Monday 16th May 2011

Video: Biker Avoids In-Tunnel Pile-Up

Is miracle biker subject of good karma or plain old good luck?

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There's very little that it's possible to say about this video, except that it involves at least two deeply idiotic drivers, one deeply lucky motorcyclist and a tunnel.

Where it is, when it happened or quite why, we can't exactly work out (although we think the news report from whence this clip comes is in Portuguese, which would rather suggest Brazil or - er - Portugal).

 

 

[rich_b]

Why exactly is the biker "stupid"?

[Mr Gear]

The guy on the motorbike did literally nothing wrong as far as I could see! All he did is brake a bit and try and not crash into a bunch of morons.

Very strange text to accompany this article... what are you playing at PHs?

[freecar]

rich_b said:

Why exactly is the biker "stupid"?

Bloody good question! What do people expect him to do in that situation? Fly out of the way with superpowers??

[Shaw Tarse]

Mr Gear said:

The guy on the motorbike did literally nothing wrong as far as I could see! All he did is brake a bit and try and not crash into a bunch of morons.

Very strange text to accompany this article... what are you playing at PHs?

^^This^^

[fatboy b]

Biker's done nothing wrong AFAICS. Looks like the knob in the car that's going about 20mph faster than the rest of the traffic went to overtake car in middle land, but didn't see the bike in the outside lane.

[neil_bolton]

Shaw Tarse said:

^^This^^

Agreed.

[Steve in Stoke]

O/T - the commentary reminds me of the Spanish Glen Quagmire - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN0vSmjNp6I

[hornetrider]

Can only add to the general confusion already posted regarding the biker's behaviour.

[Rawwr]

£10 on it being a PH office bet to see who could come up with the best troll.

[gr88]

what happened happened BEHIND the biker

what did the biker do wrong - it was wker car drivers (as usual)

the collision took the cars passed the biker

the biker was very lucky - and in no way at fault

PH politicaly correct as usual

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

What a ridiculous bit of text to go with the video?
Stupid, oblivious??, lucky certainly.

[Evo]

The red car was driving like at dick and nearly took the biker out from behind. Biker looks like he was driving perfectly safely until one or two cars misjudge their speed and cause a pile up.

Well done to the biker for not coming off. Even if he was going slowly it's upto the cars behind to not barge through him.

Most ridiculous PH post i've read for a while.

[shouldbworking]

I think the bikers actions are conspicuous by their very lack of drama.
'oh a car has nearly taken me out' - carry on
'the car has bounced off the wall to my left' - carry on
'the car is blocking the path in front of me' - brake
'the car is no longer in my way' - brake calmly to a stop.

If it were me I probably would have been more like
'oh a car has nearly taken me out' - swerve right
'the car has bounced off the wall to my left' - hard on the brakes
'the car is blocking the path in front of me' - soil self, probably lay bike down and slide along the tarmac
'the car is no longer in my way' - eye places to change undercrackers.

Either that biker is very very calm under pressure, or fairly inattentive

[dave_s13]

Post this in biker banter, dare you.

Looks like the car does see the biker, about 2" before hitting him, spasms and sned the car sharp left into the tunnel wall....fvkin idiots.

Biker man is one lucky mofo.

[deadmau5]

Is the car at the end a police car? Looks like the two speeders were trying to escape.

[Chris-R]

You're absolutely right folks. All mentions of stupidity ref. the rider been excised, and the author of this homepage article has been whipped with the length of motorcycle chain that Garlick keeps tucked down his leather trousers.

(Not really, we just threatened him with it...)

[MX5guy]

This is why you always need to quote the OP, even if it is one of the PH gods!

[Globs]

The language region/accent places this in Brazil, not Portugal.

[Riggers]

Ummm... I wasn't for a second intending to imply that the motorcyclist did anything wrong, merely that he appeared oblivious to the carnage around him...

I imagine the poor fella was scared stiff... which possibly explains why he simply trundles on as Armageddon happens around him

[iva cosworth]

The red car seems to just turn left into the tunnel wall and the other piles into the large saloon

A8 ?