Interesting factoid

I just rewatched the Moscow city rider (particularly the bit where
he's riding at top speed in the oncoming lane) and the Ghost Rider
Uppsala run, and just had an interesting thought. If 90kg riders
ontop of 2 255kg (wet) bikes, each riding at 320km/h, were to be lane
splitting down the middle but collided directly head on each at
320km/h, the energy released would be equivalent to 2.36 kg of TNT
(1/2 M v**2, where v is relative to each other and is 640km/h).

Is that much?

 

Well...... if it went off in your pants....

 

Study your head on collision facts, they are not as straight forward as
it seems

 

True, most of the energy released would probably be directed to the task
of propelling bits of shrapnel away from the point of impact...


BTH

 

Probably sufficient to produce rather destructive results that I would
normally try to avoid.