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Oriental Redneck |
"Crash"? Anybody see a crash? It's a spill, but it ain't a crash, in my view. It it were a real crash, she would have been dead. http://www.foxnews.com/auto/20...otorcycle-crash.html Shocking video surfaces of Valerie Thompson's 343 mph motorcycle crash By Gary Gastelu | Fox News Valerie Thompson was going for the motorcycle land speed record of 376 mph when it all went wrong. Racing across the salt flats of Australia’s Lake Gairdner at the World Speed Trials on March 19, her streamlined two-wheeler tipped over at 343 mph. Video of the accident show the fish-shaped bike flipping end over end, rolling over and sliding for more than a mile before finally coming to a rest on its side. Amazingly, the carbon fiber monocoque of the vehicle stayed largely intact, and Thompson suffered only minor bumps and cuts. Thompson told Fox News that it was the first time she ever crashed the bike, with which she set the women’s motorcycle land speed record of 328 mph earlier in the week. She’s still not sure exactly what caused the spill, but will be going over the onboard data to try to figure out what happened, while her team assesses the damage to determine if they can get the bike back together for another shot at the record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah later this year. You’ve got to get back on that horse. Or motorcycle. Q | ||
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Go Vols! |
She must have been wearing a ridiculous amount of gear and been covered in some Clark Griswold type lubricant. | |||
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eh-TEE-oh-clez |
She was in an enclosed carbon fiber cockpit. | |||
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Looks like they need a little aero work. It probably would have been bad, but the chute being deployed kept it stable. Hopefully they can get it back up an running for another run pretty quickly. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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| eh-TEE-oh-clez |
Definitely not an expert, but I guess that a little more downforce in the front wouldn't have hurt. | |||
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A Grateful American |
Probably texting... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Oriental Redneck |
"Look Ma, no hands."  Q | |||
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Buy high and sell "low" |
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny Archerman | |||
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I'd venture that's the LAST thing they want to do. Increasing downforce exponentially increases aerodynamic drag. I'm sure there's a formula for that somewhere, but since I'm not Sheldon Cooper and I tend toward the lazy side, I'm not gonna look it up. "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| A Grateful American |
At those speeds, folks are beyond skating on ice. And with no directional (flight) controls, you have even a smaller margin for deviation of trajectory. A little rapid increase or decrease of forward thrust, wheel shimmy, or other input and you start looking like bad Bruce Peterson landing. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
Do you suppose she manually deployed that chute, or is there some sort of automatic deployment system? _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Bald Headed Squirrel Hunter |
Looks like it may have been a little top heavy... "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" | |||
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Ya know that really was pretty good  ----------------------------------- USAF/ANG Retired | |||
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In Deo Fiducia Nostra |
Perhaps I’ve become jaded. Am I the only one not shocked by the “Shocking” video? SigEd P220ST .45ACP P229 .40SW P229 9mm P239 9mm P232SL NRA Benefactor Life Member | |||
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My thoughts exactly. Evel Knievel had some shocking landings on an ACTUAL motorcycle. Because son, it is what you are supposed to do. | |||
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Coin Sniper |
Selfie? Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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| eh-TEE-oh-clez |
Just add more power =) | |||
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| eh-TEE-oh-clez |
Is there a rule that says land speed records can't be broken by vehicles with (flight) control surfaces? Because, that'd be cool to have some control surfaces that could be manipulated to stabilize the motorcycle. | |||
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Equal Opportunity Mocker |
I read somewhere that after reviewing the cockpit film, they've decided that the next version will not have a rear view mirror. Apparently application of lip gloss over 300 mph is frowned upon by the gods of physics and universal cosmetology. ________________________________________________ "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving." -Dr. Adrian Rogers | |||
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Step by step walk the thousand mile road |
As someone with personal experience on this topic, I observe that when random parts of your motorcycle and you become separate entities intent on occupying the same space-time coordinates but with different entrance and exit vectors, it's a crash. Some times you walk away from a no-kidding crash with surprisingly few injuries. In my case, based on training in paramedic school and from other sources like the lectures of the late John Hinds, M.D. on the kinematics of trauma associated with motorcycle crashes, my 60 mph crash into a stopped car should have ripped one or more of my aorta, pulmonary artery and vein, and vena cavas (vena cavi?) from my heart, broken my legs, neck, skull and/or spine, and left me in a pile of dead on the outer loop of the Capital Beltway. Instead, I walked out of the ER four hours later. It's twenty years later you learn that youth is wasted on the young. Old people who crashed motorcycles when they were young are the ones who need the resiliency of youth. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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