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Ceri JC
21-05-13, 04:09 PM
Sorry if this is "Hitler bike", I don't spend enough time here these days to stay abreast. ;)
http://www.visordown.com/snippets/caught-in-the-tail-lights/22776.html
ChrisCurvyS
21-05-13, 04:30 PM
That's been doing the rounds - didn't notice it was an SV. Poor cyclists.
That Mullholland Highway YouTube channel is well worth subscribing too - lots of good examples of good/bad cornering, with slow-mo replays to analyse the technique.
Shouldn't laugh but this cool sleevless guy getting his elbow down on a Harley is priceless -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYxU_lYBHpY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYxU_lYBHpY)
Esp the way he springs up and tries to walk away after the crash, as though nothing happened...
Ceri JC
21-05-13, 04:37 PM
Yes, Mullholland is ridiculous, it makes Tail of the Dragon look like a Mecca for good driving/riding in comparison. :)
ClunkintheUK
21-05-13, 05:16 PM
Found this on one of the related posts.
"Americans can ride bikes, but there's something about the ones that head to Mulholland Highway that would make you think otherwise. I don't know a stretch of road in the UK that suffers as many crashes.
Do as many bikers fall off on Snake Pass or the Cat 'n Fiddle?
What I find amazing about Mulholland Highway is the amount of riders who fall off at almost exactly the same point on the same corner. Was the road designed by Harry Houdini?"
It made me laugh. Clearly the problem is that the road has corners and many (by no means all though) American riders have not seen any of these and don;t know what to do.
That Harley one is classic lol
timwilky
21-05-13, 06:11 PM
still, silly of this twitter numpty to tweet about hit/run a cyclist. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22602141)
jonny.boyd
21-05-13, 06:19 PM
this news story has a fair bit more information. What an idiot she is!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/21/cyclist-twitter-emma-way-knock-down_n_3311809.html
Yeah i heard about that stupid bint
ChrisCurvyS
21-05-13, 09:15 PM
Found this on one of the related posts.
"Americans can ride bikes, but there's something about the ones that head to Mulholland Highway that would make you think otherwise. I don't know a stretch of road in the UK that suffers as many crashes.
Do as many bikers fall off on Snake Pass or the Cat 'n Fiddle?
What I find amazing about Mulholland Highway is the amount of riders who fall off at almost exactly the same point on the same corner. Was the road designed by Harry Houdini?"
It made me laugh. Clearly the problem is that the road has corners and many (by no means all though) American riders have not seen any of these and don;t know what to do.
I think it's a road that attracts a lot of novices and tourists but I think you get a lot of offs on that corner in particular because it's a deceptively tricky one that tightens in the middle. Makes a lot of people panic and stand the bike up and as soon as the tyres hit the dirt, you've lost it.
There were a lot of people in the comments accusing the guy with the YouTube channel of putting oil down but really don't think that's likely - no evidence whatsoever and he'd get lynched. Plus, there are videos of good riders getting their elbows down and managing knee-down two-up.
Ceri JC
22-05-13, 12:16 PM
"Americans can ride bikes, but there's something about the ones that head to Mulholland Highway that would make you think otherwise. I don't know a stretch of road in the UK that suffers as many crashes.
Do as many bikers fall off on Snake Pass or the Cat 'n Fiddle?
What I find amazing about Mulholland Highway is the amount of riders who fall off at almost exactly the same point on the same corner. Was the road designed by Harry Houdini?"
I will say this of American riders; it's harder to tell which are the good ones.
In the UK, there's enough "going on" (with the road itself, other traffic, etc.) that usually within seconds, I am able to form a pretty accurate opinion of what the rider is like. The overwhelming majority of times, when I then follow the rider for a period of time, this opinion is confirmed through their actions. In the states, particularly in fairly empty rural areas, you can follow someone doing 55mph for 10 minutes and still be none the wiser of whether they're going to crash when they come to the stop line or run wide when you finally reach a bend.
And it probably isnt helped that the roads are mostly just straight lines ha
this news story has a fair bit more information. What an idiot she is!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/21/cyclist-twitter-emma-way-knock-down_n_3311809.html
Wow, love the last line about her firm sponsoring a local cycle challenge!
Should get her to do community service for a year helping the club and having to ride a push bike
ChrisCurvyS
22-05-13, 08:51 PM
It speaks! (accompanied by daddy's solicitor) -
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2013-05-22/cycle-tweet-girl-breaks-her-silence/
It's all been blown 'way out of precaution' apparently. Didn't even feel his bike hitting her car....apart from when the handlebar hit her mirror.
And suddenly she's a cyclist herself! Solidarity.
HAHAHA I honestly thought that was a typo, but no, it was blown out of precaution!! Lmao!!!
ChrisCurvyS
23-05-13, 10:42 AM
HAHAHA I honestly thought that was a typo, but no, it was blown out of precaution!! Lmao!!!
Great one isn't it? She's even thicker than I expected.
Gotta give it to the wiley solicitor: 'Listen, are there any pushbikes in your dad's garage that you could ride?'
'Er, yeah I think so.'
'Officers, in actual fact my client herself is a cyclist and so was completely dismayed to discover that she had knocked this young man off his bike...
"And then boasted about it on Twitter. Under the misapprehension that if someone 'doesn't pay road tax', you have right of Emma Way and are therefore legally entitled to run them off the road as you see fit."
Fordward
23-05-13, 07:44 PM
What the hell happened here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IoJ9hQj37M
He wasn't even leaning that far or going that fast when the front washed out
Description said braking accident, id guess he locked up?
Fordward
23-05-13, 08:12 PM
Description said braking accident, id guess he locked up?
OK, makes sense, didn't read the description, just the 'lowside' title. Guy's a price muppet then. That speed and lean angle alone wasn't going to cause a lowside on dry tarmac.
maviczap
23-05-13, 08:18 PM
Wow, love the last line about her firm sponsoring a local cycle challenge!
Should get her to do community service for a year helping the club and having to ride a push bike
It speaks! (accompanied by daddy's solicitor) -
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2013-05-22/cycle-tweet-girl-breaks-her-silence/
It's all been blown 'way out of precaution' apparently. Didn't even feel his bike hitting her car....apart from when the handlebar hit her mirror.
And suddenly she's a cyclist herself! Solidarity.
Great one isn't it? She's even thicker than I expected.
Gotta give it to the wiley solicitor: 'Listen, are there any pushbikes in your dad's garage that you could ride?'
'Er, yeah I think so.'
'Officers, in actual fact my client herself is a cyclist and so was completely dismayed to discover that she had knocked this young man off his bike...
"And then boasted about it on Twitter. Under the misapprehension that if someone 'doesn't pay road tax', you have right of Emma Way and are therefore legally entitled to run them off the road as you see fit."
Glad you're ok Matt, I had a van turn in front of me at traffic lights the other day & I was ahead of him, I didn't even know until he turned in front of me.
Anyway you're one of those stupid cyclists
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22639720
She's managed to get on all our local TV news bulletins, the poor little dear!
According to her its been blown out of all proportion!
Scary that she thinks she's got the right of way, her employers have suspended her & Police are investigating.
To Tweet or not to Tweet, that is the question
Why tweet saying you knocked someone of then later say you only clipped him and wonder why everyone thinks your a ****?
Fordward
23-05-13, 08:40 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22639720
22 seconds in, apparently social networks get blown "way out of precaution"
LOL
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22639720
22 seconds in, apparently social networks get blown "way out of precaution"
LOL
Maybe what she was trying to say was "anyone cycling near me should use precaution":rolleyes:
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