What sort of idiot would deliberately run off a twenty-foot wide road to avoid a two foot wide obstacle (moving or not)? Should also have been going much slower to begin with of course. What if it had been kids crossing the road?

Shit like this is why riders like this SHOULD be hammered by the authorities.

Did I miss the other rider's bike? The guy who dropped the glove?

I hit a pedestrian once. With well over a 100k miles of street riding my only crash was a pedestrian. I did not have time to stop, while braking hard I counter-steered behind the direction he was going and he changed direction. I did what I could but my brake lever caught his ribs which launched me and sent him to the ground hard.
It seems like the rider went the wrong way, but we weren't there and maybe the guy changed directions. I am sure the sumo guy is looking back and seeing the mistakes, by hindsight is 20-20.

On the outside of the bend, just before the rider himself comes into view

my two cents? On a narrow road like that one, if you come up on a bike parked on the side of the road, you KNOW something is going on. You should just slow down to be on the safe side. If he slowed down when he saw the bike parked, nothing would have happened.

If he had only been equipped with ABS, DTC, and that new "Proximity Sensing De-Moleculizer Beam" thingy that BMW is coming out with... well, you know.

:nod

Also, looked like he was passing the other bikes very unsafely, and barely in control to start with!

However, none of us were there to see the big picture, so who knows? :dunno

Jim :brow

Exactly. Riding too fast. I'd beat the snot out of that idiot if I were the guy run down, assuming I was able. Do a goddamned track day and stop that shit on public roads. WTF?

Sorry - in a mood.

Barry

at 49 seconds, the bike can be seen in the crappy video from the 3rd bike. so from where that guy was passing he had an even better angle to see the bike well before the turn. I bet he is still thinking to this day, if only I did not pass on that blind corner...

I wouldn't count on it.:lol3

On the serious side, I would not be surprised if the rider in question places all blame on everything but himself. This does seem to be the prevailing thought process in this country as of late. The caption in the beginning of the video shows that the poster is placing blame fully upon the guy picking up his gloves.

Just like a damn squirrel. Not so easy to cross the road is it?

:lol3

Like it or not, this is true. Kids, dogs, deer, road workers, broken down trucks, fallen trees, bales of hay, farm tractors: there's all kinds of stuff in/on the roadway. If you run into it, you're riding beyond what you can see. Staying alive on a bike shouldn't be a matter of luck.

(I'm the same as most riders. I try to ride smart, but I've been lucky before, too.:huh)


............shu

You might be in a bad mood, but, imho, you got the right answer.

I enjoy Deal's Gap, but I don't ride at 10/10ths pace there. It just makes a lot of sense to have some reserves to deal with the surprises. On my last trip out there a couple of months ago, my surprise was two wild baby hogs....

You'd think the guy in the road would have heard the bikes coming in enough time to GTF out of the way..