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26th Nov 2013

Video: When motorcycle drifting goes wrong…

This biker recently learnt a very painful lesson in drifting motorbikes.

Oisin Collins

This biker recently learnt a very painful lesson in drifting motorbikes.

Drifting a car or motorbike looks pretty easy to the untrained eye, but it actually takes a little bit of skill and knowhow to pull of the perfect drift.

Sadly for this biker over in the US, he just didn’t judge his drift right and ended up going from a smooth surface formed by leaves and dirt to a freshly cleaned bit of tarmac, which caused his bike to get airborne.

Here’s what the biker had to say on YouTube: “This is what happens when you start a slide in a dusty/dirty area. I got to close to the side of the road that was really dirty and it made my bike slide out much faster than I anticipated, when it came onto clean asphalt it caught traction and I go airborne haha (sic).”

We just hope his bike was okay afterwards…

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