---
title: "Watch This Moron Crash Doing a Motorcycle Donut in a Car Wash"
description: "There's a time and a place for that, and buddy, this ain't it."
date: "2017-06-20"
modified: "2017-06-20"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/11681/watch-this-moron-crash-doing-a-motorcycle-donut-in-a-car-wash"
categories:
  - "Motorcycles"
  - "News"
  - "The Garage"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "Australia"
  - "burnout"
  - "car wash"
  - "Crash"
  - "donut"
  - "Fail"
  - "motorcycle"
---

# Watch This Moron Crash Doing a Motorcycle Donut in a Car Wash

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/06/bike-donut1.png>)
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Burnouts on their own [can be tricky business,](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/9342/watch-this-dodge-challenger-hellcat-hit-seventh-gear-in-a-burnout>) but subtract two wheels and things can take a turn for the worse in hilariously quick fashion. Listen, even if the [Multiverse Theory](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse>) is correct, here's some definitive proof that there's no universe where attempting to pull off a motorcycle donut within the concrete-walled confines of a self-service car wash bay is a good idea.

Captured on security cameras [somewhere in Australia,](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/9945/australian-ute-does-a-burnout-on-a-trailer-towed-by-another-ute>) the video shows two bays at the car wash, with our intrepid hero on the right side. It appears he's just finished washing his sportbike and simply can't resist trying to lay down a donut on that wet, soapy floor. Maybe he'd previously tried (and failed) on dry pavement, and figured the slippery conditions would help him out. Oh, if only.

The secret star of the video is the guy washing his [Holden Commodore](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/7282/holdens-final-commodore-packs-the-corvette-zr1s-635-hp-v-8>) in the left bay, who immediately peeks around the dividing wall when he hears the bike's engine rev to watch the spectacle. He's justly rewarded when the bike's back tire catches a bit of dry ground about a third of the way through the donut, launching man and motorcycle into the wall with gusto. The unfortunate biker struggles to get up and right the ship before limping off into the night.

He seems fine, but his pride is mortally wounded. It's hard to pick a favorite part here—the bystander throwing up a "cut it" hand motion just before it goes south, the juxtaposition between the biker's geared-up "I'm a professional" outfit and his boneheaded move, the way the bike's turn signal sadly blinks as he flees the scene, and the small pile of smashed parts he leaves behind in the wash bay are all truly choice.

But the best part might be the way the other guy just goes back to washing his Holden at the end, probably thinking to himself, *Wow.* *No one will ever believe this.*

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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