Four reasons motorcycle insurance ain't as cheap is it should be ....

[thewiz]

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[oseaghdha]

I like the first one, where the second truck eats his bike.

All good examples of Balls/Brains>1.0

[prometheus578]

Man... I wish I was there...

"Good goin', Boob!"

[trbig]

All of these come down to... "Don't try to show off in front of friends!"

My question is... the one video where the guy brings the front tire down and gets that tank-slap high speed wobble he can't recover from. I've seen it many times in these crash videos, but never experienced it. What causes it and can you simply fight the bars, hold them straight, and recover?

[oseaghdha]

All of these come down to... "Don't try to show off in front of friends!"

My question is... the one video where the guy brings the front tire down and gets that tank-slap high speed wobble he can't recover from. I've seen it many times in these crash videos, but never experienced it. What causes it and can you simply fight the bars, hold them straight, and recover?

You have to change the dynamic of the system. If you try to stiff-arm the bars, it will transfer more gyrations to the rest of the bike and you will biff.
Usually the idea is to either load or unload the front wheel, depending on how it started, by braking or adding gas and it will die out.

That guy had all his weight come down on the front end. If he could have sat back down he might have saved it.

I had one set in one night when I was laying down on the tank running about 80 or 90. I think the road surface started it wobbling. I just sat up, let off the gas and it subsided.

[egleaves]

In the third video it looks like the little white car is mostly at fault for traversing 3 lanes of traffic within a matter of 20 or 30 feet. Granted, the guy on the bike was probably moving a little faster than he was supposed to, but if someone pulls a stunt like the white car did you're sorta left at the mercy of another persons poor judgment.

The first was my favorite, though.

[CatatonicBug]

All of these come down to... "Don't try to show off in front of friends!"

My question is... the one video where the guy brings the front tire down and gets that tank-slap high speed wobble he can't recover from. I've seen it many times in these crash videos, but never experienced it. What causes it and can you simply fight the bars, hold them straight, and recover?

I saw one of those "most amazing" videos on TV once, where the guy was a professional stunt rider, and was using some back road in Florida. He was up on a wheelie, and brought his leg over the top, just in time to notice a disabled car on the side of the road. He brought the wheel down, but did it so fast that the forks folded in on the front wheel, and he went down HARD.

[Crazcnuk]

Strange, and counter-intuitive as it may seem, the best way to get out of that is to relax and accelerate.

The caster in your front end will actually straighten out the front end.

Most people panic and hit the brakes and/or let off the gas.

[Ivan]

All of these come down to... "Don't try to show off in front of friends!"

Ok, first thing is, I don't have any friends.

Next thing is who am I supposed to show off in front of? Total strangers? They might get the [right] idea that I am an idiot.

I did get a kick out of how fast that first bike was spinning when everything else had stopped. Watch the left of the frame near the end.

[Toolmaker Tim]

I liked the last one, both the bike and the rider got air.