I'm sure this one's been done a thousand times but here's the twist and old friend of mine once wrote a volvo off with an xn85 turbo suzuki.

how dya think he did it?











Answer tomorrow.

I remember reading a story in a mag years ago (probably Bike) where the met police has done tests and proved a bike could over turn a car. I've never heard anything similar since. I found it a bit hard to believe myself but you never know.

It would surprise me, if the bike went in one door and out the other.

You're on the right track bd

I wrote an Escort off on a Suzuki TS 50 ER moped when I went underneath it.
Did your mate hit the tailgate and end up in the car?

If any of you guys know Conger (was off of bikenet originally but I think he goes on Ridersite on occasion). That's what he did. Hit the back off a car at high speed and ended up through the back window. Very nearly killed him.

Ahh, he talks about his injuries on occasion(very rarely) but I never knew the story behind them!

Bullseye wilf sept it wasn't my m8 it was the bike.

He'd had the xn in storage over winter and came to go for a ride in the spring.
Unfortunately xn85's had a problem with the carbs that made them freeze open at three quarter throttle when the bikes been stood for a while
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So he comes blasting round this corner and the throttle jams open the turbo is whirring away like a good un and the bike just keeps on accelerating, so rather than pull in the clutch and hit the kill switch like you would, he sort of slides off the back of the bike and lets it go.
Straight into the back of a volvo parked on the side of the road with it's tailgate up.

And once a bike gets inside that safety cage there's no way out.

so we have a turbocharged mtorcycle with the throttle jammed open inside a volvo safety cage.

scratch 1 volvo oh and 1 xn85

when i worked for lucas, the stores lad borrowed the van to take his speedway bike somewhere, anyway the guy who was the electrician before me called round and had a go of this speed way bike, flies of down the street, turns round, just as he came round the corner he gives it a big handful, reality kicks in speedway bike=no brakes, him and the bike ended up inside the back of the van!, bent the frame on the bike, no damage to the van! the rider, he was to dumb to be hurt!

I wonder how the insurance company sorted that one out? I accidentally ploughed through a large bush on an MZ when I misjudged a bend and was knocked off the bike by the bush. The MZ kept going riderless for about 150 ft before it slowed to a virtual standstill and fell over. I've always wondered how the insurance company would sort that one out if the bike had hit somebody as I was on a rider policy.

i know is a sticky one... i got hit up the butt and came off the back of an LC the bike overtook a austin A35 on the inside and went 1/4 mile on the hard shoulder it went on the grass and fell over just before a road sign... the 2 miles to tebay sign on the m6!. it could of easily hit the A35 or gone across the three lanes

Good question because you weren't in charge of the vehicle.

I you are knocked off your bike and it carries on and hits someone, who takes the blame. They'd probably work back the way to see who initiated the accident. So if someone hit you and knocked you off, it'd be their fault but if you lost the bike, then it would be your fault for losing the bike in the first place.

Maybe someone in the know, will post the correct answer.

I managed to smash the steering rack on a 244 estate once. It pulled across the road doing a three point turn and i hit the deck and slid into and under the front of it. I gashed my leg quite badly.
Wouldnt happen now ( hopefully0 as i have more sense of what people are about to do but i was a spotty youth at the time and didnt look further than the front mudguard.

Regarding the insurance thing, TC will know better than me but there is a thing called the proximal cause. This is the thing that began the chain of events that led to whatever incident it was. If you were knocked off your bike by a liable driver say and it hooned off on its volition while you splayed in the road and it hit someone/something then the proximal cause of this second incident was the driver knocking you off in the first place so it would be down to them. If you slid off on oyur own and the bike did the same tas above then it would be down to you i would have thought.