VIDEO: The 243mph Hayabusa Turbo crash

Thats more than lucky!

Posted: 04/09/2008 at 19:46

"no body armour"

What a tit

Posted: 04/09/2008 at 19:49

Thats proof that speed does not kill

Posted: 04/09/2008 at 20:42

His first run went okay...

Posted: 04/09/2008 at 20:47

That looked nasty, it looks like he may of tangled with the bike at the end of that vid.

Posted: 04/09/2008 at 21:16

Um, actually it's really hard to wear body armour at Bonneville.

In the afternoon, the pressure altitude means the course is at around 7,500ft in altitude, so your body swells up accordingly. Normal race leathers that fit you at sea level are way too tight at Bonneville, as we found out when we raced there last year. 

Add to that the prehistoric Bonneville rules on leathers (no Kevlar, no stretch panels) and most of the really fast guys just use baggy old leathers from the 1970s. 

Posted: 04/09/2008 at 22:54

Why no Kevlar or stretch panels? What planet are they on  - 1952?

Posted: 04/09/2008 at 23:04

Does seem strange that Loon.

Posted: 04/09/2008 at 23:09

I loved the puff of smoke at end, very Warner Bros... 

Posted: 09/09/2008 at 16:52

No Kevlar because the old fellas who run Bonneville don't know what it is ('new fangled') and no stretch panels because the salt "will rip them open". Which is utter bull, but it's their event and the local Mexican fella in town makes a killing each year charging first-timers stupid money to cover their brand new leathers with upholstery to make them 'safer'...

Posted: 09/09/2008 at 17:39

dagored99 wrote (see)

No Kevlar because the old fellas who run Bonneville don't know what it is ('new fangled') and no stretch panels because the salt "will rip them open". Which is utter bull, but it's their event and the local Mexican fella in town makes a killing each year charging first-timers stupid money to cover their brand new leathers with upholstery to make them 'safer'...

1952 it is then

Posted: 09/09/2008 at 20:21