Sport Rider magazine editor/columnist went down...

[ozz]

uturns are the bad ones, everytime i see a car on the side of the road i get ready to anticipate the worst...hope hes going to get thru this accident and be alrightlease:

 

[Cerberus]

Prayers sent!! Hope he has a quick and complete recovery. As far as the cager, throw them off the nearest cliff!!!

 

[BlueHaya]

Best Wished for a Speedy Recovery

They really need to crack down more on people who turn in front of people and cause serious injury...especially riders.

 

[georgiabusa_05]

hope he heals quickly.

 

[semperfi]

Wow, that kind of bone damage is definately life threatening. Prayers sent for a full recovery.

 

[StromBusa]

:-( Best equipment in the world can't save us from these kind of things, wish him back in the saddle soonest.

 

[Lamb busa]

Hope he recovers quickly. Sounds like somebody could have slowed down though.

 

[Warchild]

This is really a bummer... this guy was a Force..... pull through, Andrew.... lease:

 

[brian7396]

prayers sent

 

[Pardini]

Terrible news, hope he's able to make a full recovery. I've read alot of his stuff.

We lost a local on duty M/C Cop today. Trying to stop a speeder in front of a school. 79year old man turned left in front of him. It was ugly. RIP

 

[Charlesbusa]

why was he testing tires on a HW and not a track?

There is no point testing a street tire at the track. Track costs money to rent and street is free. Tires should be tested under the conditions they're designed to work in right?

 

[Charlesbusa]

The crest is really twitsy. I don't know where it happened on the crest, but its probable it happened on a blind corner. Hope he recovers soon.

 

[BusaWizard]

Prayers sent, Godspeed.

 

[gtrpimp76]

why was he testing tires on a HW and not a track?

Sport Rider, in the past, has done a tire comparison with the track AND street/canyon use. He may have been testing: just street tires and testing for their element, track/street hybrids and testing the street aspect of the tires (i.e., 002RS, Qualifiers, PP2CT's, etc...).


SR typically uses Streets of Willow in Rosamond or Buttonwillow for many of their track tire tests.

As far as sending Andrew some well wishes, I think sportrider.com may have a thread set up in their forums or you can email them and they'll forward to his personal email. I look for more contact info.

Heal up Andrew!!

 

[gtrpimp76]

This is really a bummer... this guy was a Force..... pull through, Andrew.... lease:

+trillions!!!

 

[warp10]

dang, sorry to hear. Prayers for a speedy and full recovery.

 

[Schism]

my prayers are with him.

 

[SANDFLEA85]

There is no point testing a street tire at the track. Track costs money to rent and street is free. Tires should be tested under the conditions they're designed to work in right?

ok but being it is for a magazine review or whatever it was for, wouldnt the smart thing be to hire police and get a road permit to close it for an hr or whatever you need to be safe.

I work for a utility co here and we get permits all the time to close roads so we can safely work.

and to truely test a tire you need to "push" it, doing the posted speed isnt gonna prove anything IMO.

not bashing the guy but the company he works for could have done more to protect him,not just sending him out on his own to test a tire for a 1 paragraph review, even if they just paid for a police escort. I dont know,I dont have the answer but it was an accident that could have and should have been avoided IMO

 

[Warchild]

not bashing the guy but the company he works for could have done more to protect him,not just sending him out on his own to test a tire for a 1 paragraph review, even if they just paid for a police escort. I dont know,I dont have the answer but it was an accident that could have and should have been avoided IMO

???

Apparently you didn't read the article. Nobody going to protect anyone against this:

The crash happened when a car made an illegal U-turn in front of Trevitt.

 

[Rayabusa0818]

Hope he recovers quickly. Sounds like somebody could have slowed down though.

Did I miss something in the article ???