Monday, July 11, 2011

Doofus Of The Day #496


This video clip was shot in Morocco. The motorcyclist reaches speeds of up to 87 mph on his home-built contraption, adopting the weird and almost uncontrollable position shown.







One pothole, one undue bounce, and he'd have had no control whatsoever to stop himself crashing. If he'd done so, I don't think he'd have qualified for the 72 virgins Islamic martyrs are supposed to receive . . . but I daresay he might have found himself handed over to 72 deceased traffic cops, to teach him a lesson!





Peter

10 comments:

Morris said...

Nope, he wouldn't get his 72 virgins - you only get them dying in the cause of jihad, not stupidity...
:)

Anonymous said...

Suggest you Google a chap named Rollie Free...

Jim March said...

It's really not as crazy as it looks. That thing has at least basic suspension and the rim/tire setup is beefier than what's found on bicycles.

At those speeds the weight of the spinning rims and tires is acting like two gyroscopes. Trust me, a "small pothole" wouldn't be enough to spill him.

The position is about aerodynamics for this one high-speed run.

TJIC said...

Well, at least he's got a helmet and leathers on.

...oh, wait...

@jim_march:
> Trust me, a "small pothole" wouldn't be enough to spill him.

Having ridden motorcycles, this is exactly counter to my belief of how bikes handles. I agree w Bayou Ren Man - I'd bet that if he hit a tin can, he'd be down, bouncing, and dead.

Old NFO said...

Gene pool missed a chlorine infusion (again)...

Peter said...

@Anonymous at 12:53 a.m.:

Yes, Rollie Free adopted a similar riding position, but he did so on the Bonneville Salt Flats, where other traffic, potholes, etc. weren't factors with which he had to contend. That makes it a very different proposition to the present doofus!

Anonymous said...

Dude knows something about aerodynamics, though.

Anonymous said...

Crazy? Sure, but I'm impressed that he could reach that speed with what appears to be a small, moped-sized 1 cylinder engine!

Antibubba

Glenn B said...

I did some crazy things in my youth, after all isn't that when we are supposed to be a little crazy!

Bob@thenest said...

Seems that line between crazy and stupid gets thinner by the day.