After something like that, you want to go sit down, or stay down if that’s a safe option. With that flood of adrenaline, it’s quite possible to have injuries and not feel them right away.
I bet he was hurting for at least a month afterward just from road rash and bruising.
That pretty much matches my MT-07HO. First gear hits the rev limiter at about 90km/h, and on a fast start “run it to the redline, then a clutchless shift into second” is exactly what I do.
No problems at all, the bike handles the shift just fine; the lower gears are fairly closely spaced, so the rev differential isn’t that much.
It helps that it’s a lightweight bike optimised for torque and acceleration; it tops out at around 190km/h, but it gets there very quickly.
Yup.
My second one (Suzuki GS450E) used to do that all the time. Replacing the rear shocks eventually sorted it out.
Sometimes I borrow Kawasaki ZZR1400 from my brother, and it’s geared like this. I didn’t try, but it redlines at about 85 mph in the first gear. When shifting, RPM disparity isn’t that big, because later gears have very close ratios. To be honest, I’m afraid of that bike.
On the other hand my bike (Dnepr MT-11) gets only 56 mph on the last gear. The first gear is so slow, that I thought it was useless, until reading in manual that “it was designed to match the speed of marching infantry” 
Oh man I love that sized bike. So much fun. well until it pogos and you get to see your life flash before your eyes
guessing it’s lose wheel nuts not the first thing… deadly though
and I’m wrong too
I’ll check that out when I get home; in the meantime… supposedly there are Fed rules governing road/freeway lane divider markings. Each painted line is 10’ long, and each of those are spaced 30’ apart. (So, from the start of a line to the end of the next open space should be 40’.) Assuming that the subject roadway met those requirements, one can determine the cyclist’s speed. This’ll be interesting!
Good call. By my count it takes 11 frames* for the bike to move a little more than the full distance between the start of two stripes at the beginning of the video. If the video is 30 frames per second and those stripes are 40 feet start-to-start then that figures out to around 109 feet per second, which is 75 miles per hour.
The bike went at least a couple feet further than the 40 feet between stripe starts in the 11 frames, and who knows if he had already started to slow down before the clip starts, but given the stripe standards you quoted we can probably say he was going 75MPH at a minimum at the start of the clip.
*(you can advance one frame at a time on YouTube videos with the ‘<’ and ‘>’ keys)
Oh, man… I wanted to save that for home!
I feel like that after each ride on the ZZR 
Dnepr MT-11 is entirely different kind of beast:
Well. It’s orange and an airhead. That’s my absolute preference.
That’s because you have omniscience and humility the rest of us lack.
Looks like weight distribution issues…at speed. The traffic around him was traveling at normal highway speeds and he slid under/past the cars…so I suspect he had accelerated way beyond the speed limit just prior to the spill…of course, that section was removed (incriminating evidence). Also, the rider is an idiot…for wearing regular pants and tennis shoes when riding. Invest in riding leathers, they can save your life and limbs!
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He says traffic was going 75-80, and he seems to be passing at least 15-20 mph faster at the start of the clip. Fair bet he going at least 90mph when he went down?
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