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His camera is so wide angle it's almost a fish eye. That distorts the distances making things look much further away than they really are. That makes it hard to judge his mistakes. At first it looked to me like he just ditched the bike from about 100 yards away when he could have braked and/or avoided to the left. I think he locked up his front and maybe the surface was slippery/icy.
Regardless, he wasn't watching far enough ahead the truck was obviously turning before the rider even changed lanes.
I wonder if he was trying to emulate that Russian daredevil video we saw last year - the one where he was overtaking into the oncoming lanes. At least that guy could ride and had razor sharp reflexes.
Last edited by foglefar; 04/26/2011 5:13 AM.
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Yea he wasn't paying attention on that one, but how lucky did he get with that foot being under the tire!
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That wasn't staged? I thought it was a set up or staged accident. It looked like the truck stoped on que.
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Thinking that dude got lucky the truck driver stopped...ouch would/could crush his ankle !!
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What, was he going way too fast? Did he lay the bike down on purpose (I'm thinking so)? And ditto on that ankle!! Wow!!!
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Is there a link? I'm just getting a big white square 
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Here's a link to the YouTube clip... Hard to watch clip
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Is there a link?
I'm just getting a big white square
I get that at work because YouTube is blocked by the firewall. Maybe it's blocked outside the US.
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Hard to judge but it looks like he could have stopped much sooner had he not been distracted.
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Da! Komrade goink too fast for konditions, and not lookink far enuff ahead of heem!
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Quote:
Here's a link to the YouTube clip...
Hard to watch clip
That worked thanks 
Is it just me, or did he prefer to ditch rather than attempt to brake?
Also, I was expecting either the truck driver or the pedestrian to punch him one, except they saw the camera
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Oh my, that was close. Just shows you must always pay attention.
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He rides like I did at age twenty something,
back when I was immortal...
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