Can't ride bike. Crash motorcycle.

[N Dentressangle]

One of those youtube videos where the title sums it up better than correct English ever could:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZlAPD67jfQ&NR=...

Sorry if a repost. You've got to feel sorry for the guy - I hope he wasn't badly hurt.

Still can't work out exactly how he manages to do this - even I haven't managed anything quite this daft yet. Yet.

[Schmeeky]

Similar thing happened to a guy I did my DAS with - at red lights on a T-junction, waiting to turn right onto the main road. Lights go green, blokey sets off but somehow doesn't turn... and hits a brick wall almost head on. Both he and the bike were pretty much OK, but he must have decided that biking wasn't for him, because I never saw him at the school again... But at least he found that out before spunking $39,000 on a Harley!!

On a similar theme (if that theme is that money can't buy you happiness), one guy I had some lessons with was a millionaire. While out on a lesson the rich guy and the instructor pulled over to wait for me as I'd been held up by traffic lights - when I got to them, the instructor was picking up the rich guys bike, and he was trying to clean himself up. They'd pulled over by the verge, and blokey slowly toppled over and landed in a big pile of dog st! The instructor was quite good about it, but couldn't stop himself giggling to himself (and us over the radio) for the rest of ther lesson!

[John Laverick]

He had zero throttle control ... combined with possibly trying to give it the ‘big un’ for the camera results in classic target fixation then BOOM!!

[Mr OCD]

John Laverick said:

He had zero throttle control ... combined with possibly trying to give it the ‘big un’ for the camera results in classic target fixation then BOOM!!

Spot on... what did he wish to achieve by giving it big handfuls before letting the clutch out?