all the fancy safety features in the world won't help if you don't do your basic life saver's :oops:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv4oLzN9Tns
:oops: indeed.
Hope the rider was OK
Well, I don't think I'll be rushing out to buy one of those.
I bet the biker got up and said, "Sorry Mate I Didn't See You"......
Come on guys - that's a fake! :popcorn:
I hope the rider was ok but.........PMSL!!! I guess it is back to the drawing board to add another hazzard to the 1000's already programmed in!!! You would think they would get the basics added first! :stupid:
Quote from: mecki on February 25, 2012, 10:03:50 PM
Come on guys - that's a fake! :popcorn:
to be honest I was thinking that. it was the girls reactions that makes it suspect. that was a hell of a shunt, surely no one in their right mind would agree to be the "guinny pig" with a big sod off box van. if it was fixed, the rider deserves an oscar for that "classic pulling out with out looking performance" the way that happend is exactly the way it would happen in real life right to the last detail, so :undecided: on this!!
Been around for years that clip. Certainly a wind up
Just look at how quickly that van stops. If he's going 20 mph it's fast when he hits the bike in the back and not side-on.
And have a good look how the rider is padded out too.
On an open road like that you would expect a van travelling at 60 mph and the crash would look different.
Helmet off for the stuntman, though. :banana:
And then of course there is no such device. :oops:
My guess it's an April fools day joke.
Good clip, seen it many times and yes it's a wind up.
F me, I wouldn't like to be that stuntman then
The video clip is carefully put together so that you think the rider got hit, but he didnt really. Its just a creative bit of editing.
Quote from: Lonewolf on February 27, 2012, 12:51:34 AM
The video clip is carefully put together so that you think the rider got hit, but he didnt really. Its just a creative bit of editing.
the first time I seen this clip was when my mate forwarded it to me! just viewed it a few more times, and it is very cleverly put together :clap: did have my suspicions due to the way the girl acted so was a bit :undecided: on that point. the crash itself, look to me to be "the classic pulling out biker with-out looking" looking back now at the clip, just wondering what" if any, editing as been done. the van hit the bike side on. infact if you look at the clip at the point of impact, the van makes contacts with the bike at the side of the exhaust. did once see something very similar, we where at a bike cafe when a biker pulled away with out looking to his right and a car run into him. lucky for the biker the car driver was a old "window licker" sunday driver and was doing under the speed limit. wonder if it was the same stunt man on his day off :wink: :laugh: