Bad driving pic on the Dragon

[kj4v]

I hope this isn't one of our guys! He has got a Florida tag. This is a good way to become a statistic!

[Freebird]

I agree. It is possible that he was pulled over on the other side of the road though and just pulling back on. Still a dangerous place to do it but I would rather believe that than consider the possibility that he had drifted that far into the other lane.

[CrazyHorse]

Looks like he cut the corner.

[Yammer Dan]

Not a good one but it is possible on the Dragon when things get out of hand. Sometime you push just a little hard and How Did I Get Here??

And we are not talking about that little short block with the quick light in Ashville.....

Edited April 27, 2011 by Yammer Dan

[coy55boy]

Maybe he had a sudden brain fart and thought he was in Japan...?

[saddlebum]

Maybe he did it so he could see further around the bend to see what was coming to hit him

[stardbog]

Maybe Prince William after real bachelor party trying Dragon. :rotf:

[gibvel]

Maybe he lost his CB antenna going the other way and he turned around to look for it.

[twigg]

I'd like to see his view from a bit further back.

 

If he can see through the corner and is straightening up now for the next right-hander, then he is on the best line

[Marcarl]

I'd like to see his view from a bit further back.

 

If he can see through the corner and is straightening up now for the next right-hander, then he is on the best line

Never a good place to be! That line is the line, anything over it is nuts!

[twigg]

Never a good place to be! That line is the line, anything over it is nuts!

 

Well now that is simply not always true.

 

It may be in this case, that's another matter.

[Freebird]

I've ridden the dragon several times. I've seen very bad crashes at least 3 times and at least two of those were due to head on collisions because somebody had crossed over that line. The worse I saw was not the bikers fault. A Mazda Miata came around a curve well across the center line and hit a sport bike head on.

[twigg]

I've ridden the dragon several times. I've seen very bad crashes at least 3 times and at least two of those were due to head on collisions because somebody had crossed over that line. The worse I saw was not the bikers fault. A Mazda Miata came around a curve well across the center line and hit a sport bike head on.

 

Yep.

 

Bad decision-making can have terrible consequences.

 

With respect to that picture we don't really have enough information. The guy has just hit the apex of one corner, and is heading for the apex of the next. He will be back over the line before anything coming the other way reaches him .... if he is going fast enough

 

He may have got that wrong, it's hard to tell.

 

However, the implication that it is never safe to cross those lines .... well if that is your view, you are on the side of the angels, no one will tell you you must break the law

 

But it's a bit like saying that exceeding the posted speed limit is never safe.

[noahzark]

I hope this isn't one of our guys! He has got a Florida tag. This is a good way to become a statistic!

 

Flip the picture horizontally and it looks a lot better.

[exrsa1]

There... we were looking at it from the wrong side.(Poor editing skills by me)

 

EDIT: (for the sake of the people) The picture in this post is a photoshopped picture to put him on the right side of the road. The original picture in post 1 is the correct one.

Edited April 27, 2011 by exrsa1

[etcswjoe]

There... we were looking at it from the wrong side. (Poor editing skills)

 

 

I had thought the same thing but after I looked at yours I noticed no radio controller visible so It is was probally not flipped.

[gibvel]

Not so. If you look at the original photo, on killboy, all the numbers on the plate are correct in the photo the way it was posted.

 

The flipped photo is incorrect.

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0S1AxYA9hpM/Ta_erw9wn7I/AAAAAAAAm7M/AftRIt0FkUQ/s1600/img_3918.jpg

Edited April 27, 2011 by gibvel

[Kirby]

Even if you survive a life of riding like this, the local LEO would love to help you donate to their cause. I've rode the Dragon many times and this isn't a good idea no matter what kind of bike you ride.

[twigg]

I had thought the same thing but after I looked at yours I noticed no radio controller visible so It is was probally not flipped.

 

Doesn't matter either way.

 

Either he is on the wrong side of the road now, or he is about to be on the wrong side ... in a terrifying position!

[Prairiehammer]

Look at this shot. Same place, same trees, same stumps, etc.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hBMgJiXA_aI/TZ1syyRaPfI/AAAAAAAAmgk/UmVS0DJxGBc/s1600/img_2820.jpg

[etcswjoe]

Might be able to tell more if we could see the pics before and after from Killboy, but like was said before it does not look good.

[Reddog170]

Look at this shot. Same place, same trees, same stumps, etc.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hBMgJiXA_aI/TZ1syyRaPfI/AAAAAAAAmgk/UmVS0DJxGBc/s1600/img_2820.jpg

Only got one thing to say to this, OUCH!!!!!

[GAWildKat]

it should be pointed out that the 2 riders in the pic cannot be presumed to be the same. The jackets they wear are different in each pic. If the bike is the same it may be these were shot on different days.

[Prairiehammer]

I didn't mean to say that the two different shots were related...just that it was coincidentally the same curve.

The one is of a guy on a RSV while the other of the guy flyin' was a 70 something guy on a Harley. No relation...I guess.

[warriorhoneybee]

well they take pics on the same streatch of highway but for the first pic it appears that hes not even leaning hard so i hope boss man is right and he was pulling back on the road and if the pic was flipped he was pulling out of the ditch if you look at his line.