Video: Death of a Thai biker - clocked at 264 kmph

[overherebc]

2 hours ago, tifino said:

blame the birdpoop, the kee nok, for upsetting the windscreen aerodynamics!

 

 

 

...'Shared' on Facebook!  

 

 

     more like 'Spread'...

 

but look at this deeper... the video was on His phone, therefore His Facebook - yet he didn't live to Upload it

 

Was it one of those LiveFeeds?  or did some Ghoul go through his phone for it?

Bird poop.

In uk there was/is a moth that I'm sure contains about 100cc of custard and they always managed to commit suicide smack in the middle of your visor at night. The world turned yellow in an instant.

Fun at 60mph and can't see a thing for a second or two or three trying to get the visor up and slow down it is not. ????????

Edited May 1, 2019 by overherebc

[Scutty]

2 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

Water off a ducks back, one problem is many here believe you will die when it's your fate to, so driving at speed, pissed up with no helmet while using line makes no difference. At the Police station last week over a bike rider smashing into us driving down the wrong side of the road I did point out that this sort of dangerous behaviour (condoned by the cops) is what leads to the thousands slaughtered on the roads here each year. Blank looks all round, expect the foreign brakes to get the blame in this case.

Well its not Germany is it ??? Its perfectly acceptable here to use the other lane to move up to find a crossing in traffic . Just a different style to what your used to in US or Europe . You were probably in the wrong driving farang style in Thailand which is foolish .

[richard_smith237]

5 minutes ago, Scutty said:

Well its not Germany is it ??? Its perfectly acceptable here to use the other lane to move up to find a crossing in traffic . Just a different style to what your used to in US or Europe . You were probably in the wrong driving farang style in Thailand which is foolish .

Nope...  You've barked up the wrong tree, jumped to the wrong conclusions, made the wrong assumptions... 

 

Orton Rd described his Wife's accident quite clearly along with a photo in another thread he started last week. 

 

His Wife was turning right. A motorcyclist who was riding the wrong way into on common traffic on the wrong side of the road rode into the side of his car. 

 

Motorcyclist clearly in the wrong breaking at least 1 traffic regulation. The BiB have tried to pin the blame on the Wife (car driver) - which is clearly unfair in this case. 

 

 

Edited May 1, 2019 by richard_smith237

[overherebc]

10 minutes ago, stanleycoin said:

Hope the road was ok. 

Don't know. It fled the scene??

[ocddave]

2 minutes ago, Scutty said:

You were probably in the wrong driving farang style in Thailand which is foolish .

Farang style must mean safety-oriented, driving Thai style is just another way of saying you trust in luck only, no safety skills needed. You don't need a helmet, you can drive at the top speed of you bike, and its perfectly OK to have your family aboard, especially a baby sitting on the gas tank. But don't you dare drive without the largest and most obnoxious Buddha Amulet around your neck, that could mean certain death!

[cardinalblue]

That was cool....

[Ceruhe]

Somebody explain to me what happened, I'm not a biker.

 

My gut feeling being he hit a bump/went airborne for a split second and it went straight to shit from there. Yes. No?

 

I'm not exactly taking "simply riding too fast" for a solid answer in this case.

[connda]

"Stupid is as stupid does."

[ocddave]

10 minutes ago, Ceruhe said:

Somebody explain to me what happened, I'm not a biker.

 

My gut feeling being he hit a bump/went airborne for a split second and it went straight to shit from there. Yes. No?

 

I'm not exactly taking "simply riding too fast" for a solid answer in this case.

Driving too fast, lost control of the front end, probably on sand which doesn't allow the bike to stick too well. The only thing needed then was overuse of the brakes (watch how fast his speedo decreases in speed), and viola, off the road you go. Also take note of the slow down strips/patches he flew over, those are their to warn you to slow down, may have also contributed to his losing traction.

Edited May 1, 2019 by ocddave

[richard_smith237]

6 minutes ago, Ceruhe said:

Somebody explain to me what happened, I'm not a biker.

 

My gut feeling being he hit a bump/went airborne for a split second and it went straight to shit from there. Yes. No?

 

I'm not exactly taking "simply riding too fast" for a solid answer in this case.

 

I tried to figure out the same thing.. 

 

Others have mentioned signs indicating road works ahead. Its clear that the Motorcyclist backed off the throttle (perhaps upon seeing these signs). 

I suspect upon backing off the throttle, forward weight transfer and perhaps a slippy surface (grit), it looks like the front wheel slipped...  not really sure...  

 

 

[dotpoom]

3 hours ago, Soupdragon said:

The road looks straight ?

 

Did they find a mobile phone in his hand ?

 

"he had probably encountered roadworks after the brow of a hill and lost control. The road is being widened to four lanes at that point."..?

[eggers]

Think Thais R unable to responsibly drive these powerful bikes!!

Presume, to get licence is easy as.....

Can buy 'high powered'bikes & have loud exhausts installed w/o any restrictions due to driving experience!! 

Once again failure by Laws to protect people both drivers & others!! 

[MaksimMislavsky]

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

I went 160 kph on my Kawasaki 650 with my Thai girlfriend on the back. 

 

 

 

Glorious! I only managed to squeeze 130 out of my Honda Wave 100. Alone.

[Jane Dough]

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

wow that is fast. mine was cool as a cucumber at 160. 

 

I knew a 20 year old bar girl who loved to get on my bike and it was impossible to go fast enough for her.

We would go between Hua Hin and Cha Am in 14 minutes.

 

But that was when I was 60 and now at 64 I have grown up a bit and realized how dangerous that was.

I knew a bar girl who quite liked to get on my chopper. 

 

But that's another story.

 

Rooster

[DrTuner]

On that ricefield of a road anyone with brains wouldn't drive over 60. Darwin 1, Thai driver 0.

[tlandtday]

Social media at play again giving to attention seekers who put their lives at risk for a clip.

Edited May 1, 2019 by tlandtday

[tifino]

 there was still some loose rice left on the road, after the drying was done?

 

 

 

 

 

 

and the wheel slipped as it wasn't sticky rice

[djayz]

I think we are all guilty of having made stupid decisions when we were younger. I didn't get on a motorbike until I was in my late 30s and I'm pretty sure I'd be dead by now if I had started when I was a teenager/early 20s. I had an extremely heavy foot in those days. 

RIP Too young to die. 

[GreenerGrass]

4 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

He started slowing down and just drifted left and off the road?  ????

I reckon he slowed down to have a look back to see how far his mates were and he veered of to the left, lost control and that's that. R.I.P

[ocddave]

1 minute ago, djayz said:

I think we are all guilty of having made stupid decisions when we were younger. I didn't get on a motorbike until I was in my late 30s and I'm pretty sure I'd be dead by now if I had started when I was a teenager/early 20s. I had an extremely heavy foot in those days. 

RIP Too young to die. 

Yup, plus Big Bikes are easily available for affluent young people here in Thailand now, which may be the reason why the government wants to move forward with a Big Bike specific license.

[Kinnock]

27 minutes ago, Ceruhe said:

Somebody explain to me what happened, I'm not a biker.

 

My gut feeling being he hit a bump/went airborne for a split second and it went straight to shit from there. Yes. No?

 

I'm not exactly taking "simply riding too fast" for a solid answer in this case.

I'm guessing lack of experience - he's hanging on to 4th gear too long earlier in the video, possibly due to over excitement at racing his mates, the road is clearly unsuitable for those sort of speeds, and any bumps or gravel will make his rear wheel spin up faster than the road speed making the bike feel unstable, then if you back off it gets worse.

 

Also bikes go where you look - so as he starts to loose control he probably looks to the side of the road (where he doesn't want to go) and that's exactly where he goes.

 

All of us in our early days do something daft that teaches us a lesson, but he didn't survive his lesson.

Edited May 1, 2019 by Kinnock

[Deli]

3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

I went 160 kph on my Kawasaki 650 with my Thai girlfriend on the back. 

 

 

 

Try it with 260kph, I tell you, it's even more fun. Missus likes it ????

[sometimewoodworker]

4 hours ago, salavan said:

Me first he won 

Yes a Darwin reward 

[spidermike007]

Anyone who does 264kph on any Thai road is taking an enormous chance. Just recently, a good friend of mine, who was a motorcycle racer many years ago, and a highly skilled rider, had a dog run right out in front on him, on a scooter, while doing only 40KPH. There was nothing he could do to avoid this stupid mutt. He suffered some nasty injuries. Broken collar bone, five broken ribs, etc. 

 

The only way to survive on these roads is to avoid taking big chances.

[JRG23]

Incomprehensible stupidity.

[happy chappie]

4 hours ago, mike787 said:

advertising this will make Thai roads safer.????

And a few out there will be out to beat the 264kph.

[happy chappie]

1 minute ago, JRG23 said:

Incomprehensible stupidity.

Not no more he ain't.

[roo860]

Nope...  You've barked up the wrong tree, jumped to the wrong conclusions, made the wrong assumptions... 
 
Orton Rd described his Wife's accident quite clearly along with a photo in another thread he started last week. 
 
His Wife was turning right. A motorcyclist who was riding the wrong way into on common traffic on the wrong side of the road rode into the side of his car. 
 
Motorcyclist clearly in the wrong breaking at least 1 traffic regulation. The BiB have tried to pin the blame on the Wife (car driver) - which is clearly unfair in this case. 
 
 

I'm afraid Scutty is a bit of a divvy.

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[Shiver]

4 hours ago, californiabeachboy said:

Mixed feelings about this one. He knew what he was doing - chance he would die, and he still did it. Died having fun (as he defined fun, not me).

 

But what about the family? They will continue to suffer from his death even though he will not suffer.

That's the really crppy thing about people doing self harm - they don't consider the cost to those around them.

I constantly say I don't do weddings and funerals, but I have felt obligated to attended a couple of the latter as a stand in because the real relatives have done something like immobilised themselves or being incarcerated.  Health/Emotion/Finance all suffer for many around them, not only themselves.

This one I don't have empathy for.  He knew the risks and played the game.  Universe is judge.

[rabas]

A big bike at high speed has huge momentum that wants to travel in a straight line, simple physics. To change that requires the front wheel have traction on the pavement. For some reason he lost traction, which is easy at such high speeds, and he can't get it back.  Note how he slowly drifts off the left side of the road in a straight line. The more he tries to turn the wheel to keep the bike on the road, the less traction the wheel has. Cars experience this on icy roads. He's also trying to slow down and loses any rear wheel traction. (Never break in a curve, break before)

 

Way to fast for conditions.

 

Edited May 1, 2019 by rabas