Lucky Idiot.(Biker)

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Sorry but guy deserves to be dead. If he wants to be a knob and show off fine but don't put other innocent people/drivers at risk doing it

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According to description,

Go-Pro Hero 3

ZX6R crash on the A537 Cat & Fiddle Road
England
 
up till the point of being a complete idiot the driver was not doing things wrong but then stupidity takes over
but saying that there are loads more idiots on bikes that do a lot worse on country roads
i will say that not all bikers are idiots some are sensible and dont do stupid things
 
Ive had bikes for years, on and off..
The tit needs to learn to ride properly before thinking hes Rossi!!

Nice road that though... with a 50mph limit if memory serves correct?

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up till the point of being a complete idiot the driver was not doing things wrong but then stupidity takes over
but saying that there are loads more idiots on bikes that do a lot worse on country roads
i will say that not all bikers are idiots some are sensible and dont do stupid things
Was thinking the same, bit close to other rider at times but then goes mental overtaking on double lines! Very lucky and very stupid.
 
I think he got a bit cocky and got carried away with himself which cost him in the end (pride and pocket) bet he don't do that again.
 
happens all the time this and always will people wanna rush and take chances , even though he was a total knob he dosen`t deserve to die
 
yes an idiot, but i bet most of us have seen the same type of idiot on 4 wheels doing the same things.
 
have to say lve been an idiot lots of times on bikes lol.. but learned early not to lift my front wheel before a corner
 
As a result of the many injuries and fatalities (33 major crashes from 1999 to 2001) the speed limit on the section between Macclesfield and the Cat and Fiddle Inn has been reduced to 50 mph (80 km/h) from the national 60 mph (97 km/h) limit. The road is regularly patrolled by unmarked police cars and motorcycles, and a mobile speed camera van is used most weekends during the summer. A police aircraft is often used in conjunction with these to enforce the speed limit.

In June 2008 the road was yet again named as the most dangerous road in Britain by the Road Safety Foundation. This single-carriageway route was the location of 21 fatal and serious crashes, and was rated in the EuroRAP report as Black, the highest risk rating.

This is in spite of a number of countermeasures installed by the road authority, including motorcycle-friendly barriers. The Foundation attributes this high number of accidents to road user behaviour; indeed, when motorcycle-related collisions are removed from the results the road becomes one of the safest in the country.

Cheshire County Council also pointed the finger at motorcyclists' behaviour:

"The fact is that it’s an attractive road to motorcyclists – they see it as a challenge to ride with its hairpin bends, limited views, downhill descent and uphill ascent. The thing that angers us most is not the fact that it’s dangerous, but that there are a group of people on that road who knowingly push the boundaries. We have tried to get the message across, that it is the emergency services that have to pick these people up off the road and have the duty of telling their families that they have killed themselves."

Having already spent £500,000 on a number of safety measures (including reducing the speed limit, installing high-friction surfacing, barriers and signs, widening the carriageway, and using mobile speed cameras), in January 2009 it was revealed that Cheshire Council, on behalf of Cheshire Safer Roads Partnership and Derbyshire Partnership for Road Safety, intended to spend a further £1.2 million on installing average-speed cameras along this road.0

Installation of these cameras began in February 2010. However, the initial operation of the cameras did not go smoothly, because along the full route of the cameras' operation there are a number of shortcuts which have the full national speed (60 mph) and also decrease the overall distance of the route. These two factors, when combined, can give inaccurate readings from the speed cameras.

The average-speed camera scheme is a joint initiative between the Cheshire Safer Roads Partnership (including Cheshire East Council), Derby and Derbyshire Road Safety Partnership and the Department for Transport, and enables the average speed of vehicles along the 50 mph route to be measured between any two cameras. Cameras will be installed along the A537 and A54 and will be rear-facing.

Lee Murphy, Cheshire Safer Roads Partnership manager, said: "Major resources have been committed to the Cat and Fiddle road since 2000, including reducing the speed limit, high-friction surfacing, high-visibility warning signs, red warnings painted on the road, motorcycle-friendly safety barriers, enforcement signs, carriageway widening, mobile safety cameras and police operations. Even without police costs, we estimate that more than £500,000 has been spent on the road in Cheshire alone. Despite all this work, casualties remain high."

Of the 264 casualties on the road since 2001, approximately 70% of those killed or seriously injured were motorcyclists, the main causes being poor cornering/manoeuvring, exceeding the speed limit, and failing to judge another vehicle’s speed/distance. "The information and statistics show that it is riding behaviour not the road condition that causes the majority of collisions. We don’t have a problem with other road users not seeing bikes, because the majority of collisions are single vehicles," added Murphy.

In June 2010, the road was named as the UK's most dangerous in a survey by the Road Safety Foundation, the report claiming that fatalities on the road rose from 15 in the three years to 2005 to 34 between 2006 and 2008.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_and_Fiddle_Road#Road_safety_initiatives
 
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Its a cracking advert for the GO-PRO camera company tho, it really is idiot proof lol
 
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