[emrat:7251] Ouchie! Motorcyle against a fire truck

Here's what Marc Cook of Motorcyclist magazine wrote about this incident:

 

o    It's super easy to second guess another rider in situations like this. I've looked at the video a number of times in quarter speed. It's clear that he's surprised by the fire truck as it emerges from behind the hill at 2:41. And while I know the camera distorts distances and lean angles a bit, it appears the rider clamped on the front brake pretty hard when he saw the truck. The front end begins locking and unlocking, dragging the bike across the lane. He clearly wasn't comfortable releasing the brake and rolling to the inside of the corner. That does take experience and some gumption.

I've ridden that road quite a bit and those speeds don't seem unreasonable to me.

 

 

From: emrat@googlegroups.com [mailto:emrat@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Doc
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 11:15 AM
To: emrat@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [emrat:7249] Ouchie! Motorcyle against a fire truck

 

I think he took it too wide, at a speed he should not have been going if not being very very accurate, or experienced. 

On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 9:18:54 PM UTC-6, limeycardwell wrote:

Holy crap Doc, I don't need to see that! Im already twitchy in the canyons with them casino busses coming at ya.

 

Looks like he went over a bumpy patch then maybe object fixation on the firetruck?

 

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Doc <docmu...@comcast.net> wrote:

http://www.today.com/video/gopro-video-motorcycle-crashes-head-on-into-fire-truck-470428227800

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