I’d never heard of him until these two V4 videos popped up in my recommendations, so won’t be hitting the subscribe button. Agreed. Could have been so much worse. We all make mistakes occasionally, but that was extremely poor observation and planning. I’m surprised he left that on the final cut tbh.
Just yesterday I was talking to a friend about another friend whose daughter was killed in a motorway accident last year. The inquest believes she was using her satnav at the time.
Road riding is dangerous. A perfect illustration. Poor road conditions and a lapse of concentration, very easily done. He's a very capable rider, it could happen to anyone. Trackdays only for me thanks
My sat nav is my brain. Decades spent riding Lambretta's all over our country just to get pished and have a dance means i dont need it. Sarf London? I know it all. I could be a cabbie. I wouldnt listen to music whilst riding. I need to hear my engine. My van has sat nav apparently and apple car play. I use neither. Just use the Aux, chose an album, press play and off i go. But mostly just listen to R6. I remember when the only gadget my car had was a cigarette lighter.
We do... and I'd be lying if I'd never had an "are my affairs in order?" thought go through my mind, but I'm not putting my mistakes up on the Internet for all to see. Blurring out his speedo doesn't hide the fact he was riding waaaaay too fast on roads he clearly didn't know well enough, or was riding waaaaaay too fast for the amount of attention he was paying to the road. I'd be happy to learn he'd been prosecuted and had his licence endorsed or suspended for that video. I agree entirely that if I'd made that mistake I'd have conveniently left that off my video. The "oh you scallywag" comments on YouTube trivialise what could have been a horrible accident. He was out of control on the wrong side of the road at a junction, riding toward oncoming traffic that may well have been preoccupied by making their turn lawfully and correctly. The roads are not our personal racetrack, we get away with riding fast for as long as we do it discreetly. Videos like this are not our friend if we want to continue to enjoy the odd spirited dash far above the legal limit where there's a reasonable probability of getting away with it and getting home safely enough to deny everything. Dicks like this show how excessive speed is normalised and celebrated, and that's really tone deaf in this day and age and will only increase anti-bike sentiment and legislation that curbs our enjoyment of our bikes. All the "you can't control me, I'm a rebel" stuff grates... I'm really tired of it. If he's thick enough to self-publish incriminating footage of himself on the Internet then he needs removing from the roads for his own and our safety. Whoever lent him the bike needs to see this, and never lend him one again.
The last part of your comment is something that’s stuck with me a little, because I was thinking earlier that Ducati UK might be concerned just how close that got…
Ah c'mon, someone had to steer this thread away from Apple fuken Carplay (whatever that is). I think the Mrs had it in the Macan GTS. I never touched it. But I knew how to use launch control and thrash the tits off it round fun and open B roads. They handle well for a big bus btw
Well, the thread is about Apple Carplay Mary, so it is natural that people will want to discuss Apple carplay in a thread titled Apple CarPlay. Connectivity is bollox anyway. It was meant to save you time, but all it ever does is make you spend more time trying to get the fucking things to connect.
Exactly. Techy stuff was invented to frustrate. And further exacerbates frustration by not responding to a good thrashing. It just lies there. In bits. Grrr...
Why does he go on about Android auto connection with Google maps? That’s not what’s on the bike as far as I’m aware. I agree, bit of a nobber…
The Ducati/Bosch system uses a similar screen mirroring technology to Android Auto/Apple Car Play, so I guess he's read something to that effect and gotten confused.
