Almost truck/motorcycle crash

If he didn't before I'm sure he does now.

Sirscrapntruckalot - There are no atheists in a foxhole. - Depends who you ask. Several folks it seems.

 

The same guy who will dukes of hazzard it underneath a moving semi trailer apparently

 

I'd like to see the 5-10 seconds prior to the start of the video to see what potentially caused the tankslapper...

 

Only time I ever remember turning like that at speed is when I was hit from behind doing @ 70 and had to lay it down.

 

I would have left a smelly skid mark

 

There are a lot of reasons, but a tank-slapper is commonly caused by hard acceleration over bumpy pavement (just as the rider described). I also see that the pavement is grooved and I am sure that had something to do with it as well. The front end gets light and gets out of alignment with the rear and begins a series of bounces and oscillations from side-to-side that get magnified if not cancelled or dampened.

The rider then very likely proceeded to do the worst thing which made the outcome inevitable--having a death grip on the bars. Relax your grip on the bars; let the front wander, lean forward putting more weight on the front, don't chop the throttle but do roll off slightly.

Post incident; change underwear, add steering dampener.

 

I don't know how he made it under those side skirts. Must be Ethiopian-American.

 

I had a guy on an old beat up Harley in front of me on the 91 in Fullerton about 1980. Broke his chain, locked up his rear tire, down he went right in front of me, and I'm loaded! I came to a stop just short of going over him. I got out, helped him up, gave him a ride, dropped him off down the freeway, got in, took off...he had dropped his keys in my cab! He had the little miniature license plate on his key chain that CA used to offer, and if you dropped it into a mailbox they would get it to the rightful owner! So that's what I did! Hope he got a new chain on that old Harley...

 

He missed the skirts. He went behind the drives and in front of the landing gear.

I wonder where his bike went?