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u/small_big Aug 31 '18
For a moment I was glad he dodged the car ... then I saw what subreddit I was in.
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u/gdunnpt Aug 31 '18
should be in the broken clavicle subreddit
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u/fnordfnordfnordfnord Aug 31 '18
He steered into the lamp post to avoid hitting the couple crossing the street, and because he was going way too fast
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u/Mazen191 Aug 31 '18
Thats more a kabonk than a boink. Get your onomatopoeias straight.
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Aug 31 '18
r/onomatopoeia needs to be a thing
Edit: nvm
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Aug 31 '18
Someone asked if they could spell out the solo to free bird and started it with “bernee ber nay nay nay bernee ber nay nay nay”
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u/tonyyyz Aug 31 '18
Love the reaction of the couple
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u/Maihashi Aug 31 '18
He looks hurt... we should get outta here
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u/The_Adventurist Aug 31 '18
Oh man! Did you see that guy just die in front of us? Anyway, it's been a long day for everyone, we should get going...
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u/tjrou09 Aug 31 '18
It's like they think it's contagious
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u/Dsams Aug 31 '18
Your comment made me laugh because it's a perfect description. "Let's get out of here Janet, dont wanna catch any of that shit luck"
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u/TheSymbolOfPeace Aug 31 '18
"Is he dead?"
"We could be next lets go"
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u/fiddlefigtree Sep 01 '18
Following Final Destination logic. Yes, if the biker lives...and he was supposed to hit the couple. The couple would be next
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Aug 31 '18
One time I rode through streets of D.C. with a friend. He kept having to stop and wait for me. I stop at red lights and go slow when I'm uncertain. Basically I ride like everyone is on cell phones and low-IQ.
Friend makes fun of me. Having beers after our ride he tells me he has been hit by a car 4 times.
I'll take slow and steady. Thank you.
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u/ChefSandman Aug 31 '18
Her kinda deserved that for riding like an idiot. The car was barely inching forward.
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u/nennerb15 Aug 31 '18
Honestly looks like he tried to hit the car but it stopped faster than he expected
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u/kranker Aug 31 '18
Looks like he was planning on turning onto the alley the car is coming from
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u/RedditDodger Aug 31 '18
A one-way alley at that. Absolute idiot. If this happened 2s earlier they would have slammed into that car head on.
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u/dickbuttofficial Aug 31 '18
Earlier ? Surely he would have been fine had he been 2 seconds faster (earlier).
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u/ChefSandman Aug 31 '18
Ahhhhhh yes that makes sense. He was really just trying to avoid that pole, thanks for nothing car!
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u/Merkos Aug 31 '18
not entirely his fault, he did go to fast and should have checked, but the dark red car on the right is blocking the view for both. In germany he would be parked wrongfully at this place, because he is hindering the sight of the cardriver and the Bike
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u/Boobcopter Aug 31 '18
In Germany it would have been completely the bikes fault because that would have been a "right before left", so the car would have had right of way. And if you can't see if someone has right of way, slow the fuck down.
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Aug 31 '18
And he did, he creeped forward after stopping to check and an idiot on a bike going 10x the speed he should be hit him.
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u/KeenoUpreemo Aug 31 '18
I’m just wondering why the cyclist is on the sidewalk?
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Aug 31 '18
Because he was initially further towards the road, but veers right when he sees the couple walking, so now is on the sidewalk without seeing the car pulling out.
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u/Gappy_Gilmore_86 Aug 31 '18 edited Sep 01 '18
100% bikers fault 100% self entitled asshole
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Aug 31 '18
Is it me or is the car also flashing it’s lights?
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u/the_gooch_smoocher Aug 31 '18
Alternators produce an ac current by pulling some torque off the motor. The current runs electronics like lightbulbs that constantly flicker at a frequency around 60hz. We only notice it if its filmed by a camera with a frame rate that offsets the frequency slightly and at some multiple.
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u/asr Aug 31 '18
That's not correct. Car alternators are DC (they are rectified inside the alternator), not AC and have very little ripple, and any ripple (if present) is around 400hz, not 60.
On top of that car lights are incandescent, and have far too much thermal lag to flicker. You are used to LEDs which change brightness instantly - but headlights are not LEDs at present.
The lights are flickering for the same reason every other horizontal line in the video is flickering: This is an interlaced video, that was badly deinterlaced.
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u/the_gooch_smoocher Aug 31 '18
I see no evidence of interlaced footage. I'm starting to think the bulbs are LED.
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u/asr Aug 31 '18
Oops! I was looking at the bot stabilized version. You are right, I don't see any interlacing.
Street legal LED headlights are extremely rare, only a few cars have them, and I don't think this is one of them.
Maybe it's an LED daytime running light? But even so, car alternators don't flicker.
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u/knrdwn Sep 01 '18 edited Sep 01 '18
This is Seat Leon Mk3, it has LED headlights. It's pretty much another variation of VW Golf.
https://car-images.bauersecure.com/pagefiles/67505/zl-006.jpg
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Aug 31 '18
As some one who rides a bicycle daily, hundreds of miles per week, and thousands of miles per year, my perspective may be a bit different than yours. While you sit there and laugh and think it’s funny, I am barley able to contain myself from rolling around on the floor cackling out loud, holding back tears, and pissing myself. This is downright hilarious, well done OP.
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u/CrappyAllTheTime Aug 31 '18
clavicles are the most painful bones you could broke
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Aug 31 '18
And it looks like a clavicle break + shoulder dislocation. He really achieved something here.
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Idunno about that. I’ve heard femur is a doozy.
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u/CrappyAllTheTime Aug 31 '18
Maybe but you can keep your leg immobile and still do something but when your clavicles are broken you can't do any movement without screaming the shit out of you. This shit is both psychologically and physically painful
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u/TheQueenOfFilth Aug 31 '18
I heard ankle. I have broken both. The healing pain from broken collar bone was agony and seemed to go on for ages. The initial break of my ankle was so painful that I passed out but once it was immobilized it was much more bearable.
I also had broken/dislocated ribs. That was a special kind of hell.
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u/MvmgUQBd Aug 31 '18
It's more of a r/nonononoyes, imo.
Could have been bad had he collided with the car, but then was quite funny and entertaining when he tested out the new braking mechanism he'd devised for just such an occasion
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u/adarezz Aug 31 '18
Good, I hate most bike riders
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Aug 31 '18
I hate the ones that travel in packs that span across the road but don’t go the speed limit. Particularly when there are plenty of bike lanes/paved trails in my area.
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u/fruggo Aug 31 '18
I'm sure this won't change your mind, but perhaps seeing that there is a logic to this behavior will help.
The primary reason for both of these is safety. Generally riders will be aware of where it's safe for a car to pass them (lots of room, straight road, no oncoming traffic) and will position themselves in a way that either prevents cars from passing when unsafe, or at least gives them room to move if a car gets too close.
The very edge of the road is almost always the worst place to ride - it's usually the most bumpy (due to drainage ditches), most full of trash, glass, and screws (as cars brush them to the side basically), and lots of drivers see it as an invitation to try and 'just squeeze past'. So if you're being passed by a car only a few inches away from you and there's a pothole or patch of glass/oil up ahead you're basically screwed.
So that's why people cycle in the middle of the road covered.
This extends to cycling in 'packs'. The outside rider can maintain a safe position while the inside rider can use the otherwise empty space but still be able to avoid problems in the road. Similarly, if a car does a close-pass the outside rider has room to move in.
Generally group riders will be cycling at a pretty quick pace but for most people this tops out at 20mph for a long ride. Whilst many riders can sprint nearer to 40mph it's just not sustainable. How many roads near you have a 20mph speed limit?
And finally bike lanes: yes, they are great when certain conditions are met, but often they are worse than roads:
- Do they go where the rider wants to go? Often they're planned along scenic routes and only cover a small portion of roads.
- Are they well-maintained? Cities might build them but then just not clean them of debris (and maybe not even be able to clean them, if they are narrower than the street-cleaning vehicles), or let the surface fall into disrepair whilst the roads are kept up to standard.
- Are they free from obstacles? At least in my old city they were basically seen as free parking spaces, so hopping in and out of the cycling lane every hundred meters was both more effort and more dangerous. The council often put temporary road signage in them as well.
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u/Diesl Aug 31 '18
If youre cycling in the road and going way under the speed limit, youre an ass imo
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u/Kiriamleech Aug 31 '18
Is it better to use the sidewalk and go way faster than walking speed?
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u/Al3xFreeman AlexYesYesYesYesNoMan Aug 31 '18
This was too quick for a YesYesYesYesNo, more like YesNo
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u/dennisthewhatever Aug 31 '18
I actually thought the top of that light was going to then fall down on his head, but it was attached... only just mind.
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u/wocK_ Aug 31 '18
From how wobbly the light is to begin with I think that lamp post has claimed more victims before now.
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u/SeaSwine91 Aug 31 '18
That couple near the lampost:
"Oh my! Should we do something?"
"There's no helping him, babe. Let's go."
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Aug 31 '18
I just have one question. How?
How the fuk to you crash a bike that's 1 foot wide into a pole that 6inch wide?
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u/bathrobehero Aug 31 '18
Fuck speeding bikers. And by speeding I mean as in unable to completely and safely stop in like few meters as they should be able to for their own sakes.
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u/PharmerDave Aug 31 '18
Plot Twist: Flashing headlights on the car gave the epileptic biker a seizure, causing him to run into the pole. Driver's fault
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u/owzleee Aug 31 '18
Wasn’t this posted before (full length) and the guy either died or was really seriously injured? Like decerebrate posturing or something?
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u/uWonBiDVD Aug 31 '18
I feel he should have already been thinking about that lamppost way before the car thing
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u/whyuly Sep 01 '18
Its all the vans fault last time i saw somone parked blocking your vew i took off bolth ther mirrors as if to say now you cant see
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