There is a time and place for riding that fast. That was neither.
Agreed. Waste of a nice bike, too.
I don't know the traffic laws over there, so I'm not sure what the car might have been doing wrong (everything drivers do over there looks wrong to me), but the guy on the bike appeared to be a complete idiot and I'd assign him 100%, if not 120%, of the blame. Just before the crash, the camera bike was doing right about 100 mph and the rider about to crash was pulling away rapidly, probably going 130+. No more than 2 seconds elapse from the time he popped out from behind the car trailing the impact car and the initial collision. There is no way the driver could have seen him coming and reacted in that time period.
What Warren said is what it's mostly all about, and frequently ignored by young, inexperienced riders. Going fast down a straight highway doesn't show much skill, especially if you can't avoid things in front of you. A monkey can twist a throttle and hang on until he hits something. The first time someone passed me on a bike at 150mph, I thought long and hard about how, despite being a careful, attentive driver, I had no awareness of the rider until he was going by me. If I had changed lanes at the wrong time, he'd have been a splat. I like bikes and did the motocross thing when I was younger. While I had my share of incidents, I learned quickly from the older guys I spent a lot of time riding with that riding on the street is a real easy way to get yourself in a hospital bed, even if you're an extremely skilled rider. Being a knucklehead guarantees it, or worse. One night, a few years ago, I came upon a scene where some kid had just hit a curb on a nice Buell. The bike was still running and I stopped to help. Apparently, he had launched a considerable distance through the air and went chest-first into the telephone pole he was lying close to. He was DRT and there was nothing anyone could do to bring him back. Bikes are great, but not for everyone.