Cycling 90km on motor way

Cork24

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8wRtCbsYV3s

This guy is a nut job his behind a truck going over 90km without a helmet

Mycroft H

Cork24 wrote: »

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8wRtCbsYV3s

This guy is a nut job his behind a truck going over 90km without a helmet

To be honest, a piece of styrofoam is going to do sweet f all at that speed.

blorg

Can anyone tell the country (from the truck's number plate? Or anything else?) I am guessing it is somewhere in Eastern Europe.

DirkVoodoo

Well done ITN, instead of reporting on something that is actually newsworthy, they instead drop down to the level of any tabloid toilet rag and post something for shock value.

What else can we post to generate a bit of public outrage?

green123

90 km/h

Doctor Bob

blorg wrote: »

Can anyone tell the country (from the truck's number plate? Or anything else?) I am guessing it is somewhere in Eastern Europe.

According to a commenter on BSNYC, it's Latvia.

that video with cyclist drafting behinf truck is not from Netherlands, but from Latvia, this guy at that time did 299km from Riga to Tallinn in 4h17 min averaging very close to 70km. must be funny guy to do so...

creativedrinker

If that truck braked it was end of days for the cyclist!

AstraMonti

This religious-like view of helmets is really starting to get on my nerves.. ffs.

petethedrummer

There's no need to go so close to a large vehicle to get a draft. Particularly the faster you go.

AGC

blorg wrote: »

Can anyone tell the country (from the truck's number plate? Or anything else?) I am guessing it is somewhere in Eastern Europe.

Is the car not a right hand drive?

It's bad enough doing that behind a car but he is asking to be killed doing it blind like that behind a truck

EDIT: They are on the right hand side of the road though

buffalo

Doctor Bob wrote: »

According to a commenter on BSNYC, it's Latvia.

that video with cyclist drafting behinf truck is not from Netherlands, but from Latvia, this guy at that time did 299km from Riga to Tallinn in 4h17 min averaging very close to 70km. must be funny guy to do so...

I got the impression from this that it was organised between the truck and rider - no?

manwithaplan

I once drafted a JCB
From Castleisland to Tralee
Now I'm a bit upset
That I didn't make the internet

guym

manwithaplan wrote: »

I once drafted a JCB
From Castleisland to Tralee
Now I'm a bit upset
That I didn't make the internet

Maybe if it was a John Deere
You'd be famous all over here

07Lapierre

Another point worth considering. At 90KLM, its probably safer to stay where he is. if he slowed down, the buffeting from the wind as the truck pulls away could be enough to blow him off the road!

Kav0777

AstraMonti wrote: »

This religious-like view of helmets is really starting to get on my nerves.. ffs.

He hadn't got a Hi-vis vest on either....ffs.

Lumen

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-big-rig-tailgate.html

doozerie

manwithaplan wrote: »

I once drafted a JCB
From Castleisland to Tralee
Now I'm a bit upset
That I didn't make the internet

I'll bet you weren't wearing a Healy-Rae approved ceap. No ceap, no glory - not in Kerry.

el Bastardo

guym wrote: »

Maybe if it was were a John Deere
You'd be famous all over here

Fixed! ... and it rhymes better too!

shaungil

guym wrote: »

Maybe if it was a John Deere
You'd be famous all over here

A Massey would have been classy
But a Zetor is better

Seve OB

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Well done ITN, instead of reporting on something that is actually newsworthy, they instead drop down to the level of any tabloid toilet rag and post something for shock value.

What else can we post to generate a bit of public outrage?

for more years than I care to remember ITN always have an "and finally" section on their news program which can be something light hearted, funny or not newsworthy!

So if you really feel like it is tabloid trash, then they haven't dropped down to that level, but rather have always been there