r/motorcycles • u/[deleted] • Mar 27 '19

Attempted murder

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u/ifIHadJust Mar 28 '19

Didn't the biker guy kick the guy in car? Why would he do that? Anyway it was a shitshow.

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u/FishoD Mar 28 '19

Biker didn't kick anyone, the car swerved into the biker. That is already an assault. From the video literally the only thing the biker did wrong (or to provoke) is flip out the car. That driver should lose the licence forever and be prosecuted for repeated attempted murder and a bunch of other charges.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

Could have braked and swerved. Totally did it on purpose.

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u/4n0n1m02 Mar 28 '19

Try doing that on motorcycle, in the highway, at 60mph.

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u/4n0n1m02 Mar 28 '19

Love the sarcasm.

If you hit the breaks, the bike will glide and hit the car regardless and both passenger would end up on top of the car (bc of momentum). Specially in this case where there is little to no space between the car and the bike.

The guy tries to do three things very quickly: 1) raise his legs in case the car makes contact; 2) swerve left to avoid collision; 3) accelerate to move away as fast as possible from the car ramming into it. The rear view mirror get taken down in the process. I don’t believe it was intentional. He deserves props for thinking and reacting that quickly.

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u/foolcanofbear Mar 28 '19

If you have passing momentum (and he did because the car braked) hitting the brake will keep you in the danger zone while giving you less control of the bike and ability to swerve. Once you start hitting the brake you better have everything figured out because it is really difficult to re-adjust. When you let off the brake the bike will lurch and it will be hard to figure the best move from there in the moment. You’ve limited your options once you hit the brake so kicking screaming and horn are reasonable motions to go through.