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Amazing a bike could shear off a pole like that, even more amazing he lived! On 75 outside New Waverly.:giveup::eek2:
 

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New Waverly Community News and Events
13 hrs ·
A busy Saturday evening for emergency personnel.
Shortly after 5pm New Waverly Fire and Walker County EMS responded to a motorcycle accident on Hwy 75 north of town. The rider managed to separate himself from the motorcycle before it struck and sheared off a utility pole. The rider was transported by EMS in stable condition.
 
I bet the pole was rotten and needed replaced to begin with.
 
drunk phone poles will jump in front of you every time!
very lucky guy, utility poles are extremely difficult to knock down.
 
viffer07 said:
drunk phone poles will jump in front of you every time!
very lucky guy, utility poles are extremely difficult to knock down.
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Some of them you can push over if they are rotten enough. Just saying.
 
JMZ said:
Some of them you can push over if they are rotten enough. Just saying.
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What? Are you suggesting our public infrastructure has some deferred maintenance issues? Shocking! [emoji33]


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Our own CDC used his new BMW to remove an axle from a dually and survive. If he can do it, this one can too. Happy that CDC is still with us.
 
A M855 bullet weighs a mere .14oz but when propelled with enough velocity penetrates steel.
So, while shocking it is well within physics for a moto to take out even a non-rotted utility pole. Someone familiar with that spot could likely tell us how much runway that rider would have available to reach ramming speed.
 
I believe it!
Wonder how fast he was going.

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dukey33 said:
A M855 bullet weighs a mere .14oz but when propelled with enough velocity penetrates steel.
So, while shocking it is well within physics for a moto to take out even a non-rotted utility pole. Someone familiar with that spot could likely tell us how much runway that rider would have available to reach ramming speed.
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I'll see if I can find the spot this week, but 75 is straight from Huntsville to New Waverly, just very hilly and bunches of driveways.
 
gixxerjasen said:
Our own CDC used his new BMW to remove an axle from a dually and survive. If he can do it, this one can too. Happy that CDC is still with us.
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This thread brought memories...
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Good reminder of the kinetic energy present with sufficient speed.

A bike won't damage other things as much as a car will, but given sufficient velocity, they can really cause some damage when they hit something.
 
Mid 80's, riding with a couple of friends. We leave the (then) stop sign at 22 and 933 in Whitney towards Waco in an impromptu drag race. I look back and see a huge cloud of dust. Don had missed the slight curve and run through the ditch and a five strand barb wire fence, snapping three wooden fence posts off at the ground. Missed a utility pole by about 18 inches.

His injuries? A inch long gash in his butt and the bone under his collar bone broken. Remarkable, since ATGATT was unheard of (by us anyway) back then. Blue jeans, tennis shoes and a helmet was as close as we got.


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That's his 500 Interceptor in the back of the pickup after we picked it up. I don't remember what happened to his bike or even how bad it was. We lost touch years ago.
 
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:tab We had a rider go off the road on a ride up in Arkansas years ago. He basically low sided on a decreasing radius curve. The shoulder dropped away from the road pretty steep. The bike just launched, hit a tree about 6-8" in diameter, and snapped it through. The bike was banged up pretty bad. The rider came off before the bike went air born and he just slid along the edge of the pavement. He was wearing leathers and was fine. He was doing maybe 50mph by the time the bike left the road. So don't think you have to be running above the Ton do do major damage to road side obstacles, the bike, or yourself. There's still a boat load of kinetic energy in a bike moving 50mph!
 
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