"Hero" biker spacks himself, gets kudos

[Rogerborg]

Outbrakes himself, locks up the rear, ends up on the wrong side of the road, target fixates on a ditch and rides into it. Snappyback, spazzed for life.

But because he didn't plough through a mob of pedalists, he's a "hero" who's raking in donations.

Does that make Smiler superman?
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[AshWebster]

"His favourite word is groovy" Enough said..

Anyway he's clearly paid a big price for his lack of riding skill. Undoubtedly it was pure luck rather than 'a split decision' that he didn't hit any cyclists, as if he had actually seen them he might have fixated on them and stayed on the road
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[Rogerborg]

Indeed, it smacks of post-fail justification.

I'm sure with sufficient trauma counselling he'll remember the packet of Walkers that jumped out from a hedge.
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[Bubbs]

"I felt my back snap"


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[Tracer1234]

[arry]

[groovylee]

[BTTD]

I was just reading that article and thinking exactly the same.

If he's a hero then the rest of us who don't crash on a ride must be double super hero's.

It also sounds like many of the 'murcan crash stories, where they had to "lay 'er dawn".

[doggone]

So .. headline should - be speeding biker crashed into ditch after losing control on a bend - narrowly missing cyclists who probably had baskets of kittens.
How did he swing that?
Must be shagging journalist or editor.
But not any more by sound of it.

[Rogerborg]

[arry]

"he chose the ditch, saving the cyclists but severely injuring himself."

The cyclists would have been a much softer landing - head first into padded Lycra clad asses.

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

+1 for nominative determinism: music teacher Chris Toon.

[J4mes]

I'd have done myself, and the world, a favour and landed in the lycra-clad rolling road block.

[BTTD]

[MATTT]

If they wernt riding 2 or 3 abreast team racing style ,like they must do around here as its the old Olympic cycle route and they think they are all in team GB,he probably would have just ridden past them all

[suburban myth]

https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/hero-nottingham-teachers-split-second-254178

His sentence would likely have been less if he'd done the cyclists.

[M.C]

I dunno cyclists don't weigh very much, fatties on a charity walk will break your fall a lot better.
https://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7029808.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Beefy-Walking-the-Rainbow-Nation-Sir-Ian-Botham-Charity-Walk-In-South-Africa

[UncleFester]

“He has such an impact on kids, and they all want to be just like him. His favourite word is groovy.”

Not as great as the impact he could have had on those cyclists ..... clearly a quitter!
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[M.C]

Reminds me of this: https://www.myvideo.ge/v/913423 (4m39s)