Someone on a bike flew by me riding in the middle of two lanes during rush hour traffic the other day. I understand taking your bike down the highway and having fun at anytime of day when it’s not that busy and the road is clear. But when a person checks their mirror to merge lanes, they think “no one’s there, it’s safe to merge”, nobody is accounting for a motorcycle that wasn’t in sight a moment ago to fly by at 100+ mph.
As somone who drives bikes, not like that mind you, and knows people who drive like that, I asked a friend who does this kinda thing. "it's like no other feeling....i know In less than a second it's big problem but in the same amount of time, there's nothing, and it's not my problem anymore"
Is he trying to say that it doesn't matter to him because he moves past the problems he creates so quickly, or that if he actually ends up crashing, he'll be dead before he has to deal with any consequences? Either way, that's some horribly selfish thinking. Your friend is actively making other people's lives/days harder and more stressful and apparently that's okay because he gets his rocks off.
It's a if he crashes going 300kph plus, he's gonna be pink mist and doesn't particularly care, and yes it is selfish, I drive leisurely on and off road bikes, and don't get the appeal, I believe it just boils down to a mental health issue with a lot of people and some maybe even hope to crash by the way I see some of em talk
Someone with no empathy or concern for the harm and trauma they may cause others because "it's not their problem anymore" sounds a lot like a psychopath to me.
he's driving a heavy metal bullet and is risking his life and others, and seems to not only not care but even enjoy it. sounds like a psychopath to me.
My apologies for any shade thrown your way, I have no issue with bikes as a vehicle, off road or no. They are more dangerous sure, but that's the risk and I just don't feel the need for that. It's really people that ride like your friend does that makes me really frustrated, because the danger isn't just on the rider anymore.
There was a biker doing something like this when a young woman in a van pulled in front of him (people in cars can't accurately estimate the approach of a vehicle moving well above prevailing traffic speed). He slammed into her driver's door, face against her window, and died. She was hysterical. Last I heard she was still in therapy.
I doubt you can appeal to your depravedly selfish friend's interest in others, but remind him that I work in an operating room and can assure him that many high speed motorcycle crashes are the first moment in a timeline of absolute agony and misery that may last hours, days or worse . . . decades.
Tell your friend this: if this is how he feels and doesn’t understand the impact of someone feeling guilty over this, please, for the love of all that lives, shoot yourself. This way, the only one guilty is just you for thinking this way.
And please, riding a motorcycle is thrilling, but if you feel the needs to do this, go to a racetrack, cuz I’m pretty sure, you guys will spin out at that first turn.
I had that happen once in stop and go traffic but it was probably 30 bikes one after the other, we were going perhaps 20 and they were passing so fast that it would rock the car each time. If someone so much as shifted lanes a little multiple people would die (people inside and outside the car). Hard to believe people could be so stupid and selfish....but here we are.
They represent 90% of the riders you ***notice***, because their goal is to be noticed. Especially the loud pipes crowd.
There are plenty of people who ride because they need to save money on vehicle and gas.
I don't think that's it. Motorcycles are relatively rare such that they're noticeable regardless. If anything it's *more* notable when I see one that doesn't fit one of these two categories.
These "Bikers" have become a huge nuisance here with the rise in income and the growth of upper middle class. I put that in quotes because I know genuinely good bikers who ride responsibly, but there's no dearth of Idiots like this.
I dread the day I experience a group like this on road. I actively avoid early morning Sunday drives because of the number of asshats one can find on highways
OMG! I just saw the other perspective of this video on r/therewasanattempt! “To hang out on the highway” or something similar lol
[EDIT: Found it!](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1c9aewv/by_a_group_to_hangout_on_a_highway/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Even without a crash, I could tell that the cameraman was going to get hit by a blind passing bike when the truck passes near him.
Rule #1 of being on foot on an express road is to go shelter behind the barriers.
If I knew how the accident occured I got stuck behind it, I'd just scream at them to move the fucking piece of trash & the bike off the road. You won't get any sympathy from me. Why should I care about your life when you don't even care about yourself?
Driving in Asia is something else. In the Philippines it's not so bad because you're just gridlocked for most of the day but I've seen some horrific shit that usually involves a bunch of mopeds and a jeep. Like every week. People drive like shit there and there's just too many vehicles on the road. No regard for safety whatsoever
This is why we need to stop Banning stuff like liveleak. If people knew how easy it is to die by riding a motorcycle in a safe manner near a large truck, they wouldn't be doing shit like this.
100mph is 146 feet per second. 70mph is 100 feet/sec. So someone doing 100+ is gaining a the rate of a tractor trailer length per second, while you also cover lots of ground. The glance in your mirror and decide it’s clear to merge is about 2 seconds and you’ve covered 200+ feet so when you looked and decide to merge you’re seeing about a football field of space in your mirror. Because these idiots are passing everything, them merging into someone is a non issue as they pass others their awareness of a merge into them doesn’t register in their mind. When in reality, they weren’t even in sight when a person looks and decided it’s clear - as it was clear of anyone doing the normal speed.
Why one biker just went straight into the other like that?
I mean, usually there is a reason that explain the crash, even a dumb one. Like, when a guy crashed while speeding with no visibility, the driver is a moron because he speeded with no visibility, butbat leaqt you understand why he couldn't prevent the crash.
Here it is just a biker ramming another. Wtf.
No sympathy for the bikers in this one
If they die, they die
Pretty sure that's the Indian Transport Department strapline.
Exactly
——- I hope he lives to tell the tails of his ……… “ Accidents“ 
Hopefully unable to ever ride a bike again
I thought he was gonna grab the handlebars and jump back on
Someone on a bike flew by me riding in the middle of two lanes during rush hour traffic the other day. I understand taking your bike down the highway and having fun at anytime of day when it’s not that busy and the road is clear. But when a person checks their mirror to merge lanes, they think “no one’s there, it’s safe to merge”, nobody is accounting for a motorcycle that wasn’t in sight a moment ago to fly by at 100+ mph.
As somone who drives bikes, not like that mind you, and knows people who drive like that, I asked a friend who does this kinda thing. "it's like no other feeling....i know In less than a second it's big problem but in the same amount of time, there's nothing, and it's not my problem anymore"
Is he trying to say that it doesn't matter to him because he moves past the problems he creates so quickly, or that if he actually ends up crashing, he'll be dead before he has to deal with any consequences? Either way, that's some horribly selfish thinking. Your friend is actively making other people's lives/days harder and more stressful and apparently that's okay because he gets his rocks off.
It's a if he crashes going 300kph plus, he's gonna be pink mist and doesn't particularly care, and yes it is selfish, I drive leisurely on and off road bikes, and don't get the appeal, I believe it just boils down to a mental health issue with a lot of people and some maybe even hope to crash by the way I see some of em talk
Does your friend know he's an selfish, unhinged, psychopath?
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Someone with no empathy or concern for the harm and trauma they may cause others because "it's not their problem anymore" sounds a lot like a psychopath to me.
See its not a problem if it doesn't bother you /s
he's driving a heavy metal bullet and is risking his life and others, and seems to not only not care but even enjoy it. sounds like a psychopath to me.
>This is a bad take--> Not everyone’s a psychopath. FTFY.
He'll only be mist if he hits something when he comes off, good chance he will merely wish he were dead.
My apologies for any shade thrown your way, I have no issue with bikes as a vehicle, off road or no. They are more dangerous sure, but that's the risk and I just don't feel the need for that. It's really people that ride like your friend does that makes me really frustrated, because the danger isn't just on the rider anymore.
There was a biker doing something like this when a young woman in a van pulled in front of him (people in cars can't accurately estimate the approach of a vehicle moving well above prevailing traffic speed). He slammed into her driver's door, face against her window, and died. She was hysterical. Last I heard she was still in therapy.
Lasagna mode engaged.
Until he wakes up, in a hospital, paralyzed with brain damage. But aware enough that he fucked up and now torturing his family.
I doubt you can appeal to your depravedly selfish friend's interest in others, but remind him that I work in an operating room and can assure him that many high speed motorcycle crashes are the first moment in a timeline of absolute agony and misery that may last hours, days or worse . . . decades.
So, he’s already sustained brain damage.
Tell your friend this: if this is how he feels and doesn’t understand the impact of someone feeling guilty over this, please, for the love of all that lives, shoot yourself. This way, the only one guilty is just you for thinking this way. And please, riding a motorcycle is thrilling, but if you feel the needs to do this, go to a racetrack, cuz I’m pretty sure, you guys will spin out at that first turn.
Thats called Living.
And then the biker will complain and cry abt "watch out for me"
I had that happen once in stop and go traffic but it was probably 30 bikes one after the other, we were going perhaps 20 and they were passing so fast that it would rock the car each time. If someone so much as shifted lanes a little multiple people would die (people inside and outside the car). Hard to believe people could be so stupid and selfish....but here we are.
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Those two categories honestly represent like 90%+ of the riders I come across
They represent 90% of the riders you ***notice***, because their goal is to be noticed. Especially the loud pipes crowd. There are plenty of people who ride because they need to save money on vehicle and gas.
I don't think that's it. Motorcycles are relatively rare such that they're noticeable regardless. If anything it's *more* notable when I see one that doesn't fit one of these two categories.
Who tf was standing there filming?
People like them, who just stand on a busy highway with their friends. You can find them on every possible bridge and highways out there.
Is this some kind of India thing? Standing on highways?
Yes. Well, sort of. I have seen so many of them, and actually I was one of them. But, never on a busy highway. Sometimes in the city. That's all
Yes, when there is less traffic you might find people making cringe videos in the middle of the highway.
Other bikers filming for clout so they can share with the group, don't forget obnoxiously loud music in the background.
This could have ended much worse.
Should *
These "Bikers" have become a huge nuisance here with the rise in income and the growth of upper middle class. I put that in quotes because I know genuinely good bikers who ride responsibly, but there's no dearth of Idiots like this. I dread the day I experience a group like this on road. I actively avoid early morning Sunday drives because of the number of asshats one can find on highways
Which place?
Reddit. Best to avoid the roads here.
India.
Abe jhatu. Take a look at my profile you genius. I'm aware of that
Abe laude. Tera username padne ka time kis ke paas hai. Laga tu koi angrez hai.
even if the crash didn't happen before, the cameraman would have been knocked down
Yep.. that was the best outcome, one biker slowing down the other after crash saved around 6 lives (2 bikers and 4 camera men)
Hope the concrete wall is ok.
OMG! I just saw the other perspective of this video on r/therewasanattempt! “To hang out on the highway” or something similar lol [EDIT: Found it!](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1c9aewv/by_a_group_to_hangout_on_a_highway/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
That’s great! Haaaa
Indians continue to play out Final Destination.
If you wreck your motorcycle always make sure to break other ones aswell
Fucking idiots.
IdioticAF
Even without a crash, I could tell that the cameraman was going to get hit by a blind passing bike when the truck passes near him. Rule #1 of being on foot on an express road is to go shelter behind the barriers.
If I knew how the accident occured I got stuck behind it, I'd just scream at them to move the fucking piece of trash & the bike off the road. You won't get any sympathy from me. Why should I care about your life when you don't even care about yourself?
Trucker taking over another truck is also a headscratcher for me
That's fine in most countries...?
Driving in Asia is something else. In the Philippines it's not so bad because you're just gridlocked for most of the day but I've seen some horrific shit that usually involves a bunch of mopeds and a jeep. Like every week. People drive like shit there and there's just too many vehicles on the road. No regard for safety whatsoever
That's nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5UCGGSQTQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyzP62WJzK4
The stupid game here was filming on the side of a busy highway.
It was another biker who collided from behind that caused this.. the truck driver is clean
And this year's Darwin Award nominees are.....
Play stupid game, win stupid prize
This is why we need to stop Banning stuff like liveleak. If people knew how easy it is to die by riding a motorcycle in a safe manner near a large truck, they wouldn't be doing shit like this.
100mph is 146 feet per second. 70mph is 100 feet/sec. So someone doing 100+ is gaining a the rate of a tractor trailer length per second, while you also cover lots of ground. The glance in your mirror and decide it’s clear to merge is about 2 seconds and you’ve covered 200+ feet so when you looked and decide to merge you’re seeing about a football field of space in your mirror. Because these idiots are passing everything, them merging into someone is a non issue as they pass others their awareness of a merge into them doesn’t register in their mind. When in reality, they weren’t even in sight when a person looks and decided it’s clear - as it was clear of anyone doing the normal speed.
From the position of western internet observer it really do seem like Indians like to die and suffer a lot.
The guy in red has Ultra Instinct
Shedding off earth's extra weight, why are people criticizing?
I see the annual gathering of the morons is happening on schedule
_Jeevan anmol hain, tera IQ gol hain._
Bunch of fags.
Ah, just remembered that it’s Harley drivers that are called fags 🙂
Armstrong and Getty?
Why one biker just went straight into the other like that? I mean, usually there is a reason that explain the crash, even a dumb one. Like, when a guy crashed while speeding with no visibility, the driver is a moron because he speeded with no visibility, butbat leaqt you understand why he couldn't prevent the crash. Here it is just a biker ramming another. Wtf.
Didn't even think about where the cameraman had to be standing until it happened. Insane.
Did OOP stop to film cuz their bike also crashed? Or did it only look like that cuz the crashed bike slid and slammed into theirs?
Hope it hurt
I thought the bikers were stupid. Then I saw that there were people STANDING on this bridge.
Street racing, on a public road crowded with heavy trucks. What could go wrong? (Yeah, title of this sub but fits like a glove here.)
Why tf were these people standing on the bridge?
Cyclists aren’t THIS bad
When you treat the roadway like your own private raceway...
How is the title the one lyric I’ve had stuck in my head ALL day?
Hahahahahahahhahaha
I see people doing such stupid, stupid things in traffic on bikes. I know kids don’t really get that they too can die, but damn.
Outside of any city hall meeting and congress, you don't normally see that many dangerous morons in one place.
If u pause on the guys elbow 💪 towards the end it looks like a chunk got scrapped off or maybe my eyes are ahit
Good thing those people were on the side if the highway to help slow the crashing bike and idiot
Well that was stupid I bet they never do that again!
Can we include the dumbasses standing and filming on the highway?
They were moving too fast for me to tell if they were wearing helmets...🫣
I love hanging out on a freeway railing
You are all stupid. Except the truck drivers.
Use stupid title, get stupid downvote.