The "S**t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread (Vol 6)
Discussion
king hell that was dire. Can we have an argumentative about roundabouts instead?
Blakewater said:
Dodgy drivers.
I'm not sure how the lorry comes to be hitting the motorway bridges as I though all lorry trailers available in the UK were designed to get under them, even if it's only with a tiny amount of gap to spare.Otherwise pretty naff this time...especially Anthony S who was far too trigger-happy on the save button...
havoc said:
Blakewater said:
Dodgy drivers.
I'm not sure how the lorry comes to be hitting the motorway bridges as I though all lorry trailers available in the UK were designed to get under them, even if it's only with a tiny amount of gap to spare.
Someone pushing their luck with the trailer design, or getting the measurements wrong? It was clearly only a matter of mm out, otherwise the whole thing would have fallen apart.I'm not sure how the lorry comes to be hitting the motorway bridges as I though all lorry trailers available in the UK were designed to get under them, even if it's only with a tiny amount of gap to spare.
Otherwise pretty naff this time...especially Anthony S who was far too trigger-happy on the save button...
Trailers have air suspension that you can manually raise/lower so it’s level with the dock you back onto for loading/unloading. Especially those double deckers as there are much lower at the rear so need raising quite high to match the dock height. That looks to have been raised and not reset before setting off so could easily be 6” or more higher than should be.
trackdemon said:
Laurel Green said:
Quite a few of those seemed to be riders looking at where they feared they were going, rather than where they ought to be going. Oh, and, the words one doesn't want to hear when out for a ride "are you all right".
Yup. So many lowsides where they've turned in way too early then given up instead of cranking it over and trying to make the turn. At least try, you might hang onto it, the alternative is definitely a crash!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTXy7FQFrw0
Turns into the car drivers path, hits the deck and then just gets back on the bike and drives off.
Car driver has £400 worth of damage and nobody to claim off.
No reg plate on any of the bikes.
Turns into the car drivers path, hits the deck and then just gets back on the bike and drives off.
Car driver has £400 worth of damage and nobody to claim off.
No reg plate on any of the bikes.
Edited by Wagonwheel555 on Monday 29th November 11:52
Limpet said:
My instructor beat this into me in the event of a corner miscalculation. "Look where you want the bike to go, not where you want it to exit the road. And although you think you have exceeded your limit, there's a very good chance you haven't exceeded the bikes. Make the turn." It saved my bacon (and my ZZR600's) during a moment of over exuberance one memorable occasion.
By coincidence my first bike was a ZZR 600 and I should have followed this advice, but due to inexperience I froze and ran off the road. Was low speed and only caused minor cosmetic damage though, so lesson learned.
Limpet said:
trackdemon said:
Laurel Green said:
Quite a few of those seemed to be riders looking at where they feared they were going, rather than where they ought to be going. Oh, and, the words one doesn't want to hear when out for a ride "are you all right".
Yup. So many lowsides where they've turned in way too early then given up instead of cranking it over and trying to make the turn. At least try, you might hang onto it, the alternative is definitely a crash!I believe that any sensible person can ride even the fastest bikes safely, but doing it with zero relevant experience and often no gear is insane.
Edit: This is half of the "test" portion in Cali:
Skip to 55s for him starting to move! Slalom between cones, around in a circle, back round again. There's a part 2 which is a bit more roomy where they have to change gear, that's it.
Edited by Krikkit on Monday 29th November 11:41
Glenn63 said:
Trailers have air suspension that you can manually raise/lower so it’s level with the dock you back onto for loading/unloading. Especially those double deckers as there are much lower at the rear so need raising quite high to match the dock height. That looks to have been raised and not reset before setting off so could easily be 6” or more higher than should be.
Compounded by the fact that (i) the inside lane looks like it used to be a hard shoulder, so there would normally have been a few mm more clearance towards the middle of the bridges, and (ii) the road looks to have been resurfaced or temporarily surfaced, and quite possibly someone forgot to scrape the correct level off. silverfoxcc said:
What am i missing in the clip at 2.45?
Silver people carrier from the right using the junction as a roundabout and doing a 450 degree turn. Thanks for the motorcycle compilation chat. One towards the end featured here on PH for discussion. The one after that with the man mountain in the orange tee shirt toppling over his Ducati is amusing.
pixelmix said:
Glenn63 said:
Trailers have air suspension that you can manually raise/lower so it’s level with the dock you back onto for loading/unloading. Especially those double deckers as there are much lower at the rear so need raising quite high to match the dock height. That looks to have been raised and not reset before setting off so could easily be 6” or more higher than should be.
Compounded by the fact that (i) the inside lane looks like it used to be a hard shoulder, so there would normally have been a few mm more clearance towards the middle of the bridges, and (ii) the road looks to have been resurfaced or temporarily surfaced, and quite possibly someone forgot to scrape the correct level off. I have seen that clip before, and someone who appeared to know about such things suggested problem was the opposite- tractor unit had been lowered to back under the trailer and connect up, but had then not been raised before setting off, hence the trailer canted up. You might think there would be some warning in the cab for that, as I imagine it isn't meant to be driven lowered, but I don't know!
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