Looks like it.That looked weird, I'm guessing the rear was sliding around due to oil?
Looks like it.That looked weird, I'm guessing the rear was sliding around due to oil?
That looked weird, I'm guessing the rear was sliding around due to oil?
or because sth seized?
Riding with those fingerless gloves could have ended very badly for him. Also, he should really adjust his camera POV.
Props to him for at least posting his stupidity. Although this may become the launch of a new series, Mario the engine destroyer.
That's the "idiot" part.
He believes the motorcycle had some sort of failure not related to his behaviour and claims many times "God saved him", so I have the impression he learned nothing from it,
There are things to be learned from this video, though. The bike isn't leaning very far, yet the rider is moving his body off the side of it. Multiple riders in the video are doing this. This says the riders don't know how far their motorcycles can lean and that they don't trust the lean. When we reach the incident, the rider gives some lean, but not a lot. As the curve gets tighter, the rider leans less. That is exactly the wrong behavior. You need to turn harder? You lean more (give some countersteering to start the lean and lean). Not sure if you can lean more? Try it anyway. The crash that results from leaning too far is likely to be less severe than the crash that resulted from straightening up. Maintain your equipment well, and then trust the lean. This is not something that can be put into text or even into a few photos easily with this level of emphasis. The video really hammers home the "lean more, even if you think you can't" point in a way text and photos don't.Yeah, link the news article or the story, talk about it, but shoving a video in there as in ?LOOK AT THIS PERSON DIE!? is just wrong.
But only up to the moment of the accident. I'm with Ice on this one...There are things to be learned from this video, though.
I can agree to that. I'd rather it be shared than not, because of the earlier sections, but the post-crash sections seem unnecessary.But only up to the moment of the accident.
There are things to be learned from this video, though. The bike isn't leaning very far, yet the rider is moving his body off the side of it. Multiple riders in the video are doing this. This says the riders don't know how far their motorcycles can lean and that they don't trust the lean. When we reach the incident, the rider gives some lean, but not a lot. As the curve gets tighter, the rider leans less. That is exactly the wrong behavior. You need to turn harder? You lean more (give some countersteering to start the lean and lean). Not sure if you can lean more? Try it anyway. The crash that results from leaning too far is likely to be less severe than the crash that resulted from straightening up. Maintain your equipment well, and then trust the lean. This is not something that can be put into text or even into a few photos easily with this level of emphasis. The video really hammers home the "lean more, even if you think you can't" point in a way text and photos don't.
The other big lesson I see here is don't let it be a race. Don't let the red mist take over. People make bad decisions when they feel the pressure of that competition, and if you don't have the training to manage the competition on that equipment, don't let it happen. I don't know with certainty that this happened to this rider, but it really looks like it, and it helps hammer home that point, too.
You may not see us talking about it here, but every one of us who has heard "trust the lean" from someone, somewhere watches this video and is reminded. It has meaning, it has impact, and it just might help us do better should things go wrong for us.
Edit: Here we go. Easy fodder. A few bikes that have no business on a dirt track.