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rutherk1 previously said:
A bigger question is why alot of guys on motorcycles think they are tough. Dude, I'm in a truck. You are on a bike.
I had some dude try to punk me on the freeway. I'm like, you are free game dude.
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rutherk1 previously said:
Back when 315 was 55MPH some guy on a bike was tailing me because I was going 65 (while I was passing people on the right). I was like "this dude is awfully close to my bumper I hope he doesnt get hurt". I did the right thing and got in the right lane so he could pass. He stuck out his hand (with a glove on) and flipped me off.
Thanks. Real tough. Next time I see him, Ill just put both feet on the brake.
People are awfully tough when they can get away easily.
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rutherk1 previously said:
Oh yeah. In HS (the early 1990s) some punk was flying on his bike through our neighborhood. He had temps on the bike.
He was disregarding the children playing in the yards too.
On the way to school the next day there was a telephone pole with little mark in it. Beside it was a neon green and white bike with temp tags on it.
I snikered.
In contrast there are alot of good bikers out there . The young ones that have never laid one down are usually the toughest. Their day will come and hopefully that will make them better riders.
The harley dudes are usually cool. All those things do is make noise so no big deal there.
Harley is the easiest way to convert gasoline to noise without the nagging side effect we call horsepower.
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Thanks for bringing a thread with a great post articulating the beauty, agony and joy of being on two wheels to a screeching halt with your insight. As SeanK mentioned, I typically enjoy your insight but in this case, I don't see it. You show your ignorance with your last statement regarding Harley's lack of horsepower, I guess you are doing all you can to irritate all motorcyclists.
I commute on a motorcycle ~200 miles a week having owned one form or another of them since 1970 (well, I didn't really own my own until '75 when I was old enough to buy my own). You comments of how someone is a tough guy because he gave you the US salute followed with the comment of how the next guy will eat your bumper, sounds like more tough guy talk. Taking joy in someone crashing because you felt they were going too fast through the neighborhood...thats sad. I bet you kick puppies when they have an "accident" too.
I guess it is easy to come off as a tough guy, sitting in a truck, feeling invulnerable, higher than thou, able to threaten someone's life with a brake check, just because you can. No harm to you right? Maybe just a small dent in the rear of your truck where the guys helmet made contact with your tailgate. That's ok, you can sue him for riding too close and having to break for that invisible squirrel, causing you to hit your brakes.
But, then again, it may come to be found that you had malicious intent, no cause for doing the brake check and found liable for the crash. You never know, you might get lucky enough for the guy to die and get convicted for manslaughter where you can show how tough you are with your cell mate Bruno every time he demands a "favor".
Its really too bad you have such angst toward motorcyclist. The point of the OP was to share a well written story from the viewpoint of a "true motorcyclist". Just because you see an a-hole on one occasionally, think about how many more you see sitting behind the wheel of a car. The only difference is you can kill the motorcyclist with a quick flick of bad judgement where all you would do if they were in a car is cause some property damage. I guess because a motorcyclist is more vulnerable, it makes the "fair game" and we need to watch out for guys like you, because you have the power to kill us at your whim. All you have to do is give us a little swerve, pinch us into a curb or tailgate/rear end us because you can, it won't hurt you to run us over.
I can tell you one thing for sure, there are way more bad drivers in cars than on motorcycles. Yes, it may be the Darwin effect but it is still overwhelmingly on the side of 4 wheeled driver's than two...
