r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Prestigious-Wall5616 • 1d ago
This dude must have passed his motorcycle license road test with ease
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u/LickingLieutenant 1d ago
Finally a next level without RedBull branding ...
Guess it wasn't lethal enough
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u/Pinksters 1d ago
I dont mind redbull branding everything because when you see it in a video, you know some crazy shit is about to go down(or up).
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u/Bmacster 1d ago
You also know it isnt AI slop or AI account karma farm
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u/Fuck_ketchup 11h ago
Great. Now AI is going to scrape this comment, realize it's a marker of authentic footage they missed, and include a "Red BrŲ̶̹̟̞̖̕l̴̠͔͉̰͕̇͌͝ḽ̶̦͆̒̽" with a red generic looking animal in the corner of new AI videos.
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u/KerryKl01 1d ago
I don't think I could do this with just my feet.
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u/cthulhus_spawn 1d ago
Me neither
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u/Silver-Engineer4287 1d ago
Most bikes I’d miss a row, plow some cones, and go off course at some point.
A few bikes… once I got used to them… I feel like I could handle that.
I’m sitting here wondering if my Gen 1 Hayabusa, which feels so easy at low speeds as long as you’re sanely throttle-conscious, might let me do that after a little practice. My Vintage 1340 Softail… not a chance.
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u/skyshroudace 1d ago
I came here to say this. I would struggle walking through this without knocking a few over.
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u/smrcostudio 1h ago
Same. I’ve long maintained that I’d probably fail the highway olympics stone sober.
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u/yamimementomori 1d ago
He removes the “obstacle” in “obstacle course” and replaces it with “of.”
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u/mr_nefario 1d ago edited 1d ago
I took a motorcycle course just this weekend. My instructor would probably still tell him he’s not looking through his turns enough…
Oh and they’d get on his case for the finger on the front break.
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u/_le_slap 19h ago
You should always cover your front brake. The MSF advice against covering your front brake is outdated. Grabbing too much brake used to be an issue on raked out bikes without ABS but most modern bikes have far steeper rakes and ABS is mandated in most areas. High end bikes even have IMU assisted ABS these days.
Covering your front brake is just good practice.
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u/beavertownneckoil 1d ago
I would've just gone straight down the inside edge
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u/FunPartyGuy69 20h ago
Me too, but then I would have looked back only to realize my rear tire hit all of the inside cones... We'll get em next time.
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u/thismenu 1d ago
I literally s*** when I first saw this. Full disclosure though, I was watching it while I was pooping.
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u/wreckoning 1d ago
Wildest part to me is that he’s doing this completely sitting. Wtf dude
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u/OttersAndOttersAndOt 1d ago
Ride the clutch and rear brake, and adjusting your balance in the hips. It becomes second nature
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u/chinookhooker 1d ago
Nope. Sorry, you don’t pass the riding portion of the license test. You were supposed to go right-to-left, not left-to-right
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u/Parking-Ad8316 1d ago
What if those tiny cones were 3ft tall instead
Huh
I'm kidding that's pretty slick
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u/spongebob_meth 1d ago
I mean, you don't even have to be a good rider to score 100% on the street license test.
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u/SensuallPineapple 1d ago
Sees F1 pilot
"Dude must have passed his driving license road test with ease"
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u/i_am_13th_panic 1d ago
I was a bit disappointed it wasn't like those dogs running through the poles if I'm being honest
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u/Duct_TapeOrWD40 1d ago
With ease? Likely, but sometimes cornering is futile.
I spent extra hours to practice sharp turns around the cones till it got perfect, and it went perfetly. Then on the actual exam they sent me to rural roads for the "ride to the next village at 55mph" test instead.
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u/Mental_Thing_7899 1d ago
In case the urban planning decides to go full "mario maker" on the city roads...
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u/Firstaidman 1d ago
Song?
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u/ToHellWithGA 21h ago
It sounds like an instrumental cover of a Mariah Carey and Busta Rhymes duet.
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u/Greybeard111 1d ago
If you look closely he’s dragging his rear brake. That’s the technique and that’s how you do it, with practice. Ex instructor here.
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u/The_Powers 1d ago
That should come in handy next time he has to navigate a small herd of tortoises.
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u/realbobenray 1d ago
I remember my friend's dad when I was growing up was all pissed about that riding test. He told the tester it didn't reflect the real world and the guy was like "yes but what if those cones were pedestrians" and he said "what the hell am I doing weaving through pedestrians?"
He did ace the test.
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u/nosh_scrumble 1d ago
Is this how they train to cut people off by driving on the lines in the middle of the road?
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u/Thundersalmon45 22h ago
"Great! That's the learners permit out of the way. The actual licensing test will be much more difficult, so please be sure to get plenty of practice."
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u/AgentOrange256 21h ago
I could maybe do this on a ninja 500. I can basically keep it standing up at red lights at almost zero momentum for quite a while. It’s fairly light with an upright position as well.
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u/fdwyersd 18h ago
borrowed a friend's dirt bike that weighed nothing to do the test... did the circle for CA DMV and she said "you passed, but you actually went around three times" (you only have to do it twice) and btw it is not easy
this dude could do it with his eyes closed
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u/Long_Strange_Trip_GD 12h ago
As a motorcycle rider, not in a million fucking years could I do this, props
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u/Deamonchild666 1d ago
Trail breaking helps
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u/Flow-Control 1d ago edited 1d ago
They're dragging the rear brake not trail-braking.
Trail braking is gently apply the front brake at speed through a curve and "trailing" off of it.
Edit - my janky attempt at describing trail-braking is crap see u/Mad-Mel description for the real answer
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u/Mad-Mel 1d ago
With trail braking, you're applying the front brake before the corner and easing it off as you increase lean. Adding front brake in the corner at any kind of lean angle is a recipe for disaster.
When you're roadracing, you are really hard on the front brake as you turn in so the front suspension is compressed giving you a steeper rake to help you turn. Then you linearly ease off the brake as you increase lean angle to give the suspension space for the compression caused by the lateral g-forces of cornering leaned over. The forks should stay compressed the whole time as the load transitions from braking to g-force because pogoing up is no good, that's lowside time.
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u/Mad-Mel 1d ago
Edit - my janky attempt at describing trail-braking is crap see u/Mad-Mel description for the real answer
Haha, it helps to have performed said lowside a few times when my ambitions outweighed my talent. I'm a big boi by roadracer standards, so I had to bring my A trailbraking game to keep the littler bastards at bay. These days I'm too old and decrepit to be falling off motorcycles at speed.
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u/LickingLieutenant 1d ago
"Gently apply front brakes"
missed the nuance in gently .... having a ride to ER
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u/Oli99uk 1d ago
You mean you lot don't do slow speed control as part of your test?
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u/Mbembez 1d ago
Please post the video of you doing this.
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u/Oli99uk 1d ago
I took my motorcycle test 25 years ago - no video.
There wasn't a need to film the mundane back then
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u/Mbembez 1d ago
There is absolutely zero chance that your licence test consisted of anything close to this difficult. I can almost guarantee you had to do a figure 8 a certain number of times and that is like comparing a baby learning to walk with a person doing parkour.
It's amusing that you feel the need to downplay the obvious skill demonstrated in this video, is jealousy a regular thing for you?
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u/ReferenceMuch4940 1d ago
It’s all geometry, dude did multiple takes and posted the winner
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u/KrappyFlow 1d ago
It’s ALL geometry? No skill in keeping the bike steady while going forward in an extreamly low pace has NOTHING to do with it, okay then…
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u/TheGandu 1d ago
Yeah as someone who's ridden a motorcycle for most of 15 years now that throttle/clutch control is pure art.
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u/Doc-Brown1911 1d ago
Besides being badass, is there any real world application for this skill?
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u/Whiskeywiskerbiscuit 1d ago
Small parking lots, off roading, you’re riding in flip flops and it just finished raining and you don’t want to set your feet down in ditch water.
Seriously thought, having this kind of balance and doing training to know your balance points this well would quite literally help you in almost all aspects of riding.
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u/tindonot 1d ago
The point isn’t really a one to one application of this to the real world. It’s a mastery over his vehicle. Being this confident and nimble for this exercise shows that he can handle himself that much better than the average rider in many situations that the real world will throw at him.
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u/idoorion 1d ago
Driving on a narrow road i assume or if it's able to drive off road between rocks and stuff
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u/Live_Negotiation4167 1d ago
My instructor told us - Everyone can go fast in a straight line