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Old 02-27-2006, 4:33 PM
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Old 02-27-2006, 5:13 PM
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Gut shot, that had to hurt pretty bad.
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Yet Another case for a steering dampER.
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Fock! nasty speedbump there.
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No kiddin'. Pathetic. They guy didn't have to be hurt like he was.
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Old 02-27-2006, 5:19 PM
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No kiddin'. Pathetic. They guy didn't have to be hurt like he was.
Yea...don't think I want Pete behind me when I'm on a bike.
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Talk about getting over excited. The twerp that fell off was trying to gte his knee down coming out of the pit lane. What a pillock.

The poor guy that ran him over. Can any of you honestly say, hand on heart, that you'd have missed him.
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Proto, that's a 600 super squid race start.

Incidentally, with the group of people I'd have been racing with.
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Old 02-27-2006, 6:01 PM
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Remind me to never ever go racing in California Why don't they start on the straights like everyone else?

The 600s are probably as bad over here. Mad crashfests, 35 guys pumped right up, all aiming for the same one square foot of tarmac going into turn one.

But really that looks pretty naff riding to me. The visible riders were taking about twenty eight different lines through those relaltively gentle curves.
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But really that looks pretty naff riding to me. The visible riders were taking about twenty eight different lines through those relaltively gentle curves.
More impressive is that makes it two or three different lines per rider :-)
This seems like a RedRider, but I can't find the link... I KNOW I've seen the video before.
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Talk about getting over excited. The twerp that fell off was trying to gte his knee down coming out of the pit lane. What a pillock.

The poor guy that ran him over. Can any of you honestly say, hand on heart, that you'd have missed him.
I can. There was an entire track open to miss him with . . .
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The poor guy that ran him over. Can any of you honestly say, hand on heart, that you'd have missed him.
Yep, I can.
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Well if your so confident, let Abtech follow you, throw yourself off you bike and see what happens. If he does a good job, swap places and you have a go.

I think the bloke that fell off wants a good kicking, and the bloke that ran him over deserves a bit of a sympathy.
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The poor guy that ran him over. Can any of you honestly say, hand on heart, that you'd have missed him.
Hell yeah! I've missed people who crashed right in front of me much closer than that.
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Old 02-27-2006, 6:46 PM
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I think the bloke that fell off wants a good kicking, and the bloke that ran him over deserves a bit of a sympathy.
See, I kinda would go the other way....I'd give the guy that broke the rear loose and chopped the throttle a bit of consideration, then the guy that target fixated and went off the outside of the turn running over the guy on the ground......but hey...that's just imho.
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Hate to be critical from just watching a video, but it looks like if he had just maintained his line he would have stayed well inside of the carnage...

The first time someone binned in front of me like that, I think I even said something out loud in my helmet to remind me to keep looking up the turn instead of at bike and rider.

Pretty sobering video no matter how you look at it...
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+1

When my brother crashed on gravel a few bike lengths ahead of me all I could think was GO AROUND HIM DON'T BRAKE GO AROUND HIM DON'T BRAKE. Amazingly I didn't crash.
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See, I kinda would go the other way....I'd give the guy that broke the rear loose and chopped the throttle a bit of consideration, then the guy that target fixated and went off the outside of the turn running over the guy on the ground......but hey...that's just imho.
Not wishing to pick a fight, but there's this bloke following this other bloke around a race track. Bloke in front does something silly and dumps himself and his bike on the track. Bloke following does his best to avoid the bloke laying on the ground in front of him, but fails and accidently runs him over.

And you think the guy on that caused the accident is the good guy?
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Hate to be critical from just watching a video, but it looks like if he had just maintained his line he would have stayed well inside of the carnage...

The first time someone binned in front of me like that, I think I even said something out loud in my helmet to remind me to keep looking up the turn instead of at bike and rider.

Pretty sobering video no matter how you look at it...
Exactly! The hitter changed directions and actually had to turn to the outside to ride off the track and hit the flopper. I've ridden around 10 bikes and riders flying all over the place without running anyone over.

Interesting piece of video. It almost seems like the cameraman must have been watching the monitor on his bike and was trying to get a closeup of the action .
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Interesting piece of video. It almost seems like the cameraman must have been watching the monitor on his bike and was trying to get a closeup of the action .
What's also amazing is that he posted his **** up for the world to watch.

This guy had to go out into the grass to hit the rider. LAME!
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Not wishing to pick a fight, but there's this bloke following this other bloke around a race track. Bloke in front does something silly and dumps himself and his bike on the track. Bloke following does his best to avoid the bloke laying on the ground in front of him, but fails and accidently runs him over.

And you think the guy on that caused the accident is the good guy?
Guy didn't do his best of anything. He followed the downed rider totally mesmerized and in a classic case of what not to do on a racetrack, aimed right for the rider. The "proper" thing to do is look past the incident and ride around it (or in this case, just keep on going where you were headed in the first place).
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That's cus he doesn't agree with your opinions

**** this, I'm off to look for the contact lens my wife has just dropped down the back of the sofa and when I've found it, then I'm off to bed. Probably in about four hours time. Nighty night.
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Talk about getting over excited. The twerp that fell off was trying to gte his knee down coming out of the pit lane. What a pillock.

The poor guy that ran him over. Can any of you honestly say, hand on heart, that you'd have missed him.
I had a guy lowside in front of me in that same turn, I missed him, so I can say yes, I'd have missed him
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