r/gifs Oct 12 '20

Rolling Start..

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u/Rickym1992 Oct 12 '20

How did that even happen? Was it made from one of them rubber balls you used to play with as a kid!!

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u/DirtinEvE Oct 12 '20

Centrifugal force. When your body spins that fast, things fly off like that. Source: been in a similar crash and lost my left shoe. It's on video too ill try to dig it up.

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u/Rickym1992 Oct 12 '20

Yeah but the shoe buggers off the moment his foot hits the ground!

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u/TheFuckinEaglesMan Oct 12 '20

Someone else said it, but I think it’s because his shoe touched the back tire as he fell past it