rider crashes when being stopped by the police

[meeeb]

It does look to me like a rider's error. Not sure why some seem to think that the police are to blame.

Because some like to have a go at the police. It makes them feel more competent than they actually are. Like schoolboys calling a disciplinarian teacher behind his back. When they get older and mature (some of them at least) they come to realise how right he was.

The threadstarter and co have done what many people do, passed ill-informed comment. It seems that the stop was a set-up and was expected, which illustrates the point that old men shouldn't try to reclaim their youth, especially on powerful motorbikes.

The incident does effectively make a point though.

 

[RWDpetrol]

Because some like to have a go at the police. It makes them feel more competent than they actually are. Like schoolboys calling a disciplinarian teacher behind his back. When they get older and mature (some of them at least) they come to realise how right he was.

The threadstarter and co have done what many people do, passed ill-informed comment. It seems that the stop was a set-up and was expected, which illustrates the point that old men shouldn't try to reclaim their youth, especially on powerful motorbikes.

The incident does effectively make a point though.

I still blame the policeman/policeforce. Whether staged or not, you don't do this kind of thing in bad weather. They should know better and advise accordingly.

 

[Stratman]

^^^ The rider who crashed should have known better. He should have been travelling at a speed which enabled him to stop in the distance he could see. Especially in bad weather.

 

[meeeb]

"I still blame the policeman/policeforce. Whether staged or not, you don't do this kind of thing in bad weather. They should know better and advise accordingly."

Was the bad weather an essential part of the point being made??

 

[wemorgan]

The threadstarter and co have done what many people do, passed ill-informed comment.

Cheers and welcome to the forum. You'll fit in nicely.

 

[lxi]

why didn't he let off the brakes a bit & go to the right of the one that had stopped?

 

[Sp!ke]

why didn't he let off the brakes a bit & go to the right of the one that had stopped?

Poor riding skills and target fixation.

 

[balge]

why didn't he let off the brakes a bit & go to the right of the one that had stopped?

Panic.

 

[boxbrownie]

The fact remains I doubt very much even if it was a staged video scene that the riders were given permission to ride at over 90mph in fog on an open public highway.

And if it was a genuine speed check the police would have still doing the correct procedure.

I wouldn't want to be the poor driver who looks right before pulling out of a side road and seeing the road is clear as far as visibilty allows pulls out to be tee boned by a bike looming out of the fog at that speed......oh yes, sorry.....the driver didn't look did he?

 

[balge]

"I still blame the policeman/policeforce. Whether staged or not, you don't do this kind of thing in bad weather. They should know better and advise accordingly."
Was the bad weather an essential part of the point being made??

Could have been, the Mountain is famous for catching people out, the weather is lovely when you set out (2 mins in on the full video), then you ride into a storm cloud about halfway up and visibility drops to a few yards in seconds.
Never been, but that's forty years of second-hand horror stories about the TT.
If it was TT week the Mountain section has no speed limit, unless that's been changed recently...

 

[Sp!ke]

I didnt think there was a speed limit on the isle of man at all outside of the built up 30mph zones.

 

[boxbrownie]

If thats the case then I still wonder why they were doing 90+ in fog, I would have thought that fast enough in clear conditions on an open public single carriageway.

 

[Ted]

Yes - he could possibly be done for 'furious driving'

 

[Spinal]

Only my tuppence worth, I realise it's fake... but in some countries, police are not allowed to stop motorbikes for speeding or routine checks. This is done to avoid incidents like the one in the video, or worse.

Instead, the biker's plate is taken, and a fine sent to their house...

M.

 

[boxbrownie]

Yes - he could possibly be done for 'furious driving'

This is true, my mate....no, his name is not Dave was done for furious acceleration, a while ago now but he got done for it, he pulled away from lights using the full 95bhp from his Escort.....must have been a threat to the worlds axis stability with all that power

 

[davidjpowell]

Only my tuppence worth, I realise it's fake... but in some countries, police are not allowed to stop motorbikes for speeding or routine checks. This is done to avoid incidents like the one in the video, or worse.

Instead, the biker's plate is taken, and a fine sent to their house...

M.

That's not open to abuse then