Around The World Wipeout

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Willopotomas · #1 Post by **Willopotomas** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 8:55 pm

After watching this video, I've come to the following conclusions.

1. Americans can't ride motorbikes as corners somehow seem to confuse the shit out of them.

2. They're suicidal in the east.

3. It's always cold/wet/snowing in Russia.

4. Dominos pizza never fail.

5. Always wear a crash hat

6. There's always that one fucktard to spoil the day for everyone.

7. Last but not least, we are invisible to cage drivers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiykwlajACM

randomsquid · #2 Post by **randomsquid** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:21 pm

Would I be a bad person if I found some of that really funny?

Willopotomas · #3 Post by **Willopotomas** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:28 pm

No.. Not at all, as I too found some of it quite amusing. The idiots pulling wheelies wearing pretty much just a helmet are the ones I chuckle at, as they really do deserve the pain..lol

Aladinsaneuk · #4 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 9:47 pm

I laughed out loud

D-Rider · #5 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 10:43 pm

Started watching it but it does go on a bit ..... after a while it gets a bit tedious.

Some was quite funny other quite scary.

Amongst the huge cast of incompetents and idiots, there were a few "offs" with no other "players" involved that seemed totally inexplicable. They are the worrying ones.

Willopotomas · #6 Post by **Willopotomas** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 10:48 pm

lots of cold road & cold tyre combo off's.. Pretty much just the Yanks who have a massive inability to go round corners..lol.

The last five minutes is pretty funny.

D-Rider · #7 Post by **D-Rider** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 11:21 pm

Willopotomas wrote:lots of cold road & cold tyre combo off's.. Pretty much just the Yanks who have a massive inability to go round corners..lol.

The last five minutes is pretty funny.

Thanks for the heads-up ..... I'll skip to the last bit

HisNibbs · #8 Post by **HisNibbs** » Thu Nov 14, 2013 11:30 pm

I could only watch about half of it. Jeez I really can't understand about 90% of those crashes. One or two were going a bit quick and lost it, some were not looking where they were going, the rest well I don't know. Bikes are inherently stable so why? maybe the laws of physics vary place to place and time to time.

HowardQ · #9 Post by **HowardQ** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:36 am

Let's face it most Yanks seem only to be safe riding a Harley tractor at 50 mph down a long straight road.
This tends to prove it!
In a worrying number of these of these crashes, there seems to be no understanding of the power of a large sports bike and no idea of how to steer or control it.
Don't know what their driving tests are like.

It seems like they learn and take the test riding an 883 in a straight line, then jump on an R1 or Gixxer thou and try to go around corners.

Cathcart · #10 Post by **Cathcart** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 12:01 pm

How odd! It looked like some of them didn't even attempt to turn when they came to a corner!!! Blind panic, total confusion that the road bends... No idea what it is..

randomsquid · #11 Post by **randomsquid** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:19 pm

American bike licence laws seem a little on the lax side.
I did all my blind panicking on a moped. They can do it on a gixxer 1000 or a full dresser.

lazarus · #12 Post by **lazarus** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:50 pm

Interesting but puzzling. Quite a number of simple fall-offs where I could not understand from the film why they fell off. Quite a lot of road racing leading to silly speeds. But the overwhelming impression is of how many single bike accidents there were. Cagers always to blame? Nonsense.

One or two nasties including one person dragged away under a truck. Presume dead.

fatboy · #13 Post by **fatboy** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:00 pm

I watched about 15 mins of this, that's enough. Im glad I did not see the nasty stuff.
About 90% of the stuff I watched is simply beyond understanding and explanation.
How TF did they manage to do that ??????

BikerGran · #14 Post by **BikerGran** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 9:30 pm

I remember years ago someone lent me an american video, supposedly hugely exciting, of sports bike riders on some famous fast road - it was positively boring!

D-Rider · #15 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:42 pm

Well I was in America a month ago (sadly not on a bike) and someone from the AF1 forum told me some great places to go and the roads to take to go there ..... boring, straight ..... not on your life - more interesting and challenging than anything I've seen over here.
These are his playground.

America is a big place - don't confuse all of it with how some bits are - or think that they all ride Harleys and can't make a bend,