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PostPosted: 21:30 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Loose rear sprocket flies off and embeds in car behind... Reply with quote
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A motorist was inches away from injury when a loose rear sprocket from a motorcycle flew through the driver's windscreen.

The flying sprocket narrowly missed the driver before embedding itself into the car's roof.

Pictures of the incident taken by a Californian Fire Department were uploaded to Instagram with the caption: 'A driver on hwy 101 had their window impaled by a motorcycle sprocket. It embedded itself in the roof, narrowly missing the driver.'


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/188253/_bcf/0508-2015-RWCFire.jpg

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PostPosted: 21:33 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 22:03 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
I bet the driver will keep a fair distance back from any bikes in future. Laughing

Does the article mention how the biker faired in all this?
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PostPosted: 22:08 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
How the titty-fucking Christ does a sprocket just part company with a motorcycle???? Shocked
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PostPosted: 22:09 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dave70 wrote:
I bet the driver will keep a fair distance back from any bikes in future. Laughing

Does the article mention how the biker faired in all this?



No mention of the biker...
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PostPosted: 22:25 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Can we identify the bike from the sprocket? Thinking
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PostPosted: 22:32 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fell off the back of a truck carrying a load of scrap? I can't see how that detached from a bike.
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PostPosted: 22:55 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
Can we identify the bike from the sprocket? Thinking


https://r.ebay.com/kToq1k

Better image, it's a mid-90's VFR750 sprocket carrier for sure:

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/7noAAOSweW5U86hv/$_57.JPG
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PostPosted: 22:56 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
bamt wrote:
Fell off the back of a truck carrying a load of scrap? I can't see how that detached from a bike.


Single side swingarm. If the centre retainer comes adrift it's off off and awaay!
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PostPosted: 23:06 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Can't see how that was possible !! I,d like to see the bike it came off & how it got completely detached. Shocked
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PostPosted: 23:28 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Re: Loose rear sprocket flies off and embeds in car behind.. Reply with quote
ScaredyCat wrote:

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nah can't be him, he welds his on to ensure this doesn't happen Wink


that is some final destination type shit right there.
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PostPosted: 23:41 - 11 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Chain was slack?
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PostPosted: 06:13 - 12 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
roadracejoe wrote:
Can't see how that was possible !! I,d like to see the bike it came off & how it got completely detached. Shocked


It's not hard to understand when you see it on the bike. Nut comes off, sprocket follows.

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PostPosted: 08:25 - 12 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
That`s the rear sprocket from a 1995 GS500e, that special one from a few Saturdays ago, Im surprised it lasted this long.
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PostPosted: 08:54 - 12 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pete. wrote:
Rogerborg wrote:
Can we identify the bike from the sprocket? Thinking


https://r.ebay.com/kToq1k

Better image, it's a mid-90's VFR750 sprocket carrier for sure:

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/7noAAOSweW5U86hv/$_57.JPG

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PostPosted: 19:55 - 12 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote
have seen the aftermath of it happening on a 1050 speed triple, god knows what happened to the sprocket, cost hundreds for the new hub and the chain took a good chunk out of the swingarm
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