This should be an interesting thread, pro-bikers, anti-bikers and just about everyone in between will have some malformed opinion about this.
Suffice to say, that I rode motorcycles of almost every type for close to 30 years, until I gave them up for my “health” (ran off the road too many times to count).
Yesterday, driving back from a Scout hike in the Sierras on the US395, dozens of bikers...Harleys, imports, etc. No matter what type...all riding like complete A$$holes.
Cutting drivers off, passing in no passing zones, passing on the shoulder, forcing drivers to make decisions they shouldn’t have to, and on and on it went. Even when I, as an ex-rider gave some room for riders to get around me, I got the finger and was cut-off for my courtesy as a “thank you”.
Why do I share this anecdotal evidence? Because there’s a “new breed” of rider out there. One I don’t want to be associated with.
So the riders will bitch about the cagers and the cagers will do likewise about riders. The age old yarn about who is more evil than the other still goes on.
Been riding since 1970. I am with the cager on this one.
This story really has very little to do with bikers and a lot to do with the moral character of our society.
It's a week-long biker meet where thousands of motorcyclists with raspy exhaust pipes thunder all over town with some acting like douchebags and getting into crashes. I passed the scene of two accidents in the same place, both bikers having to be carted away on a stretcher.
Couple years ago, a few of the Vagos and Hells Angels even managed to murder one another at the Nugget casino.
Bodyguard drivers in South America do an interesting “weave” pattern in traffic that makes it very unlikely bikes will get very close to their vehicles.