“Lucky Biker” Motorcycle Crashes With Amazing Saves Videos

These two videos are both called “Lucky Biker” on YouTube.  The first video shows an outrageous high-side, where the rider gets back on the bike. The second video shows an outrageous low-side, where the rider gets back on the bike. The high side video is likely real. I have seen saves like that before, but what about the low-side video? I do not believe that the second video is real, and it definitely has nothing to do with MotoGP (which is part of its name), but it does remind me of something that really did happen to me.

Did he really do that, or was it faked?  I don’t know.  What I do know is that back when I was single, and living in Arkansas, I had this experience: I was riding South on my way home from Missouri, at about 2:00AM, coming from wherever it is that I ride motorcycles to in Missouri in the middle of the night.

A police car pulls up close on my tail, and on go the pull-the-truck-over lights, so I move to the shoulder.  He follows me at greater-than-shoulder speeds, and he is right on my tail.  I begin braking, and the paved shoulder gives way to pea gravel.  The rear wheel locks-up, the motorcycle drops me off its left-side, and then gets back up on its own, and takes-off. I go sliding down the road, while the police stop.  Meanwhile the motorcycle leaves the road, rides a little farther on its own, and leans itself against a bush.

I get up from in front of the police car’s bumper and ask them if I can get my bike.  One of the officers keeps asking, “Are you OK? Are you OK?” And I say, “Folks tell me that everyone goes down at some point, and I had to do it in front of police officers. That’s embarrassing. Can I go down there and get the motorcycle?” By this point I had removed my helmet, and Missouri is a helmet-law-state. I didn’t know if they would ticket me for going down to get the bike without suiting-up, but I really didn’t want to put the helmet back on. The one officer says, “yes”, the other officer is still shaken, and still not believing that I could be OK.  The street-slide was kind of a relaxing ride though.

I ride the motorcycle back up to the road, and in front of the police vehicle’s head lights, so that I can look it over. There is only one scratch.  It’s on the very back of the rear fender, which is a part of the bike’s body that couldn’t have possible touched the ground during that incident, and it’s the only part that was actually damaged.  Not even the color-matched ABS bags hanging off each side in-back were scratched.

The calm officer explains to me that my tail-light is out, and that they can’t let me leave without it working. The not-so-calm officer is still asking me if I am all right. I am still answering, “Yes.”

I pull out my tool case. Get a screwdriver. Get a taillight bulb, and change the bulb. These two officers were floored. The one guy still couldn’t believe that I was OK, and the other guy was now surprised that I was actually rode around with a spare bulb and tools.

In the second video the rider, either during a race, or at a track day, lowsides his bike.  The bike gets up, and keeps on going down the track. The rider runs after it, and gets on, and then takes-off. Did he really do that, or was it faked?  It is possible for the bike to get up and keep riding on its own even as it slows down; that’s what happened to me, but what are we really looking at here? It’s likely a creative-person’s special effects demo.

This was the bike that picked itself up. No, those bags in back were not scratched!