My lord…that wheels barely buckled too considering the damage to the car…

plastic energy absorbing bit?

TandemJeremy – Member

plastic energy absorbing bit?

Nope, looks like an alloy frame to me…. 🙂

Maybe the bike reversed into the car?

Wheel is very strong when hit by a deforming structure like that. Think of an arch.

Look like that body panel did its job perfectly.

What i want to know is who was on the bike……. The thing ? The hulk ?

I’d say the hulk going off the name of the frame. (Gamma radiation and all that) 😀

Look at the tag line – GAG. Please tell me you’re all being ironic.

The car has hit something solid , eg a bollard, and the the bike has been placed into the dent for the photo. Something has buckled the bike wheel but it wasn’t the car

The car has hit something solid , eg a bollard, and the the bike has been placed into the dent for the photo. Something has buckled the bike wheel but it wasn’t the car

Having seen that exact thing happen in real life I can assure you it’s perfectly possible.

Looks feasible to me to, a lot of the space in front of the axle in modern cars is empty to make them nice and soft when the dozy people driving them run into a pedestrian. Look at car designs from the last 3 years or so, there’s a trend towards blunt wedge shapes with longer overhangs.

old shape

new shape

old shape

new shape

Oh dear!but I see the wheel of the bike is also out of sharp.