kj4v Posted April 27, 2011 Share #1 Posted April 27, 2011 I hope this isn't one of our guys! He has got a Florida tag. This is a good way to become a statistic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freebird Posted April 27, 2011 Share #2 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyHorse Posted April 27, 2011 Share #3 Posted April 27, 2011 Looks like he cut the corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yammer Dan Posted April 27, 2011 Share #4 Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coy55boy Posted April 27, 2011 Share #5 Posted April 27, 2011 Maybe he had a sudden brain fart and thought he was in Japan...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saddlebum Posted April 27, 2011 Share #6 Posted April 27, 2011 Maybe he did it so he could see further around the bend to see what was coming to hit him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stardbog Posted April 27, 2011 Share #7 Posted April 27, 2011 Maybe Prince William after real bachelor party trying Dragon. :rotf: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibvel Posted April 27, 2011 Share #8 Posted April 27, 2011 Maybe he lost his CB antenna going the other way and he turned around to look for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twigg Posted April 27, 2011 Share #9 Posted April 27, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcarl Posted April 27, 2011 Share #10 Posted April 27, 2011 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twigg Posted April 27, 2011 Share #11 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freebird Posted April 27, 2011 Share #12 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twigg Posted April 27, 2011 Share #13 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noahzark Posted April 27, 2011 Share #14 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exrsa1 Posted April 27, 2011 Share #15 Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etcswjoe Posted April 27, 2011 Share #16 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibvel Posted April 27, 2011 Share #17 Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted April 27, 2011 Share #18 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twigg Posted April 27, 2011 Share #19 Posted April 27, 2011 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prairiehammer Posted April 27, 2011 Share #20 Posted April 27, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etcswjoe Posted April 27, 2011 Share #21 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddog170 Posted April 27, 2011 Share #22 Posted April 27, 2011 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!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAWildKat Posted April 27, 2011 Share #23 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prairiehammer Posted April 27, 2011 Share #24 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warriorhoneybee Posted April 27, 2011 Share #25 Posted April 27, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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