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Motorcycle Going 130 MPH Crashes On I-75
Yahoo News ^ | Thu May 26, 9:38 AM ET

Posted on 05/26/2005 12:28:56 PM PDT by martin_fierro

Motorcycle Going 130 MPH Crashes On I-75

Thu May 26, 9:38 AM ET

Police said a motorcycle was going 130 mph just before it crashed on Interstate 75 overnight, seriously injuring the operator.

Shawn Baher, 32, is being treated at University Hospital.

Baker crashed about 3 a.m. on the southbound lanes at Paddock Road. The highway was closed for a few hours. An Arlington Heights officer was trying to pull over the motorcycle when it crashed, police said. Baher was charged with speeding and reckless operation.


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To: chapin2500

Unless, of course, there is a nice guardrail in your immediate path and future.


21 posted on 05/26/2005 12:42:35 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems are putting all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: GreenAccord
Thanks, I understand. Fella is supposedly still alive, huh?

I prefer to think the story is bogus. Yep, he may have been cookin' at 130, but how he crashed is critical in his damage accrual. If he was heeled over, negotiating a turn, and the bike slid from under him thats one thing, but if the bike did sumtin while he was upright, blown tire, garbage in the road, whatever, would have been another. The further you are from the ground before you smack it predicates the height of the bounce and bouncing make appendages extend and that is a lot worse than just slidin' for a few hundred feet in a fetal-like position.

22 posted on 05/26/2005 12:44:03 PM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: 68 grunt
Really! 300 feet of skid mark.

And that's just in his underwear!

23 posted on 05/26/2005 12:44:41 PM PDT by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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To: balrog666

LOL - I shoulda said '300 feet of road hash' :^>


24 posted on 05/26/2005 12:46:19 PM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: martin_fierro
>Motorcycle Going 130 MPH Crashes On I-75


It's those big wheels, man!
If everyone rode small wheels
this wouldn't happen!

25 posted on 05/26/2005 12:46:56 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: 68 grunt

I remember a COPS™ episode where a biker attempts to run from a policeman in his squad car. The rider, on something akin to a Nighthawk 650 (probably not, but it surely wasn't a race bike) sped off and within about a half mile, was catapulted off a truck fender. Broke his helmet in the back on a curb, I believe.

I think he was pronounced dead on the scene, based on how somber the police were all acting.

On a race course, 130 mph wrecks are 'survivable'. Anywhere else, there's likely too many things to hit once you're off the bike, sliding to a halt.


26 posted on 05/26/2005 12:50:13 PM PDT by GreenAccord
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To: martin_fierro

Road racers get off at 180+mph, pick the bike up and get back on it if the bike isn't all pranged up.

If you low-side it the rider has a small chance of injury ~ high-siding is a different matter, you pick up speed as you sail though the air.

I've high-sided a dirt bike but never a street bike ~ but I've only been riding 57 years ~ lotsa time left. ;)


27 posted on 05/26/2005 12:53:31 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: martin_fierro

It's not the speed that kills, it's the instantaneous decelleration.


28 posted on 05/26/2005 12:54:46 PM PDT by ctlpdad (Liberals - weeds in the lawn of society.)
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To: theDentist
Unless, of course, there is a nice guardrail in your immediate path and future.

Cars, guardrails, cattle...I get a kick outa watching these fools race and crash on TV, the more cartwheels the better. Stupid is as stupid does, or something like that.

29 posted on 05/26/2005 12:55:18 PM PDT by chapin2500 (Howard Deans eyes are to close together.)
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To: truth_seeker
You could say leathers also make the cleanup easier for the ambulance crew.
30 posted on 05/26/2005 12:59:09 PM PDT by chapin2500 (Howard Deans eyes are to close together.)
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To: GreenAccord

Quite true and inarguable. My youngest kid races, dirt, track and canyon. Went down once, probably doing less that 40 when the bike slid out from sand on the road, busted his head against a rock. Helmet broke like an egg. Saved my kid, but underneath the helmet was a lot of busted scalp, right down to the skull. Dang, I hate the emergency room!


31 posted on 05/26/2005 1:02:27 PM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: chapin2500

I was once following a motorcycle with a female passenger.

It may have blown a rear tire.

The motor began swaying side to side and finally the passenger was thrown off. She landed on her white shorts clad butt and bounced a time or two. She popped right up and I could see two pink patches where she bounced.


32 posted on 05/26/2005 1:07:29 PM PDT by bert (Rename Times Square......... Rudy Square.)
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To: chapin2500
If you land properly and are wearing leathers you'll just kinda skip like a skipping stone on water.

Show me the cow that was designed to slide 130 mph on asphalt.

33 posted on 05/26/2005 1:10:04 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (I have more handguns than some European countries.)
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To: chapin2500; JoeSixPack1
What 220 mph looks like (60-140 mph on one wheel)
34 posted on 05/26/2005 1:12:52 PM PDT by martin_fierro (behDINGdingdingdingBWAAAAAbwaaaaa)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Show me the cow that was designed to slide 130 mph on asphalt.

It's cow leftovers but it the best I could do, at least it LOOKS like it slid at 130 mph.

35 posted on 05/26/2005 1:39:56 PM PDT by chapin2500 (Howard Deans eyes are to close together.)
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To: martin_fierro

I like the 11K rpm at 220. Just watch out for that exploding tire.


36 posted on 05/26/2005 1:43:22 PM PDT by chapin2500 (Howard Deans eyes are to close together.)
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To: GreenAccord

If you want to outrun cops in cars, the bike is the way to go. But you need to know how to ride one and you need to plan accordingly. Lots of right turns instead of crossing traffic, and maybe a little off road doesn't hurt. I've seen Cops episodes where the guy took off on a bike and the cop admitted that if he knew how to ride it, he'd be gone.


37 posted on 05/26/2005 1:48:28 PM PDT by 1L
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To: chapin2500

Perfect!


38 posted on 05/26/2005 2:13:42 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (I have more handguns than some European countries.)
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To: martin_fierro

He's lucky he wasn't ground to a pulp. Idiot.


39 posted on 05/26/2005 2:24:24 PM PDT by Asphalt (Join the NFL ping list ... All thing football ... FReepmail Asphalt to get on or off)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
See link @ #34 when you get home.
40 posted on 05/26/2005 2:27:33 PM PDT by martin_fierro (behDINGdingdingdingBWAAAAAbwaaaaa)
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