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Feck that brought back memories. That's just what I was doing when I came off. Only I didn't get as far as he did and came off the bike earlier and went into the barriers.
Not sure what would have been worse. Hitting the barrier or getting run over. :shock: :shock:
:( hope he was ok.... well as ok as you can be after been run over like that.
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I have to say I hate looking at stuff like that, and I really think a warning should be given when posted (if of course it should be posted at all). The only thing in it's favour is that it just might prevent someone on here from doing the same thing.
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carelesschucca
13-03-06, 10:20 PM
CAR GOES OVER BIKER says it all, that'll have chaffed slightly...
ethariel
13-03-06, 10:40 PM
Holy S*it that must have stung
/shudder
Colin
Peter Henry
14-03-06, 07:14 AM
Despite the headline,(which could have been taken as something of a warning I guess) I felt compelled to look.
The only problem with leading people to links of this nature is that you do not really know how they will react or what similar circumstances they might have actually had to deal with.
For me personally that video hit a rather raw and fresh nerve. About 3 weeks ago Someone I had only recently met was out for a ride on his brand new RSV Mille. We do not know why for sure,but he lost the bike in a section of bends. The chances are he would have survived this fall if only he had not been hit by a car travelling in the opposite direction.
In a fitting gesture to Dave a group of us met on Sunday to pay our last respects to him. You might find it odd but we all signed his Arai helmet and then visited the spot were his accident occured. The picture below shows some of us just metres from where we picked up a section of fairing and part of his chin air vent from the helmet.
It had been decided to clamber up the rock face and choose a suitable tree and to chain Dave's helmet to a bow of said tree. This was all done in a respectful manner and not at all in a morbid way.
Just a few fellow bikers sharing the loss of a friend and making their own gesture at his passing.
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/8123/hpim15717vs.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
That actually strikes me as a really nice tribute. :cry:
Anonymous
14-03-06, 03:45 PM
Sorry to hear of your recent loss Peter.
I know exactly what you mean about finding piece of faring though.
Last september, 12 months to the day of my mate colin being killed on his bike, we all went to the scene where it happened to lay some flowers and to pay our respects again.
In amongst the overgrowth where we were laying flowers, we saw some plastic. We managed to pull it out and we got a great shock.
He had been riding a GSXR1000 - as we all know, the farings at the back of the bike have "1000" written on it. Well the piece of plastic we found was this "1000", it had been smashed from the bike in the colision. But it looked like it had been cut out perfectly, sharp jagged edges, but the "1000" was perfectly unharmed.
It was extremely surreal. We didnt know what to do with it. We decided in the end to lay it next to a little plaque that his wife had had made up. His bike had been removed and disposed of, so we figured in a wierd way that at least a bit of his bike would remain at the scene where his biking life ended.
Just watched the clip and feel sick now.
If the car had got ABS then it probably would have been to avoid him.
Sorry to hear about your friend Peter :(
Warthog
14-03-06, 05:21 PM
I purposefully haven't watched the clip, thanks to the title. I hate seeing things like that, and my condolenses go out to anyone who has lost biker friends.
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