Schadenfreude: a very expensive ducati in a muppet off. I feel bad for giggling

[HenryDorsetCase]

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[HenryDorsetCase]

PS Dont worry, the guy gets up and walks away (the first still looks bad but he's OK)

[imdying]

Yep, you've definitely been punched in the head too many times if you think that's worth a laugh... could've been his friends and family going to a funeral, would've been a bit like Joe's I expect.

/edit: Maybe it's funnier with sound?

[PrincessBandit]

Bet he was thankful for the barrier arm...

[BoristheBiter]

What is it with that corner?
There are so many Youtube clips with bikers dropping it there.

[Paul in NZ]

What is it with that corner?
There are so many Youtube clips with bikers dropping it there.

Guys with cameras getting there early and putting down grease?

[Paul in NZ]

Yep, you've definitely been punched in the head too many times if you think that's worth a laugh... could've been his friends and family going to a funeral, would've been a bit like Joe's I expect.

/edit: Maybe it's funnier with sound?


Lighten up ... Its nothing like the same.

Theres hardly a major road around ChCh that I can ride down that hasn't seen some kind of event I was personally involved with. Ride long enough and you end up with a bunch of ghosts riding at your shoulder - you deal with it or stop riding. For some people appling a little humour is a way of dealing with it.

[avgas]

Bet he was thankful for the barrier arm...
Most people are when they hit one and walk away.
Its only when someone doesn't that anyone cries bloody murder about a vehicle being prevented leaving the road and dying because THEY HIT something.

[Ants]

OK, I know I'm a noob biker, but I don't see why he lost it there or what went wrong? The video doesn't show the lead up but it doesn't look like he was going too fast, or in at the wrong angle ... just looks like he leaned over and fell off ?

[Virago]

What is it with that corner?
There are so many Youtube clips with bikers dropping it there.

The legendary Mulholland Drive I believe - the only fault with the road is that it has corners.

It is a muppet mecca, with wannabe Rossis coming from all over, to take turns at trying to get their knees down.

It's well organised, with the riders queuing up for their turn to fall off, and cameras at key vantage points to capture to idiocy.

[5150]

The legendary Mulholland Drive I believe - the only fault with the road is that it has corners.

It is a muppet mecca, with wannabe Rossis coming from all over, to take turns at trying to get their knees down.

It's well organised, with the riders queuing up for their turn to fall off, and cameras at key vantage points to capture to idiocy.

Sounds like my kind of road :cool:

[willytheekid]

The legendary Mulholland Drive I believe - the only fault with the road is that it has corners.

It is a muppet mecca, with wannabe Rossis coming from all over, to take turns at trying to get their knees down.

It's well organised, with the riders queuing up for their turn to fall off, and cameras at key vantage points to capture to idiocy.

Yup!, hit the nail on the head there mate.

Every wannabe yank racer "tries" to ride that road (with no skill or experiance...just a good credit card!)
Got no sympathy for rich idiots wreaking geogeous machines trying to be "cool".

just gotta go on youtube and watch the REAL riders carve that road up! (it IS a bikers dream road after all)....but most of them, like this clown, are going slow and yet completely out of control with no clue how to ride a bike around a corner!

....such a waste of a ducati! :weep: (and crashing it like that is just a crime!)

[cs363]

OK, I know I'm a noob biker, but I don't see why he lost it there or what went wrong? The video doesn't show the lead up but it doesn't look like he was going too fast, or in at the wrong angle ... just looks like he leaned over and fell off ?

Looked to me like he locked the front wheel and it tucked under. You can see the skid mark in the slow-mo replay.

[HenryDorsetCase]

is this the same corner? I read some of the u toob comments and they seem to suggest that corner is offcamber. The patch of new seal might have something to do with it too.

I do feel sorry for Ducati guy, and believe me I've had my share of muppet offs. And I do feel bad for giggling.

But shit, its only a bike, he walked away: thats a good outcome.

Check this great save:

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in jeans too.

[BoristheBiter]

The legendary Mulholland Drive I believe - the only fault with the road is that it has corners.

It is a muppet mecca, with wannabe Rossis coming from all over, to take turns at trying to get their knees down.

It's well organised, with the riders queuing up for their turn to fall off, and cameras at key vantage points to capture to idiocy.

I had sort of figured that was the case.
A bit like the coro loop.

[FJRider]

is this the same corner? I read some of the u toob comments and they seem to suggest that corner is offcamber. The patch of new seal might have something to do with it too.

I do feel sorry for Ducati guy, and believe me I've had my share of muppet offs. And I do feel bad for giggling.

But shit, its only a bike, he walked away: thats a good outcome.

Check this great save:


in jeans too.

It IS the same corner ... I guess thats why the video camera is THERE ...

[SVboy]

I have seen the clips too-I dont know why they fall off. My U-tube perception is that the corner[which evolves into a tighter left hander] is not that challenging, yet they high side or lowside heaps. Easy to label them as Noobs[and some are!], but I think there must be more to it than that. Perhaps the camera dosent show the true camber, road surface or sharpness of the corner?

[Ronin]

Watch this, Yes yes it's a cage but gives a good idea of the road. The "fall off" corner is the last one. I think people relax before they should. Combine that with the fact that they all know there are cameras there. We all know what happens when someone watches...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHtwUr-IkHM

[tigertim20]

The legendary Mulholland Drive I believe - the only fault with the road is that it has corners.

It is a muppet mecca, with wannabe Rossis coming from all over, to take turns at trying to get their knees down.

It's well organised, with the riders queuing up for their turn to fall off, and cameras at key vantage points to capture to idiocy.

you are bang on. that corner is called the snake or something, I forget now. That guy (rnickeymouse) goes up there every weekend or so and just sits there and videos guys binning on that very corner. I want to set up a bike repair shop just up the road, Id make a fuckin mint!!!

look up the rest of his vids, there is some pretty aquidly behaviour to be seen.

I dont find a bin funny usually, but as long as the rider walks away unhurt (ego excluded) than I can see the humour in the stupidity that was the cause.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Watch this, Yes yes it's a cage but gives a good idea of the road. The "fall off" corner is the last one. I think people relax before they should. Combine that with the fact that they all know there are cameras there. We all know what happens when someone watches...




Lawks, that was pretty cool. I dont really approve of drifting, because motorsport is about winning, not style points, but I do admire their car control. Plus there is something visceral about lighting up the rears and giving it death. (On a closed road under the supervision of the California Highway Patrol, natch)

[Brett]

Watch this, Yes yes it's a cage but gives a good idea of the road. The "fall off" corner is the last one. I think people relax before they should. Combine that with the fact that they all know there are cameras there. We all know what happens when someone watches...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHtwUr-IkHM

That is one nice sounding machine. Decent driving too.

[Shadows]

Watch this, Yes yes it's a cage but gives a good idea of the road.

Far out. Imagine how quickly he could do it if he drove properly.