Throttlejockey
Padden is my hero
Look out!
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ATGATT, because you just never know when someone is going to throw a motorcycle at you. Seriously, though, I found myself really anxious he was going to go over the edge.
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ATGATT, because you just never know when someone is going to throw a motorcycle at you. Seriously, though, I found myself really anxious he was going to go over the edge.
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Go left next time
talk about coming out of nowhere. I also thought he was going over the edge.
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ATGATT!
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At least it was only the bike that flew in front of him, and not the rider of that bike! 
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Still sucks though!
4:Still sucks though!
... and his spotter didn't make a single call on the headset!
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Throttlejockey
Padden is my hero
I think because he was focused on the road in front of him and not expecting a motorcycle to drop out of the sky, he didn't have time to react. There is a 12,000 ft drop off to the right!
Hazards don't just appear in front of you, they appear from everywhere... as this clearly proves!
If you only focus on the road in front of you, then there is an inevitability that you will suffer from an "unseen" hazard, despite it being fully within your field of view!
If you only focus on the road in front of you, then there is an inevitability that you will suffer from an "unseen" hazard, despite it being fully within your field of view!
Hey it was a race and he was standing'!
Yeah it's easy to say you shoulda done this or that. Sayin' isn't doin'.
I do agree with the "Go left young man" sentiment. Even though he may not have cleared the bike it would have put him farther away from the little roll down the hill.
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Because I usually am . . . .
There may have been someone on his left so that he wasn't able to swerve. I can see how the guy that passed him (to the inside) may have been braking at the same time and only got back on the throttle when he could clear the falling bike. Maybe. Just trying to see all angles.
Sure. I'm just going on what we can see. Personally I think it just happened too fast to avoid. Or target fixation.
Since we don't know all the factors I'm not carving anything in stone. I guess if he had ended up a few feet more to the right somebody else would be.