Jurno's kick off tomoz?

[Nutty]

All journo's have been sent home early.

 

[Rod]

I wonder how BMW are going to handle the launch now ?
Set another date soon, back in South Africa.....or something else. It seems to me that they still have to launch the bike fully to the press. It's strange that there seems to almost be a blanket silence over any type of partial review....
I can't help but think that Kevin Ash would have preferred BMW had not cancelled the event, but of course that would have left them open to severe criticism.

 

[team duvet]

"facetube"

Thinking the same Rod...not much on "Facetube" apart from the French report posted on here.

TD

 

[stevie Allen]

Thinking the same Rod...not much on "Facetube" apart from the French report posted on here.

TD

I thought it was only me thinking this ,but didn't want to be disrespectfull to the ash family.
So the question is was it mechanical or human error and keeping it Stoomb is getting people thinking

 

[Nutty]

I thought it was only me thinking this ,but didn't want to be disrespectfull to the ash family.
So the question is was it mechanical or human error and keeping it Stoomb is getting people thinking

They are guessing (and it purely is a guess) over on AdvRider that he may have been scrolling through the many menus and lost concentration. Another theory is that he had a heart attack, but this is all purely speculation.

I really think that BMW need to issue a statement now to stop everyone guessing what may or may not have happened.

 

[Fanum]

I really think that BMW need to issue a statement now to stop everyone guessing what may or may not have happened.

Unless of course the bike went wrong

 

[roundincircles]

I really think that BMW need to issue a statement now to stop everyone guessing what may or may not have happened.

Unfortunately as the Police are investigating culpable homicide it is difficult to issue a statement other than the the simple fact that Kevin has died whist riding the bike.

Two bikes crashed at the scene with one rider surviving.

I expect when the Police take a position the news will be issued.

I remember a top Police rider died in an accident in Essex, people blamed the bike, road and weather but it turned out he had a massive heart attack whilst riding at speed.

 

[Nutty]

Unless of course the bike went wrong

If they don't get on and make an official statement soon, people may start thinking exactly that

 

[GS TRV]

If they don't get on and make an official statement soon, people may start thinking exactly that

I agree - they have to say something soon

 

[Mav]

This got posted on ADVRider:

Translation from www.motorradonline.de with some minor corrections.

"Motorcycle Tester Ash road with a group of fellow British motorcycle journalists on the new BMW R 1200 GS on a straight gravel road.
The trail was flat, but dusty, so that the individual riders had to hold significant distance from each other.
A BMW guide rode ahead of them and set the pace. The group rode with a maximum speed of 100 km/h, what was perfectly adequate
for the road conditions.
The fall, as reported by MOTORRAD head of testing Gert Thöle happened on the open road, for no apparent reason.
Thöle spoke with locals involved and assumes that probably exactly the harmlessness of the route was the reason for the accident: "I believe that Kevin,
who was not a fast rider taking any unnecessary risk, but a calm and careful rider, has been inattentive for a moment or has perhaps focused on
something different about the new bike. "He might have overlooked rain gutters that ran left and right of the road, and therefore lost control of the motorcycle.
According to the current investigation BMW flew it's own accident specialists to South Africa, it is clear that Kevin Ash's bike subsequently overturned.
The 53-year-old motorcycle tester was killed instantly"

 

[Mav]

If they don't get on and make an official statement soon, people may start thinking exactly that

What do you expect them to do?

The poor guy died - if it was the bike, it's unlikely they'd be able to work it out that quickly, and if it was rider error, do BMW want to be the one's who blame a dead man?

My understanding is the launch is postponed, to be redone in some other manner.

So perhaps people should be a little less impatient - there are bigger issues in the world, clearly.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

This got posted on ADVRider:

Thanks

Wrong place, wrong time

Nothing untoward or unusual - maybe just a freak of circumstance



An experienced guy I knew well, crashed on the trail, years ago

It was a light 2stroke, the front wheel inadvertently stuck in a hole, rider went over the bars as the bike pitched over the front, as the bike came down on the prone rider, the bar on the rear rack, hit the back of his neck, just below the helmet line and broke his neck, he was killed instantly

All at less than 5mph

An inch further up and he would had a damaged helmet and a headache or an inch further down, a broken collar bone

Had the bike not had a tubular rack, he'd have been ok

Had he gone 6 inches to the left, he'd have missed the hole

All ifs and buts, just a freak accident

One your candle is snuffed out...............your time has come

 

[BigAl2]

As anybody considered the theory that he fell off for whatever reason, and was then hit by a following rider as he lay on the ground, hence the fact the police are investigating a case of culpable homicide, and that's why there are two riders involved.
Still a terrible tragedy and a great loss especially to his family.