Russian Hang On

[GaijinPunch]

Usually I don't like to promote such dangerous acts, but this is worth a watch. A few months old, but maybe you've not seen it.
Youtube

[sven666]

full DVD release in 2011..

[TrevHead (TVR)]

As someone whose lost family members to motorbikes I expect him to be in a coffin very soon.

[Bloodreign]

The video relays a sense of speed for sure, but the dudes insane.

[njiska]

While I would normally say I hate these assholes and would be more than happy to open a door into them, I have to admit that was kind of impressive. Stupid, assholish and suicidal, but impressive.

[EPS21]

I am sure he was just in a very big hurry and justified in driving that way.

[Ruldra]

Cool video, but yeah the guy will end up dead very soon if he keeps doing this. All it takes is one little mistake.

[neorichieb1971]

Well Take 1 went ok.. Its a print.

[Skykid]

Shame he didn't reach the checkpoint.

[Vyxx]

Cool video, but yeah the guy will end up dead very soon if he keeps doing this. All it takes is one little mistake.

Most of the time those mistakes are from other drivers who can't be bothered to use a turn signal or look before changing lanes.

[Lordstar]

Cool video, but yeah the guy will end up dead very soon if he keeps doing this. All it takes is one little mistake.

Most of the time those mistakes are from other drivers who can't be bothered to use a turn signal or look before changing lanes.

I would not say its MOST of the time. Sometimes yes. But not most. I dont know a biker who has not broken the speed limit or driven recklessly at one point or another. I cant say the same for people who drive cars.

[BrianC]

That is some insane driving! The thread title made me think this was about some odd Russian bootleg of Hang-On, though.

[neorichieb1971]

Cool video, but yeah the guy will end up dead very soon if he keeps doing this. All it takes is one little mistake.

Most of the time those mistakes are from other drivers who can't be bothered to use a turn signal or look before changing lanes.

I would not say its MOST of the time. Sometimes yes. But not most. I dont know a biker who has not broken the speed limit or driven recklessly at one point or another. I cant say the same for people who drive cars.

Its pretty hard not to break the speed limit when the bike achieves that in 2nd gear. You can do 70mph on tickover on those bikes.

[DEL]

Towards the end when he's slipping through the bunched up cars - at such speed!
His aggression is marvellous.

That aside, yeah motorbikes are a sure fire way of crippling yourself horribly or dying.
We can all relate horror stories about people we've known, seen, heard about. I only just recently was told about the reason why you never take off your helmet after a crash

[BulletMagnet]

I am sure he was just in a very big hurry and justified in driving that way.

"MUST CRUSH CAPITALISM!"

Seriously, in Soviet Russia, cop avoid YOU.

[Obiwanshinobi]

There's a former biker on the Eurogamer forum who lost his forearm due to a bike accident and nearly died. He almost took his pal with him, who was driving behind him and happened to film the accident (it's on YouTube somewhere).
No motorbikes and playing with two-handed man's controllers for the poor chap anymore. He wasn't even doing anything crazy, there was just something wrong with his motorcycle.

[GaijinPunch]

I would not say its MOST of the time.

As a cyclist I would say it always is. Some cock ass almost turned into me the other day as he wasn't using his blinker... I assumed he was going straight. Dumb assumption on my part, as everyone has their head up their ass here. Then again, it is totally legal for bicycles and bikes to go between cars at lights... which I did.

[D]

Usually I don't like to promote such dangerous acts

Just most of the times
Isn´t this that guy that does alot of this stuff?
I´ve seen his work numerous times. It looks awesome, yet at the same time, if he was driving past me at those speeds ......
Or I might be confussing him with someone else.
But there is a guy who does this often.

EDIT I ws thinking of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENuo0eVFeww
Ghost rider.
Notable Feats * In Ghost Rider: The Final Ride, Ghost Rider does a timed run in Sweden from Stockholm to Uppsala (dubbed Uppsala Run, a distance of 68 km or 42.6 miles) in 14m 55s with an average speed of 273.1 km/h (170.1 mph) in heavy traffic

[sven666]

ghost rider too has a new DVD planned for 2011.. thatone might be worth a watch as hes acumulated quite alot of footage over the years since his last release.

[ryu]

kinda want to get into motorbiking someday, but the risk of being fucked up by someone who can't drive to save themselves really puts me off ...

I only just recently was told about the reason why you never take off your helmet after a crash

especially this. i'd rather have my head kept intact and not split in half.

[Vyxx]

ghost rider too has a new DVD planned for 2011.. thatone might be worth a watch as hes acumulated quite alot of footage over the years since his last release.

sven, you don't drive like that, do you?

[gct]

This was posted on a forum for my local scootering group. It's exciting to watch for sure, but this scooter group is really serious about safety so of course none of us would ever think to do anything like that. We have to watch out for ourselves because we can't trust other drivers to be watching out for us. Drive safe!

[TrevHead (TVR)]

If youve got the need for speed take it out of town on deserted country roads or even better a race track.
Still as others have stated its usually just freak bad luck that catches many riders out. My aunty has 3 kids, all sons and into bikes. 2 are dead, 1 was pissed up showing off outside a pub and hit a lamppost, and the other while turning a corner at 20mph with his GF on the back got pulled off the bike due to hitting overgrown bramble or a branch. He broke his neck, but he was still alive on the ground as he was talking to his GF, it was when must of started to get up that killed him.

Ive just finished a basic first aid corse, and while you should keep him still and leave the helmet on (unless you need to preform CPR) I was told to initially feel at the back of the victims head / helmet. To feel for blood or worst of all any jam or jelly

[Khan]

I admit i break the speed limit now and then and sometimes filter but only when its absolutly safe to do so but let me tell you when you come off a motorcyle at 10 mph it hurts but its only a few bruises, I came off at 40mph a couple of months ago going around an island my back wheel slid out on oil...I had my bike banked over pretty far and my knee wasnt very far off the ground before i hit the oil spill then sent me crashing and rolling along an island at 2am on a thursday morning lol.....it really hurt but thankfully I only had severe bruising and a couple of cuts nothing broken ( no cars about or traffic thankfully or I would have been run over or crushed)

Coming off at the speed this guy is going....I have severe doubts he would live to ride another day. The problem is if this guy went into the back of a car at the speed he is going he could still do some serious damage to the rear passengers if theres a baby or young infant in the back he could probably kill them along with himself. I think this guy got himself inspiration not from Ghost rider but "The Black Prince" who did a record lap run around paris but on his 2nd attempt to smash his previous record got himself killed

Its insane stuff that they can go balls out like that it reminds me of a shmup the way they dodge cars inches and even millimeters apart at 100mph+ I could never do it at the same time these thrill seekers dont understand the damage they can cause...sooner or later the road wins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AgzZd8Lr64

[moozooh]

I've spent some 7-8 years of my life around the place at the start of the video. If he'd drive backwards he'd reach the place where I'd lived for 14 years straight. And where the video stops it would take me less than 40 minutes to walk home, heh.

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[TrevHead (TVR)]

The guy who was training me in first aid told me just how important wearing leathers is due to sliding down a tarmac road is the same as going down sand paper. When I rode I used to not bother wearing leathers but ild always wear plastic padded jacket and water proof pants but if I ever go back on the road itll be in leathers especially with some quality gloves after seeing a couple of E&R photos

[Ed Oscuro]

The guy who was training me in first aid told me just how important wearing leathers is due to sliding down a tarmac road is the same as going down sand paper. When I rode I used to not bother wearing leathers but ild always wear plastic padded jacket and water proof pants but if I ever go back on the road itll be in leathers especially with some quality gloves after seeing a couple of E&R photos

Good tip, thanks.

Alright, about the video...is it wrong that the thing I noticed most was how damn congested those roads seem to be? There's seemingly plenty of lanes but still they all seem backed up. Maybe not a big surprise considering much of Russia's industries are concentrated in Moscow, but still.

[moozooh]

There are several sides to that, Ed. Most of the larger roads were constructed still in the (economically) greater days of Soviet Union when gigantic constructions that were gigantic just for the sake of it could be afforded. You would get 4-5 lane avenues where 2 would be more than enough. That was until 90s, though.

After the crash of the USSR economics went completely in the crapper so it wasn't only impossible to afford stuff that was larger than needed at the time — it was impossible to afford things that were pretty much a requirement for proper functioning of an given element of the infrastructure. Pretty much every single one of them that is being used right now was either built under the Communists, or is complete shit. In both cases they're on their last legs, and (re-)building quality stuff takes ridiculous amount of money due to abundant corruption in every possible node of the bureaucratic chain. Did you know that a kilometer's worth of MKAD (the largest and single most used road here) takes more money to renovate and otherwise maintain than a kilometer of LHC, according to the official reports? Obviously the actual cost would be about two orders of magnitude lower, but some people involved really need to get filthy rich, and there nobody stopping them because the system works that way. People who are on the inside just get away with it until other people who are on the inside decide otherwise. People who are on the outside can just watch.

That wouldn't be so dreadful if Moscow didn't continually grow due to the immigration (most of it illegal obviously), and, even discounting that, people weren't so hell bent on getting their own cars. Can't blame them, though: you know why they want to get cars? Because the subway is identically crowded. That photo is real, I kid you not. And it has become easier to buy cars now because you can take a loan — something you couldn't do until mid-90s. What takes ridiculousness up into the space is the fact that there's nowhere to park such an incredible amount of cars, so people do that on the curbs of damn near every road until the rightmost lane is rendered completely dysfunctional. Imagine a three-lane road near a subway station with a bus stop. The rightmost lane is completely filled by all kinds of parked taxis. The middle is where buses stop to let passengers in because there are 15–30 people willing to go on the bus and they can only do that one by one, which can take up to 3-4 minutes if they need to purchase a ticket from the driver. Suddenly the three-lane road becomes a single-lane road!

Bottom line: roads can't grow because there's nowhere to grow and there's barely any money to build them considering the prices. There are more people moving to Moscow every year than those moving out. More people living or working in Moscow buy cars. What you've seen on that video is by far not the worst situation on that particular road. Coping with all that is an active part of the everyday life here.

[Ed Oscuro]

Those are some interesting facts and impressions, thanks for them.

In terms of the (far?) future, the crowding of Moscow would seem to suggest that, although it's not what I'd call ideal by a long shot, Russia is at least using land efficiently, in this sense (not counting the possibility of polluting factories etc. being located throughout the rest of the country). So the thinking goes that if Russia's economy and population is mainly centered in Moscow, that presents perhaps some opportunities for the future. Unfortunately I haven't a clue what percentage of Russian GDP or population is spoken for by Moscow (at a guess 35%? Edit: Surprisingly I'm within 2% points if you take Russia's official estimate, divide by 2009 IMF estimate - $459BN and $1231BN for the nation). My latest general reading on Russia dates from 1985 though - Vadim Medish's encyclopedia of "The Soviet Union;" a good book with the title set in a The Empire Strikes Back-like font!

I do see that there are estimates that 2.5% of Russia's GDP is lost to traffic accidents, though.

[antares]

ghost rider too has a new DVD planned for 2011.. thatone might be worth a watch as hes acumulated quite alot of footage over the years since his last release.

sven, you don't drive like that, do you?

Maybe sven IS ghost rider