[commondenom]

The 2016 edition of IDBL's WPGC Bike Fest will always be remembered for a poignant moment of near tragedy. Hugely popular and successful MDIR racer Shayne Proctor was on a routine pass in Top Sportsman. Dialing in 7.80 on Willie Nichol’s nitrous-huffing Suzuki Hayabusa, Proctor left the line unusually late against opponent Brian Fandel and rode hell-bent on catching up. But right at the eighth mile an apparent nitrous airbox explosion ignited the bike into a huge ball of flame.

Proctor rode the bike to the finishline, completely in flames and—according to top end eyewitnesses—standing on the footpegs with his hands off the bars. At that point he was able to bail, his legs and feet engulfed in flames. Despite a shoulder dislocated in the fall, Shayne rolled vigorously around on the pavement in a futile attempt to put out the fire. Nearby racers with towels were able to quickly reach the burning rider and put out the flames as the MDIR safety crew arrived. One of his shoes lay 10 feet away, burning like a campfire.

[kellyhound]

he was extremely lucky after all going that fast

Shayne is doing so good now 2 operations down and he's joking and laughing that's got to be the toughest guy on the planet. Let's keep the prayers up, he can use them. And the donations keep climbing, that's a good thing thanks to everybody.

https://www.gofundme.com/2hdjgzfb

[The Krokodil]

Damn!!! This could have gone even worse. I have never seen this happen before.. lucky mofo for surviving

[Neo1130]

He got it wrong... Supposed to stop, drop and THEN roll... Not drop, roll then stop!

[murofhsirgo]

Should have bought American

[icehole]

Never heard before that it could explode, scary shit

[King Herald]

NOS is not inflammable, or explosive, being composed of just nitrogen and oxygen, but when you have a bunch of high pressure fuel squirting all over the place from a bust hose or grenaded motor it doesn’t have help to have high pressure oxygen blasting into the locale.

[Major_Tom]

Originally Posted by King Herald ↗

NOS is not inflammable, or explosive, being composed of just nitrogen and oxygen

It won't be nitrous oxide tank they're referring to, it will be the nitromethane liquid fuel tank. They use the stuff in drag racing.

[King Herald]

Originally Posted by Major_Tom ↗

It won't be nitrous oxide tank they're referring to, it will be the nitromethane liquid fuel tank. They use the stuff in drag racing.

No, no nitromethane on 7.8 second bike. Those bad boys are doing the quarter in 4 seconds.

It does actually say nitrous too... not nitro.

[spudigitti]

My brother will do you a good deal on a hayabusa, fireblade or ZZR innit !!