This Is Why You Don't Pull U-Turns Near Corners
You’re on a mountain road and you’ve maybe gone the wrong way, or you just missed a great rest point that you want to go back to. Where’s the best place to make your U-turn? Not where this guy does it, that’s for damn sure.
In the short clip filmed on a chest-mounted GoPro, three bikers are enjoying the fruits of road builders’ efforts when they round a corner to find a Chevrolet Malibu blocking both lanes of the road. As the camera bike rounds the bend, we can see one bike having just avoided the car’s bonnet as it’s blocking the way.
Then, as the camera-wearing rider skirts the bonnet as well, his companion on a separate bike is forced into an emergency stoppie, bringing him to a halt inches from the Malibu’s door, yelling the almost comic curse of “Christ almighty!”
Bearing in mind the large parking area at the other side of the road it seems likely that the Malibu swung wide around from the opposite direction and made the turn, but there’s nowhere near enough visibility to make it safe. We’re a little hazy on the legality of this manoeuvre in the US, and it could even depend on exactly where this takes place, so shout out if you think you know.
The bikers don’t seem to be going that quickly, considering that GoPros make everything look faster, so we’re not blaming them too much (apart from riding without proper safety gear). Luckily no one was hurt, but then again we don’t know what went on after the clip ends…
Comments
STOPpie
What an idiot.Do a handbrake turn like every normal guy
Well, that is an incredibly stupid place to turn around, but if the bikers can’t stop for an obstruction in the road then they are going too fast.
I am so glad, that no one was injured. Drivers like this, give us a bad name. It’s a shame that so many people who shoukd not be driving are given a license, yet we are the ones who have to suffer.
On the same token it is bad practice to drive fast into a blind corner!!!!!!
I feel that on CT, no matter how stupid the driver is, people are always going to find a way to put the blame on the rider.
There’s a double centre line. What that driver did is not just stupid, but completely illegal.
Wannabe Peugeot driver XD
Why the hell was he doing a u turn in the middle of the road? There is a diet lot right next to the road for that reason!
Yes what the car was doing was wrong. but any crash would have been the bikers fault. That could have been any sort of hazard, a downed tree or anything. Biker was simply going too fast - wasn’t driving line of sight. If you can’t stop before the limit of your visibility - you can’t blame the hazard you can’t stop for.