Maxwrist - luckiest b*stard alive?
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Dead on, rinse and repeat...
But don't forget the usual non-crash types:
Those who will sit in a car's blind spot in mooching traffic, then go apopleptic when the car moves across not having seen them.
Those who filter at roughly one billion miles per hour on the freeway and are surprised when someone changes lanes into them
Those who pin a sports bike up through a few gears from some lights, then get offended when a car pulls out
But don't forget the usual non-crash types:
Those who will sit in a car's blind spot in mooching traffic, then go apopleptic when the car moves across not having seen them.
Those who filter at roughly one billion miles per hour on the freeway and are surprised when someone changes lanes into them
Those who pin a sports bike up through a few gears from some lights, then get offended when a car pulls out
Krikkit said:
Dead on, rinse and repeat...
But don't forget the usual non-crash types:
Those who will sit in a car's blind spot in mooching traffic, then go apopleptic when the car moves across not having seen them.
Those who filter at roughly one billion miles per hour on the freeway and are surprised when someone changes lanes into them
Those who pin a sports bike up through a few gears from some lights, then get offended when a car pulls out
They always seem to be on Yamaha MT07's as well for some reason?But don't forget the usual non-crash types:
Those who will sit in a car's blind spot in mooching traffic, then go apopleptic when the car moves across not having seen them.
Those who filter at roughly one billion miles per hour on the freeway and are surprised when someone changes lanes into them
Those who pin a sports bike up through a few gears from some lights, then get offended when a car pulls out
Do they get them as gifts in Happy Meals in America?
Yup...gravel on the road! It's a classic.
True story....
I did my direct access licence training with an excellent instructor around the Crewe area 15 or 20 years ago. I was out front on his Yamaha XJ 600, he was riding a Yamaha 850/900 TDM behind me.
We were motoring (!) along some twisty rural B roads, I was getting a lot of instructions in my ear... I remember riding into a corner where there was a lot of fresh cow sh!t everywhere. In the middle of the corner he said to me "stay calm, throttle on, use the bars" and then on the next straight he said "cow sh!t or gravel isn't such a big deal, just let the bike go off line when you ride over it...let it slide, stay calm, it'll grip again, use the bars, stay on the throttle"
My main memory from this time is the simple message, shouted repeatedly into my earpiece from 50 metres behind....
"USE THE BARS!"
True story....
I did my direct access licence training with an excellent instructor around the Crewe area 15 or 20 years ago. I was out front on his Yamaha XJ 600, he was riding a Yamaha 850/900 TDM behind me.
We were motoring (!) along some twisty rural B roads, I was getting a lot of instructions in my ear... I remember riding into a corner where there was a lot of fresh cow sh!t everywhere. In the middle of the corner he said to me "stay calm, throttle on, use the bars" and then on the next straight he said "cow sh!t or gravel isn't such a big deal, just let the bike go off line when you ride over it...let it slide, stay calm, it'll grip again, use the bars, stay on the throttle"
My main memory from this time is the simple message, shouted repeatedly into my earpiece from 50 metres behind....
"USE THE BARS!"
Krikkit said:
What's the requirement for a bike licence in the US? Seems like a lot of these crashes that come from there are riding well above their ability and then fixating on the outside of a bend when all they need to do is follow basic procedures.
For Colorado: You have to sit a multi-choice 25 question online exam and get 20 of them right. Its literally common sense. Then you do an observed handling test in a car park marked with lines, like a slow speed moto-khana. You can do this on any bike you like. There is no road component of the test but I think that's only if you already have a car license. Once completed, you can go buy any bike you want. I know because I had to do it 
Maxwrist never hits an apex, he hits everything else instead! I’m not even sure how he manages to crash some of those corners. As far as I can tell he seems to think the best time for full throttle is entering a corner, and when he looses traction doesn’t ease off. He spun the trike that way and seems to ride his bikes the same. In short luck has nothing to do with it.
Krikkit said:
ddom said:
I think it's just a car licence with no restrictions on bike sizes.
Probably against their rights
A little reading around and it's pretty much just the off-road portion of a CBT! No street riding assessed at all. Madness.Probably against their rights
No wonder they're a rich seam of crashes. They have 5000 motorcycle fatalities per year, in a population of 328m. By comparison we have about 350 in 70m, so they're 3x higher than us despite having a significantly lower population density.
Edited by Krikkit on Thursday 4th June 15:47
Another day another crash.
9 min in if you can't be arsed to watch the inevitable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87cUBRC3-OI
9 min in if you can't be arsed to watch the inevitable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87cUBRC3-OI
Biker's Nemesis said:
Another day another crash.
9 min in if you can't be arsed to watch the inevitable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87cUBRC3-OI
8:50 - left to right bend from a 'fast straight' matey is carrying to much speed into the corner and cooks it wide. 9 min in if you can't be arsed to watch the inevitable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87cUBRC3-OI
10 minutes "Your chest looks fine... from here".
13:28 makes sure camera is still rolling.
15 minutes... leaves his mate on the deck after thanking him for an awesome ride.
Classic.
There are no words to describe the weapons grade muppetry on display here.
Lets be clear, Max
is about the crashes. I would suspect he's goading the accompanying acolytes into showing off their skills for the internet stardom knowing there's a good chance of a crash.
it's his USP but it sems he's passed the crash baton to his gang of love strucks.
Any guesses when he enables his first fatality.....
Lets be clear, Max
is about the crashes. I would suspect he's goading the accompanying acolytes into showing off their skills for the internet stardom knowing there's a good chance of a crash.it's his USP but it sems he's passed the crash baton to his gang of love strucks.
Any guesses when he enables his first fatality.....
anonymous said:
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Riding at speed needs trust and understanding from the participants.I have a great friend who i would do weekend breakfast runs with and we ride in a very spirited way......
Fast, (>150mph) parts would be fine within meters of each other because we understood each others riding and would ride offset so we both saw what's ahead. So we're reacting to the road ahead and not each others smallest adjustment.
It's the idiotic passes requiring the other side of the road especially the blind sections is asking for disaster.
Speed doesn't kill, it's the application of stupidity that brings the tears...
anonymous said:
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Thing is this Max tt character seems to be like a Pied Piper for the Internet celeb afflicted Snowflakes. If you gather a bunch of clowns who you have no idea about and stoke up a show off environment, s
t is going to go sideways mighty quick.Point is, speed is a responsibility, same as on track. Ride like a twunt on track and it's a black flag...On the road the variables are far greater and the inevitable is going to happen sooner or later.
Someone is going to get seriously hurt in all of this
PartOfTheProblem said:
ddom said:
That's a great quote for a tombstone.
Never made an apex.....
I prefer 'hit everything except the apex...'Never made an apex.....
but brilliant all the same.
The level of f
kwittery on display is off the scale. Just mental.Harry Hogge:
All right. While we're still under a caution, I want you to go back out on that track and hit the pace car.
Cole Trickle:
Hit the pace car?
Harry Hogge:
Hit the pace car.
Cole Trickle:
What for?
Harry Hogge:
Because you've hit every other goddamned thing out there, I want you to be perfect.
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