Comments on: Motorcycle Racing – Talent or Luck – You Decide

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:23:06 +0000

Totally staged. There is no way anyone can run fast enough to catch a runaway motorcycle coasting down from speed in *that* short of a distance and/or time. No Olympic sprinter has ever run faster than 23 MPH, and yet we’re supposed to believe this guy managed to achieve a sprint significantly faster than this wearing full racing leathers and a helmet immediately after falling off a motorcycle that was moving at several tens of miles per hour?

I don’t claim to know *how* it was staged, but I highly suspect the front end of that motorcycle was attached to something other than a standard motorcycle front wheel.

Jammer97: the gyroscopic effect is fairly powerful, yes, but not powerful enough to pick up and fully stabilise a bike that was leaned over that far and upset by the rider falling off of it.

Funny video, though

By: Jammer97

Jammer97 — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:39:39 +0000

let the video be a lesson In motorcycle dynamics. The gyroscopic effect at either end of the bike kept it up. Its improper rider input or an outside source that makes a bike go down. Fake video or not could it be true?

By: pghcyclist

pghcyclist — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:24:23 +0000

stunt or fortunate accident. Doesn’t matter to me. I still enjoy it.

By: MadScience

MadScience — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:04:13 +0000

I agree it’s staged. The bail looks fishy, he lands very easily, and he turns to run after the bike before he can see it. The relative speed of the guy compared to the bikes is too close. And the 2 bikes splitting and weaving around him is gratuitous because they are entering a straight away.

By: Stomped

Stomped — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:58:37 +0000

I don’t think any racer is dumb enough to run down the middle of the track.