After seeing this guy highside a new Ducati 749R with Blackstone CF wheels I have no intention of ever putting these on anything I ride, even if I could afford them.
None to the rear.hubert said:What did the rear wheel look like? The same sort of damage?
I was a few riders behind the kid that crashed this bike at Beaverun. He was coming up hill on on the back section of the track and lost the rear and highsided. The bike sprung upwards, vaulted the rider who suffered a busted collar bone and the bike landed on the front wheel, left rotor and the interior of the wheel (Spokes) basically exploded.998R said:Ah yes...the thread that will not die.
FWIW, I have these wheels, and they have held up fine, under very strenuous conditions, including 165 mph + speeds at VIR, and extremely hard braking at Summit Point when entering T1.
I would, however, like to get more information about what happened, to include the results of any "after accident" analysis of the wheels.
:twocents
Sorry if this is one of those threads that is repeated too often here. I never saw that happen and I thought it would be information worth sharing. Rider safety can't be over stressed.Dave said:Uh oh. Not again.
Probably because he was so worried about crashing the big money he crashed.trussdude said:How did a bad front wheel cause the high side?
I hope, for your sake, you're not still riding around on your OEM RC51 wheels! Look what happens to them in a crash...nycstripes said:After seeing this guy highside a new Ducati 749R with Blackstone CF wheels I have no intention of ever putting these on anything I ride, even if I could afford them...
What wheel would survive this crash?nycstripes said:The bike sprung upwards, vaulted the rider who suffered a busted collar bone and the bike landed on the front wheel, left rotor and the interior of the wheel (Spokes) basically exploded.
Dude, I'm trying to make an excuse not to spend that much money on wheels. Your not helping.........AZ Scott said:I hope, for your sake, you're not still riding around on your OEM RC51 wheels! Look what happens to them in a crash...
Thanks!nycstripes said:I was a few riders behind the kid that crashed this bike at Beaverun. He was coming up hill on on the back section of the track and lost the rear and highsided. The bike sprung upwards, vaulted the rider who suffered a busted collar bone and the bike landed on the front wheel, left rotor and the interior of the wheel (Spokes) basically exploded.
The rest was some cosmetic damage and maybe a new subframe will be needed.
Ken
So the highside caused the crash & the front wheel took the entire force of the bike's landing. I would expect the wheel to exhibit some type of damage based on that - no matter what it's made from...nycstripes said:I was a few riders behind the kid that crashed this bike at Beaverun. He was coming up hill on on the back section of the track and lost the rear and highsided. The bike sprung upwards, vaulted the rider who suffered a busted collar bone and the bike landed on the front wheel, left rotor and the interior of the wheel (Spokes) basically exploded.
I can't believe it didn't bend the forks, yet it broke every spoke from the rim. Talk about :wtfmrgrn said:i can't believe that the bike vaulted highside and then came down hard on the front and it broke, :wtf