Cat & Fiddle crash

[akima]

Glad I made happiness!

Originally Posted by Klondike1020

Akima what does your bike say to you ?

Just that I should ride it more. I've wussed out a bit this winter. Barely used the poor thing. I've promised it a track day or two this summer though

[Whiskey]

Originally Posted by akima

I'm pretty sure that's his bike at 3:51, up against the barb fence. It looks ok!

That was it, but it was in rag order apparently, from his comments on Youtube

Bent forks and frame, front wheel is broken into pieces, fairings, screen . . .write off.

Originally Posted by CC Cowboy

The real question here is; was he riding to the pub or from the pub?

To the pub that the road is named after, but there are many pubs all over

[Sirref]

a road named after a pub. If I didn't already know it was in britain I'd assume it took place in ireland after that comment.

[jeffb502]

Originally Posted by Sirref

a road named after a pub. If I didn't already know it was in britain I'd assume it took place in ireland after that comment.

When I first read the title of this thread I thought it was going to be a funny cat video...maybe with a cat on a toy motorcycle crashing into a fiddle or something lol.

[jeffb502]

Originally Posted by akima

I've heard it said a few times in here, that sports bikes just will often do just the right thing if the bloody rider will just stay the hell off the controls and let them. Maybe this bike had just had enough

Bike: "oh here we go: human ego engaged; looks like we're going round that rider."
Human: "Can't wait behind this rider any longer. A bad ass overtake will prove just how awesome I am".
Bike: "Yep... off he goes... OH s**t... we're going into this corner a little faster than he's used to. He's gonna freak. I can feel it. Yep... he's turning in and I can't even see the apex."
Human: "Yeaaaaaaah booooy. Check me out... ... huh... AHAHHHAHAHHHH OMGOMGOMG, TOO FAST."
Bike: "NOOO. Just chill squishy one. We can still make it, just push the left bar, shift your fat carbon-life-form ass to the left and let me take care of this terrible situation you've put us both in."
Human: "A CAR! I'M GONNA HIT IT."
Bike: "Your not going to hit it! Please just push the bar. There's still time!"
Human: "...mummy"

Bike: "nope... he's lost it... and here comes the fence. I'm not taking one for the team. Off you go."

...

Human: "What... happened... ?"

Epic...I nominate this for post of the year.

[Kscreations08]

Originally Posted by akima

I've heard it said a few times in here, that sports bikes just will often do just the right thing if the bloody rider will just stay the hell off the controls and let them. Maybe this bike had just had enough

Bike: "oh here we go: human ego engaged; looks like we're going round that rider."
Human: "Can't wait behind this rider any longer. A bad ass overtake will prove just how awesome I am".
Bike: "Yep... off he goes... OH s**t... we're going into this corner a little faster than he's used to. He's gonna freak. I can feel it. Yep... he's turning in and I can't even see the apex."
Human: "Yeaaaaaaah booooy. Check me out... ... huh... AHAHHHAHAHHHH OMGOMGOMG, TOO FAST."
Bike: "NOOO. Just chill squishy one. We can still make it, just push the left bar, shift your fat carbon-life-form ass to the left and let me take care of this terrible situation you've put us both in."
Human: "A CAR! I'M GONNA HIT IT."
Bike: "Your not going to hit it! Please just push the bar. There's still time!"
Human: "...mummy"

Bike: "nope... he's lost it... and here comes the fence. I'm not taking one for the team. Off you go."

...

Human: "What... happened... ?"

legitimately the greatest post I have ever read

[LittleRedNinjette]

Where can i get those smileys? they are just too much!

[Kscreations08]

Originally Posted by LittleRedNinjette

Where can i get those smileys? they are just too much!

Click the "Quote" button on Akima's original post and save the URL's for the smileys. BTW, this one is my favorite:

[LittleRedNinjette]

I think this one is mine:

Edit: Never mind, this one is the best! And so me.

[NevadaWolf]

Is @Alex going to need to add more smileys for you guys?

[Chuffmonkey]

Love this video - that road was in my backyard growing up, so it's a little piece of home. And you're seeing evidence as to why it was classed as the most dangerous road in Britain for many years.

[LittleRedNinjette]

Originally Posted by NevadaWolf

Is @Alex going to need to add more smileys for you guys?

[akima]

Originally Posted by LittleRedNinjette

Where can i get those smileys? they are just too much!

I love smileys! They add a lot of feeling to a post. Makes up for the lack of face-to-face communication.

I find all my smileys on deviant art. Just go here:
https://www.deviantart.com/customization/emoticons
In the lower of the two search boxes, type in a word that you want a smiley for like "embarrassed" or "scared" or "dancing" and you'll probably find a cute emoticon that expresses it well

Just right click on the smiley and copy the image location, then click the insert image button on this forum and past the image location.

Easy as pie

[NevadaWolf]

Originally Posted by akima

Easy as pie

[CC Cowboy]

Originally Posted by Chuffmonkey

Love this video - that road was in my backyard growing up, so it's a little piece of home. And you're seeing evidence as to why it was classed as the most dangerous road in Britain for many years.

The road doesn't look dangerous (it atually looks fun) but there are dangerous people on it. How many times does it say "slow" on that road?

[akima]

Originally Posted by NevadaWolf

[Chuffmonkey]

Originally Posted by CC Cowboy

The road doesn't look dangerous (it atually looks fun) but there are dangerous people on it. How many times does it say "slow" on that road?

It is a fun - I've never ridden it but driven it plenty of times. The problem is that it became something of a racetrack, so there are often tons of motorbikes, cyclists and high performance cars on that road. I have no idea what the stats are today but it consistently ranked either at the top, or near the top, of the 'injuries per mile' chart when I still lived in the area (hmm, wonder if there's a correlation).

[LittleRedNinjette]

Originally Posted by akima

I love smileys! They add a lot of feeling to a post. Makes up for the lack of face-to-face communication.

I find all my smileys on deviant art. Just go here:
https://www.deviantart.com/customization/emoticons
In the lower of the two search boxes, type in a word that you want a smiley for like "embarrassed" or "scared" or "dancing" and you'll probably find a cute emoticon that expresses it well

Just right click on the smiley and copy the image location, then click the insert image button on this forum and past the image location.

Easy as pie

New toy!!

[Whiskey]

Originally Posted by CC Cowboy

The road doesn't look dangerous (it atually looks fun) but there are dangerous people on it. How many times does it say "slow" on that road?

It's great fun, but they have put up rear facing average speed cameras, so it's a case of push it hard, pull up & wait a minute pass the camera, push it hard, pull up & wait before the next camera...

Check out the links to 'similar threads' at the bottom of the page, Visor Down's article claims it's the most dangerous road in the country, most of the list of statistically most dangerous fun roads in the country are within half an hour of my house, and most of them roads are on the list because of bikers binning it & going over a cliff

It's idiots like him stuffing it in a bend that have rear facing average speed cameras put up on the good roads.

[NevadaWolf]

Hey! Follow up info.

Originally Posted by Ninjinsky

Not like this on public roads

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28861828

[LittleRedNinjette]

[hamburglar]

Sweet air time!