I've been on a protest ride out and one car was unlucky enough to join the A1 in the middle of the pack, nothing he could of done about it but instantly a couple of tools were trying to intimidate him so I can see how this whole thing would of happened. A bunch of tools giving bikers a very bad name, w*****s. Can't really blame the guy in the range rover for doing what he did as he had his family in the car but I do feel a bit for the guy who was paralysed (could easily have a wife and kid at home) by the RR as he could of just been along for the ride and stopped when the whole pack did.
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Range Rover Driver Runs Over Bikers in NYC
- Thread starter Fagan
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Turns out he stopped to check the guy who brake checked the range rover and got bumped. Also has a wife and 2 kids at home.
Guy who came off worst did indeed seem to be not one of the trouble makers and was trying to help, but how the hell could the RR driver know that, it was all just a huge group of leather clad assailants from his point of view.
Rob
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Well this was an interesting one to miss whilst away. I can't believe some people, namely chippen, think the guy was in any way in the wrong.
Guy in a 3 ton RR was brake checked by 500kg or whatever of bike. Even if he wasn't surrounded and probably checking his mirrors like mad chances are he might not have stopped in time. It's a shame they haven't caught the other two yet but I'm sure more will come to light. It's not great that a guy who was "stopping to help" got so seriously hurt, but why put yourself infront of an RR with a guy that's clearly in distress? Stop somewhere more sensible.
The whole thing is entirely retarded and TBH I'm just surprised that when he stopped he didn't throw it in reverse and carry on going for it, it's not like they could ever truly "block him in" but I guess he was worried in some manner about the amount of people he might hurt.
Guy in a 3 ton RR was brake checked by 500kg or whatever of bike. Even if he wasn't surrounded and probably checking his mirrors like mad chances are he might not have stopped in time. It's a shame they haven't caught the other two yet but I'm sure more will come to light. It's not great that a guy who was "stopping to help" got so seriously hurt, but why put yourself infront of an RR with a guy that's clearly in distress? Stop somewhere more sensible.
The whole thing is entirely retarded and TBH I'm just surprised that when he stopped he didn't throw it in reverse and carry on going for it, it's not like they could ever truly "block him in" but I guess he was worried in some manner about the amount of people he might hurt.
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Yep. Check for danger. Always.
It says they slashed his tyres, has anyone on here ever actually slashed a tyre? I don't imagine it to be that easy, so they must have had quite some knife with them!
It says they slashed his tyres, has anyone on here ever actually slashed a tyre? I don't imagine it to be that easy, so they must have had quite some knife with them!
It is actually pretty easy.
Only if you have an actual knife to hand though, which you wouldnt be carrying unless you were looking for trouble of course.
You wont be doing it with a set of bike keys!
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Really? Only reason I ask is I imagine it to pop and launch the knife back at you? Not only that, but having put a hacksaw to a tyre before, they're not exactly thin, especially low profile big old Rangie tyres with a minimal surface area to go for.
When I did it on some wheels with worn out tyres, it was easy and nothing dramatic happened.
I did have a stanley knife which is sharper than the average knife I would guess.
I did have a stanley knife which is sharper than the average knife I would guess.
Is that all a bike weighs? Would have thought a bit more than that.
BoatNonce
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Sportsbike yeah, dirty great harley like some of them were no doubt on as its America though is roughly double that, so add an american and some fuel and you are at 500KG easy.
I road a 1600cc or so Harley across florida a while ago and that was about 350KG IIRC, it was PROPER heavy compared to bikes im used to over here, lol.
BoatNonce
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BoatNonce
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Yeah, the knife stabbed him on the way out.
The Chubby Pirate
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f**king t**t. Shame it didn't take his hand.
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Not only does that emphasise my point further, it also gives me concerns as to whether you're a bit of a plank or not. I'm no bike man and I clearly put "or whatever" to demonstrate this, but nice catch all the same.
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Fill them with a flammable gas and sprinkle the edges with something that'd spark when a knife hits it every night? Perfect.
BoatNonce
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Or just fill them with something which reacts violently on contact with outside air.
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Fair point. Well made.
Dont forget when pumping them up. Lol.
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Completely agree, if I had my wife and 2 year old daughter in the car and feared for their safety I wouldnt of been as "controlled" as him. No f**king way Id of wiped as many out as possible once they started chasing me again
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Small article here. Poor range rover driver.
http://www.gtspirit.com/2013/10/03/shocking-images-emerge-of-bikers-bashing-range-rover-driver/
http://www.gtspirit.com/2013/10/03/shocking-images-emerge-of-bikers-bashing-range-rover-driver/
Same I would've been f**king swerving across all the lanes, c**ts would have either thought better of it or got mangled under the wheel of a 3 ton 4x4.
If you are TRYING to hurt people with your car you do it like this:
They'd been teasing him with his baseball cap a few minutes before outside a club apparently.
He has now been convicted of 4 counts of attempted murder, and rightly so.
The difference in the way the range rover guy drives shows he is trying NOT to hurt people if possible, he just wants to get to safety and its unfortunate for him that idiots on bikes are throwing themselves in his path, but at no point does he actually try and hit them he just sometimes fails to avoid them, enormous difference!
They'd been teasing him with his baseball cap a few minutes before outside a club apparently.
He has now been convicted of 4 counts of attempted murder, and rightly so.
The difference in the way the range rover guy drives shows he is trying NOT to hurt people if possible, he just wants to get to safety and its unfortunate for him that idiots on bikes are throwing themselves in his path, but at no point does he actually try and hit them he just sometimes fails to avoid them, enormous difference!
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It does just go to show that no matter how hard you think you are, you need to be aware that the weedy little guy you are picking on might be a genuine nutter and find a way to proper hurt you even if they couldnt do so in a fair fight.
The trivial reasons some people will kill over are very surprising to those of us that are normal and decent!
The trivial reasons some people will kill over are very surprising to those of us that are normal and decent!
Rings true from a personal experience. A little prick (no more than 15) on a bike rode close by me in Leeds a good few years ago, while I was running. So close, he pulled my headphone out as the wire caught on his bike. After exchanging a few choice words, I told him to watch what he was f'ing doing and jogged on. Ten minutes later I was chased down by a group of six, incl him, on their BMXs in Leeds park. Left that evening with a broken nose, two black eyes, perferated ear drum and bruised ribs.
Ouch
Not good at all, as I was reading that I thought you were going to say he followed you home and vandalised your cars which is one reason to be "scared" of even a 10 year old these days if you own nice motors.
The world is increasingly full of people with utterly no respect for others sadly, and add in a bit of ego and thats a dangerous mix.
I bet the guy in the video I posted is from a culture where it would be seen as "honourble" to exact excessively violent revenge after being mocked and picked on briefly like he apparently was, its a poor situation when people attach more value to such things than that of a human life but its getting more common not less.
The whole gang culture of demanding "respect" and the quite ludicrous extents to which kids these days will go if they dont think they have been given it is definitely one of our worst imports from the states.
(respect put in quotes as its not respect, its fear, Im of the opinion that no one can ever really command more respect from others than they give to others which rules out ANY real respect of these types of scum)
And that brings us back to this huge gang of bikers who felt others should "respect" them and move out of their way etc, im glad on this occasion they collectively got a bit of what they deserved for their antisocial behaviour!
Totally agree with the majority of the comments in here. In the case of the poor RR driver those bikers acted like a pack of animals. He did the right thing albeit it made the bikers more angry, but what else could you do?
Especially when your loved ones are involved too he should reversed back at them IMO when he was in that traffic.
Especially when your loved ones are involved too he should reversed back at them IMO when he was in that traffic.
