Moto GP rider uses bike as surfboard after going down on wet track - GIF and video

A clever Moto GP rider surfs his bike out of trouble after going down on wet track.

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16-second video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aumHDd64E-0

Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...260#post121569
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...222#post126473
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...8541#post87726

I did almost the exact thing about 40 years ago. I didn't quite get all the way up on the bike so it ate my leathers and helmet a bit :) The bike caught on fire about the time I kicked it off.

That appears visually to fit description of how motor patrolmen are taught to set one down...and come up shooting their sidearm, need be.