[absolootezer0]

ridiculous. author drags out all kinds of bias against bikes, specifically racebikes.

[GOP_1900AD]

Rice rockets + young male hormones = ?

Nothing new in this story!

[Triggerhippie]

I suppose the author believes that the biker WANTED to crash his bike and wanted to do it at a high rate of speed...

[bagadonutz]

typical anti-rider story. She pulled out in front of the bike and he's at fault?

The whole function is to go as fast as they can."

Bullsnot! if that was true why was he only going 80?!

[taxcontrol]

I guess the author would have been happier if the vehicle traveling at 80 mph (possibly 100 mph) would have been a car, truck, SUV, or semi truck.

Face it, any time ... ANYTIME one vehicle is doing 80 plus, you have a high chance of killing more than just the driver of the vehicle.

[Osage Orange]

A Suzuki racing bike screaming at 80 mph in a 25-mph zone slammed......................

Just another crazed screaming racing bike........

[MortMan]

A Suzuki racing bike screaming at 80 mph in a 25-mph zone slammed into Gigliotti on Oct. 4 as she was leaving her job at Long Beach City College, igniting a fireball inside her Ford Escort.

terminal stupidity sometimes incites vehicular manslaughter. The problem is not the machine, but the rider, who obviously had no clue what "control" was, nor had any inkling of the definition of "consequences".

The only sane way to handle idjits like this rider is to pray they only hurt themselves, and not any innocent bystanders.

The author, on the other hand, needs to learn a thing or to about reporting, rather than polemicizing.

[RobRoy]

Agreed. It's the old "people don't shoot people, guns shoot people" mentality.

This thinking simply tries to eliminate a problem by eliminating a freedom.

People drown? Outlaw boats and swimming.
People hit by maniacs on motorcycles? Ban motorcycles for everyone.

The thinking is poisonous and downright sophomoric.

[68skylark]

Gigliotti ... was pulled from the burning wreckage in front of the college by two fellow instructors. But she was already covered with second- and third-degree burns on her face, chest, arms and legs — more than half her body. After 30 days, she died at the burn unit of the Torrance Memorial Medical Center.

Maybe the author has good reasons for his "bias."

[taxed2death]

The best of these cheesy stories came out in the late 80's when Jap Sportbikes hit the market. Specifically the GSXR 1100. The "news stories" belched out by ABCNBCCBS at the time were hysterically funny to watch.

"Crotch Rockets...bla, bla, bla... "Rice Burners"....bla, bla, bla... So funny to stop and think about it now. The networks were even trying to push the silly angle that Japan was "getting back at us" for WW11. I miss those days of utter nonsense in reporting anything about motorcycles. Having said that, how kewl is it to be able to go out and buy a state of the art motorcycle that weighs under 380 pounds and has 160+ rear wheel horsepower? Fun, Fun, Fun!

Nothing makes the old ticker pump faster than going from zero to 150 and back to zero in under 25 seconds. :)

[Ouderkirk]

I don't get this wehole thing. We used to screw the the NYS police who would hide out with theor speed traps on I-81. We as a group would buzz them at 170+ mph. When they would chase us, we would split up and circle back on them. Eventually they stopped setting up their speed traps in that section because they knew we would have them chasing vapor trails.

Kawasaki Ninja ZX-11
Yoshimura Pipe
Lectron Flat slide carbs (44mm)
Shaved head to get 12:1 compression.

Top speed 182mph

[Crawdad]

It's why we in the insurance claims business call them donorcycles.

[I still care]

I was told by someone that the police do not even attempt to catch these high speed bikes because they are so fast they can't do it. That may be hearsay.

I can say that almost every single night after midnight 2 of these bikes flash down the road in back of my house. My son says they are doing over 100 mph, and they are so loud they wake us all up. One day they are going to get in a major accident, I just hope it's not us.

[RetiredArmy]

RUT ROW! New socialist dimocrat campaign will be for motorcycles to be banned.

[Kenton]

I had a bunch of guys on crotch rockets weaving in and out of freeway traffic at over 100 MPH one Sunday not too long ago on I-90 in Ohio. And looking in my rear-view mirror, I saw several cop cars in hot pursuit in the high-speed lane.

As they passed me, I noticed the cops were from the two communities we'd just passed through. They eventually caught 'em.

That's probably lucky for them, if they'd dumped one on the freeway, they'd probably have 50-100 cars and trucks go right over top of them before anybody figured out what happened.

I give bikers plenty of room in front of me because of stuff like that. But some of these guys seem to be competing for the Darwin award.

[mutley]

"screaming at 80 mph "

80 is hardly screaming. 180mph is screaming.

[Ben Mugged]

According to eye witnesses, Boren accelerated with an open throttle from an intersection near the crash site. Dennison said his estimate of 80 mph at the time of impact was conservative. Boren possibly was exceeding 100 mph. The accident report puts the primary blame on Boren's speed.

I find it difficult to estimate the closure rate on a small vehicle traveling at great speed. No wonder someone pulled out in front of him.

[Al Gator]

NOW HEAR THIS:

RICE ROCKET DARE-DEVILS ARE NOT BIKERS.

BIKERS ARE BIKERS, STUNT RIDERS ARE STUNT RIDERS, NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET.

nuff said.

[Tribune7]

Bikers Playing Fast and Loose

Sounds like a plot from any number of movies circa 1966

[Rakkasan1]

a fool and his intestines are soon parted.