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Old 10-27-2009, 04:22 AM   #1 (permalink)
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For all those who have beat themselves up for dropping their bike...

Even Brad Pitt has whoops-a-daisy moments.

http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=t...sShareURL=true
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Old 10-27-2009, 11:56 AM   #2 (permalink)
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OK, Klumsy, but I've done it a couple times (or more) over the years. I just picked the bike up in anonynimity, re-bent a couple parts, and rode on. This poor bastard does it, and it's an international video the following day.
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Old 10-27-2009, 12:07 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 10-27-2009, 12:48 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I can't feel sorry for him, look who he has to go home to and kiss all the sore bit's better lucky b@#$$@#!
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Old 10-27-2009, 12:53 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Don't care who it is, nobody deserves to spill out... especially then to have a million gawkers taking pictures and harassing you when you feel embarrassed enough. gah.

I'd have had more props for him if he'd fixed whatever was wrong and rode his bike home.
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Old 10-27-2009, 03:11 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Grabbed a little too much front brake , eh ? Can happen to any of us . I almost dropped my Speed4 like that the first day I had it .
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Old 10-27-2009, 04:46 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I did a low speed face-plant on the Blue Ridge Parkway last time I was in NC. That was my 4th "off" in 40+ years of riding... and most likely not my last.

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Don't care who it is, nobody deserves to spill out... especially then to have a million gawkers taking pictures and harassing you when you feel embarrassed enough. gah.

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Old 10-27-2009, 08:42 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Have to say, I think he handled himself with a good bit of dignity. I find it kind of funny that the guy with the camera was concerned enough to ask "Really Brad, are you ok?" but not concerned enough to put down the camera for a second to help out. Man, people bug me.
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Old 10-27-2009, 08:46 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Always use the rear brake when going super slow and trying to filter like that, am I right? He totally locked the front up and from there, no where to go but doooown

I can just picture Angelina screaming at him that night. "I told you to sell that death machine!! You want our 47 kids to have no father!??"
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