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Stupid hurts ... don't be an idiot

nearace said:
crazy story,thank goodness this is an isolated incident,as stated above it seems its the sport bikes it tends to happen with more than other bikes.
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Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident!
Very soon, no one under thirty will be able to afford the insurance.....thanks to a bunch of hooligans out there, that should only be allowed to play in the sandbox with adult supervision!
I too, saw the whole accident at Kipling and Evans today.....and have to agree with op....stupid hurts!
 
Koval_68 said:
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident!
Very soon, no one under thirty will be able to afford the insurance.....thanks to a bunch of hooligans out there, that should only be allowed to play in the sandbox with adult supervision!
I too, saw the whole accident at Kipling and Evans today.....and have to agree with op....stupid hurts!
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This is good news for us 40+ hooligans :)

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I hate it when people do that!! You're lucky you didn't have to move over to avoid debris or something, or things woulda been uggly!

Even if you were doing 120 and checking your mirrors, he would be approaching at 80km/h, or a football field in 4-5 seconds. Mad idiocy on his part!

油井緋色;2063218 said:
I've had somebody blow past me in my own lane at 200+ on the 407. I didn't mind it because I knew he was coming but for the riders who don't check their mirrors every few seconds...deciding to scratch your *** when someone decides to pass you in your own lane doing 200+ could lead to some horrible stuff.
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life threatening injuries??
that doesn't sound like a broken collar bone...
 
Yep more and more i see street riders doing stupid things. Not lumping everyone together ..

For example Kudos to the OTR gang who was up near Barrie this past weekend, and came down the 400.

Morons come to mind. Im sure there were a few calls to 911 about your stupidity.
 
I've always said there's a time and place. Why don't people understand that in the cities or on a 400 series highway are on the top of the neither one list? I mean let's be honest, no one buys a motorcycle and does the speed limit. I don't care what you ride, you've sped before. (how much doesn't matter) Yet every time you see a crash it's speed, usually younger people (yes I'm aware there are exceptions) and then you see and hear people under 30 b!tching about insurance. Learn to not be fully retarded, ride with caution and more safely and it would be a good start. You morons that continually fly down the 404, 400 etc, your time is coming. It will be tickets at best or worse. Everyone on the roads knows you have the ability to fly, why not ride like humans and save it for the track or somewhere where others aren't at risk. This guy is a clear example of moron.

p.s. that looks like the black/grey/yellow 1000 from way back when. I hate him more now :evil:
 
Anyone cracking on the girl who split her car in 2 this past week? Is she giving a bad name to women, brown people, cagers?

About 15 years ago nearby at Islington and Queensway a man fled from police in a car, collided with a van, killed the father in the van, set him on fire, the man staggered out of the van on fire walked over to the south west corner across the intersection screaming, collapsed and his still burning corpse died against the wall and left a scortched outline of his heaped body. The collision and aftermath was witnessed my many. I only saw the after math.

Guess what.....he doesn't represent all car drivers.

Take it down a notch.

Dude sped, crashed, lived, nothing new.
 
Gary said:
Brian - if it's the one I heard about on 680, the good 'old SIU is taking care of business, again. Maybe the 'badge' on the moto was chasing him?
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Haven't had the radio on ... I've been out on the bike for the last couple hours. But, yes, now that it's in the news, this is the incident in question. As for the possibility that he might have been running from the cops ... I called it in post #1 ... But there were NO sirens and NO flashing lights, not even when the moto cop arrived at the scene. Can't speak for what might have happened a minute or two before (out of sight/sound of the incident location).

RR929 said:
Did the cops put the cuffs om him? With that many witness and if its true what u described, they have sufficient grounds for street racing.
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I didn't stick around to find out, but he was going to be leaving in an ambulance anyhow.

RR929 said:
On another note about gixxers...among the big 4 jap SS bikes, it seems that gixxers had been involved in most of the fatal crashes in the GTA for past couple of months. There was an early season death in Markham was a gixxer, the one involving a high speed ramp on the 409 last month, and only last week near finch and willowdale was also a gixxer.

One potential explanation is that over 50% of all SS are gixxer in the GTA if not, is there a mechanical flaw in the gixxers causing all these fatal crashes??
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caboose called it. I didn't take a close look at the bike (it was still a live traffic lane when I left) but it does appear in the picture that the right front brake rotor is not there. I believe the bike was lowered. Getting rid of one of the brake rotors is a not-uncommon drag-racing weight loss mod that is, ahem, a little unwise on a street bike. FWIW when the bike came into my view it was (in my opinion) nowhere close to doing 120 km/h ... just a little fast for an approach to stopped traffic at an intersection. I'm pretty sure that I could have stopped any of my bikes from the speed that I saw in the space that I saw. Question is whether the rider actually wanted to stop ...

Alex_San said:
life threatening injuries??
that doesn't sound like a broken collar bone...
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From what I saw ... that is news-report BS. Rider was squirming around and trying to sit up. Bystanders were doing their best to try to get him to stay still. Contrary to another report that claims it was a car-bike collision, the rider did NOT hit a car (unless he clipped it with a mirror while passing, or some other such minor thing). He clipped a curb with the bike's wheels at a shallow angle and went down.

caboose56 said:
Sweet brake rotor... no wonder he couldn't slow down. lol
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Good eye. Question is whether he wanted to slow down. There were no skid marks on the pavement. None whatsoever. Rider either didn't want to stop (running from the cops?), or couldn't stop (lousy brakes).
 
In another photo, it's apparent that the brake rotor is there (looks stock) but the front wheel is broken around it.

I think it's more likely that the rider didn't want to stop because he was running from the cops, than that he couldn't stop.
 
bunmanchi said:
pet peeve- People that are holier than thou.

dont say this rider is giving people like you a bad name. Youve never done anything wrong ?

never cut off someone, never broke the speed limit ? never broke any laws ?

weve all done Stupid things at one time or another.

Saying he deserves what he gets is just being an ******* in my opinion. its not like the rider is a rapist.
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That is an absurd statement.

It's one thing to break laws (and I'm the first to say that we have quite a few laws that are overly restrictive), it's quite another when you start putting the general public at significant risk by doing so.

Keep in mind that you weren't there to see the incident, and I was - and it sounds like another forum member was there and saw it, too.
 
I agree. If dude was riding like a moron from the cops then he deserves what he gets. You're in a populated city where the risk of injury to someone else by you doing something stupid is sky high. TIME AND A PLACE
 
awyala said:
Anyone cracking on the girl who split her car in 2 this past week? Is she giving a bad name to women, brown people, cagers?

About 15 years ago nearby at Islington and Queensway a man fled from police in a car, collided with a van, killed the father in the van, set him on fire, the man staggered out of the van on fire walked over to the south west corner across the intersection screaming, collapsed and his still burning corpse died against the wall and left a scortched outline of his heaped body. The collision and aftermath was witnessed my many. I only saw the after math.

Guess what.....he doesn't represent all car drivers.

Take it down a notch.

Dude sped, crashed, lived, nothing new.
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Except for the tiny little fact that there are far fewer motorcycles on the road than cars.

When one in the thousands of cars you see on your daily commute does something stupid... meh. When one of the three motorcycles you see does something stupid, we're all jackasses.
 
Brian P said:
Today, for the first time in years, I saw a motorcycle crash on city streets. I'm intentionally not posting this in "Fallen Riders" and I'm intentionally leaving out the intersection at which it happened ... because this crash was nothing but the rider's fault. The rider will be fine (appears to be broken collarbone or some such thing); his driver's license probably won't be, and I'll be first to say that he deserves whatever damage is going to be done to his license for the stunt that he pulled.

I was walking across a parking lot to my company car after having lunch. Heard the high rev wail of a 4 cylinder bike approaching ... given that some people have a way of riding around in 2nd gear in town, that doesn't always mean high speed, but this one got my attention. Silver early-2000's GSXR came into view approaching stopped traffic at the intersection (red traffic light) and my first thought was that there was no way he was going to be able to stop in time. My direct view of the crash was blocked by a tree and a cube van.

From what other drivers were saying, it seems that the rider was going at high speed (their estimate: 120 km/h, speed limit: 60 km/h) and overtook at least one driver between the right lane and the curb. (Car in right lane ... bike squeezed between car and curb.) Approaching the intersection, it seems that the rider tried that again but caught the edge of the curb and went down. The rider was lying down (squirming in agony) in the middle of the right-turn lane. The bike had slid on its side over the concrete island between the right turn lane and the main part of the intersection and ended up in the middle of the second lane of the cross street. The right signal was on ... I suspect that the rider was trying to take that right turn lane but cut it too close when squeezing between the stopped traffic and the curb. This was a single vehicle collision - he did not actually hit anyone in the right lane.

Cops were on the scene almost right away - a moto officer came in the same direction as the bike in question had come from within a minute or two. Makes me wonder ...

And there were PLENTY of witnesses who were telling that cop what they saw, and telling the next cop who showed up. I did not stick around because I did not have as direct a view of the collision as the driver of the car who was the last one he passed before the collision.

You. Dumb. Idiot. You are giving the rest of us a bad name.

In city traffic ... just follow the traffic.

Overtaking between the traffic and the curb ... is just plain dumb.
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