The thing that makes me the maddest about 2-wheeled riders By glavey (Read 1,693 times)

[JR]

Within a two mile radius of where I live, there are at least 4 bars; within an 8 mile radius there are at least 20. It makes me extremely nervous around here at closing time.

Maybe you need to move!

[glavey]

If I had the money, I would be gone in an instant.

[Guitarman]

They call that Public intoxication here. But it's only enforced if you're really being stupid.

[richardv]

It sounds like you live in Milwaukee where it is said there is a bar on every corner. It a wee bit of exaggeration but, in the old German/Polish area it's not far from the truth. Here in Neenah there's at least 12 bars and 7 liquor stores with in a mile radius.

[Guitarman]

If you didn't live in an icebox, then you would have something else to do besides drink yourselves silly.

[JR]

Sept 17, 2014 17:31:30 GMT -6 Guitarman said:

They call that Public intoxication here. But it's only enforced if you're really being stupid.

They call it having a good time here! See!

[gatekeeper]

If she's not careful that poor girl is going to knock herself out!

[Guitarman]

Gatekeeper, I bet you're first in line to give her CPR when she does...

[jct842]

got milk?

[kz1000st]

Decades ago I was a member of a Motorcycle Club on Long Island. One Sunday we went as a group to a Hillclimb in Freemansburg, PA a couple of hundred miles away. At the time our club president was a giant of a man, about 6'10" and over 300 pounds. He walked up to one of the members at the event with a can of beer in his hand. This member was noted for lack of restraint around alcohol, was no spring chicken and should have known better. The President said to him, "Can I see your beer for a minute?" The guy handed it over without question. The Prez dropped it on the ground and stomped on it flattening it in the process with the beer spraying out. "We have too far to ride home for you to be screwing around. Don't let me see this again." The guy drank soda for the rest of the day.

[novaraptor]

Well, as a long time motorcyclist, scooterist and bar patron, I must, I must, add my 2 cents. Seeing riders at bars bothers me no more that seeing 'em wearing sandals, t-shirts, shorts and headphones while riding. It's their skin. I'm not afraid of being hit by a drunken cyclist. I'm much, much more worried about being hit by the drunk in the monster 4x4 or SUV, or even in the little toyota. Don't have the stats on it, but I would wager real money that most of the riders around Vegas that die on the road aren't drunk. Most of them are 18 to 26 yo's on crotch rockets who are moving to fast to miss the car that makes the left turn in front of them. One of our most recent ones was actually doing a wheelie in the wrong lane when on-coming traffic hit him.
Just my opinion, of course.. Keep the shiny side up.

[Bashan]

I agree completely. These young riders buy a bike that should require a special license and think they're racers. They're dangerous in themselves but the jacked up trucks that have their head up their arse scare me the most. Talking on their phone and blasting music, I cringe when they come up behind me. I always assume the worst when somebody is pulling up to an intersection in front of me and it has saved me many times. I even have did evasives from some clown coming up behind me but you have a lot less control. You'd think all of the energy that riding defensively requires would take away from the joy of it. But it just seems part of it. I'm always watching and always aware...."no lapses", that's my motto. No music, no phone, just riding. As quiet as the SYM is, it makes it's own music. Rich

[Guitarman]

I've had big trucks and lately cars that have the music so loud my teeth rattle from it. I have a habit of dodging off the side of the road when I hear that noise because most of them simply do not pay attention. How many times I've seen fender benders with them involved. That fender bender in a cage might have killed me on my bike. And how can you drive with the seat in the reclined position I have no idea...

[clonedrone]

k back on topic here.
As I have stated b-4.
Back in the day it was all about two wheels, didn't matter what it was everyone had the wave.
No especially if in a no helmut state if your not wearing the correct uniform i.e. Black t shirt from somewhere they have never been and no helmut
they won't wave.
f dem, just too cool for me.
I'm the oddity wearing a prototype Leatt neck brace,

[JR]

Sept 18, 2014 11:16:35 GMT -6 kz1000st said:

Decades ago I was a member of a Motorcycle Club on Long Island. One Sunday we went as a group to a Hillclimb in Freemansburg, PA a couple of hundred miles away. At the time our club president was a giant of a man, about 6'10" and over 300 pounds. He walked up to one of the members at the event with a can of beer in his hand. This member was noted for lack of restraint around alcohol, was no spring chicken and should have known better. The President said to him, "Can I see your beer for a minute?" The guy handed it over without question. The Prez dropped it on the ground and stomped on it flattening it in the process with the beer spraying out. "We have too far to ride home for you to be screwing around. Don't let me see this again." The guy drank soda for the rest of the day.

Hmmm, just got one thing to say, had he stomped my anything I had he would have been wondering if he had any of these left when I got done. Don't support drinking and driving anything, never have but I'm not going to be pushed around either.