This Is Why You Don't Pull U-Turns Near Corners

You’re on a mountain road and you’ve maybe gone the wrong way, or you just missed a great rest point that you want to go back to. Where’s the best place to make your U-turn? Not where this guy does it, that’s for damn sure.

In the short clip filmed on a chest-mounted GoPro, three bikers are enjoying the fruits of road builders’ efforts when they round a corner to find a Chevrolet Malibu blocking both lanes of the road. As the camera bike rounds the bend, we can see one bike having just avoided the car’s bonnet as it’s blocking the way.

Then, as the camera-wearing rider skirts the bonnet as well, his companion on a separate bike is forced into an emergency stoppie, bringing him to a halt inches from the Malibu’s door, yelling the almost comic curse of “Christ almighty!”

Bearing in mind the large parking area at the other side of the road it seems likely that the Malibu swung wide around from the opposite direction and made the turn, but there’s nowhere near enough visibility to make it safe. We’re a little hazy on the legality of this manoeuvre in the US, and it could even depend on exactly where this takes place, so shout out if you think you know.

The bikers don’t seem to be going that quickly, considering that GoPros make everything look faster, so we’re not blaming them too much (apart from riding without proper safety gear). Luckily no one was hurt, but then again we don’t know what went on after the clip ends…