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Damned close!!

ShadeTheChangingMan

ShadeTheChangingMan

2011-07-19 20:44:00 UTC

Too close!!!

Stupid Luke

Stupid Luke

2011-07-19 21:24:00 UTC

What the fook happened there? That was like a brain fart or something. He just seemed to forget he was in the corner and went straight on. Lucky he didnt get collected by Cleatus in his Chevvy.

jambox

jambox

2011-07-20 00:56:00 UTC

By the looks of it, someone else did something similar at the same spot due to the amount of rubber on the road.

JohnJJr

JohnJJr

2011-07-20 02:48:00 UTC

Holy Fook ! i know that feelin.

ya realise ya messed up and there's no time for correcting the mishap , ie: LEANING / Turning ! Yur just out of time and it's just not possible.

happened to me once. Now every time i get on the bike i say repeatidly over and over " lean the bike john - lean the bike " until it's kinda engrained into the DNA .....

That guy was lucky ! so was i ....

johnny

ps. in my case the only way i was gona save the day was if i threw the bike down into a powerslide like flat tracking - but again , it all happens so fast .

the_shakes

the_shakes

2011-07-20 06:24:00 UTC

That's tough to watch... and one lucky guy...

Target fixation?

And that looks more like Angeles Nation Forest Highway, not Angeles crest.

Colonel_Klinck

Colonel_Klinck

2011-07-20 06:40:00 UTC

Jesus he was pretty lucky there

THEDUKE

THEDUKE

2011-07-20 07:33:00 UTC

we have all had hairy moments where we run wide but he just thought
2fuck it i cant be arsed turning this corner!"

Katoom

Katoom

2011-07-21 01:54:00 UTC

Holy #$%^! I'd need a change of underware after that one. Great save though.

scamb66

scamb66

2011-07-21 11:34:00 UTC

Holy crap that made me piss myself, would hate to have seen his pants.

indy84

indy84

2011-07-21 12:09:00 UTC

Used up 1 of his lives there

JohnJJr

JohnJJr

2011-07-21 12:09:00 UTC

corner... what corner

matt_black

matt_black

2011-07-22 13:51:00 UTC

Post missing.

AGRO!

AGRO!

2011-07-22 17:06:00 UTC

Post missing.

Sabre

Sabre

2011-07-22 17:32:00 UTC

Post missing.

shadowman

shadowman

2011-07-23 01:59:00 UTC

What the! Had to give that dude credit though at least he missed the cars by going up the gap next to the fence.

AGRO!

AGRO!

2011-07-23 11:07:00 UTC

Target fixation,riding beyond "his" limit,it looked like he was running wide in all the corner's to me trying to stay in touch with the riders in front. A very lucky save helped by the fact that none of the vehicle's swerved to miss him,he then pulls back out without looking let's hope he's learnt his lesson before he injure's himself or other's and ride's at a pace he can handle.

tripoddave

tripoddave

2011-07-23 12:07:00 UTC

That was close!

Seems to make a slow and indistinct turn in on the last bend, this puts him over the line wide which is where the trouble sets in. He nudges back in to miss the first one but then seems to get fixed on the second one and goes wider, then makes a decision and does well to make the gap. As far as I can tell there is no way of establishing if he looked before pulling back out so benefit of the doubt there.

Looks like wandering concentration followed by wandering line followed by a big slice of luck. Still there can't be many of us on here who haven't drifted over the line at some stage. I have plenty of times and my luck was simply not to meet something heavy and solid coming the other way.

Final thought. Perhaps I'm odd but when I have a genuine close call like that I never talk about it. Cant shut me up on trivia but for some reason the 'real' stuff stays in the locker. Anybody else do that?

JohnJJr

JohnJJr

2011-07-24 01:31:00 UTC

I think its normal not to talk about stuff up's because you think your mates are going to say you cant ride but your mates don't tell you about their stuff ups because they think that your thinking they cant ride get the picture LOL!!! We all make stuff up's at some stage in our riding lives but some of us get away with it and some of us don't. Stay safe all

AGRO!

AGRO!

2011-07-24 05:41:00 UTC

Post missing.

KTM666

KTM666

2011-07-24 06:00:00 UTC

Post missing.