Now this is a close shave. Hory shet!

[Wiki Drifter]

I would've shat a shit brickhouse :shit:

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[supa.m]

How close was that!!!:shit::shit:

[MSTRS]

WTF was he doing so close to the centreline!! His fault!!!

[Madness]

WTF was he doing so close to the centreline!! His fault!!!

Bullshit. The ute crossed the centreline completely and was lucky to avoid rolling over into the ditch.

[Virago]

Bullshit. The ute crossed the centreline completely and was lucky to avoid rolling over into the ditch.

Hook, line, and...

[supa.m]

Bullshit. The ute crossed the centreline completely and was lucky to avoid rolling over into the ditch.

:gob::corn::innocent:

[Madness]

Hook, line, and...

Fair call.

The way KB is these days though there's bound to be some bugger in here before too long suggesting the world would be better off if the biker was killed.

[kiwisfly]

Fair call.

The way KB is these days though there's bound to be some bugger in here before too long suggesting the world would be better off if the biker was killed.

stone him stone him

[Road kill]

Damn,,,so that's what it looks like from that angle huh.
The slow mo' is really cringe makin' :wacko:

[5150]

Yup, it's off to change the brown undies....:shit:

[PrincessBandit]

stone him stone him

Noob. It's "burn him".
:msn-wink:


I'd have come off my bike in the shocked aftermath of a close shave like that most likely. With car long gone, oblivious to the rider suffering from heart failure and road rash.

[wysper]

Damn!! That is some scary shit right there.

[Rhys]

gave my a fright just watching it :shit:

[steve_t]

WTF happened there?! Was there a corner or something I missed as to why the ute was on the wrong side of the road?

[Renegade]

i would have given chase

[red mermaid]

I followed a car once that was right on the centre line as it went round a corner in a 100 km/h area. Right on the bend it met a car on the centre line going the other way and they hit on their wing mirrors.

The other car kept going and I never saw it again.

I stopped the car I was following and the female driver was drunk.

What was even more interesting was a few months before she had had a crash on that same bend in the same sort of circumstances, but on that occasion she ran off after the crash and wasn't found until the next day.

Karma eventually caught up with her. :Police:

[skippa1]

:shit:fast reactions

[Spearfish]

I would have had a spontaneous and fairly substantial evacuation then been really pissed off at having to try get the gear off and hidden in the bottom of the washing machine before #1 spotted it.

Seriously though, Holy fuck that was close!

[baptist]

Shivers down the spine or what...:gob::sick: drunk, on the phone, just plain stupid? what gives driving like that :no:

[swbarnett]

Time for a Stebel me thinks. And perhaps a rear mounted rocket launcher so they can't repeat the stunt.

[Spearfish]

Was it real? :shifty:

[rastuscat]

Whew!!

Holy cow, that was close. I suspect I wouldn't have been smiling quite so much after being that close to death.

I posted about people not keeping left. Great example.

:Police:

[Paul in NZ]

Yup - that was close... Had a few similar moments on the Paekakareki Hill road and I was a lot closer to the gutter on my side....

I really prefer the left hand wheel track and only approach the centre line if I'm well sighted to see whats coming. 'Course on some roads (Akatarawa's for example) thats very difficult to do.

Vehicles have gotten bigger and bigger and gruntier and the drivers lazier.

[MSTRS]

Bullshit. The ute crossed the centreline completely and was lucky to avoid rolling over into the ditch.


Hook, line, and...


Fair call.

The way KB is these days though there's bound to be some bugger in here before too long suggesting the world would be better off if the biker was killed.

Actually, I did mean what I said.
From what I could see in the clip, the rider was nowhere near the left wheeltrack and the SUV was straddling the centreline (about centred under his diff). Also, the 'corner' was really no more than a slight bend. Yes - video sometimes distorts things - but it really looked like the rider would be able to see well ahead, so he should have seen the other vehicle in plenty of time to not be caught out.
Mind you, I can understand that it is possible the SUV driver deliberately (?) veered right at the last minute...

[nodrog]

did he wave?

[Parlane]

Mind you, I can understand that it is possible the SUV driver deliberately (?) veered right at the last minute...

To avoid a rabbit maybe?

One of the problems with a camera is that it only has one view on the situation.

[slowpoke]

i would have given chase

Because a Goldwing or GB400 make fantastic pursuit vehicles eh? :Pokey:

[BAY CITY MOTORCYCLES]

did he wave?

Why, reckon it was a Mexican?

[Ender EnZed]

So who was riding? The video looks like it was from NZ.

[Banditbandit]

i would have given chase


I would have been too busy getting over the adrenalin rush ...

[Road kill]

WTF happened there?! Was there a corner or something I missed as to why the ute was on the wrong side of the road?

The Ute was on the wrong side coming out of a minor corner.
I've had a car hit me in exactly the same manner when I was driving my car,clipped mirrors but put mine straight through my half open drivers side window and into my face.
Wasn,t hurt bad but scared the hit out of me,,,,then I had the same thing happen on the same corner about a month later when riding my bike, but it was as I was coming out of the corner this time and the car driver "not the same person" was setting up to enter it by first swinging wide onto my side of the road,,,only missed because I took action.
This is why I still make referance to locals cutting corners on Awhitu rd on the way up to the top of the South Manukau heads.
I like firearms,,,,and I do have my private fantasys:yes:

[blackdog]

So who was riding? The video looks like it was from NZ.

Looks like Riffer! Not his bike though.

[Scuba_Steve]

uploader obviously doesn't like beards, but thats not what the vid is about... Seems not all bad drivers are NZ based
http://www.machovideo.com/video/Very_close_call_23432/

[Ender EnZed]

Seems not all bad drivers are NZ based


Actually, that video might be in NZ. Riding on the left side of the road and the black Hilux has what could well be an NZ plate.

[Milts]

Actually, that video might be in NZ. Riding on the left side of the road and the black Hilux has what could well be an NZ plate.

The video was in Australia. The riderwas testing the new BMW for Gizmag.

The full story can be found here:

http://www.gizmag.com/close-call-bmw-s1000rr/19667/

[98tls]

To avoid a rabbit maybe?

One of the problems with a camera is that it only has one view on the situation.

:laugh::laugh:Spot on i reckon,stupid Aucklander in a 4wd swerving to avoid a rabbit,:gob:imagine the mess it would have made.