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10 things car drivers should know about motorcycles
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| April 7, 2011
| Hell for Leather Magazine
Posted on 04/07/2011 10:58:19 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: jagusafr
I especially like No. 11. Cell phoners and texters are a PITA to other car drivers, too.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
We saw an “organ donor” talking on his cell phone as he was riding his motorcycle on a hilly and curvy road.
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posted on
04/07/2011 11:49:04 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(TX and MI - When the going gets tough, the dims run and hide.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Also, here in California, motorcyclists are authorized to split lanes. Don’t know who came up with that dumb law but it’s dangerous as hell and tends to scare folks in cars, leading to accidents.
To: US Navy Vet
unlike Obnoxious Pedal Bikers It took until the 17th comment. Bike haters must all be out picking up more hay seed for pa, or sleeping under the porch.
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posted on
04/07/2011 11:52:19 AM PDT
by
Minn
To: An American in Turkiye
Also, here in California, motorcyclists are authorized to split lanes. Don?t know who came up with that dumb law but it?s dangerous as hell and tends to scare folks in cars, leading to accidents. It sure startled me the first time I saw it. It'd be interesting to know how a law that seems so crazy came to be.
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posted on
04/07/2011 11:55:22 AM PDT
by
Minn
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On the freeway I treat motorcycles the same way good truck drivers treat cars - let them pass wherever possible and in general try to stay out of their way. What would be a minor fender-bender in a car could mean organ donation time for a motorcycle-driver's family.
Problem is so many motorcycles split lanes passing slow traffic on the freeway - very hard to see them coming since they're both small and going much faster than you are, and if you unintentionally drift a bit to your left or right just as they're coming up on you it's going to end very badly for the motorcycle driver.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Look for motorcycles Especially since most motorcyclists don't believe the rules of the road and speed limits apply to them.
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posted on
04/07/2011 12:00:49 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
To: TSgt
Motorcyclists enjoy being obnoxious by unnecessarily revving their engines I believe the standard response to that is "loud pipes save lives".
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posted on
04/07/2011 12:03:22 PM PDT
by
Minn
To: Minn
I support bike lanes. They keep cyclists out of my way when I’m driving.
My only caveat: they don’t remove automobile lanes from the road to implement the bike lanes.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
My problem isn't that cagers can't see me. It is a problem when they stare at me trying to figure out "what in the heck is that", rather than watching the road. I have had cars pull up beside me on the interstate and have people stick out a camera and take my picture.
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posted on
04/07/2011 12:04:22 PM PDT
by
SC DOC
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The suggestions are fine. The author is behaving like an obnoxious hectoring jackass. Bikers assume added risk and they do so voluntarily. People who go out of their way to tell others what they should be doing are generally up to no good.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I actually passed a guy a couple of months ago who was riding a crotch rocket and texting with his left hand. At 70mph. On the highway. Can you spell “deathwish”?
Colonel, USAFR
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posted on
04/07/2011 12:05:02 PM PDT
by
jagusafr
("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
People in cars who pass motorcycles think they do not have to cross over the centerline; they skim past a MC rider way too close.
We tour rural back roads on our MC’s—we are not out there for speed thrills. We yield to horseback riders, tractors, pedestrians, and pedal bikers. I wish people in cars were more considerate. Pass me, but please do so in the other lane.
Hang up and drive, and please don’t tailgate.
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posted on
04/07/2011 12:09:49 PM PDT
by
two23
(Liberals Have Created a Culture of Lies)
To: US Navy Vet
All you have to do when on a Motorcycle is remember that YOU are invisible.
Not quite.
Ya see that doesn't' help a bit when someone left turns directly into your direction of travel...There won't be time to blink.
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posted on
04/07/2011 12:10:41 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Minn
"loud pipes save lives".
I'm not even talking about loud pipes. I'm talking about sitting outside an ice cream parlor enjoying an ice cream with my family and having a bunch of fat baby boomer assholes hop on their bikes and blast me and my family with unnecessary loudness so they can feel cool. If bikers want people to respect them, they should offer respect to others.
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posted on
04/07/2011 12:12:15 PM PDT
by
TSgt
(Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I prefer to assume other drives, including other motorcycles, are idiots, don’t see me, and cannot brake, accelerate or turn as fast as I can. So, I ride accordingly and use things to my advantage and ride very defensibly. I don’t brake faster than normal traffic, I don’t change lanes quickly, and I always give myself an out. Since I can accelerate and turn faster that adds to my options for getting out.
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posted on
04/07/2011 12:14:34 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
To: An American in Turkiye; Minn
Dont know who came up with that dumb law but its dangerous as hell and tends to scare folks in cars, leading to accidents. I've only visited CA a few times. I also noticed that, and--as a rider myself--thought it extremely stupid to allow and do.
I have heard from CA friends that it was the CHP who pushed for this to allow them to split lanes and move up in traffic.
< shrug > I don't know. It's just what I've heard.
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posted on
04/07/2011 12:14:52 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: US Navy Vet
All you have to do when on a Motorcycle
is remember that YOU are invisible.
Cars DO NOT see you. True
Assume that you are invisible
Treat intersections like a kill zone
>5 years experience, >16,000 mi.
To: The Sons of Liberty
I'd estimate that 75% of motorcycle accidents are caused by car or truck drivers....
people in cars can be oblvious to a motorcycle, thinking that somehow being in a car means everyone else shouldn't be there...
motorcyclists pay taxes and they buy insurance...they have just as much right as any car or truck...
the real problem?....TOO MANY CARS AND TRUCKS....
we'd solve our energy problem easily if more people drove motorcycles/mopeds or rode a bicyle for in town trips....
btw, I don't have a motorcycle....but my husband has his whole life....he's quick to condemn poor drivers whether they be in a car or on a cycle...
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posted on
04/07/2011 12:24:42 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: SC DOC
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