Homebrew

I was sort of joking but sort of not joking, there is real shortage of organ donors. I do not wish anyone harm, but if you keep jabbing fate in the eye eventually, you are going to be very unhappy or very dead.

I do agree there are many stupid drivers out there. Before back problems ended my bicycling, I used to ride more than 3,000 miles a year. Auto and truck drivers do not respect bicyclists any more than they do motorcyclists. I helped start the Palmetto Cycling Coalition here in South Carolina to educate drivers about cyclists among other things. Still, since crappy drivers are a given, the person on two wheels is required to be more aware and more careful if they want to survive. They also need to be aware that all “two-wheel” riders will be judged by their worst, i.e., cutting in and out of traffic, ignoring stop signs, red lights and all the other thing they do that bug drivers, right or wrong. They have a 3,000-pound car and you are on a bike or bicycle, guess who is going to win?

No problem on the rant, I know what you are feeling. We have had drunk driver get off after killing a cyclists here. The prejudice against bike or bicycle runs through the legal system as well.

Hey Gene,

No Problem, no foul.

It is just a touchy topic for me.

Thanks for your work in the coalition.

Have a great weekend.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

My Son was almost an Organ Donar last July...

The Key to Riding is "Trust" and "Respect" your motorcycle... and a defensive driving course would help also.. You also need to be respectful of others

My Son failed at all the above, He realizes this now.. and had paid with almost his life because of his actions in one night.

Today sometime? he wants to again go test ride another bike... I'm dreading this, but told him last week I would go with him...I don't think it's so much he wants another one, but him wanting to see if he can still ride?

on another note..

Loud pipes do save lives, it's not just a slogin as for the first couple years of riding I thought that it was? I had Many Many instances where I was almost T-Boned or run off the road with people drifting into my lane while riding some 98K miles around this country of ours... I was always respectful of others, never weaved in and out of traffic (thats a no-no if your riding a $20,000 Harley, or any bike for that matter) your gunna pay hard because there's to much road rage on the roads today! everybody wants to get their's first...

Hog

One thing I forgot to mention in post #37 was the feeling I got when that kid was passing me at 80/90mph on one wheel. I thought man this kid is really good on a bike and has stones like boulders to pull a stunt like this. Never in my wildest days would I have laid life&death on the line like this kid was doin right outside my window. I had a very fleeting feeling of "admiration" as to the skill it took to pull a stunt like that off. When that car pulled out in front of him that feeling gave way to one of controlled panic for him and me since I didn't want to run over him or have him come flying through my windsheid and kill me. I did some pretty scary things in my 69 Camaro when I was young and learned from it. I hope this kid did the same.

Get over it.

^^^ I DID... Go pull a Wheely.

"I hope this kid did the same."

He didn't many have to learn the hard way...

I was on I-55 a year or so back and a kid on a crotch rocket did the same thing with me... I was riding a stolen (repo'ed) 97 Fatboy back from Chicago...

when he pulled up beside me in my lane taunting me to get on it? LMAO... I just smiled and waived in the right hand lane as he darted forward then backwards in the same lane poping from one side of me to the other... right around the Joilete area.. when traffic cleared on the left lane and he seen I wasn't going to play he goosed it weaved in and out of traffic until he was ahead of everyone else.. I sat back cruising at around 80 or so.. watching him play.. once cleared of the traffic he downshifts and pulled the wheel up.. he's runnin around 100-120 at least?? when the wind started drifting him into the left lane he tucks his right leg up on the seat, leans the bike to the right on one wheel and shifts gears to keep his speed up... pretty cool to watch and I waited to see if he was going to get run over? didn't happen.. man made me wish I wasn't ridin that "Tank" I could have kept up with him if I'da had my Old Harley with the highway cam... Mrs. Hog was following me and she had the same feelings you did Mr. Jones... she thought he was going to bite somebody's bumper or have the wind blow him off the road?

the only thing that will teach'em is experience it themselves... many times they do not get a second chance to learn from mistakes!

Hog

Hog