Guy is lucky his head didn’t go under a wheel and burst like a watermelon. No pity he is your stereo typical tool, only he don’t have the skills to pull it off. Best he stays off bikes me thinks or he will be nan bread soon.
Con’
Think of it this way-
A tractor weighs 7.5 tons.
Empty trailer weighs 7-8 tons.
Total 15-16 tons, max the trailer out & you’ve got 44 tons. So approx 36 tons being pulled on the 5 wheel, with a pin about the size/diameter of your wrist.
Numpty Nut’s bike weighs about 150 kg + Numpty/80ish kg, total 250 ish kg.
It looked like he caught both trailers with his handle bars/mirrors/levers. So the amount of energy transmitted from him hitting the back of both trailers, traveling through potentially 36 tons of trailer-down through the pin-on to the chassis-through the shocks/air suspension-up into the cab-then into the drivers Air Suspended Seat would be minuscule.
A bit like a Fly catching up with your car & committing Suicide on your rear window !
martinviking:
A bit like a Fly catching up with your car & committing Suicide on your rear window !
Hahahahaha love that description. He was lucky that he wasn’t the stubborn one that you can never wash off with just the washer fluid and wipers! 
Really bearing this in mind for when I am allowed to drive them. As I really thought that impact of kenetic energy going into a nearly stationary object would have jolted “you and the tea”. Even though you are right (weighing 176 times more than him at Gross capacity) it most probably would not have created a ripple!
Scary to realise that “kamikazee’s” may come in hard not neccessarily on motorbikes either and you may not even notice the initial carnage until you have pulled far enough forward to see what has actually happened. 
Hey GrahamA
grahamA:
DAF95XF:
Constantine:
As only the left hand lorry (is that foreign plates) has his hazards on and that’s his blind side!C
If you look closer the left hand trailer has a British plate between the trailer door locking bars
Its not a British no. plate that’s a yellow sticker with a black lorry on it
You’re right mate!
I found a large view version of the video on the other topic. Yep my eyes don’t need testing afterall, it is definitely a yellow plate with an articulated black lorry on it that some European trailers have on them, that I have seen before. So it was a blind side hit for the left ■■■■■■ first and then he bounced off the UK trailer back onto empty tarmac luckily for him! 
C
martinviking:
A bit like a Fly catching up with your car & committing Suicide on your rear window !
How come you could see what was going to happen way before he reacted, forward observation zero !
is anyone gonna blame the foreigner? 
usually its their fault all the time
truck drivers to blame, they should both been arrested. A true professional steering wheel attendant would of seen that bike 1 mile away in the mirrors, pre empted it and moved out to enable the biker to get through
Cruise Control:
truck drivers to blame, they should both been arrested. A true professional steering wheel attendant would of seen that bike 1 mile away in the mirrors, pre empted it and moved out to enable the biker to get through
Yep!
Definitely the Truck Drivers fault-for being Born & choosing Lorry Driving for a career !
His breaks failed yes?
Silver_Surfer:
His breaks failed yes?
Yes he should have stopped for a coffee and it wouldn’t have happened.
As for his brakes. That bike would have stopped if he had used more front brake
I am a biker and I was weaving through the traffic this morning to get to work. I would never do what that idiot did. Hope he has learned his lesson otherwise he has not got long to live
Im a Biker, use it as my daily machine to work and back, and that guy was a ■■■■■■■ IDIOT! I could see from the beginning of the vid the 2 trucks were stationary, the prick should have slowed down to asses the situation even before he undertook that car!
■■■■■■■ like this give the rest of us a bad name… 
B…
I’m must say if I ever get my act together & get a bike licence, I’ll just pootle along in lane with the traffic on a laid back yoke, I cringe when I see all the weaving in & out, it only takes someone to kiss you on a bike as you’re passing them & your toast, then you be mangled toast with all the other traffic on the motorway driving over you…
I thought about getting a bike licence too and then realised how much of a danger I was on bicycles as a kid.
Had a short rethink (nanoseconds) and thought, nope not capable of that. Mrs is going to do it, so she can have all the responsiblity while I sleep on the pillion!
C
Silver_Surfer:
I’m must say if I ever get my act together & get a bike licence, I’ll just pootle along in lane with the traffic on a laid back yoke, I cringe when I see all the weaving in & out, it only takes someone to kiss you on a bike as you’re passing them & your toast, then you be mangled toast with all the other traffic on the motorway driving over you…
I’ve ridden a motorbike on the motorway daily for years, ride like you have a target on your back and everyone is out to kill you and you’ll be fine. Never take your eyes off anything or lose your concentration for a second because something will bite you ! I might get slated for this but be extra careful of trucks on foreign plates or left hookers, you can be invisible.
Slow riding is also not wise you are still invisible, you can wear all the hi-viz stuff you want but the guy that flattens you still won’t have seen you.
Think bike ? don’t bother I’ll think for myself thank you and you may wonder after all this , why ride a bike ? well only a bike rider would know that !
Silver_Surfer:
I’m must say if I ever get my act together & get a bike licence, I’ll just pootle along in lane with the traffic on a laid back yoke, I cringe when I see all the weaving in & out, it only takes someone to kiss you on a bike as you’re passing them & your toast, then you be mangled toast with all the other traffic on the motorway driving over you…
Unlikely mate…
I’ve often had the intention of having a nice pootle about, no rush, no schedule to get anywhere, and I put the helmet on and look like this 
Fair play. The guys was a candidate for an accident.
You may ride a Bandit my friend. But there’s no need to ride like one!
macci:
You may ride a Bandit my friend. But there’s no need to ride like one!
That reads as if it should be painted on the rear of an artic unit. Could be interchangeable between motorcyclists and cyclists for which ever situation fits!
That’s if there are bandit bicycles on sale?!
C