The University of Tennessee set up a camera to watch a rail crossing on Neyland Ave. in Knoxville. The nearly 4 minute video of bike crashes was captured during August and September 2014.
Knoxville has since rerouted the bike path, but some bikers are still wiping out on Neyland Avenue, an avoidable disaster (go to the 3:30 mark to watch the blockheads go down in traffic).
BigFurHat porn?
Well I’ll be darned. Sometimes stupidity does hurt.
LOL.
Why didn’t they just put a fucking sign up? And if they already knew tracks + bike tires = injuries, why not get off your bike and walk it across?
Fur loves this. https://media.tenor.com/images/c4b9abc823061d413c54563a6d9249b0/tenor.gif
BFH porn! Haha! Yea, 90-degree angle and with some speed you damn fools! It’s simple!
Not that I have ridden a bike in the last 20 years, but isn’t it obvious?
WTF did they expect – crossing a narrow tire at an angle of much the same width or wider than the tire. Idiots, the tire will be grabbed into the groove and carry along the groove. Hope that school didn’t teach civil engineering to the braniacs who laid out that crossing.
I saw a lot of comments on youtube claiming the railroad was at fault and that the idiot bikers should sue the railroad. The tracks were there long before the road was even paved many decades ago, long before people started thinking that bicycles should share the same pavement with cars. Thus, the railroad tracks aren’t to blame.
The real problem (as also pointed out in the comments) was that bicycle tires have to cross perpendicular to the railroad tracks or the skinny tire will become wedged between the rail and pavement (and the rails are slick because they are naturally polished from the trains going over them). The idiots that designed the bike lane initially didn’t allow for crossing at 90 degrees to the rail.
At 2:08 of the video you can see that the bike lane is much wider and now has painted lines that direct the riders such that they now hit the tracks at 90 degrees and away from the car travel lanes. Of course that didn’t prevent the numbskull at 2:08 from wrecking while still trying to cross at the old point (ignoring the painted lines).
That was highly satisfying. 😁
@Meerkat B – Yes, sir, it is indeed obvious. Anybody with more than four brain cells hooked up in parallel would know what would happen without even thinking much about it.
REMEMBER!
If liberals are walking anywhere on campus where there is concrete, they have right of way.
If they are in a crosswalk no matter what the signal says, they have the right of way.
If they are on bikes in the street they have right of way.
If they are on bikes on the sidewalk, they have right of way.
If they are talking and are right or wrong, they have the right of way.
Weak shit. Even on a dirt bike the only way your getting across that shit is with your front wheel in the air. Hard to do with pedals. Best shot is at a perfect 90. But it still comes down to too much weight on the front end. Bwaaaap.
Shoot. I watched the whole thing. It was very satisfying. I like the driver at the 57″ mark. Take no prisoners/get me the hell away from these gomers.
So it took the frickin university to figure that out, huh.
I ride a motorcycle. My pet peeve is people who mow their grass along the road in front of their property and spray huge amounts of grass into the street and then leave it there. Where I live, the grass grows so thick and fast that we are talking about piles of grass that are three or four inches deep out in the street. It makes for a very unsafe condition for motorcycles. I stay very alert, though, as any motorcyclist should be. It is so damn simple to just mow in the opposite direction.
This is what I’m talking about when it comes to douchebag bike-ists. See that jackass at the 2:03 mark? See how much shoulder that king sized A-hole has? Notice that he insists on driving as close as possible to the white shoulder line in spite of heavy fast traffic? Yep. He could lay there and squirm for all I care. Oh, and he’s wearing a yellow shirt.
Meerkat, a 90 degree angle and some speed puts you right into a lane of traffic. This intersection seems to have been carefully engineered by a bike hater.
More Please !
I think the bicyclists should be charged with interfering with the normal flow of traffic.
dammit, i picked a fine time to quit eatin popcorn. . . .
I’m not a biker, I’m a hiker. Where I live, the trails now have to be shared with the horse people, the bikers and the hikers. The horse people hate the bikers and so forth. The horse people think the trails are theirs! So, they set out to sabotage the trails against the bikers by placing big logs across the trails and big branches that the fire patrol cut off. They did this to hurt the bikers. Well, what if the bikers decided to string piano wire across the trail and hurt the horses? See how this could get out of hand? Now cameras are set up along the trails to catch the turds. We don’t ride bikes or horses, we’re just hikers. We removed the logs and branches because we didn’t want anyone to get hurt. Then we put the word out. We put the fear of the law on them. It has stopped. WTF! Share the trail assholes!
Good.
They need to build a three mirrion dawa bridge over it for the bikers.
good Lord! … I understood this concept when I was an 8 years old bicycle rider
has the whole country gone completely fucking brain-dead?
I enjoyed that way too much.
When I-95 was built it divided some neighborhoods.
Instead of going to the overpasses to get to the other side, some would run across the freeway.
After a death, a walkway was built. I have never, ever seen anybody on this multi million dollar edifice to stupidity.
My wife travels under it twice a day, she has never seen anybody on it.
Maybe if they had an elevator to take the dindues up and down the 4 stories they would use it.
It’s not the kind of neighborhood the health nut ventures into for a little cardio.
That video needed Benny Hill music.
Why don’t they just walk their bike across the RR tracks? You can see it’s a RR crossing no need for *special* signage. Is it that hard to understand figure out what happens to thin tires and RR tracks?
Watching cyclists fall off their bikes is surprisingly satisfying….