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Motorcyclist dies after crashing at nearly 300 Mph
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| 7/15/12
| Dave Sherwood
Posted on 07/15/2013 4:09:59 AM PDT by DemforBush
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To: DemforBush
..bike veered right, went off course, he was thrown 40 ft in the air close to 100 yds...was conscious and communicating on way to hospital but later passed......
RIP Mr Warner
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posted on
07/15/2013 5:02:48 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Eric in the Ozarks
According to the article it is a “modified, turbo-charged Suzuki Hayabusa”.
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posted on
07/15/2013 5:07:26 AM PDT
by
BraveMan
To: knarf
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posted on
07/15/2013 5:31:48 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Throw a plastic bubble over the passenger compartment, and you have a great, all-weather commuter vehicle.You should look up the Monotracer. It's exactly that.
To: DemforBush
another life just wasted...
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posted on
07/15/2013 6:13:28 AM PDT
by
fabian
(" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
To: Doogle
Thank you for posting a sensible and tasteful comment. He wasn’t a maniac or a moron, he was doing this in a controlled environment. He knew there could be risks involved, as did everyone else participating. Some of us need a little more excitement in life than can found sitting on a couch watching other people do things on TV, or posting ignorant and tasteless comments in a thread like this.
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posted on
07/15/2013 6:42:48 AM PDT
by
-YYZ-
(Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
To: DemforBush
Have seen Top Fuel bikes run 260 in the quarter-mile
with the front wheel off the ground half the track.
Just guessing he had something break on that run.
Heard a driver say once they aren`t very hard to drive
when they are right.
RIP
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posted on
07/15/2013 6:44:25 AM PDT
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
To: DemforBush
“Hold mah beer n’ watch this....”
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posted on
07/15/2013 6:46:44 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: DemforBush
To: DemforBush
Race director Tim Kelly said local authorities were investigating the incident. "Something occurred and he lost control of the vehicle. That's all we know right now," he said. At that speed, even hitting an insect would probably feel like being shot.
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posted on
07/15/2013 6:57:00 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: onedoug
He was texting at the time of the accident. “Almost to 300...”
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posted on
07/15/2013 6:57:12 AM PDT
by
conservaterian
(Time for a CONSERVATIVE party, but no, if we do that the libs will win !)
To: -YYZ-
This guy lived about 10 miles from me.
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posted on
07/15/2013 7:06:53 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: PGR88
At that speed, even hitting an insect would probably feel like being shot. I've surpassed 164 on my bike, and cannot fathom nearing 300. At 150+, any tiny deviation from perfect is a mountain. A piece of pea gravel, a fly, a small bump in the road all have major ramifications. We were in a reasonably controlled environment and it was still somewhat unnerving.
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posted on
07/15/2013 7:15:33 AM PDT
by
RobertClark
(My shrink just killed himself - he blamed me in his note!)
To: DemforBush
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posted on
07/15/2013 7:42:18 AM PDT
by
Slambat
To: BraveMan
Take note of those sponsors, because every one of them has some blood on its hands.
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posted on
07/15/2013 7:44:46 AM PDT
by
Romulus
To: Romulus
Yeah its a shame people must push the envelope of their own free will
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posted on
07/15/2013 7:56:00 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: PGR88
At that speed, even hitting an insect would probably feel like being shot. Prob why he attempted this in Maine, down south hitting a June Bug would like being shot with a .45
Prime South Carolina June Bug
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posted on
07/15/2013 8:22:02 AM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: fabian
another life just wasted... Hardly. Every death id regrettable, but everybody dies. He wasn't sitting around eating potato chips all day on his sofa. I'm not sure what the fellow did in his day job, but given the sponsorships he had on his bike, it doesn't look like he was just a layabout. Folks who do this kind of thing are pushing engineering knowledge. I'm sure that much was learned in the process of developing his cycle.
Just because someone is taking risks, and pushing envelopes doesn't mean they are stupid.
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posted on
07/15/2013 8:43:31 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: Tax-chick
When they do stuff like this, they are pretty armored up. Surprisingly, it's possible for at least some of them to survive crashes at pretty high speeds:
In a previous event, a female rider had fallen from her bike at 211 mph, but survived with only minor injuries.
I wouldn't have thought it possible to survive a fall from a bike at 211 mph with minor injuries.
To: Romulus
Take note of those sponsors, because every one of them has some blood on its hands. Do you say the same thing about sponsors of NASCAR?
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posted on
07/15/2013 8:46:41 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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