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  • PRO TIP: don't hit them.

  • @TheFingersHurt Gee thanks the pro.

  • h Did I miss something??

  • How about you avoid hitting it in the first place?

  • I fucking hate those fucking pop-up ads blocking my view!

  • where did the motor go george?

  • And how was the old ramp style any safer? That's why they changed it...

  • They should be made dangerous so drivers would feel less safe and avoid them. It was discovered thet the more safety features (seat belts, airbags etc) the more invincible drivers think they are.

  • @trzcinarowice I think you're talking about the peltzman effect

  • @huckbeduck I dont't know how it's called. Anyway, insurance companies etc wouldn't go for it.

  • is there anything that isnt dangerous for a bike on the road?

  • @NAVMEIST3R Yep, a lottery ticket that you haven't bought yet.

  • nice bike haaa

  • oomph.. That is what happens while missing the exit of the highway and stilly trying to make it (but too late in this vid). Then you will be impacted quite deeply.

  • is it me or is the title a bit... misleading? >.<

  • 0:07 now thats just wrong....

  • yah, if you hit ANY roadside barrier with a bike, you're pretty much fucked anyways. Unless it's a mattress filled with McDonalds playpen balls with a pretty fairy on top to nurse your wounds.

  • nom nom nom nom

  • hey engine, nice to see you :)

  • yeap is a bike

  • how is that more dangerous for bikes?

  • Uhh, its WAAAY easier to avoid that thing with a bike that with a big-ass car! Just saying. :)

  • looks like a dick in the ass

  • he tried to turn his car into a bike.... he FAILED...

  • So, what is a safe barrier for a motorcyclist... mattresses? Can't have it both ways. They accept greater risks for their choice of a vehicle.

  • @aardvark9100 In Europe there's a pilot project that has proven to be very successful, retrofitting guard rails to make them safer (read: non-lethal) for bikers. What they do is add another horizontal rail below the one already there, maybe 2" off the ground. That stops the biker from sliding under the rail and getting limbs caught in the vertical supports, which is the main cause of injuries in those types of crashes. However its expensive in materials and labor costs.

  • What kind of a fucking title for a video is this??

  • anyone else noticed the viser was snapped off its hinge?

  • @theiopl22 yeeey

  • Who cares! There are a hell of a lot more cars on the road then bikes. Plus, cars are going to contain all the families and small children. So why shouldn't they make the roadways more safe for cars. Motorcyclists understand the extra risks, and they're gonna die no matter what they hit anyways.

  • yes we know the risk but if the world didn't have suck ass drivers then no one would get hurt (mainly), yes accidents happen. But the major reason big cities have perfect safe non bumpy roads is because all the taxes they have and want know what feed 80% of that money - Drunk drivers- so if you road are awesome it's bc someone died for them On that its bs that every kid that owns a subaru or a jetta thinks they are hot shit. Just member if you hit a bike "THEY COST MORE THEN YOUR POS CAR"

  • @TriskaidekaPunk True, there are plenty of punks out there in their sport cars driving like asses. But, don't pretend that there aren't plenty of punks riding their sport bikes like asses, thinking theyre hot shit.

  • poor beamer :(

  • Sorry, nothing short of a stack of loose hay will offer certain protection for a motorcyclist traveling at freeway speeds. This is obviously not a viable option. Wouldn't it be better to limit the bike to a speed that a rider can survive a terrain crash with some degree of certainty, unfortunately around 50 km/h? I'm guessing that's not an option either which raises the question why have bikes at all if they are so dangerous?

  • geez poor car all crash tests that are done kill one or two cars i hope it dosent happen to me

  • So if the car hits the barrier, the barrier will be a part of the interior. But if a bike hits it, the guy just flies off, get some scratches and broken bones, unlike the people in the car, that will get squished? Isn't it worse for the car?

  • poor bmw

  • They spelt Beemer wrong >.>

  • O rly? with what evidence?

  • @TheZackyBear Sorry, what spikes are you talking about?

  • if you hit a curb going 35mpg on bike you still crash a pot hole is dangerous to bikes so of course a two foot high wall will be dangerous way to state the obvious and its not like the concrete barriers are any safer

  • How is it more dangerous? Same thing happens when you hit this on a bike as a standard guard-rail end: bike stays put, you continue on and get to ride the rail with your crotch. Doesnt seem like it would change much to me...

  • He couldn't decide which exit to take...

  • OM NOM NOM NOM

  • Because it doesnt work for motorcycles its more dangerous?

  • @TheZackyBear

    They shouldn't be driving fast enough to lose control in bad conditions.

  • @PlatypusVomit Bad conditions happen unexpectedly - a depression in the road surface + tires that work just fine on dry and wet tarmac = water slide.

  • BMW rocks...cabin is safe

  • @The007sanjeev Are you serious? The sun visor fell off!!! How's he gonna drive that thing without a sun visor?

  • This is just bullshit to scare people... it just encourages shitheads to write things about awareness and saftey that they usually avoid themselves because they think they're superior drivers.

  • more dangerous to motorcyclists compared to what? im trying to imagine something less dangerous to motorcycles but more dangerous to cars.... and i cant think of anything

  • @nominalvelocity ur genious man! you got a point but ofc you have to take in mind the political correctness as you call it :P

  • haha wtf if a bker actually hits one of them they must be retarded or just riding too quick that they shouldnt do in the first place

  • I Rate 5/5 for that car coz the cabin looks safe.

  • I think he missed his exit.

  • OMG! LARRY! Are you ok!? *Larry- Ill be... Better... As soon as I get this engine block off my lap...

  • More unsafe for motorcycles, eh?

    EVERYTHING is unsafe for a motorcyclist, I swear, if you ride one of those things you have some kind of death wish. Hell, a passing squirrel is dangerous for a motorcyclist.

  • @PAVONEZORZ Life is only truly lived when it's spent flirting with death.

  • @PAVONEZORZ Lol!!! That sounds really funny... Driving along the road but suddenly... "SQUIRREL!!!!!!!!!!! BREEEEEEEEAAAAK!!!!!!" XDDDD

  • The front view of this video could be used as part of an innuendo montage for a love scene in a comedy movie.

  • the worst camera work ever

  • artık turkiyede bunu kullanmalı lütfen ne kadar para olabilirki

    

  • funny looking bike

  • @MrSpike13 You made my day :D:D:D

  • @MrSpike13 read the description

  • vaya una forma de joder un e28 sino me equivoco,,,,,,es igusal, un BMW sharknose, de la vieja escuela

  • what a waste of a BMW 

  • Simple solution to this problem. Dont hit the damn thing....

  • massive penetration

  • Hmm, simple solution. Just don't fucking hit the barrier!

  • Anything u hit with a Motorcycle is probably going to kill u, So I suggest the ole tuck and role for u bikers.

  • @beckerkyle yeah uhh no

  • wow that is a sweet car

  • @roofy2k was... a sweet car

  • hmmm if i get a chance to edit the world's barriers, id rather make the tip of it very sharp and can even cut an ant in half sooo when they crash they split in two

  • This vid makes me wanna go out and buy an old BMW now.... I bet the engine was sitting in the passenger side seat after the impact!

  • @ twobentfish, we'll start by bubblewrapping everything.

  • What about those new cable based barriers they are using on expressways that are suppose to catch cars that careen off the road? Those things scare the shit out of me. I'd had to lost control on my motorcycle and hit one. The look like they would do an excellent job of dismembering motorcyclist.

  • OUCH !

  • They havent made an operation possible to stop drivers and motorcyclists from sneezing, as we all know you close your eyes when that happens, sometimes you can even sneeze 3-4 times in a row, sort that out smarty pants !

  • How likely is it for a bike to hit a barrier like that? And surely if the bike is out of control and heading for the Barrier, isn't it better to bail, and take your chances, rather than decelerate into a wall?

    I've read on a couple accounts that, if you're damn near CERTAIN you're going to hit something HARDER than you or your bike, you should bail.

  • @ESAPOWER If you're on the bike, you're going in the same direction. Bailing doesn't allow you to change direction. it's not like you can bail and go 90 degrees in a different direction. You will continue on the same path as the bike, and hit whatever is there...without the benefit of the bike's brakes to slow down as much as possible.

  • the first thing to fly up in the air is the bmw badge...... atleast that survived!! hahahaha.... it was like ..... "ahhhhh fuck ... im outa here!"

  • @banditss LMAO!!! Thats some funny shit right there LOL!

  • Yes, because bad drivers need to be further protected from natural selection...

  • what kind of fail title barriers to be more dangerous to bikes well.....

  • The answer to this problem: Don't fucking hit the giant steel fist....

  • On the Florida Turnpike, they've installed a crazy triple cable a good 75 feet inside the right of way to keep CARS from going into drainage canals. Little chance to avoid in a car and deadly for bikers. Before, most cars would be able to recover control or stop. Now they're shredded and totaled.

  • Great to see that the airbags went off in good time.

  • This was only a test.....DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!!

  • @GTM57 no shit shurlock

  • @darkblood63

    Try being a dick and spelling it right, SHERLOCK.

    Dumbfuck!

  • @westellmodel arnet u a little genius

  • @darkblood63

    If using basic grammar makes me a genius, so be it.

  • @westellmodel u wish that made u genius faget get a life

  • @darkblood63

    Talk shit online. I'm not down for it. If you're ever in my neck of the woods call me. I wanna beat the fuck out of you for fun.

  • @westellmodel If you're really that better then him, why not just ignore his posts? He's probably mentally challenged for all you know, if you saw him in your neck of the woods you'd probably find he/she was wheelchair bound. People this idiotic deserve your pity, not threats.

  • @Thingamajigs

    You're right. I mean why bother if someone is so stupid they shouldn't be allowed on a computer, much less a website viewed globally. What could that hurt?

  • let's all save some money here. rule #1 don't drink and drive. tax payers won't have to pay for YOUR mistakes

  • @xkakashix12 there is nothing wrong with drinking and driving but the key is moderation. i could very easily be over the limit and drive fine. now getting shit faced and trying to drive home with one eye open is just being stupid. anyway im pretty sure most of the accidents arent alcohol related.

  • Don't hit the barriers then. Is it really so hard?

  • Barriers or not I wish we could see some sort of system in Wv. Here we just got your standard W beam rail in places. In 80% of places the trees,cliffs,rocks,hills,house­s catch your crash..Way to go rednecks! Were awesome!

  • That car literally got raped.

  • Extreme "insertion".

  • @Bellwestern80 lol lol lol lol X'D

  • lol to anyone who thinks its choice to hit those things.... got some serious things to say, while on my bike i got rearended by one of you shits who thinks its funny, luckily i didnt hit the rail ,would you like to know the funniest part of walking away from that ? It was that dickhead who hit me lying upside down in flames cus my bike had rebounded off the barrier and hit his car. thats what you get for pissing with a 300kg bike asshole. If i had hit the barrier i wouldnt be in one piece.

  • two words. ( memorie foam)

  • la déformation de la barriere et imprésionante! c'est la que l'on voit comment qu'elle absorbe le choc

  • we got giant water jugs in canada eh? it softens the blow, then the water freezes over your car so you can't go anywhere

  • @Stonedbrownguy yes we do

  • @Stonedbrownguy same here in hawaii, the water jugs. its so humid you cant tell wether you hit one or not

  • @Stonedbrownguy i lol'd

  • @Stonedbrownguy One of the people that i'm subscribed to, is subscribed to you!

  • @Stonedbrownguy HAHAHA so true.

  • @Stonedbrownguy it is against the fire

  • @Stonedbrownguy does the water not freeze in the container?

  • @Stonedbrownguy

    lol never thought about that...it must have something to keep it from freezing...cause in winter I don't think it would softens much...

  • @Stonedbrownguy water already frozen bro . So actually you are going to hit the frozen jugs !

  • @Stonedbrownguy We have the same in Texas, some are filled with sand.

  • Safety barriers are very politically correct and all, but I think giant rusty spikes would be better suited to the task. I have no idea how people are always hitting shit. If you put it out there, it's going to be hit sooner or later.

    So, big ol nasty spikes would:

    1) give retards real incentive to stay the F out.

    2) remove from the gene pool those who are still too stupid or inept they can't avoid being impaled.

    That's what I call a win win.

  • You' re so fucking smart lol xD

  • I agree, but what happens when the stupid bump the smart into the spikes?

  • Well, like the old maxim goes:

    "The best defense is a good offense"

    So, if some stupid jerk bumps you, you'll be fully in your rights to do your best to send 'em to to the next life via the wall of rusty spikes.

    Besides, I bet the road assholes will kill themselves off in a year or so. It'll be a real mess for a few months, but it'll settle down after a while :D

  • @italianballa Well, tehy all end fu**** up. :D

  • @nominalvelocity huray for simpleton ideas! can't wait till one of your lovedones is shredded by metal rusty shit that has no buisness bein' in/on the road in the 1st place. win win also??

  • If one of my loved ones is stupid or inept enough to get into the spikes, then they deserve to be removed from the gene pool. At the same time, I probably wouldn't count such a person on my list of loved ones in the first place.

    Also: learn to English.

  • @nominalvelocity what the fuck mate you are a sick peice of shit..it is nones chocie to crash you peice of shit! what are you on seriously! mate

  • @nominalvelocity your no motorist. or a novice,at best. dumshits have to have an opinion to, and this is no improvement for humanity. see thatones comment.

  • @nominalvelocity i agree, honestly the whole special needs thing is fine and dandy for people who were in accidents and shit, but people born that way need to be kept from reproducing. Mother nature would not allow them to survive

  • @BringerOfD i'll second that statement sir ! /clap

  • @nominalvelocity yeah but spikes won't stop a vehicle...

  • @VentoDriver You clearly aren't envisioning the same spikes that I am. You know those 4-5" i-beams that hold up steel guard rail you see on highways everywhere--you know, the same kind which have f-upped more motorcyclists than *anything else* on the road? Cut those to 45 degree angles pointed in the direction of traffic. If you have enough of those in the right place, they'll stop a semi tractor/trailer.

  • @nominalvelocity Sure they will stop it, by shredding it to confetti, great idea tho, might close them cagers down a bit gets my vote !

  • @nominalvelocity

    It was spikes like that which were used by opposing armies back in the day.

  • @nominalvelocity if the steering wheel was covered in knives pointed at your neck people would drive more careful and responsibly. Its all about the consequences. People drive like shit cause they just dont care and chances are if they crash theyll be fine.

    Metal spikes on the road and knives on the neck! 200% increase in driver safety!

  • @nominalvelocity

    what if an idiot hits a smart driver and kills the smart one

  • @nominalvelocity. LOL, I have to admit, I admire your reasoning.

  • hmmm nice airbags

  • I can imagine it would really suck final destination style to be in the middle back seat.

  • In sweden we have some kind of wire guardrails that probably would cut you in half if ran into them

  • Fancy posting a video of a bike going up the old ramp-style barrier ends? Fifth gear put a car on one at something like 40mph and it ended up airborne and into a sign. Imagine a bike doing that. Any vehicle having a collision with a roadside object is in immediate danger - and also, there are far more cars on high speed routes than cyclists. Greatest good for the greatest number, and all that.

  • oh shit the bmw!!

  • Now that is some fucked up shit.

  • I get tired of motorcyclists whining about guardrails etc. all the time. They're on a bloody motorcycle, what did they expect? We can't just cover the world in hello kitty cushions because some people have volontarily chosen not to strap themselves into a metal cage with airbags and crumple zones.

  • I hope someday you stand at the end of a traffic jam and a truck with broken brakes will crush into your "metal case", mister asshole.

  • Yes shit happens sometimes. I don't want to ban trucks because of that. (infact I want to have even larger trucks in the EU) If it's so unsafe. What would be best, hit a guardrail and lose a leg or an uncoming vehicle and die?

  • I get tired of car drivers whining about trees etc. all the time. They're in a bloody car, what did they expect? We can't just cover the world in hello kitty cushions because some people have voluntarily chosen to strap themselves into a metal cage with airbags and crumple zones that cannot help them at any speed above 70 Km/h (43 mph) when hitting a tree or another not deformable and not movable barrier like a wall.

  • Why do you think there're guardrails? Just for fun? To kill motorcyclists? It's like whining about that asphalt is hard when someone rolls their convertible. It's their choice to drive a car without a roof and they've to take the possible consequences. Same thing for motorcyclists, they're exposed and it's their own choice.

  • There are guardrails because of you whining about the trees that kill so many car drivers and because of so many head crashes that kill so many car drivers. You, my friend, feel much too secure in your metal cage. Like I said, a head on crash against a wall cannot be survived at speeds above 70 km/h as it rips of your heart from your aorta causing you to bleed to death.

  • No there're just too many trees to even bother to put guardrails infront of them. Here we have guardrail so you don't drive of cliffs and bridges What's the problem? Head-on collisions kills motorcyclists just as much if not even more. We have fences here to avoid elk/moose collisions aswell. Because they're lethal for both cars and motorcyclists. Shall we remove them aswell so that pedestrians don't get tangled up in them?

  • haardkaar shut the fuck up and be a man. take your boyfriends cock out of your ass, get out of your volvo come back down to the real world.

  • Learn to take the pain sissy, you fall, it hurts, live with it. But ofcourse you're so manly that you rather like to get mashed like a mosquito into a truck grille rather than getting some cuts and cruises from a guard rail? Pfft..

  • explosivefreak do you think it's anyone's choice to crash? I've not crashed yet but I've hit wild animals, deers atleast twice. Do you think I wanted to? And who said I liked speed humps. I'm pretty tired of you southerners with your summer tyres in the winter wrapping yourself around our bridge support pillars and your fatal head-on collision against our timber trucks. We don't like you and take your bloody EU and stick it up your arse.

  • Man, you're using apostrophes in ALL the wrong places...

  • that was a good one lol

  • stfu grow some balls you faggot.

  • I'd hate to be sitting in the middle

  • Haha, I'd hate to be sitting in the middle, funny as fuck comment tingey103

  • that shit got crushed, lol

  • fuck!!

  • OUCH! whack in the balls!

  • is it broken?

  • no it's just bent

  • thats what she said

  • ohhhh. looks like it got kick in the groin.

  • done, engine removed. Placed in compartment :D

  • How is this crushable, energy dissipating barrier end more dangerous to motorcycles? vs. what? a fix end? Riding exposed on a lightweight motorcycle is inherently dangerous just due to the laws of physics (heavy mass vs. light mass + imminent passenger ejection from the vehicle). If your desire is to be safe while traveling at 100 km/h, drive in an enclosed vehicle.

  • BMW=Safe, great design great cars

  • safe?

  • a vehicle is only as safe as the driver

  • Wrong! Some vehicles are safer than others. It is clear the crumple zones worked vary well on this design. Check IIHS

  • if you don't crash you have no need for all the safety stuff, but yes some cars have more safety gear than others

  • Yes, let me trust how safe my car is to the Insurance agencies.