Upside down GSX750R on the A38 this morning

Or it may have been something else - was a bit of an oldish bike...

I found myself a bit ill at ease after seeing the biker being worked
on by the Paramedics [1] but this turned to amazement [2].

In the few seconds that I rode passed it was clear that there had been
some collision between a Ford Flatbed Transit thingy and the bike.

Okay happens all the time, but ...

This one was from behind!

AND with sufficient force to throw the rider 10 yards down the road
AND flip the bike through 180 degrees leaving it resting on the handle
bars and seat[3]

Is being hit from behind a common thing then? Especially at this sort
fo speed?

[1] Very concerned looks all round but they were still working on the
rider...
[2] Amazement, disbelief - not too sure at the mo ... gws certainly
[3] Fuel leaking all over the place [4]
[4] Hats off to the Para's as they ignored the fuel slopping around
and worked on the guy anyway.

 

Nah. Australian import, obviously.

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gonad fascinated us all by saying...

I was hit from behind while at a roundabout on my daughter's VFR400R
NC30. It wrote the bike off and punched me through a chevron sign on a
roundabout, damaging my back

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I saw a bloke hit from behind at a T junction,by a Peugeot 206.The bike
was at the junction,waiting for a gap, the pug being behind him.The pug
then pulled forward,while the biker didnt move.It must have only been
doing 5mph, but the bike(cx500) was thrown 8-10 feet forward, the rider
doing a back flip over his topbox, and landing around 6 feet from the
junction.
From the way he was thrown, it could have led to a bad back injury, but
luckily he was just a bit shaken.
Alan.

 

I have heard of bikes being hit by other bikes but not this.

The amount of bolloxed up metalon the rear of the bike suggested a
*very* hard knock and the guy was a good distance from the bike.

 

I was waiting waiting to join the A4 once, sitting as we do at the
front of a queue of cars.

The woman behind me was watching for the gap in traffic, not looking
at me. She shunted me off the bike and into the middle lane.

I was somewat keen to get up quickly and move myself and the bike as
the herd of drivers coming from the Chiswick roundabout hurtled
towards me.

She got out of her car and said " You don't seem to have done much
damage to my car"

 

Doc Sarah, from Ixion, got hit by an 18-wheeler that simply squashed
her. It was only a one in a million flook that she lived to tell the
tale...

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****, I remember that - amazing she didn't croak.