Emergency braking is one of the most valuable survival skills a motorcyclist needs, but it’s not something most of us practice often. Here’s the result of an inability to slow down quickly but safely.
Normally, these multi-bike crashes happen when one rider goes down, and the next rider crashes into them. Not so here! It seems instead that the second rider simply crashed from locking up their front brake in an emergency stop, which is a good reason to buy bikes with ABS — but that’s a whole other lecture. And don’t get us started on their gear selection …
Language in the video is NSFW, and the Enya soundtrack might not be safe anywhere else …
EMT in a T-shirt on a sport bike ?
Practice not being an idiot might be a more appropriate subject title.
Well, that too.
Wasn’t even necessary for the camera bike to do an emergency-stop, just aim between the fallen bike and the one stopped on the shoulder and stop past the incident. If there are vehicles behind, doing that gives them more room to react …
This lad practiced his emergency reactions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JadgIKbcL7k&feature=youtu.be
He is Fukking Awesome!
fabulous