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08-23-2016, 01:37 PM
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NOS Hayabusa EXPLODES in a Ball of Flame at Full Speed
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. |
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08-23-2016, 02:18 PM
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 ✝Mudderator from Hell✝ Poster Rank:10 e-mail Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 96,701
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Re: NOS Hayabusa EXPLODES in a Ball of Flame at Full Speed
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08-24-2016, 01:00 AM
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 DR's Quarterback Poster Rank:315 Male Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 4,132 4,132Posts 3,724Thanked 552Quoted 3Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: NOS Hayabusa EXPLODES in a Ball of Flame at Full Speed
Damn!!! This could have gone even worse. I have never seen this happen before.. lucky mofo for surviving
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08-25-2016, 10:20 PM
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Re: NOS Hayabusa EXPLODES in a Ball of Flame at Full Speed
He got it wrong... Supposed to stop, drop and THEN roll... Not drop, roll then stop!
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10-02-2017, 12:40 AM
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Re: NOS Hayabusa EXPLODES in a Ball of Flame at Full Speed
Should have bought American  |
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10-02-2017, 01:10 AM
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Re: NOS Hayabusa EXPLODES in a Ball of Flame at Full Speed
Never heard before that it could explode, scary shit
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10-06-2017, 10:50 AM
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Re: NOS Hayabusa EXPLODES in a Ball of Flame at Full Speed
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.
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10-07-2017, 04:55 AM
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 My Rank: MAJOR Poster Rank:123 Now look what you made me do. Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 13,177 13,177Posts 19,768Thanked 6,295Quoted 46Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: NOS Hayabusa EXPLODES in a Ball of Flame at Full Speed
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.
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11-02-2017, 03:57 PM
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| ★ Legacy Member ★ Poster Rank:433 Male Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,692 2,692Posts 4,356Thanked 331Quoted 2Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: NOS Hayabusa EXPLODES in a Ball of Flame at Full Speed
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. |
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11-04-2017, 07:59 AM
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 His Royal Highness Poster Rank:51 man up bitches Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 30,103
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Re: NOS Hayabusa EXPLODES in a Ball of Flame at Full Speed
My brother will do you a good deal on a hayabusa, fireblade or ZZR innit !!
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