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Has anyone yet exaplained how this happened?

The bike looks pretty much undamaged. I don't know how you launch a street bike like that without seriously messing it up.

Are we absolutely certain this wasn't Florida?

I've seen the video of the event posted elsewhere. He was going insanely fast, as should not surprise anyone. He crossed half the intersection in three frames, and was so hard on the brakes already he was in a deep endo before slamming into the car. He was probably approaching that intersection well in excess of 100km/h. 150 would not surprise me. As far as the car turning was concerned, the intersection was clear and it was safe to make the turn. An invisible idiot-rocket coming your way at more than twice the expected speed is not something the driver could, or should, anticipate.

I have been riding motorcycles a long time, many decades.

The Canadian license system is a joke. We should be doing A1, A2, A3 power limits on bikes like Europe. As it stands, the only limits to teenagers buying these sport bikes is insurance costs, and this just means they don't carry insurance and learn to run from police.

Sport bikes are fun, on a track, but there needs to be limits on how much horsepower we allow on public roads for motorcycles and cars. Why does an EV need 500hp.

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I assume the rider rear ended a car and the bike did a 360 front flip?

Edit: car turned left in front of him, bike did a few spins into the air

The good part of accidents like this is that generally, the rider only does them once. Same with all the bozos who wheelie and then overdo it and end up sliding along on their butt. They might just be a bit physically sore the next day, but once they find out how much all that bodywork, bars or new pipes cost, they (generally) figure out that staying on two wheels is better. The truly dumb just get buried. Having said that, it is Motorcycle Awareness Month. Look twice, save a life. We're sometimes hard to see even at normal speeds.

Be careful of what, spontaneously learning to fly? I'm still trying to wrap my head around what possible sequence of events could have led to hooking that bike by its forks on the pole like that while apparently causing very little damage to it in the process. Okay, he's knocked off the front fairing and the windscreen, if it had one. But both tires are still inflated, the frame appears straight, the lower splitter is still attached, and I don't even think the fork tubes are bent.

Just.

How?

.. while heading to Krispy Kreme, the donut shop nearby.

I'm glad they included that, I was so curious to know where that random bypasser was heading.

Been thinking about this wild image all day. I have a theory, having seen none of the damage on the car -

Maybe a near-t-boning. Front wheel of the motorcycle hits the sedan's hood-ish area, popping the front of the cycle up. Sedan is still rolling, Rider accelerates (fully & accidentally, likely caused by the impact), and the back wheel hits the side of the sedan. Back wheel, going full blast, revs up the side of the sedan, popping the cycle vertically into the air. Since it's going front-wheel first, that catches on the street light & hangs there.

Rooting for the rider. I need closure.

Just... How?