Horrible high speed crash

[UrbanRacer]

Crash happens at 1:39.

2 riders having a bit of cat and mouse through some fast turns until one of them target fixates.... quite disturbing hearing the groans of the crash victim, another rider is killed by the crashing motorbike flying through the air in the opposite lane

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca5_1441037545

[Pete.]

"When morons attack".

Guy wasn't helped by his riding companion who probably distracted him by getting up close on his quarter just before the bend keeping him on the outside of the turn and close to the wall. If the guy on the kwak hadn't backed off there he'd probably have turned in a lot sooner.

Shame the innocent guy travelling opposite had to die for their idiocy.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[Pigeon]

The guy on the inside was slowing, so that effects the visuals. But it looks like the crasher got a stuck throttle, the bike seems to accelerate into the reservation no?

Or was it just the other guy slowing down made it look like the outer guy sped up?

[barrkel]

[doggone]

[recman]

Let's just ignore all the rumble strips and get on the gas.

[Undinist]

Might have been target fixation, looking at the barrier instead of the apex. It's an easy thing to do if you ride mostly in town and get in the habit of looking at the bumper of the car in front of you. Then on the open roads you don't look far enough ahead.
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[RhynoCZ]

[UrbanRacer]

[RhynoCZ]

Well my theory is much simpler, he just got scared and panicked. Or he was just an inexperienced rider, that went too fast in a corner too tight for him. Because the lean angle was the same until the impact.

Or maybe the position of Mercury to the Venus had inauspicious effect on the Sun, which caused it to shift the Earth slightly to the left, which made him crash.

Well, I do believe the police record says ''target fixation'' so let's leave it there, shall we?
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[goto10]

The tyre mark on the barrier was there before the motorbike hit it too - so it doesn't look like the first time someone's been over that barrier at that same spot.

(The ramp shaped barrier didn't really help matters either...)
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[RhynoCZ]

[Undinist]

[goto10]

[bikertomm]

Fuck that was bad. So so easy to fuck up
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[binge]

Call it target fixation.
Call it a stuck throttle.
Call it what you want... But that riders skill is not good enough for the riding he was trying to achieve.
Body position is that of a moron who surfs roundabouts.

Dick head riding has caused an innocent rider to die.

Save that shit for the race track.

[Chuffin Nora]

mmmmmm

Moderately high level of positive camber misjudged, miscalculated, misinterpreted.

Misadventure.
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[lurker]

How can anyone judge the riders experience level?
Regardless of whether you're Joey Bloggs or Joey Dunlop, approaching a treacherous bend at that speed is never going to turn out well. He underestimated the corner and how much it was going to tighten. Daydreaming? Distracted? Inexperienced? Who knows. Only the people that were riding with him would be able to make an assumption.

[UrbanRacer]

[techathy]

I think he got scared/panicked. From about 1/3 between his apex point & first contact with the barrier the bike starts to stand up. I think he started to brake rather than trying to turn a bit tighter. my uneducated 2p

[The Wobbly Orange]

Would say I agree with most on here and it's a case of getting carried away and allowing hubris to overtake experience. I am willing to say every single member of this forum has been guilty of it. I certainly have been. 9 times out of 10 it just means a near miss. Of the one in ten times normally it means some spill or a bump but not normally something awful........that one time in a hundred though. Well nobody deserves that.
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[MCN]

The old saying, A Bad Road.

There are no bad roads, there are plenty in poor condition or unsuitable for certain activity on them but this road is very very clearly marked out as having a massive hazard ahead.

The same eejits fucked up The Cat and Fiddle. The Cat and Fiddle is/was a nice road but too much bike for too little skill scuppered that affair.

The guy spelled out his intent when he was hanging off and attempting to get knee down.

A shame for both of them.

The same mentality is ruining UK roads by idiot councils bleating for 50 MPH limits in 'wide open countryside. And plastering the roads with double white lines.
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[Suntan Sid]

[Mingles]

I don't know why people like to view pix of bad crashes.
It makes me feel a bit sick in the stomach.
I wouldn't want to think people were looking at pix of me crashing, ugh, shudder.
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