It's those big wheels, man!
If everyone rode small wheels
this wouldn't happen!
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.
Unless, of course, there is a nice guardrail in your immediate path and future.
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.
And that's just in his underwear!
LOL - I shoulda said '300 feet of road hash' :^>
It's those big wheels, man!
If everyone rode small wheels
this wouldn't happen!
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.
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. ;)
It's not the speed that kills, it's the instantaneous decelleration.
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.
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!
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.
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.
I like the 11K rpm at 220. Just watch out for that exploding tire.
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.
Perfect!
He's lucky he wasn't ground to a pulp. Idiot.
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