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Coming to a craigslist near you: Out of town for the day. Looking for a boardshorts biker to receive unsecured loads from this boat I'm lugging. Str8 lines only, no swerves. Seriously, no other gear aside, I love how the story played up that something horrific like that left the rider with no serious injuries since he was wearing a helmet. HMMM it's almost as if there is a connection between safety gear and surviving an unexpected crash. Of course, maybe he just wore the helmet that day because he "expected to crash". Also, I really wonder if my SV caught any sweet air like that in it's final crash. Similar style of crash, but the debris wasn't 2.5 ft high. Coydog fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jun 28, 2016 |
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That's why you don't stick directly behind trucks with a load.  You should treat tailgating like anal sex, don't risk it if there could be an unexpected dump.
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Jun 28, 2016 22:47
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Chichevache posted:That's why you don't stick directly behind trucks with a load. This is so true. Once while driving a car an entire bed flew off a trailer ahead of me. Luckily I had just started passing so I was already out of harms way, but that thing took off like a sail and landed 100 meters from the trailer. Scary poo poo. But mostly I want to stay away from any nails, screws or other small debris that might fall off trucks and trailers.
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Jun 28, 2016 23:09
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Chichevache posted:That's why you don't stick directly behind trucks with a load. On a road with more than one lane there's no good reason to be on a bike and behind a truck unless it's like...sub-150cc.
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Jun 29, 2016 01:00
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It would have been pretty sweet if he pulled that jump off
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Jun 29, 2016 02:02
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Gullous posted:It would have been pretty sweet if he pulled that jump off Exactly what I was thinking. Also, definitely a bad idea to follow any truck with a load of there are other lanes.
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Jun 29, 2016 02:54
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Rider might have been able to avoid but he was new so hard to fault him.
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Jun 29, 2016 03:33
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nsaP posted:Rider might have been able to avoid but he was new so hard to fault him. Well, that's why the MSF has you do the emergency swerve drill.  There's a good three seconds between the yellow thing hitting the ground and the moment of impact. Plenty of time to get out of the way.But yeah, in the article the guy says he'd only been riding for two weeks. Sucks.
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Jun 29, 2016 03:54
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I have two nice big scratches dead center in my visor that serve to remind me not to be behind other vehicles when possible. Took a pair or rocks to the visor within about a half second, scared the poo poo out of me. They also helped convince my friend that riding visor up with goggles was a retarded idea.
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Jun 29, 2016 09:06
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Beach Bum posted:I have two nice big scratches dead center in my visor that serve to remind me not to be behind other vehicles when possible. Took a pair or rocks to the visor within about a half second, scared the poo poo out of me. I have taken multiple rocks to my shoulders/arms and a bird to the knee. You never really notice how much poo poo hits you until you ride without a jacket.
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Jun 29, 2016 15:34
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I can attest that a dragonfly moving at full clip into the center of your visor carries enough force to make your neck hurt.
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Jun 29, 2016 16:12
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June bugs. Are June bugs everywhere or just in the north? They are the size and density of a large and dried out milk dud. Ugly little buggers and when they hit your helmet it may as well be a rock, which is one of the many reasons I don't know how people ride without a helmet.
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Jun 29, 2016 16:23
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I can attest that a dragonfly moving at full clip into the center of your visor carries enough force to make your neck hurt. Maybe your tiny bird neck
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Jun 29, 2016 16:31
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Gorson posted:June bugs. Are June bugs everywhere or just in the north? They are the size and density of a large and dried out milk dud. Ugly little buggers and when they hit your helmet it may as well be a rock, which is one of the many reasons I don't know how people ride without a helmet. I'm guessing that what you guys call June bugs we call Christmas beetles down here, do they look like this?: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f1/a8/44/f1a844d34e8dc33bd93bf8319454c808.jpg
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Jun 29, 2016 16:57
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Here4DaGangBang posted:I'm guessing that what you guys call June bugs we call Christmas beetles down here, do they look like this?: Yep, and it makes sense calling them Christmas beetles if you're in the southern hemisphere.
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Jun 29, 2016 17:15
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clutchpuck posted:Maybe your tiny bird neck no u
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Gorson posted:June bugs. Are June bugs everywhere or just in the north? They are the size and density of a large and dried out milk dud. Ugly little buggers and when they hit your helmet it may as well be a rock, which is one of the many reasons I don't know how people ride without a helmet. I didn't even know these bugs existed until I went to electric forest this year. They were everywhere when the sun was setting. Just swarms of june bugs swooping down to "attack" you.
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Jun 29, 2016 18:43
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Shadowlz posted:I didn't even know these bugs existed until I went to electric forest this year. They were everywhere when the sun was setting. Just swarms of june bugs swooping down to "attack" you. And they're so loving stupid too, which is the worst part about it.
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Jun 29, 2016 18:46
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They are big, dumb, gross, and appear to serve no other purpose than to freak the poo poo out of humans and reproduce. Luckily they are only around here from about mid-May to July. It's nothing compared to the 17 year cicadas though, I was living in a suburb of Chicago in 2007 when they last made an appearance. The humanity!
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Jun 29, 2016 19:49
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Avoid the prairie when the locust swarms are out.
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Jun 29, 2016 19:51
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J31iyeDxfhI This was genuinely entertaining.
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Jun 29, 2016 20:58
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Happy ending ahoy! She got two tickets from the cop.
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Jun 29, 2016 22:47
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Chichevache posted:Happy ending ahoy! Oh man, roundabouts confuse people so much here there's no way they can learn to zipper merge. It also requires people to not be selfish assholes.
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Jun 29, 2016 23:22
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That dude coulda just gone around her tho. no need to instigate
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Jun 29, 2016 23:42
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A MIRACLE posted:That dude coulda just gone around her tho. no need to instigate He shouldn't have to. People intentionally doing dickish and dangerous things on the road should still be ticketed by cops. That lady either can't or won't merge safely, either of which should be documented so that she can hopefully be off the road permanently.
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Jun 29, 2016 23:59
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That's awesome. I love that the cop actually came and pulled her over for him.
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Jun 30, 2016 00:04
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As much as I love some justice porn or whatever you want to call it, that guy should have just bounced out of there and been on his way. I see so much absolute nightmarishly bad driving maneuvers in NYC that it's just not worth the fight. Just avoid avoid avoid is my main goal. Be constantly scanning and on the lookout for people who will merge into you without signals, etc. Zipper merging is a constant battle for first place here, cars will just roll into the shoulder at the end of the merge and will never settle for being behind someone else. Scolding people or trying to get a cops attention like that would be a complete recipe for disaster. you never know what kind of crazy gently caress you are dealing with in a road rage scenario.
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Jun 30, 2016 00:09
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Whether or not we would have or he should have, he did it for US HE DID IT FOR US
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Voltage posted:As much as I love some justice porn or whatever you want to call it, that guy should have just bounced out of there and been on his way. I see so much absolute nightmarishly bad driving maneuvers in NYC that it's just not worth the fight. Just avoid avoid avoid is my main goal. Be constantly scanning and on the lookout for people who will merge into you without signals, etc. Zipper merging is a constant battle for first place here, cars will just roll into the shoulder at the end of the merge and will never settle for being behind someone else. Scolding people or trying to get a cops attention like that would be a complete recipe for disaster. you never know what kind of crazy gently caress you are dealing with in a road rage scenario. He seems to have survived his encounter with that terrible fiend. The guy is responding to comments on the video. You should let him know that he's just as much a part of the problem as she is.
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Jun 30, 2016 01:55
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Voltage posted:As much as I love some justice porn or whatever you want to call it, that guy should have just bounced out of there and been on his way. I see so much absolute nightmarishly bad driving maneuvers in NYC that it's just not worth the fight. Just avoid avoid avoid is my main goal. Be constantly scanning and on the lookout for people who will merge into you without signals, etc. Zipper merging is a constant battle for first place here, cars will just roll into the shoulder at the end of the merge and will never settle for being behind someone else. Scolding people or trying to get a cops attention like that would be a complete recipe for disaster. you never know what kind of crazy gently caress you are dealing with in a road rage scenario. as someone that has been hit by an inattentive driver, gently caress you
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Maybe applying NYC driving culture to the rest of the country is a bad idea?
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Justice being served us cool and all, but gently caress crying to the police like a little bitch because somebody tried to cut you off.
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Koruthaiolos posted:Justice being served us cool and all, but gently caress crying to the police like a little bitch because somebody tried to cut you off. No, gently caress lovely drivers who need to be banned from the road for endangering other people's lives. If I can get someone nailed for careless driving you better bet I'll run a cam and call the cops. I also call in drunks, am I a little bitch for that too?
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Koruthaiolos posted:Justice being served us cool and all, but gently caress crying to the police like a little bitch because somebody tried to cut you off. So he should have broken her mirror and hosed off? Then she's just going to take it out on the next poor motorcyclist who doesn't move out of her way fast enough. Or should we just ignore it and hope inattentive drivers stop killing riders?
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Beach Bum posted:I also call in drunks, am I a little bitch for that too? Yes. Chichevache posted:So he should have broken her mirror and hosed off? Then she's just going to take it out on the next poor motorcyclist who doesn't move out of her way fast enough. Much worse than that happens on my commute every day. If I called the cops every time someone did something slightly dumb I'd have them in speed dial. He left a huge gap in front of him, if I was a car I probably would have tried to merge there too. The only thing she did wrong was not speeding up enough before merging. 
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Koruthaiolos posted:Yes. You don't need to put 911 on speed dial. The number is super easy to remember.
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I think it's a matter of time. Time is the only real currency anyone has, how much of your time do you want to spend going back and forth with an idiot and the police and so on so as to get your justice or w/e? If the injury to your wealth or person or character is big enough then yeah sink a shitload of time into it but in that case, where it's just another moron among tens of thousands of morons, it seems pointless. Even if every motorcyclist in the world made a concerted campaign to change people's driving behaviour that campaign would fail because fights against human nature always fail. One man by himself will do little more than take a random person from being apathetic toward bikes to telling all their mouthbreathing mates about how terrible bikers are because they get you tickets. In that particular scenario I can't help but think that the time it would take to get justice is far in excess of what that justice is worth to me compared to what else I could be doing with that time. Maybe that guy just has a huge load of time on his hands and nothing better to do? Either that or he gets a tremendous, orgasmic kick out of her getting a ticket which is more than worth the effort needed to get to that point. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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Slavvy posted:I think it's a matter of time. Time is the only real currency anyone has, how much of your time do you want to spend going back and forth with an idiot and the police and so on so as to get your justice or w/e? If the injury to your wealth or person or character is big enough then yeah sink a shitload of time into it but in that case, where it's just another moron among tens of thousands of morons, it seems pointless. Even if every motorcyclist in the world made a concerted campaign to change people's driving behaviour that campaign would fail because fights against human nature always fail. One man by himself will do little more than take a random person from being apathetic toward bikes to telling all their mouthbreathing mates about how terrible bikers are because they get you tickets. Vengeance is a powerful urge. 9 times out of 10 I would take a one week probation to get nsaP a three day probation. It just feels good.
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Slavvy posted:Maybe that guy just has a huge load of time on his hands and nothing better to do? Either that or he gets a tremendous, orgasmic kick out of her getting a ticket which is more than worth the effort needed to get to that point. It seems like all of these moto-vlogging SJWs have a tremendous amount of time on their hands.
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Chichevache posted:Vengeance is a powerful urge. 9 times out of 10 I would take a one week probation to get nsaP a three day probation. It just feels good. I understand what you mean but in this particular case it's hardly 'vengeance' when you engineer the situation by playing into her stupidity instead of just zooming off on your 500hp/ton death machine to go do something more fun instead.
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