Different Sort of "Paceline" Fail

[j44ke]

Not Colnagos and Pinarellos but Ferraris. Somehow familiar nonetheless. Everyone is cruising, someone looks at a squirrel, touches a wheel, zip, pop, pow, bang.

[SteveP]

nobody injured i read. this is kinda funny actually...

[rydesteel]

Like a paceline at the Sunday Worlds where everyone is riding at the very edge of their abilities when all of a sudden "oh shit". SteveP is right though no ones hurt so it's really sorta funny.

[bertiewhang]

Yes, other peoples misfortune is always funny.

[Saab2000]

Yes, other peoples misfortune is always funny.

It's not really misfortune when a whole bunch of Ferraris and Lambos all are involved in a single accident, is it?

It's sort of like when a rich dude goes and buys an airplane and pretends to be an airline pilot (not funny pretty much ever).

This is a case of a bunch of rich folks thinking they can drive like Michael Schumacher (they can't) and paying the price for it.

Good thing nobody was hurt.

Yeah, it is actually pretty funny.

[bertiewhang]

It's not really misfortune when a whole bunch of Ferraris and Lambos all are involved in a single accident, is it?

It's sort of like when a rich dude goes and buys an airplane and pretends to be an airline pilot (not funny pretty much ever).

This is a case of a bunch of rich folks thinking they can drive like Michael Schumacher (they can't) and paying the price for it.

Good thing nobody was hurt.

Yeah, it is actually pretty funny.

Of course it's misfortune when people have an accident. Are you saying that because they can afford the good stuff they deserve it? How do you know they were aping Schumacher? How is it different to people on here riding about in packs, observing various forms of "etiquette", trying not to "be that guy" thinking they're in the Tour? Does that mean we all deserve to fall off and destroy our bicycles because they are far more expensive than the vast majority of peoples? Owning a Ferrari is nothing like pretending to be an Airline pilot. Those lads or lasses are just enthusiasts of a different nature.

No, it's not funny at all.

[Saab2000]

Of course it's misfortune when people have an accident. Are you saying that because they can afford the good stuff they deserve it? How do you know they were aping Schumacher? How is it different to people on here riding about in packs, observing various forms of "etiquette", trying not to "be that guy" thinking they're in the Tour? Does that mean we all deserve to fall off and destroy our bicycles because they are far more expensive than the vast majority of peoples? Owning a Ferrari is nothing like pretending to be an Airline pilot. Those lads or lasses are just enthusiasts of a different nature.

No, it's not funny at all.

How do a dozen near-race cars end up in a single accident? C'mon man!

They weren't driving them as though to church on Sunday morning, of that I'd bet some money.

It would be misfortune if somebody t-boned them while running a stop sign. But this appears to be like the pirate bike races that take place all over the US on any given Tuesday or Wednesday night. All levels of talent, great machinery, open roads, usually ends badly for someone at some point.

I am not mocking misfortune but there is some irony involved in the whole story. This many cars don't crash just by happenstance. There were likely a few guys in over their heads with speed and terrain on open roads with little or no runoff.

Luckily nobody was hurt, participants or not.

But a lot of bruised egos and likely a lot of 'splainin' to do to the local police and their insurance companies.

[j44ke]

I laughed.

Misfortune is all those people in the nuclear zone outside of Fukushima whose land got nuked and may never see their homes and gardens ever again.

If you smash up that amount of money driving on a wide open highway to a car show, its just effing funny.

But I'm an a$$hole.

[AJPM44]

As one asshole to another, you pretty much summed this up perfectly.

[Dorman]

Obviously there is no way to know what was really going down, but it was a bunch of well off guys with nice sports cars that probably got a little too frisky. They are most likely more concerned with not getting in trouble than what it will cost to fix or replace their really expensive cars. I've seen guys in all sorts of sports/race cars that get trailered to a track (because they expect a 50/50 chance of them not being driveable afterwards) for an event and get put into a barrier, rolled or whatever. What's ironic is not that they don't care about the damage it's that the $50k+ it will take to rebuild the car is insignificant. Really a shame. On the other hand, these guys were playing on a highway and that isn't cool.

[acotts]

Because you know, if you have a single chink in that chain it won't work.

...btw, thats just a saying. If you think thats racist, its because your racist!!!

[vertical_doug]

After years of trying to jump start their economy with stimulus packages (construction pork spending), Japan has built a set of beautiful empty highways all over the countryside. I am sure it was pretty empty highway and they were just flying along having fun. (It's law in Japan that they have to post a sign warning of upcoming speed camera). In the 80's and 90's the Japanese gave us the subculture of the boy racer in the Bosozoku (speed tribes). With all the curving mountain roads and nice pavement, it really is a great place to drive and ride.

[j44ke]

The police say that a 60 year old man made a lane change too quickly, lost control and went into the central divider, which caused a chain reaction of collisions.