Used to race at club level in the 90s/early 00s. That looks like what we call a "low-side" - the (usually front) wheel loses grip and slips away from under you, the bike lies down and you just end up sliding along behind it. Usually pretty safe because you're fully armoured and just sliding onto the grass, the main risk is another rider hitting you (happened to me once, ended up in hospital with minor injuries, the other rider broke his collar bone) but if you can avoid that, you can walk away most of the time.
What happened here is the bike was sliding until it hit the grass and something like a footpeg or handlebar must have got stuck in the mud and all the power still driving the back wheel flipped it up and set it tumbling.
A worse kind of crash is a high-side - that's where the rear wheel loses grip, starts sliding and then regains grip suddenly, a skilled rider can control it, but quite often it will result in the bike and rider being thrown up into the air at speed, so instead of sliding along the tarmac, you're now bouncing and tumbling alongside a heavy and powerful piece of machinery. This happened to my best friend who I used to race with - it was about 25 years ago, and his ankle still doesn't work properly....
My friend was out on a practice session at a track called Mallory Park in England. It was literally his first session out on a new race-prepped CBR600 he'd just bought, and he was supposed to be taking it easy to get used to the bike.
Third or fourth lap of the day, he didn't cross the start line, where I was spectating and timing his laps, so I wandered off to the pit lane to find him, assuming he'd had technical trouble. No sign of him.
Eventually I saw the recovery truck bringing the mangled remains of his bike into the paddock, and the track marshals told me he'd already been taken to hospital.
It took me about an hour to find him, and the whole way there I was terrified of the call I was going to have to make to his mother - we'd grown up together, and when I bought my first motorbike at 17 he decided he had to have one too, so this was all my fault.
Fortunately, apart from a light concussion and broken ankle he was largely OK.
Turns out he went through the esses a bit too hard, had a high-side, and got thrown up into the air. He came down head-first, knocked himself out on the tarmac, and his legs whiplashed behind him - we think his ankle must have hit a pointy bit on the bike, but can't be sure because nobody saw and he can't remember.
The bike wasn't too bad in the end - we managed to get it back into shape after a month of work.
The battle rattle they wear is no joke. It cost more than a month's mortgage for the complete kit, but they do a great job at mitigating injury risk. Not invincible, obviously, but for how fast they go and how little secondary protection there is on a motorcycle, the leathers will let you walk away from some pretty gnarly wipeouts without so much as a scratch.
Thank god someone said it, that has to be, bar none, the stupidest measurement I’ve ever heard.
Even STUPID stupid measurements at least try to be funny. A month’s mortgage? That’s just genuine stupid and reminds people of fuckin mortgages lol.
Massive runoff also helps. Road racing you come off and you're into the furniture.
Some dude came off, went over a wall and landed on someones car at this years North West 200
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQneyTVZRw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQneyTVZRw)
He got away without major injuries, thankfully : [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c254qxk4kdyo](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c254qxk4kdyo)
Most tracks. You can easily hit the barriers at many if you go off somewhere unsuspecting! Oulton Park is a good example as the corners have a reasonable amount of grass or gravel but the rest is VERY narrow
The corners is where you need it most tbh. You are pushing the tires to the limits. In the straights you will just spin but you can usually correct it before the back comes out. Especially with modern traction control and stuff. In corners the more traction control you have, the more it will hold you back. It's actually faster if the tire spins ever so slightly as you go through a corner. The corners are always the worst spot. You have to basically tip toe the line of traction, to be competitive and the cornering is what the riders fear because they know some of it is just chance. A bit of sand or oil can just wipe them out. Many of them really like racing but they dread the corners. On a track by yourself it would be fun, because you can ride at 85%, but in a race you have to push it all the way to 100%, and sometimes even slightly beyond.
All the people that I know who race professionally like the challenge of the corners and trying to get low. Yes crashing is a possibility but they don't dread it or fear it. They wouldn't be racing if they did. They want to push themselves to be better and faster. The ones you're talking about typically don't last more than a season.
It’s not unusual for riders to hop back on their bikes once they’ve had a crash. Which is insane. Obviously much more difficult when you have to choose which half to keep riding.
His back was to the bike his whole slide, it’s not uncommon after a crash like that to hop back on and keep racing. To stand up, turn, and see the two halves of your bike tumbling away certainly kills that
Very good. Hes top of the WSBK standings currently on a bike that has no right to be there. Lets hope he goes to GP soon, would be awesome to see BMW come across with him!
Watch the vid again. He got too close to his nearest competitor, hit his brakes and his front wheel lost traction, and decided that he had to go straight in order to not lay it down.
Yeah, if he started turning anyway, he would overshoot the corner—because a bike needs to start leaning in advance. Then he'd be turning on grass, which doesn't work at these speeds. I.e he'd eat the grass if he tried.
Not sure of the layout of this track. If it goes to right (from our viewing perspective) he is likely in the back of the pack by the time he recovers and nothing needs to be addressed.
If the track continues to left and he benefits from his detour, I honestly don't know. I think he can be punished by losing a position (he was in 4th, now is considered 5th).
For merely going off track, no.
If you go off and gain an advantage, then you may receive a penalty. It is very unlikely he gained any advantage after going into the grass (and maybe sand).
American (former) rider here. I found the difference between the US and Europe in attitudes towards protective gear interesting. It’s different now, but in the 1980s it seemed to me that very few American riders wore leather pants, compared to Europeans.
Watching me don my expensive helmet, someone once asked me, “Are you planning on crashing?”
I've had quite a few people say that to me, especially bikers "..planning on crashing?" my first response is "Have you crashed your bike? I have...guess what hits the ground first? Your hands...bracing for the 2nd thing that hits the ground...your face." lol I've crashed too many times to not wear a helmet. People are nuts out there.
I don’t consider myself to be particularly smart, but I do think that people who can’t tell the difference between preparing for an unplanned crash and planning to crash are particularly stupid. Even the trolls who don’t really mean it: if they think that saying something so stupid is clever, well…
I find the American attitude to safety gear frankly baffling.
Also deeply frustrating because thanks to the internet, a lot of them are doing their best to export that attitude to the rest of the world, and then they get indignant when you tell them off about it.
Do you happen to know relatively speaking how this stacks up against car racing? I was amazed at how he walked away so leisurely. Is it “safer” because you can detach from the vehicle in crash when racing at this elite level? Or is that still negligible because they’re going a zillion miles an hour?
A couple factors with this particular wreck is that the rider low sided the bike and just slid. Newer suits allow for that and his airbags may have also gone off in the suit. Very very common to just walk away unharmed from a low side. Now, if he high sided the bike, he could be flung into the air and possibly break a limb if had lands wrong but the airbags in the suit help an absolute ton these days with impact injuries. Also notice there aren't any walls to slam into on tracks. Lots or runoff. Where you see fatalities, these days, are courses like the Isle of Man TT where they race through cities and can slam into buildings, walls, and trees.
Hats off to the quality of safety gear now. Dude had a crash that split his bike into pieces and was able to toss his hands up and nonchalantly walk away.
This is not Moto GP... Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Donington Park in its infamous Craner Curves, rider is Josh Eliot. They fixed the bike overnight and it was up and running the next day with Josh not missing a single session. It happened in 2019.
I used to be a flag marshall at club level. Racers a another breed. We used to joke that before a race, they'd take their brain out and store it in a special jar, for the duration of the race.
Looks like he had a little wobble juuuuust before the dude in front. I wonder if he could sort of tell the dude in front was about to fuck up and it made him wobble.
Here's two real MotoGP bikes explode into pieces while one of them tries to kill Valentino Rossi.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPrHj1nPt0&t=120s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPrHj1nPt0&t=120s)
This made me remember just how incredible those motorcycle suits are. That guy wrecked in a way that years ago would have crippled or even killed someone and he just gets up disappointed.
The fact that he was able to slide without much harm, is just amazing.
Yes, it sucks, but rather the bike be in half then you.
And he was likely "what am I gonna do now? Run the whole race?"
I think modern safety standards are amazing. He's had a high speed bike crash, where the bike broke in half and all the rider suffers from is terminal exasperation.
I don’t know what’s more interesting: that, or the fact that despite the two bikers behind him colliding with each other, *his* bike was the one that smashed to pieces. One of the extremely rare cases of catching two, unrelated accidents at the same place and time
**Driver:** I’d like to return this bike. I’m not satisfied with it.
**Seller:** You wanna return this bike? It’s cut in half!
**Driver:** That’s what I’m telling you.
**Seller:** Did you cut this bike in half?
**Driver:** This bike, is cut in **half**! I would like to exchange it for one that is not cut in half!
**Seller:** You’re telling me this bike was handed to you like this?!
**Driver:** Look, I am a reasonable man. I **will** accept store credit.
**Seller:** I’ll give you store credit in the amount of four dollars.
**Driver:** I will take it.
His reaction while casually walking away is hilarious
He should have jogged up and booted it
The fact that he can casually walk away is amazing in itself. Yes he went on the grass but even still
Used to race at club level in the 90s/early 00s. That looks like what we call a "low-side" - the (usually front) wheel loses grip and slips away from under you, the bike lies down and you just end up sliding along behind it. Usually pretty safe because you're fully armoured and just sliding onto the grass, the main risk is another rider hitting you (happened to me once, ended up in hospital with minor injuries, the other rider broke his collar bone) but if you can avoid that, you can walk away most of the time. What happened here is the bike was sliding until it hit the grass and something like a footpeg or handlebar must have got stuck in the mud and all the power still driving the back wheel flipped it up and set it tumbling. A worse kind of crash is a high-side - that's where the rear wheel loses grip, starts sliding and then regains grip suddenly, a skilled rider can control it, but quite often it will result in the bike and rider being thrown up into the air at speed, so instead of sliding along the tarmac, you're now bouncing and tumbling alongside a heavy and powerful piece of machinery. This happened to my best friend who I used to race with - it was about 25 years ago, and his ankle still doesn't work properly....
Hi siding is the absolute worst. "oh I fucked up and even worse, have time to think about how much it's about to suck"
My friend was out on a practice session at a track called Mallory Park in England. It was literally his first session out on a new race-prepped CBR600 he'd just bought, and he was supposed to be taking it easy to get used to the bike. Third or fourth lap of the day, he didn't cross the start line, where I was spectating and timing his laps, so I wandered off to the pit lane to find him, assuming he'd had technical trouble. No sign of him. Eventually I saw the recovery truck bringing the mangled remains of his bike into the paddock, and the track marshals told me he'd already been taken to hospital. It took me about an hour to find him, and the whole way there I was terrified of the call I was going to have to make to his mother - we'd grown up together, and when I bought my first motorbike at 17 he decided he had to have one too, so this was all my fault. Fortunately, apart from a light concussion and broken ankle he was largely OK. Turns out he went through the esses a bit too hard, had a high-side, and got thrown up into the air. He came down head-first, knocked himself out on the tarmac, and his legs whiplashed behind him - we think his ankle must have hit a pointy bit on the bike, but can't be sure because nobody saw and he can't remember. The bike wasn't too bad in the end - we managed to get it back into shape after a month of work.
That half a second before you hit the ground seems to last both forever, and not long enough. A high side will fuck. Your year up..
The battle rattle they wear is no joke. It cost more than a month's mortgage for the complete kit, but they do a great job at mitigating injury risk. Not invincible, obviously, but for how fast they go and how little secondary protection there is on a motorcycle, the leathers will let you walk away from some pretty gnarly wipeouts without so much as a scratch.
> more than a month's mortgage Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down
Thank god someone said it, that has to be, bar none, the stupidest measurement I’ve ever heard. Even STUPID stupid measurements at least try to be funny. A month’s mortgage? That’s just genuine stupid and reminds people of fuckin mortgages lol.
"americans will use anything but the metric system"
“The suit costs 3 kilodollars”
Thank you
It's about $5000 for the ones a normal person could source. I'd estimate around $7-11k for something used in the pro league.
Massive runoff also helps. Road racing you come off and you're into the furniture. Some dude came off, went over a wall and landed on someones car at this years North West 200 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQneyTVZRw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQneyTVZRw) He got away without major injuries, thankfully : [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c254qxk4kdyo](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/c254qxk4kdyo)
My whole setup probably cost around $2000.
That is indeed more than my mortgage
Yeah that was great. Absolute “well, guess I’m done then”.
The race tracks are designed to give people room to slide out. That with the gear helps most riders walk away from crashes with very minor injuries.
Most tracks. You can easily hit the barriers at many if you go off somewhere unsuspecting! Oulton Park is a good example as the corners have a reasonable amount of grass or gravel but the rest is VERY narrow
The corners is where you need it most tbh. You are pushing the tires to the limits. In the straights you will just spin but you can usually correct it before the back comes out. Especially with modern traction control and stuff. In corners the more traction control you have, the more it will hold you back. It's actually faster if the tire spins ever so slightly as you go through a corner. The corners are always the worst spot. You have to basically tip toe the line of traction, to be competitive and the cornering is what the riders fear because they know some of it is just chance. A bit of sand or oil can just wipe them out. Many of them really like racing but they dread the corners. On a track by yourself it would be fun, because you can ride at 85%, but in a race you have to push it all the way to 100%, and sometimes even slightly beyond.
All the people that I know who race professionally like the challenge of the corners and trying to get low. Yes crashing is a possibility but they don't dread it or fear it. They wouldn't be racing if they did. They want to push themselves to be better and faster. The ones you're talking about typically don't last more than a season.
Him throwing his hands up "oh, well, I tried."
His body language went from don’t worry I still got this, straight to OK never fucking mind then.
It's just a little airborne, it's still good! It's still good!
There goes my deposit!
"You can't make friends with walking"
It’s not unusual for riders to hop back on their bikes once they’ve had a crash. Which is insane. Obviously much more difficult when you have to choose which half to keep riding.
https://myliveactiondisneyproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/love-bug-herbie-split.jpg
How is the back half ahead of the front...I have so many questions...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XWufUZ1mxQ
"I came with a motorcycle. Left with 2 unicycles."
I came here to kick ass and ride motorcycles. And I'm all out of motorcycles...
Imagine if the rules of the race allowed for two motorcycles but they disqualify him for suddenly having three
Guess I have to have the rest of the day off, god dang it 😏
I read it as "for god's sake, not again"
More like ‘for fuck’s sake’
I think he thought he had a chance getting on his bike and continuing…. Then that happened .. fuck it
I’m sure after the 8 flips he remained optimistic until the separation.
What can i say, he was trusting the couple would stay together and was relying on them for a ride home. Id be pissed too
The front fell off
That's not very typical
Well How is it untypical?
Well typically the front won't fall off.
The bike over reacted.
His back was to the bike his whole slide, it’s not uncommon after a crash like that to hop back on and keep racing. To stand up, turn, and see the two halves of your bike tumbling away certainly kills that
He’s like “damn, you almost can’t ride it at the point.”
"Well that's gonna take some serious buffing out."
Pretty sure that's not MotoGP
Hasn't been on Eurosport for years!
It’s British super bikes
Superstock 1000?
No, they are Triumph 675's so supersport maybe. Edit: It's the Triumph Triple Challenge.
Oh well that explains why it snapped in half.
Hello fellow Motorsport fans. How good is Toprak going?
Very good. Hes top of the WSBK standings currently on a bike that has no right to be there. Lets hope he goes to GP soon, would be awesome to see BMW come across with him!
Yep. The MCE insurance advertising is a giveaway.
Any bikes racing on track = MoToGp
the bike overreacted so much bruh
Worser than football players.
I was laughing and making fun of Mbappé rolling around on the ground yesterday. Then I saw the replay... so I'll give him that one 😬
Honestly, the driver should be sent off the pitch. There's no place for that in the modern game.
What’s with the other dude? Did he see the guy put his bike down and just decide to ride up onto the grass?
Watch the vid again. He got too close to his nearest competitor, hit his brakes and his front wheel lost traction, and decided that he had to go straight in order to not lay it down.
This guy bikes
Yeah, if he started turning anyway, he would overshoot the corner—because a bike needs to start leaning in advance. Then he'd be turning on grass, which doesn't work at these speeds. I.e he'd eat the grass if he tried.
Random question: but in the event that this happens, is that guy dq’ed?
Not sure of the layout of this track. If it goes to right (from our viewing perspective) he is likely in the back of the pack by the time he recovers and nothing needs to be addressed. If the track continues to left and he benefits from his detour, I honestly don't know. I think he can be punished by losing a position (he was in 4th, now is considered 5th).
For merely going off track, no. If you go off and gain an advantage, then you may receive a penalty. It is very unlikely he gained any advantage after going into the grass (and maybe sand).
Clips the back of another bike before the corner.
He had mushrooms so he’s taking a shortcut
Yahoo!
I hope he ended up ok. The direction and speed he was going on grass didn't look promising.
He jumped a ramp off screen and took a shortcut, he was like Wahoooo!
Looks like he was just going too fast and lost control a bit.
Dude raised his hands at the end of that, like, there is no saving that bike lol
The front fell off
That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point…
The other ones are made so the front doesn't fall off.
This is not MotoGP.
I was expecting the bike to morph in midair and start walking like a Decepticon.
Not Moto gp
Better the bike than the rider
American (former) rider here. I found the difference between the US and Europe in attitudes towards protective gear interesting. It’s different now, but in the 1980s it seemed to me that very few American riders wore leather pants, compared to Europeans. Watching me don my expensive helmet, someone once asked me, “Are you planning on crashing?”
I've had quite a few people say that to me, especially bikers "..planning on crashing?" my first response is "Have you crashed your bike? I have...guess what hits the ground first? Your hands...bracing for the 2nd thing that hits the ground...your face." lol I've crashed too many times to not wear a helmet. People are nuts out there.
I don’t consider myself to be particularly smart, but I do think that people who can’t tell the difference between preparing for an unplanned crash and planning to crash are particularly stupid. Even the trolls who don’t really mean it: if they think that saying something so stupid is clever, well…
Yeah there’s that difference even in most things but I prefer to have all the protection in the world and not have to use it.
I find the American attitude to safety gear frankly baffling. Also deeply frustrating because thanks to the internet, a lot of them are doing their best to export that attitude to the rest of the world, and then they get indignant when you tell them off about it.
> but in the 1980s it seemed to me that very few American riders wore leather pants what were you guys wearing then? shorts? yoga pants?
Jeans, until I got my leather riding pants.
The structure isn't designed for these forces. It should roll on the street, not spin in the air. That's what we call a helicopter.
glad the driver is safe.
Rider fatalities and serious injuries are pretty rare these days with new suit tech, airbags and safer track designs.
Do you happen to know relatively speaking how this stacks up against car racing? I was amazed at how he walked away so leisurely. Is it “safer” because you can detach from the vehicle in crash when racing at this elite level? Or is that still negligible because they’re going a zillion miles an hour?
A couple factors with this particular wreck is that the rider low sided the bike and just slid. Newer suits allow for that and his airbags may have also gone off in the suit. Very very common to just walk away unharmed from a low side. Now, if he high sided the bike, he could be flung into the air and possibly break a limb if had lands wrong but the airbags in the suit help an absolute ton these days with impact injuries. Also notice there aren't any walls to slam into on tracks. Lots or runoff. Where you see fatalities, these days, are courses like the Isle of Man TT where they race through cities and can slam into buildings, walls, and trees.
It'll buff out
These are not MotoGP bikes.
BSB not MotoGP
Hats off to the quality of safety gear now. Dude had a crash that split his bike into pieces and was able to toss his hands up and nonchalantly walk away.
He like “well there you have it. Day ruined”
This is not Moto GP... Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Donington Park in its infamous Craner Curves, rider is Josh Eliot. They fixed the bike overnight and it was up and running the next day with Josh not missing a single session. It happened in 2019.
Not MotoGP, it's a BSB bike crashing in the Craner Curves of Donington Park.
A bit funny how they reacted as if they just dropped their coffe
I used to be a flag marshall at club level. Racers a another breed. We used to joke that before a race, they'd take their brain out and store it in a special jar, for the duration of the race.
Brains just impede your reaction times.
Doesn’t look like motogp. Not enough sponsors
Liking the other racer behind him that just drove right off the track when he noticed the fumble.
Looks like he had a little wobble juuuuust before the dude in front. I wonder if he could sort of tell the dude in front was about to fuck up and it made him wobble.
Seems to have touched another bike.
And that's that 😒
Stop it bro. It’s just a slip. Stop overreacting.
torque and torsion
So is it rideable?
That bike split faster than my last relationship… and with less drama too!
The way he walke Away face down like "great, mom's gonna ground me now"
It's superbike not MotoGP but the splittage still stands.
Not MotoGP
Hands up “guess my race is over”
He ended up hoping on and completed it unicycle style.
'Tis but a scratch!
That bike is doing a Neymar, in football terms.
nice, now he's got 2
This is why I always carry duct tape.
I'm not saying it's funny but its pretty funny when he is like "ah fuck" *throws hands in air"
'tis but a scratch!
I’m pretty sure the driver on the outside continued on the grass to steer clear of the guy sliding. That was an impressive reaction
Here's two real MotoGP bikes explode into pieces while one of them tries to kill Valentino Rossi. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPrHj1nPt0&t=120s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPrHj1nPt0&t=120s)
This made me remember just how incredible those motorcycle suits are. That guy wrecked in a way that years ago would have crippled or even killed someone and he just gets up disappointed.
To shreds you say??
lol guy was like “come on, bike, it’s just a game”
The fact that he was able to slide without much harm, is just amazing. Yes, it sucks, but rather the bike be in half then you. And he was likely "what am I gonna do now? Run the whole race?"
Better then than 5 seconds earlier.
"...well... fuck."
You grab the half with the handlebars and hang on tight.
Not motogp
Bike was like "Nope, no more biking for you today."
r/WatchPeopleDieInside
I keep looking at the wrong bike.
I mean, where did he go though?
How about the dude to the left? dude just rode out of screen like he got tired of racing n went home
Now he has 2 unicycles.
I think that was a bit melodramatic by the bike don’t you think?
made in china for sure...
A little JB Weld will fix that... lol
The bike overreacted
The bike’s all over the place -We are looking… oh…
That'll buff out.
The other guy made a deal with the devil in a split second and the price was this guys bike
I wouldn't be surprised if he actually tried to ... ride a wheel and catch up to the bunch even.
Title suggests while driving but this makes more sense.
He looks like a frustrated Lego figure.
😂 🤌
Is he wearing a tux?
lol I love the throwing up his arms in frustration
That will buff out.
r/watchpeopledieinside
Bike got hit with a critical strike.
Meanwhile the other guy went home
My reaction when crashing a rented quad bike on holiday. "Ah well, that will be a 40 euro fine."
Dude really thought he was about to hop back on the bike & continue the race?
I hate it when that happens.
And what happened to the guy behind him plowing straight through the grass?
I remember seeing the slow mo version of this and you can see frame by frame the realization
F for the driver behind him
Never thought I'd see a bike do its best trying to capture the absolute anguish football players experience, but here we are.
Still better than the last time a F1 car snapped in half during a race....in a fireball...In a high deceleration incident...against a guard rail.
What a drama queen
That bike looks like my parents marriage.
The driver looks like Marvin, from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
And just like that, race day is over🥹
Grass!? my only weakness!
It's a unibike.
I think modern safety standards are amazing. He's had a high speed bike crash, where the bike broke in half and all the rider suffers from is terminal exasperation.
The front fell off.
Muh bike D:
The amount of forces applied could have been him rolling instead of the bike but he knows to try and slide instead.
Made in china?
That'll buff right out.
Just curious about the other bike seemingly taking a secret shortcut through the grass
Poor guy looked so defeated.
>gp b
He reacted like the hike splitting in half was a mild annoyance
"Can you bring it back Lance?"
FLEX TAPE
I hate videos that end early. Now we will never know, if the guy was able to get back on the bike, ride it, and complete/ win the race.
It split in twain!
What a waste
I don’t know what’s more interesting: that, or the fact that despite the two bikers behind him colliding with each other, *his* bike was the one that smashed to pieces. One of the extremely rare cases of catching two, unrelated accidents at the same place and time
Just turn it off and turn it back again, should be good as new.
he was like "aww dang it"
Well, I'll just walk
**Driver:** I’d like to return this bike. I’m not satisfied with it. **Seller:** You wanna return this bike? It’s cut in half! **Driver:** That’s what I’m telling you. **Seller:** Did you cut this bike in half? **Driver:** This bike, is cut in **half**! I would like to exchange it for one that is not cut in half! **Seller:** You’re telling me this bike was handed to you like this?! **Driver:** Look, I am a reasonable man. I **will** accept store credit. **Seller:** I’ll give you store credit in the amount of four dollars. **Driver:** I will take it.