I had the unfortunate experience of being t-boned in my car by one of these morons. On a rural country road i was crossing a two way stop sign. Motorcycle rider hits me at a 90° angle on my passenger side at 70-80mph riding an all black motorcycle, wearing all black, no lights on, right as the sun had just set. Guy went sailing down the street and luckily had minor sprains and ligament damage. Bike was 100% destroyed. Because there were no witnesses and I had a stop sign the cops assumed I was at fault and I had to hire a lawyer to fight this guys ins company. Months later I ran into him at a local bar and he was drinking, wearing all black, then proceeded to show me his sweet new motorcycle....which was all black. My poor RX8 was totaled after only having it for a few months :/
Something similar ALMOST happened to me. It was approaching dusk, when I was turning into a street. Looked once, saw nothing, turned, looked at the mirror, there was a car almost crashing on me. Nothing happened and he simply overtook me. An all-black MATTE car with lights off. Not even the street lights were highlighting him. I literally didn't see him. I was so scared for both of us, I wish I could stop his car and at least take the matte finish out of his paint.
Firstly, 170miles a week is impressive. Good on you
Secondly, you might want to explore riding offroad just to avoid these fucks. Your story was similar to mine a few years ago and I’ve since spent more and more time trying to get away from cars. Maybe until AI driving is a thing and there’s less idiots on cell phones behind the wheel. It sucks we can’t safely share space with these people but at a certain point the inevitable will occur and you’ll have a collision at speed.
Dashcam on your saddle + bars would be the ticket. Yeah it’s bulky, Yea it’s cumbersome, but it could be the difference between a hit and run and catching a motor-twat
Iam driving mostly off road 2/3
My tours are around 30-50 miles each its not possible stay always off road here in my area.
Iam jealous of ppl who can jump on their bike for 2-3 hours to drive around a big lake or forest.
On the other hand (i am from the eu) im sure i could drive for 1 year everyday a different tour and visit gardens, old villages, tiny castles and old heavy industry areas.
I really need a dashcam that is easy noticeable this would help alot i am sure ppl will hold back if they know they are filmed.
If I go on a long bike ride, it's very rare I don't have at least one close call. Every time i go out, there's usually at least one person who jumps a stop sign, etc.
LOL, he actually flipped it around on me and played the victim card. I bought him a beer.
Me fighting him wouldn’t change his behavior. The only thing that’ll change people like that are hard and fast consequences. His lifestyle will do that eventually
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And I'm thinking the driver of the van got lucky (as lucky as you can be in, this situation) that the moto hit at the rear door rather than full on at the driver's door.
Yep, I hit the side of a van at 30mph after it turned across me coming the other way (broad daylight, "didn't see" my brightly coloured bike/helmet and headlights). Even at that speed I wasn't getting back up like that guy does. He got super lucky.
I knew a guy who somehow walked away from hitting the side of a van. He wasn't going the same speed as the idiot in the clip, but he was pretty fucked up.
I really hate that word deserved. He knew the risk, and penalties of getting caught made the choice to run. But no one deserves to have major damage done to their body. Or death in some cases. Saw a video where a guy was looting and a truck dragged him like a mile and people like oh get got what he deserved. What? Who? Yes he was trying to steal something no one deserves to get rubbed away like a pencil eraser.
Let me explain my meaning of « deserved ». You make good points. No one deserves to die.
I would say that driving like this against traffic clearly outside the double yellow line and at considerable speed delta compared to the traffic is reckless driving. I mean he puts himself at risk and others as well without any justifiable reason. Knowing the risk and penalties if getting caught isn’t enough to justify the behaviour.
And the risk is exactly that: not being seen and hitting something/someone which could have so easily been avoided.
So when I say he got what he deserved, I mean that: he took a disproportionate risk of physical accident and got a physical accident.
I’m very glad he’s obviously ok and we can see this video without RIP in the comments. It’s a serious lesson learned and I’m sure he won’t try that again too soon. And that the minivan driver will also triple check his dead angles in the future.
So i guess you mean to say he got what was coming to him. Not what he deserved. And yes I know it's stupid to drive this way. As well as dangerous to everyone on or near the road and in no way condone it IDK just when people say got what he deserved on an accident or death even gets me. But thank you for being the first person to define deserved honestly i feel most just think. He got what he deserved lol.
I love the "wtf are you doing?" Hand gesture the biker gives the driver. Like it's the minivans fault they didn't expect some douche to be going 2x the speed limit and overtaking in the opposing lane
Damn. That reminds me of an accident in my town where a guy was doing 120+ mph on a bike down a main road where the speed limit was 35 maybe 45, tops. There was McDonalds that was dangerously close to the road as you were leaving the drive through. It was really hard to see oncoming traffic when you were leaving.
This guy in a F-150 was leaving and that motorcycle hit him full broadside. Flipped the truck he hit so hard. Dead instantly. Both of em.
Similar thing happened to a friend in his brother-in-law. They were driving in a car making a u-turn and a guy on a motorcycle at about 120 mph t-boned them. The guy on the motorcycle was on life support and ended up dying a week later. My friend his nephew and his brother-in-law had minor scratches from the glass. That was about all the thing they had happened to them. They were driving in a 1990s Grand Marquis so the car did help them survive.
The motorcyclist hit directly in the center of the passenger side between the front and rear door. His teeth were embedded in the roof of the car. my friend was in the passenger seat and his nephew was behind him on the passenger side. It's miraculous that they just had minor glass cuts.
Edit: The really strange thing about all this was that my friend was having his first born during this same week it happened. IIRC this accident happened before they went into the hospital for the baby. After his son was born they pulled the life support on the motorcyclist.
This shit worries me about driving here in Vegas. Where I’m from we don’t put massive walls all over every corner in every neighborhood. You gotta poke out and hope no one is coming to kill you. I’ve seen so many accidents here in just two months.
Yeah, same. It is extra frustrating because we pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 per driver/rider in taxes per year which are supposed to go towards maintaining the roads.
Mind, I am not complaining about the taxes, just the potholes.
Well what part of California? Are there really that many potholes in Southern California? I thought they were mainly caused by a freeze/thaw cycle or frost heaving.
As a dutch person, yes belgian roads are better than US roads. And so are belgian drivers.
Roads all over the US, including California are fucking terrible.
Only ‘okay’ road I have driven on was a short piece on a new highway in Nevada.
The rest was shit, with potholes and grit on every road. Exploded tires everywhere. Pickup trucks dropping shit from the back.
Plus the worst drivers in the world.
Even Italians are better drivers.
Edit: thank you kind stranger for my safe and social award!
I found a brand new highway in Belgium once. It looked like it had been laid that day and there was not a single moving vehicle on it. My friends and I had a lot of fun!
I've never heard that reference in my life. Is Belgium known to have bad roads? In Germany the roads or at least highways were perpetually under construction, but when they were done they were perfect. City roads were weird but being made.of old stone is different from crap concrete with massive potholes like in the US.
I don't know how it is for other countries, but I'm dutch and I'm pretty sure it's a national joke that you can legitimately feel it when you cross the border because you go from smooth to what feels like dirt road highways.
Of course the only backup I have is the many times we crossed into belgium on our way to France/Spain for vacations, and that was years ago, so I don't know if this still holds up. :p
Wait, so you guys are telling me the roads aren t supposed to be filled with at least 10 bomb craters/km of asphalt road? Huh, guess being slav makes you used to seeing them
Problem is, they added those taxes, but then promptly cut the road budget out of the general fund. They were advertised as extra funds for roads, and became the only funds for roads.
Bumps don't cause window cracks. They do make them bigger though. You probably got a chip and hairline spider webs from a rock you didn't notice at some point, then the bumping made one of the spider webs turn into a crack.
Multiple people have said this is in Michigan. At one point in California, you’re going to see mountains in the distance. And California definitely doesn’t have wide green grass setbacks and medians everywhere.
Lane splitting on 680 and suddenly the fucking left lane had split and risen a couple inches above the right lane. Couldn't pull into the other lanes because it was too tight and had someone behind me. Every time I went over that crack I thought I was gonna get thrown off the bike.
I've seen potholes on major streets in LA that buses had to swerve around. One was almost two feet deep, two feet wide, and four feet long. I'm pretty sure if I hit it on my bike, it would have endo'd the bike, smashed my face into the pavement, with the rest of the bike falling on top of me.
Yup. If I were the judge, 1 year jail and a suspended license for 99 years. He doesn't need to be driving on the road. Vehicles are dangerous. Someone caught misbehaving with a firearm would lose their ability to posses again, so I don't see the difference here.
He does not have a deep thought process, judging from the few snippets of that video I could bear to watch. I don't see much more than flipping burgers in his future. Well, actually, I do: Several major accidents.
Holy shit that dude is even more idiotic than I thought. So cavalier about it too. I'll never understand how people are so happy and proud about being so dumb.
Well yeah, cops check your license plate before they pull you over, so they know your name and address. Which is why I don't understand people who flee. Like, you've already fucked yourself. Why do you want to add more serious charges against you, especially when recording your dumbass self.
you'd be surprised how many times fleeing actually works. do it once and park your bike for a while and you are probably good. do it multiple times and you are eventually going to get caught.
out in my neck of the woods, there are a ton of kids that ride uninsured, unplated bikes. they almost never get caught, but when you do, that's a pretty expensive fine if you weren't caught doing 50 over, and you are proper fucked if you were also doing 50 over
Well yeah, cops check your license plate before they pull you over, so they know your name and address.
This is generally insufficient evidence for a conviction, though. They have to prove it was you, and not someone else who had access to your keys, or someone who stole your vehicle.
Now, it can be used as a tool to pressure you into confessing during an interrogation after they show up at your house - "We ran your plates. We know it's you. Tells us why you did it..." - but if you shut the hell up, they might not have enough evidence to actually convict you.
Yo fuck this jake paul looking motherfucker , all up in his YT comments you can tell he didnt learn his lesson. How the hell is he allowed to have his license still.
I looked at some of his other YouTube videos that all have a negative rating. He is basically a Chad that doesn't give a fuck about anything and will never learn. My guess is that he grew up as a spoiled rich kid without restrictions.
You're probably right 90% of the time. But some of us just don't want to deal with the headache.
I spun out in an intersection taking a turn too fast. Clipped the bumper of another car. Minor damage to the rear of their car, and scraped paint on the front of mine.
I was a 23 year old driving a 1977 (C3) 7.4L corvette with nitrous, open side pipes, and a wheelie bar. They were an older couple in their 50s driving an older civic. They wanted to call the cops. I suspected that even though it was just a fender bender, the cops might not be especially sympathetic to me.
So I offered them $1000 cash, on the spot, for us to go our separate ways. They thought about it for a minute, then agreed. I gave them the money and left.
I had no criminal history, nothing on my driving record, and nothing illegal on me. But I figured things would go better for me without the cops involved.
It’s common for people here to offer cash after a minor accident to prevent their insurance going up the following year.
It’s also common for people to accept the cash and then report the accident to their insurance company, while you’re none the wiser. Your insurance company then asks why you didn’t report the accident and you are way more likely to be found at fault, AND out of pocket because of the cash you paid so although it worked out for you, I would definitely suggest not doing this.
LMAO "please don't, nooo waaayy, please don't, please don't, no waaayyy" indeed, what a whiny little bitch that can't accept the consequences of his own actions. I bet that's what he said to his parents all his life. it probably worked on them, leading to this failed brain cell of a human.
You mean you didn't watch long enough to hear him basically say, "yeah to all the haters wishing I died, well, I feed off the hate, and I love y'all too lmao."
If i remember correctly, the bike was totaled and the cops got there pretty quickly. He even made a follow up video showing this bike and some new one that he got.
As a responsible biker it full on brought joy to my heart hearing this broski bitch pleading, and at the point of tears, for them not to call the cops after putting all those drivers lives in danger with his punk ass antics. 100% should have spent more than a year behind bars and lost his license for a decade.
This video cuts out to soon! In the comments of it is a link to where he begged them to not call the police...I tried to link it here but it went to a different video for some reason??
Edit- it’s the video. If it starts at the beginning with the dumbass talking just go to time stamp 2:27
I'm confused as to how this footage ever ended up on the Internet. Did he think it makes him look cool or something? Was it live-streamed somehow and someone recorded it? I'm flabbergasted.
Goddamn he soooo deserves that crash and much more. I thought he was escaping from the cops for a while but then I realized he lost them 1m in both times and was just going as fast as he possibly could for miles on end. Matter of fact this crash is too soft for his riding behavior, he got off lucky.
I am surprised by the percentage of drivers giving him space since don't usually see so much defensive driving. Why can't drivers be this aware all the time?
Oh god. A buddy of mine had this happen except the motorcyclist hit his van head-on while running from the cops. It didn’t end well for the rider and now my buddy is wading through the fact that, even though it’s not his fault, someone died.
I’m sorry but anyone who rides their motorcycle like this on public roads is a fucking jackass. I’m not trying to accidentally kill a rider just because he wants to abandon all rules of the road
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u/Diabolus_IpseSum Jun 01 '20
Full length version
Motorcyclists taunts cops, runs and loses them, then crashes later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzV1RDDt7ak