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Video says it all really, clearly a communication issue between his eyes, brain and right hand....

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And not looking more than 6ft in front of him, he did actually spot was happening but didn't react until much later, he should've been standing on his brakes then or heading for hard shoulder to give himself more braking room, or having better obs and speed for the road and conditions of course.

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He passed 2 cars that had their brake lights on. And only realised on approaching the 3rd that there might be a reason for this. Less swearing, more braking, manoeuvring, or planning and he had tons of room. Lucky lad, could have been worse!

Jambo

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http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/naturelibrar...reat_tit_1.jpg

Glad hes okay though, could have got a bit squishy.

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As well as his observation skills being incredibly poor, though it is hard to tell from a video, the way the back end of the bike is moving about looks like he locked that with little or no front brake.

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It is hard to tell from any video just how close or not something is but it looked as though he may have been able to squeeze through if he hadn't locked the rear causing him to fishtail or head for the hard shoulder.

As mentioned before also looked as though he didn't use much front brake.

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If he'd slammed on the anchors the front end would have dived, and it didn't. I think this is another "I watched a video where someone locked up the front, front brake is scary, I'm never using the front brake again!"

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There we have a classic without due care and attention. Don't play with lorries they hurt!!!

Hopefully he will have learnt a lot from this and that would be the end of it.

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Im struggling to see how he managed to crash there. Is the guy blind or something? Cars with brakes lights on, 2 massive lorries clearly visible from a long way back and he still manages to mess this up. Sell your bike pal and call it a day.

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siht... Siht.... SIHT.

Very lucky not to end up under the wheels either side of him, and then rolling around on wheels of his own for the rest of his life.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Silly ****er!

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And this is why the rest of use get a bad rep.

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OMG what a stupid move!
first - if you're gonna mess with tight spots pull ya mirrors in...
second - learn how to ride
third - sissy bars ... really!
looks like no injury - apart his ego...

he won't mess with trucks again for a long time!

I am all for lane splitting / filtering but slowly and always looking well ahead for lane changers!

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The filtering was a bit aggressive to start with. Traffic was moving quickly enough. I reckon it was an elbows in moment. YC would have made it through nee bother.

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Lmao he had so much time to stop its unreal. What a nob

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hahahahhahahahaaaaaaa dumbass.

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" there was no way I was going to stop"
Really?
Try your brakes at the same time as the cars did!

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Agree with the comments on rear wheel braking. Noob!!

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Yeah, that.

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That's not filtering & that's a very bad example of riding

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There is a break on the back wheel???? When the **** would you need such a thing????

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haha what a nobber, did you see the way those artic's came from nowhere? lol

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I think when riding its always better to look for than 20 foot in front of you . :D

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Why would anybody film themselves doing this, let alone post it on the web?

Nobody can ride that badly & still be alive surely?

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Heavy progressive braking with BOTH brakes would've stopped that bike, nothing wrong with using rear as long as your effective with it.

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They are useful for rear wheel skids when showing off to girls, and that's about it.

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If you use it wrong ;) They are useful at low speeds to help with manoeuvrability.

Also, on a lot of new bikes the front and rear brakes are linked. Pressing the front brake also brings on a bit of rear brake to help settle the bike.

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Don't mistake this for a serious conversation my good man!

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Did she look fit. .?.
Or have I missed the point of the thread.

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Oops!

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Oh dear! What a fool. Surely the humiliation of weaving through those cars like that and then falling off in front of them is punishment enough!!
Oh the shame of it all. I just can't imagine how stupid he felt when the people who were seconds ago more than likely calling him a D!ckhead were out of the car seeing if he was ok as he picked himself up off of the floor!

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It's a pity the dude didn't use his brakes as much as he said the naughty S word!!
It's the bike I feel sorry for! :)

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Respect to the car drivers for asking if he was ok, not adding "knob" to the end

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his brain was too busy concentrating on using words. how the feck could he not see two huge feckin artics up ahead, where did he think he was going to go when they were side by side. moron, complete and utter moron who should not have a bike licence. in fact he is that special he should use public transport and make the roads a safer place.

i'm still dumbfounded as to how he could not see two huge lorry's in front of him.


ooohhh wait he might have not been wearing his glasses as they are two heavy due to being to thick as he is obviously blind as a bat.

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Ha Ha! I've just shown it to my 2 year old son.
He just laughed at the end and said. "He can't do it!" Sums it up really.

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I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and defend the guy to some degree. When on the motorway/dual carriageway casually driving with people around you doing 50 - 80 mph you don't expect to suddenly come across traffic doing 2mph. When you do the speed in which you close the gap is massive and trying to scrub off 70-odd mph on a bike is a tough deal.

I get the impression from some of the comments here that people have the braking ability of Rossi when in reality who knows how we'll brake in a panic situation. Me in that situation, I would've most likely nail the front brake too hard and been on my back side sliding into the lorry's. I personally would give him a pat on the back for having the foresight to brake hard but not too hard that he could still alter his path. Also for realizing he didn't have enough room to stop and no hard shoulder so trying to take it down the middle to make more room. It didn't work but think of the outcome if he got on the brakes, target fixated and planted himself in the back of the lorry.

On this guys official channel he does say he was on the brakes before the first "S" word. As for the car managing to stop we all know as bikers that's not a fair comparison. They have 4 wheels on the ground, 4 brakes and possibly ABS so all they have to do is stand on them as hard as they can.

I know this is going to be picked apart and proved wrong but I can see it from the riders point of view. He's the same type of average rider that we all are. :smt102

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Scott, I see where you're coming from and as we all know, that video seems like he had loads of time but in reality that would've happened in a heart beat, still doesn't excuse the fact that he wasn't looking far enough ahead, he was going too fast for the traffic, he didn't see an escape path quick enough etc etc.

I'm no super confident rider and have done things that if viewed by an on board camera would have negative comments from everyone, but I'm sure most riders have too.

He made a really bad judgement and survived, let's hope it's his last one.

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For him not looking far enough ahead I sit on the fence on that one. He might very well not have been. But if I see 2 lorry's side by side in the very distance I assume that they are overtaking and doing somewhere in the 50's mph. I do a lot of driving and I've wrongly assumed a car in the distance is going faster than it is then having to quickly react to change lanes or apply the brakes stronger than I was expecting. I'm sure I'm not the only one. It's not until you get closer does your mind register they are actually doing 5mph.

I agree on the point he was going too fast for the traffic. I personally think he did see an escape path quick enough and as above I'd pat him on the back for taking it while being heavy on the brakes. I cannot see any other path he could of taken that would've been safer. Maybe if he had an ABS bike the back wouldn't of slid out and caught the lorry and he would of manged to filter through without meaning it.

But don't get me wrong I'm not saying what he did was wrong because he ultimately was in the wrong. I just think he did quite well considering the situation he put himself in and am not willing to throw insults at him. Plus I've been that guy wearing a camera, had a stupid off into bushes and put it on the internet. :lol:

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Not knocking your opinion at all seggons, but I really can't applaud him for anything other than posting his embarrassing video on the net! There's no way I would ever weave in and out of traffic like that ever!
Again I'm not the most confident rider, nor do I have the braking ability of Rossi ;)