Talk about evasive maneuvers!

[The Dude]

Here's another guy who actually HAD TO "lay her down." It looks like he escaped w/o a scratch, but only by the skin of his teeth. I would imagine his bike and his underoos were a total loss.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Llcpl8YoE]Lucky motorcycle rider[/ame]

 

[rsw81]

Wow, pretty good reaction time on that guy!

 

[Jugro]

:jawdrop:

Wonder if his still screaming.

 

[Motogiro]

Man he was quick to get off and out of there!

 

[motojoe122]

Looked like the guy on the other bike rode over to hand him some clean shorts!:BLAA:

 

[FloppyRunner]

Holy crap...

I wonder two things. First, what would I have done? Would I have sped off into crossing traffic on my bike? Or would I have done like that guy did and gotten off my bike and run into crossing traffic?

Then I wonder which would have been the smarter of the two? Most of us are probably a bit more agile on our feet, but assuming he was in gear, you could definitely get out of there faster on the bike...

 

[Humperdinkel]

Thats the #1 cause for brown stains in the old underderps I will to bet his freckle was breaking land speed records :BLAA:

 

[rjo3491]

Didn't read any of the text and didn't notice the guy on the bike until I watched the video for the third time! I'd have wet my pants seeing that truck coming at me!

 

[benjbong]

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[sniff6]

Crikey he was lucky!!!

 

[FIZZER6]

Yikes! Instincts take over in a situation like this, most of you all would do the same thing this guy did (although he ran straight across the street without looking, it's a good thing opposing traffic had slowed to a crawl!)

The one time I dropped my bike it was a similar situation: an oncoming pickup ran a red light when I was turning left on green arrow...I laid the bike down in the middle of the intersection at ~7 mph and rolled away from it as fast as I could... fortunately the pickup locked up his brakes and stopped inches from my downed bike. Had the truck not seen me and hit me broadside still in the saddle I would not be posting this. Only damage was a 1" scrape on the edge of my front fairing, a messed up frame slider puck and dirty shorts!