RIP carlin dunne

Fuckin' hell I can't imagine racing on that thing. Damn bike is pointed skyward and then the front gets unsettled like that? Hell no.

 

Did no one notice the animal that runs out in front of him at 9:10??

 

RIP, racer....

 

He mentioned on facebook a Marmot ran out in front of him... that would be sketchy as hell.

 

Competitors pay tribute




Gofundme set up for Carlin's mother:
https://www.gofundme.com/carlin-dunne-932

 

Watch the video, it's big!

 

man this is so sad... it just goes to show how delicate life is. you may be standing inches before death and not even know it.

if he had to go, i’m glad he seemed to go in his “place”.

RIP

 

This one got me all messed up.



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I agree to a point. But, there were some important lessons to be learned from how Earnhardt, Senna, and Wheldon died, as well as how Rainey got paralyzed. Sometimes when The Cone of Silence is dropped on events like this I feel it's primary function is to protect the sanctioning body from embarrassment.

 

FTFY

 

They said he highsided out of the last corner.

What more do you want?

 

What caused it. Was it really road condition? If it was, what's the plan to fix it? If it was just a racing incident, so be it. But, there's enough questions about the surface up there to warrant attention.

 

There is nothing to learn from his crash. He high sided at a place you don’t want to high side. Maybe looking at the bike by Ducati. Sure. Besides that, at least to me there’s nothing to learn except examinnng the bike.

 

The road from Bottomless Pit up to the top is increasingly bad: frost heaves, patches, seams, etc. It gets worse every year. The City of Colorado Springs is responsible for maintaining the road since 1948. Originally, they resisted paving because of expense. Then someone told them they could reduce maintenance expense by paving. So, over a 5 year period, they gradually paved different sections.

It would be terribly expensive to try to maintain a smooth surface above 12,000 ft. The cars don't have the same stability issues the bikes do with shitty pavement. It is first and foremost a car event, run by car people. They are not going to pour money into the road for bikes. Sad, but a fact. So, bikes either run it as is and deal with conditions, or they stop the bikes. There is a huge movement among the car folks to get rid of bikes. Because of the bike crash delays, the cars were, again, delayed from starting. As usual, the weather rolled in, and some cars made dry runs, others ran in the wet, and others only ran to mid-mountain (Glen Cove) on a shortened course. This has happened several times before, and I can tell you from experience, the car folks are mightily pissed when that happens.

Cheers,

Dave

 

The Sierra Club sued to get the paving project done, they argued the tons of gravel dumped on the road over the years was damaging the environment.

 

As a motorsports fan, this stunk, as a someone in the earth sciences field, they weren’t wrong on this one.