Watch out for motorcycles on the road please
 

Twice within a 3 mile stretch on my way home I had some blue hair pull out in front of me. Apparently a horn does me no good either... need to stop by the hardware store and pick up some ball bearings for when the horn isn't enough.

Twice last week I had d-bags on motorcycles fly passed me like morons. One was going between cars during rush hour on the highway. The other passed me on the right on a small no-passing 2-lane residential street, going at least 50 in a 25.

If I later spotted either of them smeared along the road, I wouldn't have even slowed down.

Sounds like a blue hair problem, not a motorcycle problem.

Two weeks ago I was starting to go through an intersection when I had the green light and an assbag turned left on me in the other direction.:cuss:

Nope.

No deal.

Sorry.

The next blue hair I see, I'm gonna kick em in the dusty muffin and shout "Harleys RULE!"

We'll get this taken care of over time...

I don't blame you... I hate people who ride like that.

When I say that it was a close call though, I mean that I avoided becoming mush by a matter of 3 inches or less both times. I was not speeding or doing anything foolish, just running on the right side of my lane minding my own business.

ROFL

I saw some idiot on a GSX last week doing a wheelie down 350 in raytown with his legs draped over his handlebars/

I would have laughed my ass off if he splatted.

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you need to load up w/some gear.
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wonder if it was one of these guys.
i've seen them all over; they ride/ stunt wherever.

not good.

most of the stunters I know go to a specific and somehwat classified parking lot to stunt; most trailer their bikes there as they're not street legal.

A lot of bikers out here have taken to wearing reflective construction vests when they ride.

Don't blame 'em one bit after 8 people got absolutely plowed by some ****ing meth-head in a dump truck a couple of months ago.

Question: why do motorcyclists do that little wave thingy whenever they pass each other in opposite directions?

Oh, and since motorcycles are considerably smaller than even the smallest car, of course they are harder to see.

Just saying, "hi". Sort of like farmers on a country road.

just an acknowledgement to another rider. Heck, a lot of the time I know/have met/ridden with/bike night etc with the rider I'm passing. Takes a different breed of cat to ride on the street; harley/sportbike/tourer etc. I think it's an acknowledgement of being out there taking a risk riding on the street etc.

I've seen Jeep owners do this as well.

although, the likelihood of a harley rider waving back at me on my sportbike are 40/60.:D

I wave at them when I'm on my bike, but they never wave back.

That’s good, as it should be.
I have nothing against the “stuntaz”, just wish they’d take that shit off the road so the only hide they’re risking is their own.

People tend to see what they’re looking for. When someone in a hurry is at an intersection watching traffic for a chance to merge they aren’t necessarily looking for a motorcycle.
It’s the same phenomenon as someone crossing railroad tracks and not seeing the train that’s about the run them down even though it’s huge, loud and has a flashing light on the front of it.

100% agree.

not to mention they're contributing to the bad rap/name that sportbike riders have. I ride very tame around town; but I"ll open 'er up about and hour outside of the city for more 'spirited' rides.

I can agree with that. But it's just a simple fact that motorcycles are smaller and therefore not as easy to see as a car or truck.

Not disagreeing just expanding on the point.

100% agree. Take it someplace where no one else is in danger. When I saw the moron on 350 it was during rush hour.

I wear a bright yellow fluorescent jacket with body armor and while stopped at a stop sign a couple of months ago, I was rear ended by an on duty Police officer in an SUV. $8800 in damage to my bike and I severely sprained my ankle and both wrists. Turns out he was typing on his laptop and didn't see me.

Not sure what to do to protect myself going forward..... :shake:

It's pretty clear you're going to have to start strapping a 12 guage to the side of your bike and start offing pigs rolling down the road. That's probably the only way you'll be safe.

I'd contact Shaw, Murry, Stephens and Lindbergh

There is no excuse with how many riders there are now to not pay attention and look for riders, people are just ****ing morons.

I rode bikes for years. There are a lot of people who do not pay attention. That and said bikes can get lost in blind spots that bikes tend move quicker and that adds to the problem~

I'm not too worried. I have pretty strong bumpers.

:clap:

Well to some degree that's also why you always have to have your head on a swivel. To anticipate what other drivers are going to do. Personally I'd love to ride out here but I don't because the drivers are that poor.

that was nasty
a PHX thing guys
they were stopped at a light and got hit by a dump truck driver high on meth while he drove and did his paper work

nasty think 5 died

'cause we're cool like that

You dumbasses feel like you are special and have to ride a stupid bike, i'm not gonna be lookin for ya.

Are you being serious?

If so I have a series of questions for you.

1. Why are we dumbasses?

2. What makes you believe we feel that we are special?

3. Why is the bike stupid?

4. Why would you not look for a vehicle which by state law has every right to be on the road?

I don't ride nearly as often as I use to because I simply don't trust anyone anymore.

I had a guy change lanes right into me once. I was at his A-pillar - no blind spot to it. He just came on over and dumped me. I can't count how many people have been yacking on cell-phones when they've pulled in front of me. I finally had my first 'texting while driving' experience a few weeks ago and haven't been back on it since then.

People are only getting worse. I have the camaro, if it's nice I'll drive it. Ultimately, I just can't justify hopping on the bike much anymore with all the assholes out there that are just too busy with themselves to care about watching for a fellow human being.

Bicycles, too. I try to stick to trails on my mtn bike, but I really want to get a cross bike. Watch the **** out!

Active duty military are actually required to wear them. If they aren't wearing them and go splat SGLI doesn't pay their family's claim.

Yeah, I don't think a "moped" counts as a bike.

That might be the problem.

people who pay for motorcycle deaths aren't even the people who die. They knew the rules, it is the people who have to live with killing people and the dead dudes family that have to pay the real price. All for some jolly's that a wolf shirt and some papst could have provided

The second sentence is incorrect. There are some VA benefits that would not be granted but compensation from SGLI is NOT one of them.....that is a very common misconception though. And today a reflective PT belt in hours of darkness or a bright colored long sleeved shirt in daylight hours is sufficient.

I suspect, Phobia that you are referencing DIC (Dependency Indemnity Compensation). In order for dependents to be awarded that a service members death must not have been due to their own misconduct.

Good God Man! That's unreal...

WTF, dude? I mean really...:shake:

Sweet

Not being seen? Some straight pipes ought to do the trick. :Poke:

Yeah, he plowed into them from behind they never even saw him coming. There was a general bummer buzz going though Cave Creek for a week or two after that.
Fugging truck driver on drugs, dude won't be breathing free air for a LONG time.

****in' spun, meth-headed mother****er. He'll be lucky if the MC's in the joint don't shove a monkey wrench up his ass.

Dude, what's up with all these "G"-smokin' meth-headed mother****ers out here?

Bob Dole (and kindra68) lost another friend on a MC Wednesday night... It's getting to be a regular summertime event around here.

I don't know. Lots of biker gangs to run the stuff? A direct pipeline from Mexico to here?
Lots of wide-open god forsaken territory, too much for the law to cover?

One of the guys on this board (can't remember who) is an addiction counselor who seems to know everythign there is to know about meth, I bet he would know why.

No, I'm pretty sure it really happened. ;)

Sorry to hear that Scott. Last year, I noticed some of the deaths were from guys who were pulling trailers on the back of their bikes and hit something in the road causing the trailer to tip, and subsequently causing the bike to go down as well. I'll never pull a trailer, but IMO that kind of defeats the purpose to begin with. If I need to carry that much stuff, I should just take a car/truck.

And it's an all-ages show, too. Young, old, they can't get enough of that garbage.

We had another motorcyclist die in St. Joe yesterday. It seems like an all too common theme that these young sports bike riders are dying in the spring.

I hate to say it but the solution is to not fkn ride motorcycles.

I'm sure many motorcyclists are law abiding citizens but many who gravitate towarda them enjoy thrill seeking behavior and die on their own accord. I see them on the daily doing stupid, unimaginable shit.

This is the thing about motorcycles - you can be the safest, most skilled rider there is, wear all your protective gear, and still get killed getting hit by some idiot in an accident where you have zero fault that would have resulted in no injury at all or bumps and bruises had you been in a car. You want to do it, then do it; your life, your call, certainly not my business. But you're putting yourself at far more risk than you need to.

Funny motorcycle story - a couple of days ago I saw some guy riding a chopper that was way too big for him. Dude looked like he was about five foot nothing - with his hands on the grips his arms were so far up in the air he looked like Daniel Larusso doing the crane. LMAO

I see them too, unfortunately. From my house I can hear these bikes accelerating to what has to be at least a hundred miles an hour on residential streets.

There was a time when I was younger I would do some stupid shit in cars that had too much horsepower for my driving ability, so I'm not objectively blind to these thrill seekers behavior. Thankfully I never harmed myself or anyone else.

If you want to ride your bike super fast - find an open stretch of highway. If you want to do wheelies and stunts, find a parking lot.

Just stay off the residential streets. You're going to kill yourself or someone else.

I'm getting ready to pull my chopper out of slumber.

I've been riding since I was 12. Now I'm 62. Started on the dirt.

I have a riding buddy and we go out in the country and ride county roads through the farms on rolling hills and long straightaways.

It's a blast.

I'll never tire from riding.

I agree that we all need watch out for each other, especially motorcycles, but the sport bike riders have got to calm their shit down. I get it, I was one for many years, rode a 600R Ninja in Germany and just a couple of years ago sold my hopped up ZX-9. So I have been involved in what we'll just call more than my fair share of motorized hooliganism, but we took our shenanigans out away from traffic where we weren't risking anyone else's safety but our own and we could play for longer periods of time before getting hassled by "the man". I also get filtering to the front of the line at a traffic light, but these assholes today are lane splitting in highway traffic doing +40 MPH faster than the flow of traffic and that's suicidal.
The attached picture below is not a setup, it isn't photo shopped or AI, it happened several years ago outside of Tulsa on 169 Highway. When I posted it on Facebook as a warning to younger riders it got me thrown in the Facebook Pokey because it's literally a dead person, which is why I spoiler tagged it here, just so you've been warned before you click on it.
The back story is that this guy was out on 169 "stunting" and smacked the back of a semi in excess of 100 MPH. The trucker didn't feel anything, all he knows is that he heard a crash and a rider-less sport bike shot passed him so he slowed down and pulled over to find what is pictured below.
Just to add some irony to the story, this young man in his 20's a couple of weeks prior had attended the funeral for one of his buddies who died doing the exact same thing. Two young men dead for momentary thrills.

If you're wondering why the guy has no shoes it's because the body got dragged for a couple miles before the trucker could slow down and find a spot to safely pull over.

Yeah not clicking on that.

Who's gonna wear those shoes

While I won't go as far as to say I won't watch out for people to his point:

1. Because you're riding around on a vehicle that is inherently more dangerous than a car for what advantage? Thrill? Fuel efficiency? I'm really struggling to find a valid reason for it to be worth the extra risk involved in driving it

2. You're intentionally driving something that is more dangerous with very little benefit & is considerably harder to see & expecting everyone else to "watch out" for you.

3. I don't know if it's stupid but it's definitely not very safe & provides very little benefit over a car which would be much safer.

4. Yeah that's a bridge too far. I have more value for human life & don't want to live with the fact that I killed someone due to carelessness. However that's also a responsibility motorcycle riders put on other drivers, I have to be more careful when you're around because a slight mistake goes from being a fender bender to a possible life & death situation all due to your decision to drive a relatively unsafe vehicle.

And I also think it's valid to question if they should have every right to be on the road. But as long as they're there I'm going to look out for them. But the implication that I need to be hyper vigilant because you haven't made the best decisions on your choice of vehicle to drive is something that just rubs me the wrong way.

The other day I dealt with the freaking sport bike gang that shuts down the highway so these idiots can do tricks. Wouldn't let me pass

You're just plain vulnerable on a motorcycle. My neighbor is (was) the safest rider I know. Wore all the safety gear. Even ride the less traveled paths to avoid motorists. And then one day a deer jumped in front of his bike and made him a quadriplegic.

You don't drive a motorcycle.

People speed ALL. THE. TIME. 85/90 in a 70/75 etc. Cockblocking lanes, tailgating. Riding even w/ other cars. ON THEIR PHONE..:cuss:

I see it every day. the average drive is not going to be able to recover after losing control at those speeds. I've seen SEMI's tailgate. People use their turn signal on 10ft from the turn as opposed to a hundred feet.

Let's not pretend that drivers are somehow safer.

That said, I've always been reluctant towards the sport bikes designed for the track on the road. They do other bikers no favors with their antics.

The ironic thing is, bikes were on the road first. They share the road w cars.

;)

I just don’t like the riders who cut thru between lanes in busy stop and go traffic. Scares the hell out of me. Extremely dangerous too. Regular drivers can’t always see you.

I am always cognizant of any vehicle that I share the road with....courtesy and sharing the road is just sensible.

But I will say the one thing that irritates me are the motorcycles that weave in and out of lanes speeding at80 MPH ....or those who see the center line as their lane.

Courtesy is a 2 way street...

Look twice for motorcycles. If you only look once you might miss the stupid crap they are about to do.

Yep. My cousin and his wife hit one. They were helmeted and not even going very fast, but it didn't matter. He survived with minor injuries, but she was killed instantly.

That is a super-gnarly version of this:

https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/pict...pictureid=2687

I am not even going there. I killed a motorcyclist once but because he was driving like crap and had a Non-Dot helmet on. Took over 3 years to solve.

Concrete is undefeated.

Even before my hip started to act up I knew deep down that my riding days where over due to the dangers of other drivers paying attention to their phones, etc and not driving. I miss riding though, but my hip issues might be a blessing getting me to quit riding.

I just bought a KLR 650.... Haven't ridden regularly for 40 years. Got my class M...and I'm a long ways away from taking it out on the road. But I'm going to go get used to it again on the dirt. Nothing crazy. Just until I get used to a clutch and some slow speed maneuvering.

:rockon:

practice figure 8's (both directions) and quick stops.

What???

A name change might be in order here.

Sauldouchebagguy