BBC said it was a wall earlier.....

The dry stone wall is pretty clear on the video, below the fence.

It almost seems like he didn't put in any effort to steer himself around the corner at all and just straight lined it to launch himself over the fence...... Bit weird that after the crash he makes an instant beeline to retrieve the camera rather than checking himself or the bike over. But hey.... as long as the precious GoPro has captured the footage for YouTube it's all good lol!

Just spotted that he has been convicted of dangerous driving, still to be sentenced. Farmer is after £1000 for repairs to the fence.

Claimed he was in full control and just hit the fence to avoid the car.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28856485

Was just going off the above

Either way, it wont take alot of rebuilding

It almost seems like he didn't put in any effort to steer himself around the corner at all and just straight lined it to launch himself over the fence...... Bit weird that after the crash he makes an instant beeline to retrieve the camera rather than checking himself or the bike over. But hey.... as long as the precious GoPro has captured the footage for YouTube it's all good lol!

Probably knew where his line was going, and it wasnt on his side of the road.

As soon as he saw the car he'll have chucked it towards the field i think.

That farmer has a sense of humour. £1k for a wall.  Good on him/her.  

Dry stone walling is a specialist skill if done correctly and commands a hefty price tag. 

You are funny, £1000 isn't a lot of money at all. It costs 700quid to have a room plastered. 

And that's with a phone book of plasterers to choose from.  

Craftsmen don't come cheap.  

Not up here it doesn't.

Dry stone walling is a specialist skill if done correctly and commands a hefty price tag.

You are funny, £1000 isn't a lot of money at all. It costs 700quid to have a room plastered.

And that's with a phone book of plasterers to choose from.

Craftsmen don't come cheap.

I used to work for a farmers son. Their dry stone waller charged £130 a metre building from the ground up.

He'll of only knocked a bit off the wall anyway, i doubt hes fully destroyed it.

People can make excuses for him all they want.  As a seasoned biker and someone who has ridden the IoM road circuit many times, I (and most experienced bikers) I know that the difference between getting round safely and ending up in a morgue is sometimes split seconds or inches (however you want to measure it) and that's for people riding well prepared machinery on the edge with nothing coming the other way on closed roads.  The other points to remember are that riding in that manner safely requires not just skill but judgement.  Planning ahead, reading road conditions, proper entry speed and line, and good observation. That rider showed none of these skills or judgement.  He went in too fast, was unable to correct mid corner, ended up on the wrong line and panicked.  It was pure luck that both he and the car driver weren't both killed. I have no sympathy for the dork.  They were both riding way too fast for the road conditions.

 

His mate showed a little better control earlier in the clip even if he was pushing on, planned his lines well but then it soon went to pot with unnecessary weaving (he didn't have slicks that need a high temperature maintained so why all the show-boat weaving?), his riding became more and more erratic and the two of them together were a danger to themselves and other road users.  Very uncool.  The police know that people with sports bikes use them, and for the most part turn a blind eye to those riding with maturity and common sense providing they are not being a danger to themselves or other road users.  Hopefully those guys will learn from this and try and be more considerate, plus hone their skills up with some further training on hazard awareness and bike control.  They're not up to riding safely if that's their general standard.  They end up branding all sports bike riders as idiots and need to get a grip.

I agree.

But even if you're riding your best, doing everything you can to corner on the best line and make the best progress, theres often a sheep around the corner on that road.

I dont ride it much anymore. Mainly because of the speed camera's to be honest.

It can be a good road but iv never been confident enough to go at 80 or 90% anyway. Iv seen many sheep around corners, many bikes overshooting and coming onto my side (one actually plowed into my dad on that road a few years ago. Wrote off his bike n knackered his leg) and car drivers getting in the way at 20mph.

But even if you're riding your best, doing everything you can to corner on the best line and make the best progress, theres often a sheep around the corner on that road.

 

 

Which is where the Golden Rule - "Drive (or ride) so that you can stop in the distance you can see to be clear" comes in. 

Which is where the Golden Rule - "Drive (or ride) so that you can stop in the distance you can see to be clear" comes in.

Agreed. Stopping fast on a corner isnt that quick on a bike. It tends to stand itself up doesnt it.

The speed some of the power rangers go on that road theyd be lucky to stop by macclesfield, let alone the next corner.

Must be bloody scary being a cyclist across there.

There was way too much traffic for that kind of driving - and a very lucky escape. Next time, he probably won't make it, and some poor bugger will have a bike in his windscreen.

There was way too much traffic for that kind of driving - and a very lucky escape. Next time, he probably won't make it, and some poor bugger will have a bike in his windscreen.

Dozens of em every sunny sunday riding like that mate.

Its not the road thats dangerous. Its the things on it and the kind of driving/riding it attracts.

Saw an air ambulance the other week, some guy on a monkey bike had misjudged the corner n ended up rolling around in agony

There's no shortage of two-wheeled organ donors in East Yorkshire either. Slightest bit of sunshine and some of the roads are like Snetterton.

And if we thought the Cat & Fiddle guy was lucky, watch this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vd_OuqUAaI&feature=player_embedded

I used to work for a farmers son. Their dry stone waller charged £130 a metre building from the ground up.

He'll of only knocked a bit off the wall anyway, i doubt hes fully destroyed it.

Aye lad, but you're oop north, everything is cheaper there.

You probably have more dry stone wall builders per square mile too.

Round here they mostly do crash repairs on old farm boundary walls like this one 

in the vid or make posh garden features for the yummy mummies of Bath and Coombe Down

who have big money to burn on trying to out do their neighbours.

Currently employed by my local authority on our 5 million pound town hall development

to build in features to try and make it look more rustic and Somerset-y. It's public money so

the lads drafted in to do it get paid top dollar. They are few and far between round here

so I guess they can dream up prices to suit a captive market. (I know I would..)   

Anyhoo, the rider was a mug putting that all over you tube wasn't he. 

He should have been thankful to escape with his life instead of attention seeking on the net. 

Now he's in all sorts of bother.....

And if we thought the Cat & Fiddle guy was lucky, watch this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vd_OuqUAaI&feature=player_embedded

 

Unbelievable! That is one seriously lucky guy. He should have bought a lotto ticket that day too! ;)

Aye lad, but you're oop north, everything is cheaper there..

The road in question is oop north too! .

Yes. He is a mug. Brought it all on himself really

12 month suspended sentence, 300 hours unpaid work and 2 year ban. Bet he wishes he never uploaded that video now! Or was a better rider.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-28970985

Edited 28 August, 201411 yr by Moist Von Lipwig

^^^

Selfie generation fail!

 

Hah!

and deserved every bit of that sentence... Im not a biker, never have been, but i respect anyone who is able ride quick and properly controlled and mature.. Ie fast, but within the limits of your side of the road, not interfering with opposite flow. ill give u space get by me when i can etc. That lad was just acting the arse, all over the road, and ignoring everyone elses safety.

and deserved every bit of that sentence... Im not a biker, never have been, but i respect anyone who is able ride quick and properly controlled and mature.. Ie fast, but within the limits of your side of the road, not interfering with opposite flow. ill give u space get by me when i can etc. That lad was just acting the arse, all over the road, and ignoring everyone elses safety.

I am a biker, and i agree!

My dad always said to me 'its easy to ride fast, but its riding fast and safe that takes skill' and in my riding experience, id agree with that too.

I am a biker, and i agree!

My dad always said to me 'its easy to ride fast, but its riding fast and safe that takes skill' and in my riding experience, id agree with that too.

That's what I've been told by a mate who's been helping me get better on the bike oh his private roads!

That's what I've been told by a mate who's been helping me get better on the bike oh his private roads!

Ooo you're getting into it then mate!!