Motorbike Becomes AeroBike

[Cycling Dan]

Do you think he's shown that video to his insurers?

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I don't think would make a difference to his claim if he did.
Or he may not claim at all then he does now need to tell them anything

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I don't think would make a difference to his claim if he did.
Or he may not claim at all then he does now need to tell them anything

It was a rhetorical question really.

On your second point though, he's obliged to declare it at renewal whether he makes a claim or not.

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[fossyant]

Pansies the lot of them. All that 'protection'. I left a good 6 inch patch of my ass on there but I was coming down that bit. On a bigger screen I could pin point it to the kids....

Needs resurfacing- lovely cycling road but so many potholes.

The surface isn't great.

The fun bit is, on a pedal bike you can keep up with the big bikes on the twisty bits down into Buxton. They don't like that. I've done a bit of keeping up with them on the middle bit of that video. Looks loads different at those speeds rather than on the bike.

 

[Profpointy]

Can't quite work out what went wrong - he seemed to make the last bend perfectly OK, apparently under control and at no great speed, then veered into the path of the Merc for no clear reason - but somehow managed to bail out through the hedge rather than hit it.

Whilst the double-white overtakes were illegal, he did have clear sight lines, so I'd not have an issue with this, though wouldn't do it myself - mind, there are plenty of places where there are broken white lines where it would be sheer lunacy to overtake - even on a bike,

 

[simon the viking]

Perhaps he was trying to recreate a scene from his favorite film.... but was it 'The Great Escape' or' Thelma and Louise' ?

 

[vernon]

Can't quite work out what went wrong - he seemed to make the last bend perfectly OK, apparently under control and at no great speed, then veered into the path of the Merc for no clear reason - but somehow managed to bail out through the hedge rather than hit it.

It's a phenomenon called target fixation and the rider is drawn to the obstruction rather than picking a route around it.

 

[Cycling Dan]

It's a phenomenon called target fixation and the rider is drawn to the obstruction rather than picking a route around it.

Target fixation placed no part until the end. The bend become really sharp at the end and the rider was too fast to be able to make it round. Keep pausing the video up to the last few moments before he grabs the front brake up righting the bike. The bend curves round really sharply

 

[vernon]

Target fixation placed no part until the end. The bend become really sharp at the end and the rider was too fast to be able to make it round. Keep pausing the video up to the last few moments before he grabs the front brake up righting the bike. The bend curves round really sharply

The bend is perfectly rideable and the collision was avoidable. Get some fast riding experience in before commenting about things outside of the envelope of your limited experience Dan.

 

[Archie_tect]

Give over Vern... there must be something you can happily admit to not being able to do.

 

[vernon]

Yawn, give it a rest Vern... there must be something you can happily admit to not being able to do.

I can't give birth....

 

[Archie_tect]

It's technically possible...

 

[Cycling Dan]

The bend is perfectly rideable and the collision was avoidable. Get some fast riding experience in before commenting about things outside of the envelope of your limited experience Dan.

The car is out of sight during the part where he starts to head for the centre lines. What does change is the verosity of the bend and due to his speed he runs wide.
Although he could have pulled on the front brake as the corner tightened which is why the bike becomes more upright and goes stright.
Either way it was over before the car was in sight.

If you want me to print screen what I mean just ask

 

[vernon]

The car is out of sight during the part where he starts to head for the centre lines. What does change is the verosity of the bend and due to his speed he runs wide.
Although he could have pulled on the front brake as the corner tightened which is why the bike becomes more upright and goes stright.
Either way it was over before the car was in sight.

Total tosh.

 

[vernon]

Behave or I am coming up there to have a good go at milking you.

Behave or I might let you.

 

[Archie_tect]

Vern, it's not that a competent rider could or couldn't have completed the corner on the correct side of the road, because a competent rider wouldn't have been going in that fast in the first place, which is Dan's point in the OP if you read it again: "fast in, crash out". A competent rider sets the bike up before starting the bend not halfway through it and accelerates smoothly out at the midpoint on the apex.