Hey:

Watch this OOps.


The man in the video is Laurent Cochet, a journalist with the French magazine Moto Journal. He's testing a Yamaha FJR 1300 in Saint Martin en Ré, France next to the quai, and he's about to tape what he probably thinks will be a beautiful shot along the water, boat masts in the foreground, marina cafes and the back.

That is not at all what happens.

Bikes with hard panniers don't play well with bollards. When Cochet's luggage box hits the squat steel post, both Cochet and the bike take a spectacular ride over the edge of the quai. We're told that, thankfully, Cochet wasn't hurt beyond a few bruises and a sprained finger. The bike... not so much. Prepare to wince at the video

Dub

 

Would have been better if it ended in a huge splash.

 

Oh! He bobbled the dismount!

That's going to cost him with the judges

 

HEHEHEHEHE
Another wannabee biker takes a dump (wotta dumb **** !!)
I wonder what the headline in his local paper read..........?
I'd say he was really lucky to get away with the minor sprains and pains.
Could easily have ended in much worse.
Hope it was a waterproof camera.

I know it's not nice to laugh at others misfortune, but really - hitting a bollard ?
Another Darwin award for sure !

 

You have to watch out for those bollards, they look all very grounded and firmly attached, but they're not.

Sudden random, unexpected sideways movements is their particular thing.

Just like trees, they do that as well.

 

HOLY CRAP-SI-COLA!!!!
That makes my low speed dump look like it was intentional :/

 

At least he landed in the boat and didn't get wet.

I used to have an '84 FJ1100.

 

Not for nothing but the clown was looking everywhere but where he should have.

That's just so typically ............................ !

 

Proves the point....keep road bikes on the road and don't ride them where they don't belong.

I'm willing to bet the bike has to go back in the direction from where it came to get it out of there.

 

You scratch it, you buy it