Anyone know this idiot motorcyclist?

[Markymark]

You can say that about all sorts of things. I have a wife and kids. I sometimes take risks. So does my wife....so do my kids. Ones 2 and ones' 5. They're normal kids. They climb up climbing frames, they go down hills on their bikes in the park (the danger! the danger!). We try and do what we think is safe. Sometimes we push it. We're not unusual. In fact if we all did nothing I would suggest we'd be worse off due to the inactivity of it all.

This clip was a guy on a clear road with no incoming lanes (barriers on either side). He took a calculated risk. I bet he's safer doing what he did than countless other motorbikers going slower filtering in traffic.

 

[Markymark]

In as much that we all sometimes take risks. No idea re 170mph man above but vid clip looked reasonable risk to me.

 

[vickster]

It was a clear straight road at 5am, assume it was a dry and clear morning. For a single bloke with no family responsibilities, it's one thing. For a man with a wife and 3 kids, and a very big mortgage, it's quite a different matter...he no longer rides such a powerful bike, nor does he have his testicles


(Ok that last bit isn't quite true, although he won't be having more kids)

 

[summerdays]

I do find I watch out for motorbikes in the same way I watch out for lorries, not in town when their speed is relatively low, but instead at roundabouts and traffic lights. I have to cross the M32 roundabout arms (on a cycle path), one side is controlled by lights so I know in theory I'm safe when the green bike shows and I look. The other slip road onto the motorway hasn't got traffic lights so you normally have to cross in the gap between different traffic flows getting a green light. If there is a motorbike at the lights I don't go because of their far greater acceleration and so have to wait for the next light change.

At really high speeds I don't think you can count on the motorcyclist seeing and being able to take avoiding action if you decided to cross the road having seen the clear road and not realised that someone is excessively speeding towards you.

 

[benb]

If someone wants to ride or drive dangerously fast, they can go to a track day.
The public highway is no place for such activity.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

...well, he was slow before and slow afterwards so it would appear not when there's anywhere else around/

You should take a look at his other videos then, the guy is an accident looking for a locus. The worrying aspect is that he'll take out someone else when he does prang it.

He criticises other drivers, points out their offences and puts their reg numbers in the video at the end yet he himself exceeds the speed limits substantially, even in built-up areas. It seems he prefers to keep his own reg number private in that hypocritical 'don't do as I do, do as I say' fashion.

In pursuit of a BMW 5 series, he takes a blind crest at 86mph (in a 60 zone) getting his bike airborne, landing it just a second before a cyclist passes coming the other way. He then guns it up to 95mph.

This guy's a supreme nobber with no roadcraft whatsoever.

GC

 

[L14M]

He's a knob...


For posting it to the internet. Let him kill kimself. He's having fun at least!

 

[L14M]

Watch this...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwicTKbWam4

 

[summerdays]

Watch this...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwicTKbWam4

That's appalling driving. The speed that he passes the other vehicles and going between vehicles etc.

 

[L14M]

That's appalling driving. The speed that he passes the other vehicles and going between vehicles etc.

He's a nutter..

A very skilled nutter.


A nutter with huge balls!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

He's a nutter..

A very skilled nutter.


A nutter with huge balls!

There was nothing skilful about that.

GC

 

[summerdays]

There was nothing skilful about that.

GC

Agreed - reckless would be a better description!

 

[L14M]

His riding skills are bloody amazing.. Thats what im on about. I agree that he shouldn't do it on the road but, his control of the bike at speed is amazing. Now if it was on a track..

 

[glasgowcyclist]

His riding skills are bloody amazing.. Thats what im on about. I agree that he shouldn't do it on the road but, his control of the bike at speed is amazing. Now if it was on a track..

You're confusing skill with luck. He hasn't a fecking clue what any of the drivers he skims past might do, and he'll have no time to react when the inevitable happens. The trouble is, he'll likely ruin someone else's life in the process.

If he had the skill you think he has, he would be using it on the track.


GC

Edit to correct typo.

 

[Black Country Ste]

This guy really needs sorting out:

Heh, it's been made private. I know that copies have been made and that police are investigating. To anybody trying to justify 110mph in Birmingham City Centre... words fail me.

He's a reckless idiot and should get what's coming to him. Speed limits exist to protect everybody else from idiots and idiots from themselves. A cyclist died on that flyover last year after hitting a fresh pothole that is believed to have developed overnight. This idiot on the motorbike himself said he nearly took off on an uneven surface. He also has videos showing him attempting to start races at 95mph and almost losing control.

I've got to share the roads with this moron. There's one video where he challenges a driver on their phone. I use that road daily.

As I said, police are investigating the content of the video.