Video's: Post Your Closest Brush(es) With Death That You Have on Video
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Video's: Post Your Closest Brush(es) With Death That You Have on Video
While recording a lot of my motorcycle riding, track time, and other random events, I have accrued a couple vids of some near death experiences. These are the two scariest for me personally...
In Downingtown, PA on my Honda Hawk GT when I was a newer rider - took the corner too fast, and turned too early on PA Route 282. It almost cost me BIG time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8yZauTIOXs
In Chadds Ford, PA on my Honda VFR800 Interceptor when I was riding Creek Road. An Audi went to pass a road biker (pedal biker) and nearly took me out head on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbV0iHF-0O8
Edit - a couple more:
At Cecil County Dragway - got too much traction and did a surprise wheelie which bumped me into neutral!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DShRoMvbtFc
At New Jersey Motorsports Park on my old Hawk GT - I moto'd it (ran off the track) - just past 6 mins in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiCbdQUa6y8
I know I'm not the only one with vids like this. So, let's see YOUR brushes with death. Post up.
In Downingtown, PA on my Honda Hawk GT when I was a newer rider - took the corner too fast, and turned too early on PA Route 282. It almost cost me BIG time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8yZauTIOXs
In Chadds Ford, PA on my Honda VFR800 Interceptor when I was riding Creek Road. An Audi went to pass a road biker (pedal biker) and nearly took me out head on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbV0iHF-0O8
Edit - a couple more:
At Cecil County Dragway - got too much traction and did a surprise wheelie which bumped me into neutral!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DShRoMvbtFc
At New Jersey Motorsports Park on my old Hawk GT - I moto'd it (ran off the track) - just past 6 mins in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiCbdQUa6y8
I know I'm not the only one with vids like this. So, let's see YOUR brushes with death. Post up.
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and that is why i will not own a motorcycle, would LOVE to have one but stupid people not paying attention is not worth it. I was kinda warming up to the idea of getting one but last year i was at work on a saturday and there was a horrible bike wreck, i was the first one to get to the dude and his leg was an accordian and had broken ribs and road rash.... all because some jackass in a truck pulled out in front of him. cured me of wanting a bike.
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Lol i like how you honk the horn in the second vid like it was going to save you're life. I ride a bike as well ( GSXR 1000 ) and have had NUMEROUS experiences mainly because you have to have a mindset of ( EVERYONE is out to get you ) and its true. Nothing has been my fault, always someone else.
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I also would love a bike but I know I would be dead in a year. I have ridden motorcycles twice. First time was a 80 something Honda Interceptor nothing too crazy just a mile or two of fun. Seccond time was a brand new bussa and i was doing 90 in 150 feet. I love speed and don't trust myself or the other idiots on the road.
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Well, its not a brush with death but a few years ago ive filmed an acceleration vid in my car on an unknown back road.... At the end of the run i lost traction due to a curve and almost spun out... I shat my pants for sure that time... Yea, i know, it was stupid of me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOptQ...el_video_title
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOptQ...el_video_title
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Nitrous + Street tires =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op5tvnWM2OI
Next day I bought Mickey E/T streets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op5tvnWM2OI
Next day I bought Mickey E/T streets.
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Nitrous + Street tires =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op5tvnWM2OI
Next day I bought Mickey E/T streets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op5tvnWM2OI
Next day I bought Mickey E/T streets.
My second scariest moment was when I took out my friends 95 chevy truck and we wur racin my other friends red colorado just for the hell of it cuz we wur bored being stupid. My friend that owned the truck was with me and the other 2 wur in the red truck. Anyway ther is a cemetary outside my town and a corner right around it that goes out to a straight road out of town wher no one ever goes. So we went racing out on that road and on the way back we wur racing into town side by side at 100+ mph when all of the sudden out of the pitch black I see the yellow curving road sign 45mph on it, and by this time we are still doing 100+. This part is a little harder to explain, but going back in town there is a road that curves left (45mph) and a road that goes straight, but since there was not room for both of us to go straight I had no decision, but to try to do a 45mph turn at 100 in a truck or go straight into a pit that drops off just like how a steep ditch does. So I slam the brakes, but it's to late and we hit the pit at about 95 mph. Im thinking wur dead for sure the intire time. (no seat belts). So we hit it head on and amazingly I am still hanging on to the steering wheel doing my best to keep it straight and hold the brake down while we shoot through this pit over 70 mph or so. We slide/bounce and I watch my friend hit his head on the winshield and get thrown all though the cab. We go a good 50 feet tell we get to the other side of the pit and now we are doing probably 45mph and ramp out of the ditch halfway over the cemetary fence straight in the cemetary. After we sit there a few seconds I ask my friend if he is going to be ok and at this time he was just holding his head and said "yea". We get out and look at the damage. The front bumper is litterally up where you would open the hood at and the winshield is smashed from his head. By this time my friends come runnning over thinking we are dead and say that people are standing outside and probably called the cops. We get in and take off back to his house (yep the truck still runs) and make it home safely. The truck was a $700 truck with 225k lol. Had to post this up even if I do suck at explaining it, but that is my closest time to death. And whats worse is I could have killed my friend.
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It wasnt to bad, it was a two lane highway with tress on one side and a guard rail on the other so I HAD to keep it on the pavement. Ended up doing a 540 on the highway and ended up facing traffic, didnt even stall the car.
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While recording a lot of my motorcycle riding, track time, and other random events, I have accrued a couple vids of some near death experiences. These are the two scariest for me personally...
In Downingtown, PA on my Honda Hawk GT when I was a newer rider - took the corner too fast, and turned too early on PA Route 282. It almost cost me BIG time:
In Chadds Ford, PA on my Honda VFR800 Interceptor when I was riding Creek Road. An Audi went to pass a road biker (pedal biker) and nearly took me out head on:
In Downingtown, PA on my Honda Hawk GT when I was a newer rider - took the corner too fast, and turned too early on PA Route 282. It almost cost me BIG time:
In Chadds Ford, PA on my Honda VFR800 Interceptor when I was riding Creek Road. An Audi went to pass a road biker (pedal biker) and nearly took me out head on:
Although it's not exactly as close of a call as your vid, it could have been bad IF we would have been there 5 seconds earlier. This was taken right after I got a my T/C CbSS and drove it home. Like you, my front wheels came off the ground over a hill and I ended up in the oncoming traffic lane @ 1:18 (notice the big ******* truck that would have been all up in my grille). PS - Please ignore the loud thud @ 0:55 - my dumb *** put a tire in the ditch by hitting the apex too hard. Oh, and pay attention to my friend @ 2:20. We got stuck behind a mini-van and he was telling me about a straight a few turns ahead. We had a little miscommunication and he about **** his pants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n66IGV5eLg
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SSpd: The roads here are going to **** though. They have been using a technique called "tar and chipping" on a lot of the great back roads here. Thankfully, 52 was just paved, after being in that T&C state for a couple years. I hope they pave Creek Road now as it's currently in the T&C state
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SSpd: The roads here are going to **** though. They have been using a technique called "tar and chipping" on a lot of the great back roads here. Thankfully, 52 was just paved, after being in that T&C state for a couple years. I hope they pave Creek Road now as it's currently in the T&C state
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OP, that first vid made me cringe when you almost went into that rail, I know what its like... going around a turn, a car coming the opposite way on the inside lane went over the double yellow and i had to go wide, i literally road the edge of the road/gravel, other than that... ive had hundreds of close calls, especially at street races, so many idiots there... so i havent gone back with the bike since...
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82 and 282 were still brilliant last I checked. Creek Road between 152 and Route 1 is crap. Once you get south of there (where the vid was shot) it's still decent.
That was some time ago when I didn't know how to ride. Largely thanks in part to never being at the track on my bike. With my current experience and current bike (as shown in the Audi video) things have changed somewhat. Still don't get to ride as much as I would like. It's sad really. I hear you on the street racing deal - it's like that here. Somewhere you just don't want to be. If you show up just to watch, they can cite you. The thing is.. the police in PA don't typically ever chase a motorcycle if you run. Too many lawsuits have been filed so a lot of stations have rules against bike chases.
OP, that first vid made me cringe when you almost went into that rail, I know what its like... going around a turn, a car coming the opposite way on the inside lane went over the double yellow and i had to go wide, i literally road the edge of the road/gravel, other than that... ive had hundreds of close calls, especially at street races, so many idiots there... so i havent gone back with the bike since...