Motorcycle Drag Race Fail Video: Watch This Rider Go Over The Wall Like A Pommel Horse


Motorcycle Drag Race Fail Video: Watch This Rider Go Over The Wall Like A Pommel Horse

There’s an old saying that “a bad day at the race track is better than a good day at the office” and we think that those words ring true about 80% of the time in real life. This video is part of that 20% of the time because we’re thinking if the rider was at work, even on his worst day he would not be hurtled over a concrete wall after losing control of a motorcycle. Unless he has some sort of really crummy job we’re thinking that work would have been better than what happens to him in this video.

Filmed at the drags in the Portland, Oregon area you can hear the announcer telling the spectators and racers to grab a t-shirt at the track to remember their day at the strip. We’re thinking that the concrete rash this dude ended up with was likely reminder enough for a while.

It is tough to tell what happens here, mostly because we’re not experienced enough riders to diagnose something like this from the video but for whatever reason, the motorcycle become unhappy right off the launch and the rider ends up in a huge lean situations (more than we have really ever seen at the drags). He gathers it up and tries to correct his path but it is too late. The bike comes into the wall in a broadside motion and when it does that, his leg hooks and he gets peeled right off the bike and sent into human cannonball mode down the wall.

We have seen plenty of motorcycle accidents at the strip but this one takes the cake. We have never seen  guy go over the wall in this manner before…ever!

Press play to see this motorcycle racer have a really bad day


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3 thoughts on “Motorcycle Drag Race Fail Video: Watch This Rider Go Over The Wall Like A Pommel Horse

  1. Brendan M

    Looks like a KZ1000, while fast in a straight line, I don’t think they’re known for good handling characteristics. I raced one last year at Wilmington. Many of the land racing old timers said I had big balls to run with a stock raked neck, as those bikes coined the term “Wobble-Saki” .

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