As any rider knows, the only purpose of cages is to kill you and the idiot in this one makes a major effort toward that but fails to kill the rider due to most unbelievable damn result you may ever see.
The rider took the hard whack but winding up on the back of the car as he did at that speed meant he didn't tumble and the tumbling after you go down will make one proper mess out of you. He got a whacked leg, probably from hitting the handlebars but I can't even believe the man was walking.
Tip: do not EVEN tell the man he was lucky. Luck is when cages don't get you all smashed up. I'm most happy for the rider since the bike can be fixed but you can see the forks are bent. It's going to take some fixin' to get that scoot on the road again.
The telling point is not the speed since a cage whacked me at half that speed and I was demolished behind it.
As above, every rider knows the purpose of cages is to kill you.
Update: that was false about speed. In the video, there's Velocity 1 for the rider and Velocity 2 for the car. Since they move in the same direction, the speed is the delta Velocity (i.e V1 - V2) and the impact is that velocity squared times mass.
In my own situation, the car was coming turning after coming straight at me so V1 (me) and V2 (he) are aggregated rather than subtracted.
In fact, it was just about this time of year when I got whacked. Stay cool out there, young Ninja.
Biker Law is harsh, mates, since breaking it means you die. The rider fucked-up since he failed to anticipate and it's the same failure as mine in neglecting to anticipate a cage could come out of my blind spot.
Under Biker Law, there are no appeals and any Supreme Court is not on this Earth.
The rider took the hard whack but winding up on the back of the car as he did at that speed meant he didn't tumble and the tumbling after you go down will make one proper mess out of you. He got a whacked leg, probably from hitting the handlebars but I can't even believe the man was walking.
Tip: do not EVEN tell the man he was lucky. Luck is when cages don't get you all smashed up. I'm most happy for the rider since the bike can be fixed but you can see the forks are bent. It's going to take some fixin' to get that scoot on the road again.
The telling point is not the speed since a cage whacked me at half that speed and I was demolished behind it.
As above, every rider knows the purpose of cages is to kill you.
Update: that was false about speed. In the video, there's Velocity 1 for the rider and Velocity 2 for the car. Since they move in the same direction, the speed is the delta Velocity (i.e V1 - V2) and the impact is that velocity squared times mass.
In my own situation, the car was coming turning after coming straight at me so V1 (me) and V2 (he) are aggregated rather than subtracted.
In fact, it was just about this time of year when I got whacked. Stay cool out there, young Ninja.
Biker Law is harsh, mates, since breaking it means you die. The rider fucked-up since he failed to anticipate and it's the same failure as mine in neglecting to anticipate a cage could come out of my blind spot.
Under Biker Law, there are no appeals and any Supreme Court is not on this Earth.
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