Via Fark, the Daily Telegraph reports on a true hardcore biker:
A JAPANESE biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for 2km, leaving a friend to pick up the limb.That's why you should always use your rear brake, not just the front brake: So you know if your right leg is missing.
The 54-year-old office worker was out on his motorcycle with a group of friends in the city of Hamamatsu, west of Tokyo, yesterday, when he was unable to negotiate a curve in the road and bumped into the central barrier, the Mainichi Shimbun said.
He felt excruciating pain, but did not notice that his right leg was missing until he stopped at the next junction, the paper quoted local police as saying.
The man and his leg were taken to hospital, but the limb had been crushed in the collision, the paper said.
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Is this just sloppy translation? In order to clip his right leg he must have been taking the curve too tightly, right?
I guess he noticed when his bike fell over to the right side at the stoplight... It's hard to plant the foot that isn't there.
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