# Crazy Wild Commute (or why car drivers hate motorcyclist) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319 "2011-03-11T19:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/1 "2011-03-11T19:02:03Z")
[This person won’t live long](http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/high_speed.html), but he sure sure made an exciting video. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/2 "2011-03-11T19:12:23Z")
Is it just me, or does anyone else just wish someone would have to open their door to puke or something, not knowing the guy was coming? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/3 "2011-03-11T19:54:41Z")
I hope someone posts the video he’s making when he becomes a pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/4 "2011-03-11T20:07:36Z")
I feel bad for the guy who is driving the car under which his hurtling body will eventually come to rest. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/5 "2011-03-11T20:08:13Z")
What’s the big deal? Looks like every motorcyclist I see around here. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/6 "2011-03-11T21:42:43Z")
As a motorcyclist, I want to kick this guy’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/7 "2011-03-11T22:33:00Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I hope someone posts the video he’s making when he becomes a pizza. The problem is that all you’ll see is some object looming and then the camera will go blank very suddenly. You’ll need a different video to see an asshole’s asshole spread over 3 km. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/8 "2011-03-12T02:25:03Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > What’s the big deal? Looks like every motorcyclist I see around here. 🙂 I don’t see them (the crazies that is) around here so much as _feel_ them, as they overrev their engines on the nearby thoroughfare at 3am in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/9 "2011-03-12T02:58:33Z")
Anybody remember the video with two guys climbing the radio tower? It was scary because the height, but you understood that it was a calculated risk to get to the top and back, and they weren’t taking any unnecessary risks. The motorcyclist, on the other hand, is a fugitive from the law of averages\* \*With apologies to Bill Mauldin. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/10 "2011-03-12T03:03:44Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > The motorcyclist, on the other hand, is a fugitive from the law of averages\* > > \*With apologies to Bill Mauldin. Maybe thats why he is driving like a madman. He’s got Death hot on his heels. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/11 "2011-03-12T05:04:43Z")
At least four or five times, a few inches less clearance or a driver decides to make a crossing turn and that video would have ended prematurely. Ugh, what an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/12 "2011-03-12T05:08:42Z")
> [@user\_hostile](#): > > Anybody remember the video with two guys climbing the radio tower? It was scary because the height, but you understood that it was a calculated risk to get to the top and back, and they weren’t taking any unnecessary risks. The motorcyclist, on the other hand, is a fugitive from the law of averages\* > > \*With apologies to Bill Mauldin. For anyone who hasn’t seen it, [here it is](http://www.liveleak.com/mp53/player.swf?config=http://www.liveleak.com/mp53/player_config.php?token=07b_1284580365%26embed=1). NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/13 "2011-03-13T03:44:17Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > As a motorcyclist, I want to kick this guy’s ass. You and me both. For the other 98% of motorcyclists, we don’t ride this way. That’s also the problem, only a few idiots do and then the rest of us get painted with the same brush, or worse not seen at all. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/14 "2011-03-13T15:56:01Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > As a motorcyclist, I want to kick this guy’s ass. +1 > [@user\_hostile](#): > > _ **This** _ motorcyclist, on the other hand, is a fugitive from the law of averages\* Weapons grade stupid generally doesn’t last long. Hopefully he doesn’t take someone else with him when he goes. ---
**Author:** ![Pops1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@Pops1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pops1963)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/15 "2011-03-13T23:30:42Z")
As an aside in Dallas recently police found a motorcycle going by itself on I20. The rider has not been found yet. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/16 "2011-03-13T23:54:36Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > You and me both. For the other 98% of motorcyclists, we don’t ride this way. That’s also the problem, only a few idiots do and then the rest of us get painted with the same brush, or worse not seen at all. So he’s a 2%-er? ---
**Author:** ![Snnipe\_70E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Snnipe\_70E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snnipe_70E)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/17 "2011-03-14T00:04:46Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > So he’s a 2%-er? Not for long. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/18 "2011-03-14T00:39:43Z")
I suspect that the playback speed of that video has been monkeyed with. At certain parts of the video, you can see the needle of the speedometer on the low end, but the motorcycle seems to be going really fast. Especially through some of those tight squeezes. Also, there are times that you can see the left hand squeezing the clutch for long periods of time. In other words, what appears to be a motorcycle going 90 MPH through slow moving traffic might really be a motorcycle going 15 MPH through stopped traffic. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crazy-wild-commute-or-why-car-drivers-hate-motorcyclist/574319/19 "2011-03-14T02:53:00Z")
That wasn’t the speedometer. It’s the [tachometer](http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/53725/Motorcycle-Photo-Gallery-Photo/2010-Yamaha-YZF-R1-Street-Smackdown.aspx).