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    How not to ride at the track - Hampton Rider Skills Day

    Found this on another forum so thought I'd chuck it up here.
    This was from the Rider skills training day at Hampton on the 10th, no serious injuries apart from a few scuffs and grazes where the guys leather wore through.

    Pretty fucking bad form by the rider who took him out; apparently he tried to take off after the incident as well.


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    ouch!

    Props to the first rider for being able to keep it upright in the dirt for so long! I did smile at the very end when you see whoever it was throwing a peice of bike in frustration.

    Can someone enlighten as to overtaking rules on track days (more for my curiosity than any desire to measure out blame)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vinz0r View Post
    Pretty fucking bad form by the rider who took him out; apparently he tried to take off after the incident as well.
    Yep. Total muppet. But with all due respect...the geezer on the bike filming in the first bit of the clip could've easily avoided going down. That's what you get at race tracks sometimes unfortunately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback View Post
    Yep. That's what you get at race tracks sometimes when dumb cunts do stupid and dangerous things after being told at briefing and agreeing to abide by the rules and to follow the officials instructions not to do those things unfortunately. FUCK HIM NO EXCUSE!
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    ouch!

    Props to the first rider for being able to keep it upright in the dirt for so long! I did smile at the very end when you see whoever it was throwing a peice of bike in frustration.

    Can someone enlighten as to overtaking rules on track days (more for my curiosity than any desire to measure out blame)
    There was a 2 metre rule and we were told on the day to treat the yellow pit lines as a concrete wall. He managed to ignore both rules and ruin the day for two others.

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    "skills" day? really?
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    he was doing 114. that's 10km/h faster than is safe.
    no wonder.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sil3nt View Post
    There was a 2 metre rule and we were told on the day to treat the yellow pit lines as a concrete wall. He managed to ignore both rules and ruin the day for two others.
    It looked like he was trying to avoid crossing the yellow pit entry lines
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    It looked like he was trying to avoid crossing the yellow pit entry lines
    yep, doesn't look like he crossed them too me.

    I blame the guy on the Italian tractor, if he wasn't stuck in second gear maybe this wouldn't of happened.

    Looks pretty innocent too me, the guy on the blue bike had more pace on and looked like he had the door shut on him to be honest. (he probably should have crossed the pit entry to avoid the collision, but hey rules is rules)

    Fuck knows what sort of retardation the triumph rider is on though. Was it a sympathy fall off?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
    It looked like he was trying to avoid crossing the yellow pit entry lines
    That's what I thought too. Classic example of someone overwhelmed by rules, speed, racetrack (lookitmeMum!) and close proximity to another bike, doing something weirdly dumb.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nodrog View Post

    Fuck knows what sort of retardation the triumph rider is on though. Was it a sympathy fall off?
    Yes. Looks like the sort of dumb shit I do. "Hey, look at that guy trying not to crash on the grass. Hey look, I'm on the grass. Hey look, He crashed! Oh shit, I crashed."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Akzle View Post
    he was doing 114. that's 10km/h faster than is safe.
    no wonder.
    Naaa ... More like 130 plus and accelerating ... you can barely see the speed under the cables of the second rider's bike ... I've taken that corner at 130klicks - not on a sprots bike .. the only thing was I scrapped my boots .. the rider on the front bike is a lot slower though - taking that corner at under 100 klicks ...

    Yeah .. the second rider should not have gone down

    Dumb shithead on the blue bike (R1?) should not have taken out the other rider .. taking a corner on the inside like that on a skills day is just stupidity - if he was that good he could have taken the outside line and still got passed ...
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    Fuck that, motorcycles are dangerous.
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    Not sure why people are calling it a 'skills day'. I don't recall any mention of that when I signed up. From what I saw it was a normal track day with a compulsory briefing for newbies after their first session with instructors there for anyone throughout the day.

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