Oops! Motorcycle safety - Beemer collision style

[Scott9999]

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Hope y'all can see a facebook video, but that's where I found it. Riding side by side in close quarters? Not such a good idea to me, unless you REALLY know and trust the other riders skills. Leave the riding theater to the motor-officers, IMHO.

Wonder why the rider who started it all, decided to cut between the two? Didn't observe proper following distance, while changing lanes. That's unsafe in any vehicle. (I see folks changing lands two CAR lengths in front of an 80 foot big rig; absolutely suicidal! But I digress ...).

Staggered, one ahead of the other, neither in the same line inside the same lane, is safest, as these three riders found out. Plus, observer proper following distance.

Hope these guys weren't anyone we know.

 

[61996]

It appears to me that he wasn't looking where he was going...

Joe

 

[pauls1150]

Looks like the front tire of the guy changing lanes clipped the back (tire?) of the guy on the left.
Sloppy move indeed.
On I-5 north of here, I once witnessed a true idiot on a Honda 650 dirt bike suddenly change lanes right in front of a semi (to make his exit) when both were going over 55. The truck driver locked up the brakes and blasted his horn, but Darwin missed an opportunity here...

 

[r0ckrat]

Looks like the sportbike up front was on the brakes as the GS was trying to come over, and the GS wasn't slowing fast enough to avoid him.

 

[Scott9999]

Looks like the sportbike up front was on the brakes as the GS was trying to come over, and the GS wasn't slowing fast enough to avoid him.

I also suspected that might be the case, except I couldn't see a brake light on the sport bike. Not sure. However, the GS probably DID have brakes, or could have downshifted. Point is, I suppose, we all cut corners and make unsafe moves at some time in our lives, i.e. bad habits develop. This may have one of that GS's riders few riding errors, but it cost him and fellow riders big. (I'm glad all MY "greatest hits" or mistakes aren't on film, lol). At least he wasn't doing a wheelie and standing on the seat when it happened.

So, I didn't post this to say "... look at that idiot rider ...", but more as "... be careful out there, folks, add the following/passing space, particularly in your turns, don't get complacent."

 

[kbasa]

It looks exactly like what happens when you touch tires with another rider in a pack of bicycles. You're both gonna wind up on your heads. That guy "cutting through" made a really bad decision.

 

[r0ckrat]

That guy "cutting through" made a really bad decision.

The other possibility is that he had a mechanical failure, and was trying to get to the shoulder, hoping the guy next to him (the other GS) would clear space, and didn't see the sportbike's brakes/couldn't apply more brakes. Still not the greatest decision, but if the left margin was even less safe, then I could see a mechanical issue making choices in the moment iffy in any case.

 

[Scott9999]

... could even have been a medical issue. I don't have the story or date behind this video. It was just something posted on FB (which I don't much use, and in fact, hate).

 

[oldcamper]

It happens so quickly!
At least all involved appeared to be wearing good gear.
The GS rider may have had his leg trapped under the bike.
I wonder if anyone was seriously hurt?

 

[lee]

For me the video quality is too poor to get a good picture of what happened.
It appears they were not going very fast because the sport bike did not slide far on the road.

What did the other bikes hit, a hedge?
Not sure if it was a wall or hedge. I guessed hedge because it's green and the bikes did not explode when hitting it.

 

[r0ckrat]

For me the video quality is too poor to get a good picture of what happened.
It appears they were not going very fast because the sport bike did not slide far on the road.

What did the other bikes hit, a hedge?
Not sure if it was a wall or hedge. I guessed hedge because it's green and the bikes did not explode when hitting it.

It was a hedge - the bikes cut into it before toppling.

 

[civismundi]

Playing the video slowly and zooming it looks to me like it might have been the offender's left pannier that clipped the rear of the left bike. The rider might have just underestimated the width of his ship while trying to thread the needle between the other two bikes.

 

[mikegalbicka]

Playing the video slowly and zooming it looks to me like it might have been the offender's left pannier that clipped the rear of the left bike. The rider might have just underestimated the width of his ship while trying to thread the needle between the other two bikes.

That is what I thought also.