Biker Eats Asphalt In Front of Cop

[koolhand]

Watch this guy drop his bike when he gets distracted by a cop car

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[Clint]

I want my minute back.

[omegajim]

are you kidding - that was a chuckle - he apparently lost his concentration and dumped it when he was "pushing the envelope" of his driving abilities.

[DrBob]

...would have been funnier if he had slid into the cop car.

[Clint]

I don't get why it was funny. The guy had a bad day due to an error. Most of us have been there.

[MCSC]

Do you think he might have "instinctively" grabbed some front brake when he spotted the cop car ?

[Clint]

That's what I think. There's a primal reaction to suddenly encountering authority that few have total control over.

[jgreth]

He should have gotten ABS!

[tallannie]

yeah... in slo mo it looks like he reacts to the cop and uprights his stance....he was pushing it for that tight of a corner tho....

If I were a cop, I might learn from that NOT to hang out at that location and startle people. Maybe in future I would sit at the tightest spot of the turn where an approaching rider could see them from both directions...and my radar could see both oncoming cars ?

[jgreth]

I wouldn't blame the cop as he was just trying to find people speeding / driving unsafe around that area. What better place to catch people in the act than around a corner? If the kid wasn't driving like a maniac ( read: dragging knees on public road ) then it wouldn't have happened in the first place.

[tallannie]

agree...and I didnt blame the cop. I only said if it was me, I would see that my presence may have startled the rider and contributed to the crash......and so in future, I would position myself so that seeing me stopped the unsafe driving BEFORE somebody is in the middle of the corner on a bike.
Just me. maybe that is not how cops think...but it is how I think...

I wouldn't blame the cop as he was just trying to find people speeding / driving unsafe around that area. What better place to catch people in the act than around a corner? If the kid wasn't driving like a maniac ( read: dragging knees on public road ) then it wouldn't have happened in the first place.

[jgreth]

Heh, well yeah I'm sure there are places (straightaways) that he could have chosen. Maybe he was in the 'safe' place yesterday and trying to mix it up.