Can you watch this without flinching?

25 Sep 2011 20:02 #1 by ScienceChic
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http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/bike ... 2011-09-23
Can you watch this without flinching?
Video: yet another demonstration that bike racers are utterly mental
Posted by: Matthew Jones, 23 September 2011

In his words: "I saw the dust (at about 200 km/h), lift the throttle. Avoid to hit the crashed driver. Thought to pass the rotating bike also on the left side, but then I realised that it came across the track (it was not flying on the line of the accelerating masses).

"Then braking - not too hard avoiding to be hit by following riders.... Afterwards - of course, full throttle. The race wasn't interrupted yet."

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25 Sep 2011 20:43 #2 by otisptoadwater
I can say it phased me but I wasn't flinching, just in self preservation mode; this is one more example of why I have stopped riding motorcycles on tracks and highways. It's too easy to get run over and end up dead.

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

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