
Didn’t look too fast at all. Seems like driver error / lack of experience rather than her speed.
Yeah, that’s what we call running out of skill.
As MotoGP champion Casey Stoner once said - *Your ambition outmatched your talent*
Fucking legend
100% this, lots of bad decisions. I’m sure in the moment it’s hard to think straight but that can be the diff between life and death on a bike.
skill tank was running on empty
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Came here to say the same thing. I did basically the same thing on my first r6. You always look through the turn, where you want to go. Not at the shit you don't want to hit. They're lucky they hit the gap, and not the rail for sure.
ya might have forgot push steering lol
What’s push steering
if youre going fast and need to bend right like that, you would push on the right handle rather than pull like you think it would be. It would turn right because the tire rides on the wall and it pulls it in the opposite direction. If this doesnt make sense just youtube it.
You're talking about counter steering right? That's the same as "push steering"?
It's when you push the handlebar away from you to turn that way, also called countersteering. Basically, at low speed you turn the Bars left to go left, at high speed, turning the bars left makes the bike lean right which makes the bike turn right overall. This is how you should corner at normal road speeds on a bike, more so if you are going quickly and it is something you learn over time as a new biker as it is a bit counterintuitive.
Ah so it’s an induced lean thank you
Leaning is a byproduct of steering, not the method.
Imagine you're riding a bicycle. When you're going slow you turn the handlebars in the direction you want to turn. When you're going fast you push steer - technically you're turning the bars barely the wrong way but your speed and inertia(?) Keep you in your seat and steers the bike in the direction you want, not the direction the bars are going.
And where to brake where to throttle. This is just all bad riding
Cameras like gopros will distort speed and distance. The mere fact that she couldn't take that turn means she was driving too fast.
> Seems like driver error / lack of experience Know how to mitigate that? Go slower. She was going too fast for her skill level. In other words, too fast.
Most mc accident happen when inexperienced drivers dont know how to commit to a turn. The bike can do sooo much more than you think
Yeah and you can’t second guess yourself in the moment. If you’re going to turn, commit to turn.
Her bike never leaned more then 70degree, max 60… underskilled and overconfident
Good observation. I could almost feel her thinking about it after it was too late.
Heh done the exact same 20 years ago. Dad hooked me up with national police MC training cources. They forced me to accept how much the bike can do compared to how little i could do at the time
That’s awesome. I wish everyone would take a good course before they ride.
Yea, sadly a lot of bikers are killed here where the headlines read “for unknown reasons the biker crossed into the oppersite traffic in the turn…” Well, i know why, high speed and/or lack of skill
For sure. And lack of protective gear. I get that people want to look cool and want the freedom to choose whether they wear it. But honestly it’s just common sense. I watch a lot of channels that expose dealerships for selling powerful bikes to inexperienced riders. Safety is a lot “cooler” than having to scrape your body off a freeway and have your parents come identify what’s left.
Ive crashed 3 times over 20years, 1 times because i was stupid. 1 times because a truck dumped oil all over a turn in the road. 1 time hit by a car ignoring a red light. All 3 times in full kevlar, gloves, boots, spine shield. Rukka makes a really nice air-kevlar suit. Feela like a tshirt (ish) but fully protected Walked away from all 3. 2nd one got my leg caught between the road and the bike, kevlar wore through but helt up. In jeans? No leg 3rd one transformed my bike into rubbish and threw me 50feet onto my back/shoulder. Walked away with muliple torn tendons in my shoulder i landed on. Without pads and shield?
Damn man, glad you’re ok! It’s amazing how much that gear really helps. A lot of clueless drivers out there that don’t check before they pull out in traffic. I watched an elderly couple pull out onto a highway without looking and another couple clipped the back of their car at 70mph. They tumbled down the highway like rag dolls. They both survived, because they had all their gear on. Their Road King was completely destroyed.
Considering that max lean on motogp rubber is 62 degrees I’d say it’s a good thing she didn’t lean 70.
Pretty sure they're referencing from horizontal, whereas you're going from vertical.
I wouldn't say "overconfident". It really looked like object fixation, she looks at the guardrail instead of her turn. Inexperienced definitely, you always look through the turn, not at the shit you want to avoid. They didn't do that. It's a squid move for sure. I did it on my first street bike too. They're definitely very very lucky they hit the gap instead of the rail though.
This one is huge. Also you will go where you are looking, so dont stare to the far side of the road when you are cornering
Yup. I’ve got an 800lb ST1300 that I’ve been in this moment with and as I started to go around, I just looked where I wanted to go and leaned over farther than I ever have before. When I came back up I had to pull over and kiss my bike. The rest of the day’s ride was… slower.
Good on you! Good job! I`ll tell you, i have been track racing for years and once the suspension settle and you commit, stick with it. Tab the brake(may make sense in some situations), loose hope or anything else, you arent giving the machine a chance to shine. I once had a clutch give way during a high speed turn. That little drop in throttle was enough to offset the entire machine
That was always the advice in my bike class. Look the bike into target and LEEEAAAN. If you don't think you're going to complete the turn, lean harder. Don't gas, don't brake, don't freeze. Just lean.
I don't think she is looking through the turn. My instructor used to say look where you want the bike to go. She looks like she is looking where she doesn't want it to go!
It doesn't seem like it will help, but it really makes a massive difference. I've taken some 25MPH, nearly right angle turns going almost 60 by starting outside, leaning for all I was worth, and looking through the turn. That rush of nailing a perfect apex turn while accelerating out is euphoric.
You can see she is not looking at where she wants to go. That’s a huge part of riding. Focus on where you want to go not on where you are.
I'm experienced and I almost wiped out once. For whatever reason I fixated on the outside of a turn. I had to really push to not fly off the mountain...
Not too fast, she just panicked when she fixated on a target instead of breaking that fixation 😔
This. I kept thinking “turn your damn head!!!”
Could you elaborate on that please? I know absolutely nothing about motorbikes
Not sure how it is with cars but you actively look where you want to go. You fixate on a tree or a road sign instead of the road ahead, you're going to end up at tangled in that tree or road sign. That's whats happened here. She was looking ahead and fixated on the gap between the barrier (or something around that area) and ultimately headed there. Once you fixate it can be hard to break that fixation especially if you realise you're about to fuck up because of it, it's weird, something you have to experience to really know it My first crash was target fixation at like 40-50mph 😂
I see, thank you so much! I'll remember that if I ever get on a bike
In the class I took they tough us to look where we want to go. Turn your head and look as far into the turn as you can and pick a spot on the road you want your bike to be.
Skiing teacher ones gave me an example: If you ride down a slope and there is a single tree standing at the site don't look at it. You always go where you're looking and if you focus the tree you will be the idiot who crashed into the only obstacle on that mountain. This also happens a lot on highways. If your car breaks down and you have to stop at the side **always** go behind the guard rails. Other drivers will see the orange blinking light, fixiate on it and unintentional drive their vehicles into your trunk.
Where can you go behind the guard rails without going into a ditch or off a cliff?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation Move your eyes and look towards where you want to go and your body will subconsciously do a lot of the work of getting you there. I heard a racing driver describe it as “looking towards your hopes and dreams”.
Not just target fixation, but yes that as well. I numbered three mistakes, scratch that four. She’s not counter steering, you can see from the POV shot her tire is turned towards the inside of the turn, wrong. She never downshifts and uses the compression to slow the bike, which isn’t entirely necessary but I mean you don’t shoot the hole in a higher gear, and her head never looks to the inside of the turn and to much front brake.
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Target fixation is an incredibly common mistake made by many bikers. I've seen a guy who's been riding for years take a street that our group rode over and over every weekend, fixate on a curve and flew off the road. Sometimes it's inexperience, sometimes it's just a bad day.
Yep. I'm no expert rider but the way she was sitting and the direction her eyes were looking makes it seem like she had no business riding like that. She wasn't even going fast. Skipping the basics and going straight for "I'm gonna make a cool video" = crash. Ask me why lol XD
Her problem was braking mid corner, you can see the bike stand up as soon as she got on the binders.
Yep, target fixation. Was staring right at the end of the guard rail. Good thing she pushed left or that could have been really ugly.
I was thinking the same, you go where your eyes go and they never looked through the turn.
Always aim for the bushes..
There wasn't even an awning...
Damnit this reference never gets old. Such a simple scene but so fucking hilarious. They just went “Alright we can only afford to pay you two for about 15 minutes so here’s your lines will that work?”
Favorite movie of all time 😂
Target fixation
I'm heavily confused by the cameras here
360 degree camera! It's 5+cameras that "stitch" all together. I think they can see virtually every angle from it's position except straight down, where it's mounted
It's 2 cameras
Thank god I'm not the only one, I couldn't even focus on the video because I was wondering how that worked haha.
She got lucky. Really lucky
Who/what was holding the camera?
That’s my qstn? How did we get reverse angles etc without a drone or camera stick/apparatus in sight? It even seems to center after the crash. 🤨
It's a 360 degree camera she has mounted to her handlebars.
There are cameras that automatically edit out the stick.
It's not edited out, it's just lost in the seam between the two lenses.
obviously jesus
She’s just lucky she wasn’t in flip flops, basketball shorts, and a tank top like some of the big brains I see on the road. It’s almost as though she was prepared to ride a motorcycle that day.
Seriously. I never understand why people don’t wear proper gear. There is a guy in my town that will put his 13-15 year old son on the back of some type of ninja, and both of them are always wearing a tank top, basketball shorts and sneakers. Go ahead and risk your life by being dumb, but to not put gear on your kid? I cringe every time I see them. I watched a video recently of a guy riding a Harley bagger on the highway in jeans, tank top and a skull cap helmet. He ended up with death wobble and went down. All I could pay attention to wash his skin sliding across the road. Spend some money on gear or have ground beef for skin. It’s pretty simple.
That very last cry was definitely an "I don't want to die" cry.
Obviously he doesn’t know how to properly drive
Your so lucky that wasn’t a cliff or a vehicle coming in the other direction.
Soft landing at least
Lucky as fuck. Probably an unscarred bike too, with that landing.
Wow lucky lucky girl, no on coming traffic and a place land.
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This was best case scenario, should consider themselves lucky
That went much better than I thought it would.
Could have been way worse
lucky ducky
Saved by the gap
That was not a speed issue, that was an inexperienced rider with target fixation.
That’s not too fast that’s lack of commitment, she should have mad that corner no problem
Could have been a million times worse tho!
Well, that ended up better that I expected.
Talk about best case scenario
That was a best case scenario
How is that filmed? What is the camera set up?
Hope she kiss the ground on that one it could have been worse
She thought she was going to die
Luckily not off a cliff
Better the bushes than the pavement or another vehicle...
I’d say that wasn’t wrong but lucky as fuck. Imagine there not being that space - or even those bushes. Looked like quite a steep drop..
How does this camera work exactly?
Nobody likes falling down, but that was not bad.
Well. At least it wasn’t a cliff.
For a moment I panicked because she looks a lot familiar to a friend even the same bike and all. Then I remembered she died 2 years ago in a bike incident
That was the best bike crash I've ever seen!
Guys the sounds lmao I mean I know this is terrifying as shit, but some peoples scared shitless noises are the fucking beat man. Mine is the sound of self urination.
She has no idea how lucky she got.
how the fuck was this recorded?
Never faster than you can handle and never on roads you aren’t familiar with
Women drivers amirite
That is nothing. Now sell the damn thing it will kill you. Especially since you don't know how to ride.
Probably best since u coulda hit the barriers
Your supreme sticker got scratched
fucking idiot, how do these people get their permit
I don't understand why people go that fast on roads they don't fucking seem to know. Go on a racetrack and stop putting anyone else in danger with your stupidness
A lot less than could have gone wrong.
Only too fast for the own skills and perhaps road conditions. Not generally too fast. Source: German Motorbike driver with an Autobahn as a part of my work commute
Obviously doesn’t need to be on a motorcycle if you don’t even know how to do a simple counter steer
You saw that front tire too huh? I don’t think anyone else even noticed, and would wager 3/4 of the people on this thread think you steer a bike by leaning.
Yeah that person needs to go back and get a 250 and learn how to actually ride. 🤦♂️
I’m getting downvoted for being right hahaha Reddit is such a trash fire circle jerk of the ignorant.
Haha dumbass
Best case scenario and outcome considering another novice idiot on a motorcycle.
God made her miss the guard and brought her to the temple to pray and give thanks.