crashing a fully loaded GSA

The guy got lucky... cant say the same for the GS! skip to about the 4min to get to the 'main bit'...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yDtCWJ4g9Y&feature=player_embedded

OUCH. Did the drive shaft snap cause the wreck or vice versa.:huh

6:39 shows the awfully big break. No idea when it happened, though. :eek1

He started breaking for some reason (look at the breaklight)

I assume the drive shaft snapped because of the fishtail movement. On asfalt the tire just slips, but on those rocks the rear wheel diggs in transporting all the forces to the driveshaft.

Looks like he just lost it. I bet the housing snapped when he crashed.
Big rocks on loose and hard pack with to much speed.

Driveshafts belong on the street

Definetely on the brakes before and throughout the fishtail....I'm going with rider error on this one. Bummer.

Maybe you should tell that to score drivers and rock racers.

I thought the BMW whale foreskin suit would have saved him.

Nice hospital.

Looks like the back end got loose, he hit the brakes, which caused even more weight transfer, and the thing did a 180, tossed him off the back and then the bike flipped repeatedly. I couldn't see if he got hit by the bike.

IMO it was f'ing stupid going that fast in that terrain on a loaded, heavy bike. He's damn lucky it wasn't a lot worse.

Rob

I know that feeling.

I wear the same foreskin suit and I prefer crashing in it versus other gear I have had. Never had any getoffs anywhere close to that one and never hope to. You look at the damage to the bike and the damage to him, I think the suit did OK.

DH

Around here we call that a "Yard Sale"!

Up here that's called "une vente de garage"

He was losing it then the bike tumbling end over end broke the swingarm.

Jim

That is exactly what we call a Yard Sale here too.
I have a bunch of those Xrays too.
It looked like rider error for sure, but calling him *#@** stupid is stupid on your part...just cause you won't do that does NOT mean someone else is stupid because they DO do it.
Stuff happens....
We all make mistakes. A minor error sometimes cost alot. :huh

I applaud him for pushing a big bike and not just putting to Starbucks. Get well soon.

Wow.

Ouch... Makes a guy pucker watching that first swing because you know it is only gonna get worse.

Yeah, he was running too hard on some pretty unforgiving terrain (as if none of the rest of us have ever been there!).

:eek1

Wow! I just relived my accident. Almost the exact same thing happened to me back in November.

My GSA washed out under me, I high sided and flipped the bike several times. I broke the Swing Arm in half just like him and pretty much took everything off the top of my bike just like him. I also had to rebuild the final drive too. He looked like he flipped like I did, sorta diagonally. I think mine broke when the back tire was coming back around and struck the road with the force of the bike pushing it into the dirt. It takes a lot to break a swing arm. Best part, I walked away just like him.