Get a bike with panniers they said...

[Big Dave]

Where would the internet be without conspiracy theorists. The American forums are abuzz.

It's from a shoot for a French Bike Mag.
It's still on you tube too - or the KR Facebook page.

[Big Dave]

You just have to be smarter than the suitcases.

[BMWST?]

You just have to be smarter than the suitcases.

its not the suitcases its the sneaky bollards!

[george formby]

Where would the internet be without conspiracy theorists. The American forums are abuzz.

It's from a shoot for a French Bike Mag.
It's still on you tube too - or the KR Facebook page.

Yup, no doubt the magazine, the name of which escapes me, which makes the mad videos. One of the riders has the look of a happy Carl Fogarty.

[Big Dave]

Moto Journal according to the YT info.

[Gremlin]

I would imagine it's simple. Film bike riding beside water for nice piece of video.

Get it a bit wrong, and you're the new viral video

[Big Dave]

'bit' wrong?

[Gremlin]

'bit' wrong?

Well, you put the bike too close to the bollard (don't know if they checked the space before hand, didn't actually look very wide), less than half a metre in it... without that nice drop onto a jetty and boat, it would be been a minor drop... and they look like clowns.

Instead it was a spectacular fall since there was no ground to land on...

Perhaps I could work in marketing, understating the impact of stuff etc

[Big Dave]

And there will be no contesting the veracity of the insurance claim.

[Crasherfromwayback]

hahaaaaaaaaa he did the right thing and kick the bike away!

Don't think he did. Think he simply bailed.

[Maha]

Don't think he did. Think he simply bailed.

Slight of hand Pete...

[pzkpfw]

its not the suitcases its the sneaky bollards!

These are the sneaky bollards...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZdLjKl0lHc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIas-5pwpZk

etc...

[paturoa]

These are the sneaky bollards...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZdLjKl0lHc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIas-5pwpZk

etc...

I like the traffic light ones. Perhaps should be standard fitting for dorkland traffic lights. It might reduce the red light runners, well at least the amount of 2nd light runners!

[Gremlin]

I like the traffic light ones. Perhaps should be standard fitting for dorkland traffic lights. It might reduce the red light runners, well at least the amount of 2nd light runners!

Nose to tail incidents would skyrocket... and traffic would come to a standstill as cars would be cleared away on every cycle.

Then again, on Day 2 there would be what... 50% less vehicles on the road?

[pzkpfw]

The story has made it to Stuff: http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/8032...ets-ride-wrong


(Yeah, those raising bollards make me laugh and laugh. (I can imagine [I]being[I] one of the knobs thinking "if I gun it I'll make it through behind the bus...".))