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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Flatbar on September 30, 2005, 11:54:44 AM
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Fropm the Dragon files.
Lookin' Good!
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y61/oldsurfer53/harley_looking20good.jpg)[/IMG]
Uh Oh, maybe not.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y61/oldsurfer53/harley_not20looking20good.jpg)[/IMG]
This is gonna hurt.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y61/oldsurfer53/harley_going20down.jpg)[/IMG]
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Tool.
Look good for the camera, or stay on two wheels? Get your priorities straight.
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LoL that guy is going to regret doing that for the rest of his life.
So who will be the first to do a priceless add lol.
I love teh intardnet!
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rofl..
what a moron :lol
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35,000$ Harley
2500$ in added chrome parts
50$ bucks for Harley wife beater shirt
Dumping your Harley after trying to look cool in a photo for your banker buddies….. Priceless!
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Yea, but who here who's ever ridden a bike hasn't dumped at least once for an equally dumb reason? I never rode motorcycles but as a kid I wiped out a couple times when trying to exceed the basic mechanical capabilities of the particular bike I was riding.
The only diff between me and this guy is I learned my lesson as a kid doing 25 without a helmet on a $120 10-speed on the way to a babysitting job, and I spent the entire 8 hour job trying to hide a concussion from the kids and parents. I bet most of you guys taunting the guy in the pic have a similiar story. Sucks to learn it on an expensive toy like that for sure, but if you haven't learned that particular lesson yourself, it's just a matter of time.
Hell, I nearly drove a 55 mil F-15E into the dirt after a brake failure. The pics of that would definately have fit into the "priceless!" category, and only dumb luck kept me on the concrete. Tough to laugh at someone's mistake after narrowly avoiding 55 mil buyers remorse :confused:
Yea, IMHO if you bling up your bike so far that it won't turn anymore then you're asking for trouble, but it doesn't take much to go from hero to zero. To me, the funny part is that the pics ended up on the intarweb, not that he dumped. It's sort of like someone laughing at HT for getting his plane modded by the birdstrike...
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The second pic, it looks like he locked up the front tire. Not a good idea.
Seems like he might have leaned the bike too far into the turn and bottomed out and hit the brakes.
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Originally posted by eagl
Yea, but who here who's ever ridden a bike hasn't dumped at least once for an equally dumb reason?
Me. Ten years straight.....long layoff then 6 more years of using my Bike as my primary transportation. Never down, never hit. Was run off the road twice but never down.
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I've had my fair share of wipeouts....most recently I broke a finger and lost a nail.
One time I was riding on the back of a friend's bike when it was drizzling rain. We took a corner too fast and slid out. We were both fine and immediately jumped up in case anyone saw what had happened and would be laughing at us.
Then we heard another bike coming. Just from the sound you could tell he was flying. We both looked at each other and smiled. We sat up on the wall away from where we knew the guy would be wiping out and waited.
The guy got a hearty round of applause when he went for a slide. :)
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Originally posted by SkyWolf
Me. Ten years straight.....long layoff then 6 more years of using my Bike as my primary transportation. Never down, never hit. Was run off the road twice but never down.
As they say, there are two kinds of people who ride motorcycles.
Those who have laid one down, and those who will.
May you remain a member of the latter group for a long time to come sir.
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I did that once... (not the camera part)
Had the presence of mind to climb on top of bike. Stepped off with out a scratch (on me) when it stopped. Still don't know how I did it.
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curaval said... "I've had my fair share of wipeouts....most recently I broke a finger and lost a nail."
well... I am glad if was only you who was hidiously maimed and not a bus load of kindergarden children! Your wild and dangerous moped riding is unconcionable!
you never know how fast you can go till you fall off.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
well... I am glad if was only you who was hidiously maimed and not a bus load of kindergarden children! Your wild and dangerous moped riding is unconcionable!
lol
Thanks for your concern, but I actually ran into the back of a van who had slammed his brakes to allow another car to enter the road from a parking lot. The driver then left the scene. I gave a report to the cops (in fact it happened in front of about 25-30 cops and recruits) and never heard jack about it after that. I was kind of surprised because normally, if you hit someone from the rear, you are at fault no matter what.
It would be tough to hurt a bus load of kindergarden children on my little motorcycle...not quite the same as a large block hot rod. The rate of speeds in our respective countries is also remarkably different.
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When I saw the first pic I knew the guy was in trouble, scrolling down to the second verifyied my fear.
He leaned too far into the corner with the bike, his floorboards caught the road, this lifts the bike and removes the down pressure provided by gravity on the tires. It appears he tried to correct and turned the wheel but it was too late.
This very thing happend to my buddy about 6 months ago while on a ride. He was on a HD leaned to the left far enough to drag his license plate holder lifting traction to the rear tire. He took the grass and rode like a dirt tracker around the rest of the corner. It happened at about 40mph and trees were very close to his rear tire as he was power sliding. Had he not been a very experienced rider both on the pavement and off the results could have been very bad and prob worse than this guys outcome. Road rash is bad but hitting a tree is REAL bad.
if your going to lean you bike know its limits and stay within them. And if your going to show off...be willing to accept you may be on the net with a priceless add next to your mug, or worse... dead.
Ride safe!
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Ten bucks says he was only wearing a helmet because his state mandated it. Until that magic moment captured on film, I am sure he would have insisted he didnt need one because he was a great rider.
Probably lacks the brainpower to appreciate what it did for him in his little tumble.
dago
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the pictures look to be in sequence, but the second he has no sun glasses on. looks like he might even have a closed left eye.
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Look at the second pic. He locked up the front tire, that's what most likely tossed him off.
The crash bars look to be doing what they were designed to do and he may have been able to ride this one out if not for his being ham fisted on the front brake. He'd probably be a Zeek driver in AH.
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Originally posted by Torque
the pictures look to be in sequence, but the second he has no sun glasses on. looks like he might even have a closed left eye.
look again... there are glasses..
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The morotcycle has whitewall tires and plenty of chrome. I like it.
J_A_B
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I think he bailed out before sliding off the cliff that was on the long side of the corner. That bike went a hell of a lot farther than he wanted to go:lol
Pic 1.....The cam is on..Strike pose and be way cool.
Pic 2......Soemthing wrong...the cam is on..maintain composure at all cost...maybe we'll back off and just be cool.
:confused:
Pic 3...I wonder whats over the horizon :eek: :eek: ...
Its a bad day when you hope you stick to the road:cry
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Never a horse that couldn`t be rode. Never a cowboy that couldn`t be throwed.
Old saying , but soooo very true.
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curval... you ran into the back of a bus full of kindergarden kids?? unconcionable.... imagine all the poor little kids in their neck brace at school.. any kittens die in the wreck?
unless he just smacke his head on the ground for chuckles I doubt that he changed his mind about helmets.
I fell off of a lot of bikes and have even been hit and never once got more than a scratch on my noggin.
lazs
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Originally posted by Dago
Ten bucks says he was only wearing a helmet because his state mandated it. Until that magic moment captured on film, I am sure he would have insisted he didnt need one because he was a great rider.
Probably lacks the brainpower to appreciate what it did for him in his little tumble.
dago
What a steamy load of . . . conjecture.
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Can't....help....myself.....Must........not........post.....the .....truth............... Ah nuts gottas do it.
Caption:
Demonstrated (again) proof positive that Harley Davidsons and curved roads do not mix.
:D :p
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maybe if the guy hadn't put all that garbage on the bike, he wouldn't have bottomed out in the curve.
He did have a nice new Harley shirt though....essential gear for the decerning wannabe.
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Originally posted by Maverick
Can't....help....myself.....Must........not........post.....the .....truth............... Ah nuts gottas do it.
Caption:
Demonstrated (again) proof positive that Harley Davidsons and curved roads do not mix:D :p
LOL, I didnt think guys actually rode them, I tought they just trailered them to places to be seen sitting on them. :)
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I wonder how much more **** a person could bolt on that bike?
Here is an idea, just put **** on a bike that actually improves the way it rides.
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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
As they say, there are two kinds of people who ride motorcycles.
Those who have laid one down, and those who will.
May you remain a member of the latter group for a long time to come sir.
I'm the third kind. Those who realize they are on borrowed time and trade the bike in on a car.....too much to lose now.
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Apparently the guy dusted up and rode off.
http://www.killboy.com
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Originally posted by moot
Apparently the guy dusted up and rode off.
http://www.killboy.com
I searched for the story, but couldn't find it.
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I know I read it somewhere.. I think it was the photographer himself saying so.
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http://killboy.blogspot.com/2005/08/i-think-if-he-had-actually-just-locked.html#comments
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Thanx Moot. Appreciate it.
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The only thing that bothers me about this series of photos is, who was that close to the guy, taking pictures, going around the same curve (and obviously in the wrong lane), with the object of the photos sometimes behind and other times beside the picture taker?? Also, the pics seem VERY smooth and well centered on the subject for what would have been an adrenaline filled few moments. Only 2 answers come to mind.
1) The one with the camera was an absolute IDIOT and deserved to crash and burn (and hopefully never reproduce), but instead caught this other fellow crashing, and got lucky with his camera handling.
2) The entire scenario was setup from the beginning to film a crash, with either a second person on a bike doing the picture taking or taking pics from a more stable platform (i.e. a car or the back of a truck).
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Its at a meet, on a defined course, the camera is stationary and set up at a corner where everyone will ride by.
Look at the bottom picture, the camera isnt even close to on the road.
It's set up in that they fully intended to photograph bikes going around that corner, the chromework redesign in action was just a bonus.
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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
The only thing that bothers me about this series of photos is, who was that close to the guy, taking pictures, going around the same curve (and obviously in the wrong lane), with the object of the photos sometimes behind and other times beside the picture taker?? Also, the pics seem VERY smooth and well centered on the subject for what would have been an adrenaline filled few moments. Only 2 answers come to mind.
1) The one with the camera was an absolute IDIOT and deserved to crash and burn (and hopefully never reproduce), but instead caught this other fellow crashing, and got lucky with his camera handling.
2) The entire scenario was setup from the beginning to film a crash, with either a second person on a bike doing the picture taking or taking pics from a more stable platform (i.e. a car or the back of a truck).
3). It's a popular road and this is an excellent place to take pictures of people enjoying it. There are plenty more here (http://www.killboy.com/). :rolleyes:
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:noid
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NM then. I tried those Killboy links earlier and none of them worked. I didnt know about the site.
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Tires look too new, should not play around on tires with less then 150 miles on them. Besides I think the BMW R100RS is the best bike ever made, anything else is just junk.
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Yeah, SoA, he's got a lot of photos there, including some of couples on bikes that cannot be posted here.
A lot of folks are passionate about taking pictures of machines, and getting the "good" shot. That spot ("hillside chicane") reminds me a lot of the ones that the photogs (professional and freelance) favored when I was up at the Cyprus rally: outside of turns with a good telephoto shot of a short straight with lots of weight shifting going around. That's where you catch the guys drifting, pulling tires up, and all the cool stuff.
Of course, my reaction was "these guys have got to be insane", followed by "okay, now I'm down here, which way do I run?"
But hey, tiny little bikes on asphalt, no big deal.