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Video of police motorcycle hitting speed bump-ouch!

I HATE that crunch, crunch sound. Been there, heard that! I didn't hit a bump at speed though.

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"TB350" said:
Ouch!!! Looks like you went under the back of a truck!!
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It flipped over an embankment and did several somersaults before landing greasy side UP. I wasn't on it as I was thrown off and doing my own "aerial ballet" over the same embankment. Bad thing, when I was thrown from the bike I was thrown upward. That added height to my eventually descent! LOL We figured I flew about 8-10 feet in height and about 25 feet further up the road before landing.

Totaled the bike out but I wound up with just a bruised tail bone (landed on my butt!) and a pulled shoulder muscle. Totally my fault, too fast on "S" curve road I wasn't familiar with (mistake #1). Came into the first curve too hot and was headed straight for the shoulder and locked the rear brake (mistake #2). I finally pulled my head out of my rear and training kicked in. Pushed the bars to correct, but to bring it back far enough it caused the bike to go down on its opposite side....and I mean DOWN as in 90 degrees over. I stayed with the bike (both feet still on the floor boards), "riding" it on it's side until it hit the next apex. It caught the right shoulder which was dirt and slightly raised. This caught the bike, stood it back up tossing me off in the process. While airborne I was headed feet first straight at a HUGE sweet gum tree. I discovered the big man upstairs neglected to equip me with air brakes (twirling your hands backwards in flight does NOT work...I tried! LOL). Fortunately I dropped into a (VERY) small patch of grass with soft soil...no sticks, rocks or anything else in it. I certainly had an angel on my shoulder that day!!
 
I'll give him an 8. Nice superman but he didn't hold it long enough.
 
Now that brings back a memory, I worked at our small town theater after school and showed that movie. The was the movies were shipped was in small boxes that consisted of maybe 5 or 6 film segments and they had to be spliced together and put on a big reel. Well, I kinda got the 3rd and 4th part reversed when splicing them together and showed the film for a couple of days and nobody caught it for about three days. That was one weird movie. Anyway, I'll give Goose a "no contest" for no form. He gets a re-try...........
 
The biggest differences with my "incident" were; he wasn't staring down any big trees while in flight (trust, THAT makes huge difference in your perspective! LOL), and I didn't follow the bike over. It went one direction and I went another. I've watched the video in the original post over and over. It looks like the bike actually made contact with that guy when it came over.

Here's a look at where I wrecked:

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The bike went off at the end of the white gouges in the road (from the left foot board and motor guard). I flew further up the road where you see the EMT's and firefighters I was still laying there when the photo was taken. (Bastards wouldn't let me get up!). I actually had EMT's on scene immediately because they were training to start an EMT motorcycle program. One was on a bike up ahead and the other had been standing just up the road at the next apex video taping everyone coming out of the curves. I declined EMS but everyone rolled out anyhow. When fire pulled up and I saw one of the firefighters run towards th back of the truck, I knew what he was after...a backboard. I told them I'd shoot the first SOB that tried to strap me to a backboard! LOL
 
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