Bike vs Sheep, Masterton 19/01/2013

[Akzle]

fucking fysiks fagits.

[ducatilover]

Practical analysis?

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I managed this distance at 160-165km/h
Approx 200m says Google maps
But grass has a low co-efficient of drag, but fences do slow a body down prett well (no reccomended though)

[duckonin]

Practical analysis?

Really proud of the fact you are a proper cunt EH ? plus u should not own a motorbike costing us all ACC increases fucking idiot.

[tri boy]

How good of a lubricant is fresh sheep blood?

Not as good as a warm pigs head with the tongue still in.
Abbatoirs rock.

[Asher]

This how im choosing to imagine the crash (except change the deer for a sheep):


Im sure a police investigation will prove me right.

[ducatilover]

Really proud of the fact you are a proper cunt EH ? plus u should not own a motorbike costing us all ACC increases fucking idiot.

Should I just pretend I never fucked up?

[Ender EnZed]

Anywhere, anytime.

Speed cameras? Not on any of the good roads.

Fucking sheep.

To take the head off a sheep you must of been low flying. To kill it yes, after hitting it, but the other to remove it's head !!!!!!!!

hit correctly with the energy in a largish bike plus rider doing 100k over the relatively small area of a front tyre knocking the head off the sheep would seem possible if a bit unexpected.

I can see why some people might question the speed reqiured to take a sheeps head off an then slide 100 meters.

It all depends on how you hit the sheep thing and how you slide.

For the record:

I've hit a sheep at about 90km/h. I'd put my initial sighting of the sheep at about 15m, in mid jump from behind the foliage adjacent to the road. Initial sighting was at or close to full throttle, third gear on a ~100hp VFR750.

15m at 90km/h is 0.6 seconds, not a shitload of time when you're in the midst of assessing a corner 50m away in mid ride, but more than nothing.

That is to say, my reaction time will have played a big part as to what was happening on impact with the sheep. I'm sure I closed the throttle but I don't think I did any significant braking to speak of. I know I locked the rear wheel during the encounter but I don't think I actually heaved the front brake in to any degree prior to impact that would've significantly altered the weight balance of the bike.

Thick gravel is better on an open throttle with rearward weight bias, I assume the same applies to sheep.

The result of the encounter was one sheep (may have been an X-month lamb, I'd say 35ish kg) split in not-quite-half. I hit it pretty much dead centre. There was spinal cord visible right the way through and about 3cm of skin/wool by 1cm of flesh holding the two halves together.

The bike stayed upright and was was totally unaffected apart from a fair bit of sheep guts.

I consider myself lucky to have experienced this specific incident without consequence. Conscious decision certainly played no part in matters after the initial sighting.

[Mushu]

27.8m/s is with the bike actually being powered along.

If you suddenly shut the throttle you would not be doing 27.8m/s.

For a body to slide (or tumble) 100 metres after impact it would suggest a speed of considerably more than 100kph.

You're forgetting about how much of that 100m was spent in the air, which based on what has already been said accounts for a third of the slide from the riding position, and given how low a sheep's head is he probably got catapulted up at least a bit to clear the tank and screen and tumbling wouldn't slow you down nearly as well as sliding does. But even the distance stated is questionable op has no recollection of the crash so 100m is probably from the police report and I'd guess that he was found 100m from the dead sheep or the point of impact rather than how long he slid (how much gets left behind when leather slides down the Rd - all almost nothing in my limited experience)

There is literally no solid evidence each way to prove weather or not he was speeding but it's not just the katmans that are giving him shit, that stuff article makes the poor guy look incredibly irresponsible. I feel bad for him, he was just out cruising along with some friends then all of a sudden a sheep..... Then hospital and long recovery, insurance and victim to the stereotype (assumed guilt)

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[SILVER SUZI]

I'd say almost without a doubt it was the sheep's head that dragged him away from the bike, as a forensic counter measure. Then the head fucked off to avoid prosecution.
As for the bike, get yourself some Autosol, and some turtle wax. It'll probably all polish out.
Helmet's fucked though!

[cheshirecat]

Anywhere, anytime.

Speed cameras? Not on any of the good roads.

Fucking sheep.









For the record:

I've hit a sheep at about 90km/h. I'd put my initial sighting of the sheep at about 15m, in mid jump from behind the foliage adjacent to the road. Initial sighting was at or close to full throttle, third gear on a ~100hp VFR750.

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Yes but it was a VFR. If its anything like mine the thing seems impervious to instability

[jimbo_on_travels]

I didn't shut the throttle and I never saw the sheep. One minute you're out with your mates heading to a cafe, the next you wake up in hospital completely wired up not knowing if you're going to walk out of this. I have no idea what I did in the 100m, its purely based on what the people on the ride have told me and the police report; if I get the police report I'll post it for people to look at. I'm not a physicist, but there's a lot of energy involved when an R1 connects with a sheep; so that energy has to go somewhere. I also weigh 75kg not sure if that's been taken into account either.

Thanks for all the supportive comments, one thing that as a biker you never take into account with having an accident is PTSD - it can really knock you for six; even if you walk away with fairly light injuries - it can really tear you up inside.

If one person who reads this thread decides to go out and get a separate chest/back protector or decides to upgrade their gear to leathers, then I'm happy. Sometimes shit just happens, its how best you deal with it that counts.

[Katman]

If one person who reads this thread decides to go out and get a separate chest/back protector or decides to upgrade their gear to leathers, then I'm happy.

If one person reads this thread and realises that country roads can contain many unexpected hazards and becomes more accomodating of that risk, then I'm also happy.

(If they also decide to stop treating public roads as racetracks I'll be deliriously happy).

[cheshirecat]

If one person reads this thread and realises that country roads can contain many unexpected hazards and becomes more accomodating of that risk, then I'm also happy.

(If they also decide to stop treating public roads as racetracks I'll be deliriously happy).

And the local populace would cheer with you (and me)

[Ocean1]

If one person reads this thread and realises that country roads can contain many unexpected hazards and becomes more accomodating of that risk, then I'm also happy.

And that'd be down to them, and, as usual, none of your fucking business.

And, as usual, your happiness is entirely down to you, and you alone.

[Katman]

And that'd be down to them, and, as usual, none of your fucking business.

And, as usual, your happiness is entirely down to you, and you alone.

I like to spread my happiness around, Shitforbrains.