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Moscow Motorcyclist's Crazy High-Speed Commute
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/high_speed.html ^

Posted on 12/27/2014 8:00:18 AM PST by navysealdad

A 25-mile commute through Russian traffic and a powerful two-wheeled samurai sword, and you get a video showing the "quick" way to work. Sometimes this two-wheeler even becomes a one-wheeler as rare empty stretches of road disappear when the nose goes skyward.

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1 posted on 12/27/2014 8:00:18 AM PST by navysealdad
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To: navysealdad

That guy’s luck will run out soon.


2 posted on 12/27/2014 8:05:25 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: navysealdad

Russians are nuts. They’re like Caucasian Japanese.


3 posted on 12/27/2014 8:05:28 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Obviously the guy has a death wish and it will soon be granted if he keeps driving like that. An absolute IDIOT!

Probably best he be removed from the gene pool anyway.


4 posted on 12/27/2014 8:11:19 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: navysealdad

Reminds me of my Boston Commute on the SE Expressway.

(On a Harley...no wheelies for this little old lady!)


5 posted on 12/27/2014 8:13:30 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: DaveA37

This is why we have “Darwin Awards”.


6 posted on 12/27/2014 8:14:17 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: navysealdad

The guy is probably already a grill ornament.


7 posted on 12/27/2014 8:15:21 AM PST by moovova
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To: headstamp 2

Yep. I saw two motorcyclists weaving traffic about a month ago. They were darting in and out and creating their own mini lanes between cars. What was interesting was that they were totally oblivious to each other and came within about half a second of weaving into each other at ~70 mph.

People who do this are betting their lives on the traffic being 100% predictable. No one opening their door to spit or empty a cup, no one suddenly lurching a their car to nose into the next lane, and no other motorcyclist or bicyclist ignoring traffic laws in a similar manner.


8 posted on 12/27/2014 8:15:32 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan
--I was about a quarter mile away from this one about a week ago-

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http://pvtimes.com/news/fatal-accident-near-blue-diamond-cuts-highway.html

9 posted on 12/27/2014 8:20:54 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: moovova

‘Black Devil’ behind bars: Moscow police nab notorious driver (VIDEO)
http://rt.com/news/black-devil-moscow-driver-723/


10 posted on 12/27/2014 8:34:54 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: navysealdad; Jeff Chandler
My understanding was this individual met an untimely demise while passing cars in a tunnel (on his Yamaha). Apparently he was exiting tunnel when someone pulled into his lane. I may be wrong on this, but that is the story/report I read.

Wild man. Such riding belongs on a race track.

11 posted on 12/27/2014 8:43:58 AM PST by donozark (Andrea Chalupa:"Ukraine is fighting for survival. The UN is fighting for relevancy.")
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To: SampleMan
I saw two motorcyclists weaving traffic about a month ago

It's called "lane splitting" or "filtering", depending on where it is. It's legal in California but nowhere else (I think) in the US.

I'm a fair weather rider and would do it at stop lights, maybe, but not in moving traffic.

12 posted on 12/27/2014 8:46:02 AM PST by LouAvul (If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: LouAvul

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=lawrence+of+arabia+motorcycle+scene&FORM=VIRE2#view=detail&mid=A7325E639C1AB26DDF88A7325E639C1AB26DDF88

Things can happen...even on an idyllic country road. The ONLY time I ever rode like that was Route 15 in Gettysburg...I was going to be late for the 135th Anniversary Re-enactment!


13 posted on 12/27/2014 8:51:56 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: SampleMan

Yep, and the poor slob that happens to flatten him has to live with it the rest of their lives.

Just like the idiots doing wheelies in traffic at 75 miles per hour.


14 posted on 12/27/2014 8:57:43 AM PST by headstamp 2
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http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=great%20escape%20motorcycle%20scene&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=great%20escape%20motorcycle%20scene&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=586E9DDA3668EBE37677586E9DDA3668EBE37677

Another wild ride through a bucolic landscape!


15 posted on 12/27/2014 9:11:50 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: navysealdad

Note the old Soviet-era apartment houses in the background—built far enough apart so that should they be knocked down in a nuclear attack, there will still be enough space between them to pass through.


16 posted on 12/27/2014 9:30:27 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: navysealdad

I never knew that little space between the two solid lines on the highway is the high-speed gonzo motorcycle commuting lane.


17 posted on 12/27/2014 9:37:48 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: navysealdad

What an arrogant a@@hole. Hasn’t he ever watched any Russian dashcam videos?


18 posted on 12/27/2014 9:45:40 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: navysealdad

Ive see som real stupit on bikes.... my all time worst was seein a guy on a crotch rocket doing 100 plus on the 605 freeway in Southern Cal... wearing nothing but a pair of swim trunks and some flip flops


19 posted on 12/27/2014 11:11:56 AM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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I know there's an old joke about the white lines being for motorcycles, but that is ridiculous. He has more nerve than I do.
20 posted on 12/27/2014 2:20:39 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (Book RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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