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French Motorcycle Crash Leads to Hilarious Twirling Wreckage
- Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:18pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Crashes are not usually funny. This one is.
A couple riders last weekend participating in the fourth round of the 2011 Promosport Championship at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours took a spill while rounding a corner. As they tumbled, their bikes went sliding, eventually becoming entangled with stuck throttles. That led to a merry-go-round of wreckage and plenty of laughs as the riders tried to figure out how to separate the twirling cycles:
For the record, the motorcycles ended up doing over 100 donuts.
(via HuffPo)
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Comments (50)
LibertyWon
Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:12amAll this needs is that Benny Hill tune in the background.
Report Post »Grandpa Harley
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:59pmAnyone read the crawler that was running during the spinning motorcycle video. Check it out. Don’t vote for a Mormon. What say you Harry Reid?
Report Post »stand up for freedom
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:58pm“For the record, the motorcycles ended up doing over 100 donuts.”
Report Post »I counted 16 donuts. Did someone from the Obama administration do the counting? It’s obviously someone who has learned the new “swirling math” being taught at many of our nation’s public schools.
Are those really French riders? I would have thought the French riders would have waited for someone else to come to the rescue. Wouldn’t they have been afraid of confrontation? Or is it only confrontation with Germans on motorcycles?
Jon McElfresh
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:51pmHaHaHaHa!!!
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 3:34pmI once saw footage of the START of a superbike race. You might know that they tend to start not two or even three abreast, but 4, 5, or even 6 abreast in staggered formation. Diving into the first turn (right-hander), the right side handlebar of a rider in the back of the pack got jammed up under the rear fairing of a rider in front. Anyone here who rides a motorcycle should be able to write the rest of this for themselves.
Motorcycle brakes are separate systems, front and rear. The rear brake is controlled by the right foot, while the front brake is on… the right handlebar. When the handlebar got jammed under the rear fairing, it jammed the rear rider’s front brakes hard. The rear rider’s front wheel locked up and he did an immediate endo (front end-over-end tumble) into the outside of the turn.
Luckily no one else got involved and no one was seriously injured, not even him. The bike whose fairing he used for that maneuver continued the race with no ramifications from that start.
Report Post »Michael600r
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 5:45pmSeems you know a thing or two about bikes!
Report Post »PureDrumFury
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:06pmSince when did the Blaze start posting motorcycle porn? This is just sick.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:44pmAround and around they go…. just like the Liberal’s recycling diatribe and lies.
Report Post »flrick
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:41pmA full 100 donuts? Are they talking about breakfast, or is that liberal morning joeblob math? I counted 16, and if you count each bike, that’s still only 32.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:38pmRound and round they go when it stops nobody knows.
Report Post »GOGUINZ
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:30pmEventually the two bikes surrendered
Report Post »BobEd
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:14pmI am starting to believe this website needs to go off-air, along with Beck………..
Report Post »harumph
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:08pmThey must have been counting tire revolutions. Now, THAT’s pretty good.
Report Post »worthless
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:48pmyou cant view the video. what’s up with that?
Report Post »aerorepairo
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:46pmHummm, someone hates Mormons
Report Post »MsMonsoon
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:04pmOddly you and I seem to the only ones to notice that. How about, don’t vote for a muslim again?!!
Report Post »geonj
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:42pmsome people enjoy a good laugh. looked just like glenn beck and van jones going round and round.
Report Post »busterpuddles
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:40pmA long time ago this happened to me with my wife on the back. We hit some dirt leaning into a turn and round we went. I got a beating for it.
Report Post »John Joyce
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:39pm“For the record, the motorcycles ended up doing over 100 donuts.”
Um… I only counted 16 donuts
Report Post »The_Bees_Assume
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:43pmAny more doughnuts and the whole Police Force would have been there.
Report Post »NewsWatcher
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:58pmMy tally is also 16. I think those commentators aren’t verifying the “facts” that they’re given.
Report Post »MsMonsoon
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:10pm@Newswatcher: “I think those commentators aren’t verifying the “facts” that they’re given.”
Naturally, it’s MSMBC. Why should they start checking facts now?!
Report Post »mullet
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:33pmYes, but actually counting them is harder and makes less of a story than just saying “more than 100.” Also, I counted 32 (since there were two bikes…)
Report Post »HiredMind Blog
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:53pmDoesn’t anyone care about accuracy anymore? Oh wait, it’s via HuffPo.
(But, seriously, the folks at TheBlaze should have caught it)
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:36pmFirst and last time we’ll ever see “Hilarious” used to describe a motorcycle crash.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:33pmLooks like Barney trying to find his buddies tail pipe.
Report Post »His Lamb is Satanic
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:29pmGet some reporters, Blaze!n This is what affirmative action gets you.
Report Post »His Lamb is Satanic
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:28pmMore Hollywood ghey programming on the Blaze for Flamers?
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:27pmThe video you are trying to watch is currently unavailable. Please check back soon.
This is getting old…… if it ever does come back up, will I be misdirected or have to watch a 16-second commercial that, when completed, fails to provide the video?
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:41pmExpensive motorcycles going around a track. One falls, causing another to fall. Their handlebars get interlocked. Throttles of both are stuck in warp speed. Bikes spin around and around while two men dressed like teletubbies dance around pointing and yelling.
A thrilling moment in sports history.
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:11pm@The_Almighty_Creestof
That about summed it up.
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:33pm@Almighty and @Drum man
Sounds like one of those whirling dervish sparklers we buy for July 4th, only bigger… and worth more than 0.5 cents apiece.
Gives a whole new meaning to someone being “wrapped around the axle.”
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:25pmIn my neck of the woods…throwing a bucket of cold water on them works pretty good.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:23pmLmao….
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:23pmHUMMM???? lets worry about the really important in life!!!!!
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:26pmExactly…what is life for but to harp on doom & gloom 24/7!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:21pmwould have been funnier if nika was on(under) one of them.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:31pmMore about the French for us to laugh at.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:38pmThe mentally-impaired are easily amused.
Report Post »The_Bees_Assume
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:41pmDid anyone mention that representative Cantor threw a tantrum and pout-ily walked out on debt reduction negotiations yesterday – a lack of faith gesture, that could cause the American economy to CRASH like this MOTORCYCLE and literally have the FRENCH Come OUT ON TOP of our wreckage?
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:07pmThe French have jedi too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ_qnAI-m3k
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:42pmDid anyone mention that the DEMOCRATS proposed New Taxes, Higher current Taxes, instead of eliminating redundant programs, ACORN based theft programs, no DEMOCRAT BUDGET for over 600 DAYS? Did anyone mention that Barry referred to the first soldier that he gave the Congressional Medal Of Honor to postumously, as returning from combat alive. To the slain soldiers own unit? Barry is a buffoon
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:23pmwhat follows is the birth of mini-bike
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:35pm@The_Bees_Assume
Report Post »This “lack of faith” gesture that you refer to is valid. Whenever anyone deals with a liberal the only thing that you can count on with them IS lack of faith!
ozchambers
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 5:04pm@ silentwatcher: LOL!
@bees: LOL! (laughing AT not WITH)
Report Post »ZZero
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 5:21pmYes, I saw the Cantor story. I wrote him a thank you letter.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on June 24, 2011 at 10:58pmI didn’t count 100, was there some of the footage removed or was that just embellishment on the anchor’s part?
Report Post »MR_ANDERSON
Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:42pmMSNBC LIES!!!
There were only 16 donuts performed by each bike for a total of 32 donuts!!!
BLAZE WHERE IS YOUR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING???
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