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The competition would be held on a long stretch or road,
possibly a drag strip. The competitors would ride their
bikes up to speed and jump off letting their bikes
continue
riderless for as far as it can before falling over.
The exciting part would be seeing how riders would get
off
a
bike going full speed without killing themselves. The
rules would be they could wear any kind of footwear
they
want that doesn't have wheels and they'd have to
dismount
without falling.
We did this as kids so it's WKTE, but the idea of making it
an official sport at motor raceways hasn't been done
before as far as I know.
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Would parachutes be allowed ? |
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Nope. The entertaining part would be seeing somebody
successfully (or not successfully) get off a bike going 50
miles per hour without wiping out. |
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You can wear a helmet, knee and elbow pads. |
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I'm trying to find the bike speed record and only see stuff
upwards of 200 miles per hour with people slip streaming
behind cars or doing down hill. By that measure I can fly
at over 200 miles per hour at least until I hit the ground. |
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We agree that contact with the ground is definitely the tricky part. |
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You say parachutes are not allowed, but in fact an ejector seat and a parachute would be a useful, and fun, feature on a motorbike. If a car pulls out of a side junction ahead of you, and you know in an instant that you're about to hit the side of the car at full speed, activate the ejector seat which hurtles you 50 metres up in the air, after which you parachute safely down onto the burning wreckage of your bike.
If you're really not allowing parachutes in this idea, my choice then is a suit covered in airbags which explosively inflate as you jump backwards off the bike. |
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//We agree that contact with the ground is definitely
the tricky part.// |
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At the risk of celebrating barbaric entertainment it would
also be the entertaining part. |
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Now if you really want to be crazy you could just cut out
the bike all together and.... ugh, this is crazy. I'll post it as a
separate idea. |
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Does doing a somersault count as a successful dismount,
or as a
wipeout? |
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// an ejector seat and a parachute would be a useful,
and fun,
feature on a motorbike // |
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Yep. I've thought, though, that a whole-bike, ballistic,
and
retractable parafoil would be good. Then you could fly
over the
obstacle, land on the other side, and do it again the next
time.
You'd need a bit more warning, though. Maybe make it
automatic,
like car airbags, based on the bike's quicker judgement of
whether you're going to hit something, rather than being
something that the human rider has to activate. Being
reusable, as well as gentler than airbags, and affording
some control during the event, it should be less of a big
deal if it goes off when it doesn't need to. |
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" Does doing a somersault count as a successful dismount, or as a wipeout? " |
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I took a traffic school class taught by a retired California Highway Patrol motor officer. He advocated vaulting as a crash survival technique. |
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Just before impact, (this part is important) let go of the handlebars, stand up on the foot pegs and jump. |
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The goal is to turn one somersault in the air and come down running on the other side of the offending vehicle. |
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So yes, I believe that should count as a successful dismount - at least, if the rider lives. Extra points if you are able to stand up before they place you in the ambulance. |
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Moto Guzzi for me today ... |
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Well, you'd certainly get bonus points for surviving. |
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