Car driver narrowly avoids death by motorbike sprocket

**gjm** · 10th May 2015, 21:54

Wow.

Not sure how this could happen, but... Wow.

**bogan** · 10th May 2015, 22:01

Single sided swingarm with the sprocket carrier nut not tightened and staked would do it...

**Berries** · 10th May 2015, 22:58

Fucking cagers.

**Maha** · 10th May 2015, 23:21

He must have hit a pot hole.

**nzspokes** · 11th May 2015, 06:26

That will stop the fucker talking on his phone while driving....

**5150** · 11th May 2015, 07:24

That will teach him for following tailgating the bike

**p.dath** · 11th May 2015, 07:49

Since they make no mention of a motorcycle, which surely would have suffered a catastrophic failure for such a part to come off, perhaps the sprocket was lying on the side of a road and was caught by a vehicle's tyre and flicked up, or perhaps it was being transported on another vehicle and came off.

**R650R** · 11th May 2015, 09:13

Redwood California, prob Sons of Anarchy setting up the Chinese again...

**caspernz** · 11th May 2015, 12:43

Meanwhile on the Mythbusters' auditions...

**Banditbandit** · 11th May 2015, 12:44

Originally Posted by p.dath

Since they make no mention of a motorcycle, which surely would have suffered a catastrophic failure for such a part to come off, perhaps the sprocket was lying on the side of a road and was caught by a vehicle's tyre and flicked up, or perhaps it was being transported on another vehicle and came off.

Yeah .. I'd go with this ...

Getting the sprocket out of a moving bike would mean dropping the axle, the wheel and all ... catastrophic failure ..

**5ive** · 11th May 2015, 12:53

Sorry mate, I didn't see you (or your sprocket).

**chasio** · 11th May 2015, 19:34

Dear Highway 101 driver

Just a quick reminder that you are lucky to be alive.

Try to remember that next time your coffee is not hot enough or Facebook is down for twenty minutes or some other bullshit.

Lots of love

Sprocketman

**rok-the-boat** · 11th May 2015, 19:43

That sprocket is way too clean to have come off a moving motorcycle. There is no oil on it whatsoever. Something smells fishy to me.

**R650R** · 11th May 2015, 22:00

Originally Posted by rok-the-boat

That sprocket is way too clean to have come off a moving motorcycle. There is no oil on it whatsoever. Something smells fishy to me.

Maybe with a lack of maintainance it was one of those vandals that cant be arsed using chain lube, just run it dry. Cant really tell from that photo but the hub part looks dirty... just clean faces on the teeth.