The bloke can’t ride to save his life…literally. Even when he has realised he’s in trouble, he does nothing except swear when he still had plenty of time to either stop or use the space on the nearside of the left-hand truck.
The one saving grace is that his protective clothing saved him from injury…if he did nothing else sensible that day at least he put the right gear on.
If he’d been driving a car the way he was riding the bike and at similar speeds there would have been a serious collision with one or both of the trucks, and I think he would have hurt himself badly.
GasGas:
That first vid has been on many motorbike forums.
The bloke can’t ride to save his life…literally. Even when he has realised he’s in trouble, he does nothing except swear when he still had plenty of time to either stop or use the space on the nearside of the left-hand truck.
The one saving grace is that his protective clothing saved him from injury…if he did nothing else sensible that day at least he put the right gear on.
If he’d been driving a car the way he was riding the bike and at similar speeds there would have been a serious collision with one or both of the trucks, and I think he would have hurt himself badly.
As a lifelong & experienced motorcyclist I would disagree with you on several points.
From the video, I detect a squeal of tyres & a slight wobbling of the handlebars. He panic braked, he applied the rear brake with his foot & totally forgot that it is the front brake that stops you.
His gear contributed nothing to the level of his injuries. Liveleak has a very clear video of a motorcyclist hitting the rear of a stationary car at slow speed & then falling under the trailer wheels of a moving truck. The incident which will kill you has no regard for the quality of the kit you are wearing.
But he didn’t go under the wheels…and he’d have been in a poor state if he’d just been wearing a T shirt and shorts.
My viewing of the video he seemed to start swearing before he did anything else…no front brake at all, and if he was using the back brake then that’s a very ineffective way of trying to stop from any speed.
I hardly use the back brake at all, even in the rain or off tarmac, unless I’ve got a passenger.
Brake hard enough with the front and it’s useless because the back wheel is in the air anyway.
On a motorbike never mind a bloody push bike I keep away from trucks not only because they tend to be a little bigger than me but lets face it some of the folk who drive them aint the sharpest knives in the drawer are they!
Very poor bit of riding really, he really needs to learn to read the road far further ahead than he was there. Pleased to say he was very luckly to get away with it.
Hopefully that’s a lesson learnt, i’d’ve thought common sense would tell you to never drive between 2 artics.
Putting my TrucknetCSI hat on i’d say the cyclist is young & recently passed his test, because someone who’s been riding bikes for years would never put themselves in that position.
Filtering may not be illegal but dangerous overtaking and driving without due care and attention both are. Would have been interesting to see/hear the next couple of minutes.
"What the law says about filtering
Contrary to the belief of some motorists, filtering is entirely legal in the UK, providing that it is done safely. Typically once traffic speeds are high enough to suggest that the traffic is no longer queuing, the police may then regard your manoeuvre as a dangerous overtake. So for example on a Motorway a rider unlikely to draw police attention if they filter traffic doing 20ish mph or less and they themselves don’t pass at much over an additional 20mph. I referred to this in other articles as the 20:20 guide.
Don’t filter traffic doing more than 20mph and don’t pass at more than 20 mph over their speed. This will typically see your maximum filtering speed set at 40mph. Although in some situations this can be increased a little, while in others this absolutely needs to be lower. It’s worth remembering to set your filtering speed according to how quickly you need to stop, not how fast you can negotiate the traffic."
Speaking as a veteran biker, there’s simply no excuse for this. He was riding way too fast and did not read the road ahead. Seeing 2 artics side by side should have prompted him to slow down far earlier… approaching them at the speed he did was asking for trouble.
Car with hazards on before I hit tells me they just suddenly stopped with no lights
Sounds like the truck drivers retarded rather than braked. I always try to put my hazards on in this situation. I know newer trucks do it automatically.
Car with hazards on before I hit tells me they just suddenly stopped with no lights
Sounds like the truck drivers retarded rather than braked. I always try to put my hazards on in this situation. I know newer trucks do it automatically.
They was at a full stop so they would of been a brake light at some point
Car with hazards on before I hit tells me they just suddenly stopped with no lights
Bull crap sounds more like they’ve been sat still a while and the muppet on the bike wasn’t watching the road
You can slow a truck down to just a few mph using the retarder. A quick dab of the brakes to bring it to a dead stop won’t be of much use If the numpty behind is waiting for brake lights instead of monitoring closing speeds.
Not that it matters in this case, the car driver didn’t hit the trucks and the bike would’ve ploughed into them regardless as he was driving like a prick.
Terry T:
You can slow a truck down to just a few mph using the retarder. A quick dab of the brakes to bring it to a dead stop won’t be of much use If the numpty behind is waiting for brake lights instead of monitoring closing speeds.
Not that it matters in this case, the car driver didn’t hit the trucks and the bike would’ve ploughed into them regardless as he was driving like a prick.
All the decent trucks with a decent exhaust brake, the brake lights come on when you use it.
Terry T:
You can slow a truck down to just a few mph using the retarder. A quick dab of the brakes to bring it to a dead stop won’t be of much use If the numpty behind is waiting for brake lights instead of monitoring closing speeds.
Not that it matters in this case, the car driver didn’t hit the trucks and the bike would’ve ploughed into them regardless as he was driving like a prick.
All the decent trucks with a decent exhaust brake, the brake lights come on when you use it.
are you trying to say that pile of scrap that you drive is the only decent make of truck out there?
most trucks don’t light the brake lights by using the exhaust brake
it only does it on those where the exhaust brake is activated by the brake pedal
shuttlespanker:
most trucks don’t light the brake lights by using the exhaust brake
DAF’s do it. If the revs are high and you slow down quite quick, it flashes on the brake lights. I used to hear the relay click and wonder what it was and when I looked at night it flashed the lights on.
