Raw Video Shows Oregon Motorcyclist Fall on Highway - Video 7/15/09

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | July 16, 2009 | BrianinMO

[Federalist Patriot]

Here is raw video from an Oregon State Police Dashcam showing a motorcyclist taking a fall on the highway. You see the motorcycle sliding down the highway with the rider tumbling across the pavement. He then gets up, stunned, and is helped by an officer.

The rider was wearing a helmet. (Watch Video)

[BenLurkin]

My sincere wishes for you contining safety and enjoyment FRiends. “Live to ride and ride to live.”

[Osage Orange]

I had a "tank slapper" at speed on the 91 Frwy in Riverside, CA about 1981 or so.....

It was a Saturday morning...( Good for me...) and I was accelerating to get out of a car's blind sight...and whammo...I couldn't hold it and went down.

My biggest fear...even while sliding down the concrete...was I didn't want to get run over by cars behind me!! I couldn't stop soon enough..!! Ha!!

Once I stopped...I got up and ran to the medium, post haste.

Cars stopped...I ran back to my bike...picked it up..and pushed it to the side.

A car stopped to see if I was okay.....and I was checking myself out...and thought I was good...except my butt really hurt. Seems I slid mostly on my butt...and lost about an 1/2" of butt on one side!!! My shoes, gloves, were shredded. I never hit my head...& I had a helmet on.

My bike had case savers on it....and one side was ground down...as was one foot peg...brake lever, mirror, blinkers...etc. But that baby started right up....and I rode to my sister's house...screaming all the way....cause my butt hurt real bad!!! HA!!

I think it cost me $120 bucks to get the bike back to square one.....My butt on the other hand...took a bit of time to get over. Was miserable.......

The whole problem was a Dunlop brand new front tire...that was out of balance. I prolly could have sued...but I didn't.

Anyway.............I can relate!

[blackie]

Yeah BL, 45,000 killed on highways each year...they aren’t all riding motorcycles.

I’m an old curmudgeon who has been riding motorcycles since 1946 and I’m still riding them...

Save your pontificating for your bar buddies and other worthies who care...

[4woodenboats]

"....shadows". Saw 'em, wasn't sure which way & from where, what sun's position was - most of everything else was a guess. You might be on to something, though I don't think the car would've been going so fast, and the biker would usually see it a ways off - though I did stuff myself and my bike under a truck that swung out of an alley onto a street that I was turning onto a few decades ago.

My bike ended up just behind his front tire and I ended up just behind the rear tire.

We were both going slightly fast for a commercial area, and he was looking left as he was turning right, never saw me until the bike & truck met. I just slid off my seat and "body surfed" around the rear wheel.

Poor guy thought he killed me, just had road rash on my arm.

[BenLurkin]

You are certainly at liberty to pay no mind to what I have to say.

And likewise of course.

[blackie]

Rock and roll and a good time was had by all...

[Deaf Smith]

Look at the shadows of the PD vehicle, cop, the trees/shrubs and the vehicles moving in the same direction the bike was traveling......and then the truck’s.

[4woodenboats]

I see what you mean. Seems there is a street perpendicular and just aft of the cop.

For the bike to have collided with the truck, the car would have had to keep on going after watching the bike & rider go down directly in front of him. It's possible, the bike was all the way on one side, the rider on the other, but unlikely with a cop right there.

Or, either that car (again, unlikely) hit him or another that was crossing perpendicular to the bike and either behind the truck or crossing 180 degrees from it, which would have put it 10 feet farther from the cop's camera, and 10ft closer to the bike.

If it was a short car, the shadow probably wouldn't show up on the camera.

I still don't see why the cop doesn't show any interest in any vehicle - unless he called it in when audio is out, caused accident himself, or the rider washed out his front end, swapped ends or went straight over the bars like the Yamaha in Martin Fierro's clip.

I bet he'd feel pretty stupid if he was practicing stoppies in front of a cop, and I've seen worse, but I doubt it.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Cycles account for 5% of vehicles and 16% of fatalities in here in MN.

Part of the exhileration of riding is when you just survive the ride.

[Salamander]

Yeah, the Low Rider was a really sweet trike.

It lives in Florida now.

[sans my paint job, of course]

[Salamander]

“and came most of the way off the freshly Armor All’d seat”

LOL!!!

Hubby pulled that on me once.

The Corbin leather solo seat in the photo posted was looking a bit road weary so I re-dyed it.
He thought it didn’t look ‘shiny’ enough any more and did the same thing.

When I threw my leg over the seat of the parked bike and started to sit down, I just kept going and off the other side.

I wear lightweight lambskin riding jeans most of the time now, just for the extra “butt grab”.

[Fool me once....]...;-D

Loved the grizzled Pan rider story.
No “fair weather biker” is he....:)

I have early DDD as well. [runs in the family]
Currently, my new chiropractor is trying to “kill me to cure me”, I suspect.

[Salamander]

Why thank you so much!

[though my riding gloves just say “RIDE HARD” in reflective letters on the fingers]...LOL

[Reddy]

Well, that’s even better, right? :(

[Reddy]

Nice bike. Actually I like bikes (and bikers), but I believe that riding a bike is more dangerous (especially without a helmet) than riding in a car. That’s all I’m saying.