Newer US guardrails stand 31 inches tall, near the top of a car's hood. Their bottom edge is about 19 inches up, so a fallen rider slides right under it. Twelve miles an hour is a rough figure; in crash studies, the slowest deadly post hit we found was about 16. That low rail is a rub rail, or motorcyclist protection system, set an inch or two off the ground. Parts of Europe, Australia and New Zealand use them, and Texas has tested one. In Europe's test, a dummy slides into it at 37 miles an hour and must not get stuck. This 3D animation shows illustrated crashes and a generic guardrail, partly in slow motion. The bike, the rider and the road are generic designs. #Shorts #Motorcycle #RoadSafety
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I am a biker and this is the shit my friend who drives a car sends me at 3AM
Why isnt no one talking about the sliding worm sound effects?
a year or two ago a bulgarian bike rider got beheaded from a guardrail and he wasn't even speeding
I've seen one of those guardrail i-beams literally cut a dismounted rider in half at the waist.
There is a reason some riders call it a guilutine railing, it can just cut your head off
Avoiding people from saying first
Sad that this is not so widespread, not even in the us, let alone places like turkey
Ts guy is having more fun than harm 😭
this channel is criminally underated
The rider got cake
Thanks to you bro
this is how i almost lost a leg
Instead of adapting all the infrastructure to accommodate motorcyclists, maybe they can just accept that a risk of riding is getting beheaded?
Just ban motorcycles
Especially scary are the ends where the rail just slopes to the ground. Ive heard stories where riders have slid under them and their helmet got stuck, decapitating them
Thank you for this
Douglas Adam's wrote that the trick to flight is to start falling and then just at the last moment to miss.
a friend of mine slid right under a guardrail, lucky to only break his arm
So if you see a rail beneath the guard rail that's actually an old system that was only used like 50 years ago but the idea was for cars and something to do with the wheels, it was also thinner and usually mounted higher so it probably wouldn't do much for motorcycles. I only really know anything about it from installing new guard rail or doing a repair on a really old guard rail that has it that needs it removed because it's out of spec now.
Thank you, new fear unlocked, getting folded by guardrails, because I wasn't already scared they were installed wrong in the first place. I keep being reminded the best safety tip for motorcycles is just "dont crash"