Guess what, you're an asshole
Controller_7
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Everyone on one of these is an instant asshole. No real exception to the rule. Get a car.
Please stop swerving in and out of lanes, speeding inbetween cars, driving like an asshole, and especially doing wheeelies on the freeway.
The other day some dude pulls up next to me, my wife, and our baby, stares in the window and then lays down on the seat and does a no-handed superman thingy.
Please stop swerving in and out of lanes, speeding inbetween cars, driving like an asshole, and especially doing wheeelies on the freeway.
The other day some dude pulls up next to me, my wife, and our baby, stares in the window and then lays down on the seat and does a no-handed superman thingy.
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PS: If you drive a motorcycle and aren't endangering lives none of this is in regard to you, i know theirs alot of good folks out there riding responsibly.
By what factor are you overstating this?
So you've gone from 50% to somewhere between 33% and 50%.
And if you don't see hundreds, then you're overstating it by quite a bit more than that.
I think dudes in Hummers and massive toy trucks (meaning not work-related) drive much more insanely than guys on bikes. That might be related to the lack of a multi-thousand pound tank surrounding them.
I do see an occasional freak cyclist weaving at 100 mph and it's memorable but just really not common.
I'm with you on loud pipes though. Annoying and pointless.
Peripheral awareness. Defensive Driving 101.
I think more of the people riding around in a tee shirt with no helmet, and then think about the periodic newspaper articles about dead motorcycle riders.
Even if they aren't driving/riding like idiots, how stupid can you be - if you're supposed to wear a helmet with a human-powered BIKE, and you're doing 60 on a motorcycle...
And yeah, car drivers are much worse based on numbers alone. There's 500 shitty car drivers to every shitty biker.
Hospitals are conflicted about giving advice on helmets b/c motorcyclists (typically young, healthy males) are a valuable source of transplantable organs.
You've got got be kidding.
That video made me very uneasy.
b/w
He lose points for not adding video game sound effects to that. BLING!
rider in that video just cut a two hour commute down to ten minutes! Hard to argue with that.
if it's too loud, you're too old. I know of one incident in my whole live in Seattle of a dumbshit motorcyclist killing someone other than himself: dude overcooked a turn and took out some pedestrian on a sidewalk (mitigating_factor: "pedestrian" was on a longboard, pretty much at the bottom of my cool foodchain)...
let em rip it. let em go 90 in first gear. If I had a child, I'd love for them to see a supermanny-off-the-bike type move at 70-mph...shit's bomb..
/manchild
putting all moralizing aside from a moment, that looks REALLY really fun. must be even more rewarding if that was filmed in Moscow, which is notorious for having some of the worst, slow-moving traffic in the world.
Hello friends,
Am I the only one who wished that someone would have narrowed the gap on him the last second so he would crash? Not when he was going super fast, but fast enough to get a little hurt and learn a lesson.
Some of his moves put drivers at risk for collision and probably caused a lot of stress to others, I'd bet.
b/w
Your life is not an action film!
Kindly,
parallax
It does encourage me to ride like an ass sometimes. It's the most fun I've ever had driving anything. I split lanes on the freeways. I've only been involved in one accident in all that time, and it was because some old lady ran a stop sign. I don't have any reason to believe that I'm endangering anyone's life but my own. The worst drivers I see on the roads are people who just aren't paying attention. They're texting, making phone calls, eating, applying make-up, or just oblivious people. I avoid an accident pretty much every day, and I don't think one of those close calls has ever involved a motorcycle.
I'm not being asshurt or defensive, I just think it's pointless to call out any group of people as assholes. They exist in any group you can categorize. To the folks who are annoyed by motorcyclists, have you never seen someone do something dangerous or stupid in a car? Has a car never passed you when they shouldn't have or sped by you unexpectedly? Has a car never been modified to be way louder than it should be?
I celebrate the idiots in all walks of life. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't feel superior and be able to post about it on the internet.
^^^
Thinks he's extra ford tough hard because he's wearing a harley shirt and assless chaps.
But those dudes who drive like hot shots, those dudes are lame. I was driving back from Iowa a couple weeks ago, and one of these little hotshot motorcycle dudes was ahead of me, weaving around in the lane, putting his feet up on the handlebars, driving no-handed, just a whole litany of really stupid and dangerous shit. It may have been fun for dude, but it was not fun for me. All I could see was him hitting a pothole or a turtle or something while hot-dogging and then flipping and crashing to death right in front of me. Not something I wanted to see or be a part of, so when he slowed down to about 70, I went to go around him. Just when I got all the way ahead of him, little dude gets serious about his biking, sits back, and revs up to 90 or faster to fly by me (I was going about 85 at the time).
"Fine little dude, go ahead. Just get out of my sight." Nope. After he got about a quarter-mile ahead of me, he slowed back down until he was right in front of me again, weaving and doing all this stupid bullshit. I had to follow that dude for more than 2 hours because he would not let me pass, or if I passed, he would speed back up ahead of me.
Dude didn't die, but he sure was annoying.
Wow, just wow.
best run-from-the-cops machine ever. excels on all surfaces, and can boost in and out of the river wash or wallride to stairclimb, WHATEVER!
I think we should all be on super motos. but, until we are, I'm not riding one again. I got on my friend's race bike (not even street legal--he'd graduated from taping off his lights at the races to an even lighter straight up race one), and I couldn't believe it. Way too much fun. I grew up riding motocross bikes, and this was just too amazing for my brain: scared of the thump, I short shifted up into third, and the front wheel was still pulling off the ground. Realizing I was going 60 in a residential neighborhood, I clamped the brakes and parked that shit.
I could see myself riding on sidewalks, trying to jump shit, there's just not room in Society Today for me owning a supermoto bike. I applaud your restraint, if you're riding that thing sensibly (lane splitting would be enough for me: my brother sold his bike after realizing NOT lane-splitting every day on Lincoln Boulevard would be crazed...and it's like "what are we doing here?" haha I couldn't do it either).
I'd consider motorcycles if my area had nicer weather. Motorcycles are only on the roads up here for three months out of the year, and then the drivers forget about them.