Serious answer, most of the time they are. So are deer, dogs, and any other animal you can’t eat in a single serving.
I doubt it will be as good as you (or I) thought it will be, as the OP seems to be a bit stubborn…
But I will give it a try…
I asked “How drunk were you?”
You still avoid the question.
Put your eyes close to the screen and read carefully:
I DON’T DRINK AND RIDE!
Thank you.
Quick question for the OP, is the term ‘squid bastards’ your general insult, or did you have reason to believe these were navy people? Just being curious.
‘Squid’ is a term for motorcyclists, usually young, usually on sportbikes, who ride irresponsibly. Possibly derived from SQUirrely kID.
Thanks, Johnny L.A.. Never heard it before. Consider some ignorance fought.
I don’t particularly object to lane splitting, particularly in slow moving traffic. The advantage of motorcycles is their manuverablity, why not take advantage of it? And the vast majority of motorcyclists I see drive well and safely.
That’s a completely different animal from two dozen bikes going past simultaneously on the left shoulder, right shoulder, between fast lane and middle lane, and between middle and slow lane - all in heavy traffic, and moving at an excess of 120mph, i.e. 60+mph faster than the vehicles around them.
If a “cager” makes a perfectly legal, safe, well-signalled lane change (much less an “abrupt lane change without looking”), these guys are never going to see him in time. The sight lines simply aren’t long enough in dense traffic to give them enough time to react.
Furthermore, when something comes out of the blue, flies past you at warp speeds, and assaults you without warning with an extremely loud, high-pitched noise, I think it’s entirely understandable that you might jump. Ideally, you’ll stay in lane, but it’s going to depend on your reaction time, car, and road conditions. If you don’t stay in lane and happen to wipe out the next motorcycle in the pack, or the innocent car (or safe-riding bike) next to you - well, I consider any damage or injury directly due to the fuckwits who scared the bejuzus out of drivers. They are just as much “real assholes” as oblivious car drivers, because they DELIBERATELY, KNOWINGLY create dangerous situations that could easily kill other people on the road.
mischievous
Let me say this to start, I have no problems with Sport Bikes. I really don’t. I have a problem with assholes who seem to feel it is my responsibility to keep them alive. Yes, I am a cager. Yes, I drive above the posted limit. I DO NOT attempt wheelies or stoppies on public highways. I do not try to exceed the speed limit by more than 100mph. Yet I have seen these things on I 95.
The bikers seem to feel that it is my responsibility to look out for them. I try to, but when they cut lanes, I really can’t anticipate their moves.
Also, bikers, a residential street, even on a Sunday morning is not your stunt track. This is not the minor annoyance that skateboarders are. This is life and death.
Sgt Schwartz
AFAIK, we call them ‘Squids’ because that’s what they look like when they take a guardrail at 95mph.
It’s a tangent, I know, but as long as you seem to have a problem with people not answering your questions, I must ask again:
Why do you care which browser I use?
I am grateful I do not live where lane splitting is legal. When I check my blind spots, I am looking for anything in the lane next to me, either there or about to be there. I am not looking for a motorcycle coming up the dashed line.
That’s why most of us pay a hell of a lot more attention to traffic that most cagers.
And you should, if you’re living dangerously. Which you are. I can check my blind spot for lanes on either side of me by turning my head 125 degrees to my left or right, as appropriate. If you are coming up the dashed line on either side, checking for your presence requires an almost 180 degree turn which renders me far more vulnerable to a sudden action in front of me.
You are a fucking stupid moron. Get back under your fucking bridge.
No excuse. Whenever someone comes past me and I had no idea they were there, I cuss the shit out of myself for not watching behind me.
On your own admission you were 10mph over the limit, so your beef appears to be that they were further over the limit than you were. :rolleyes:
That would be me, but I don’t claim authorship of the line. 
I was driving once and I noticed some headlights coming up close behind me. This was a two-lane road and a fairly narrow one at that. It turns out the “headlights” were two motorcycles with another behind each of them. This was at night and two went around each side of my car to pass me. I had to drive completely straight so as not to end up hitting any of them. One slight error and all four could have been in the hospital. What the hell is the matter with these people?
No my beef is that they passed between me and the shoulder on a two lane road. And because the road was winding I was looking ahead picking my cornering lines, not watching behind me for a flock of flying assholes.
scottkris, as far as I can tell, your only purpose on this message board is to act like an asshole and piss people off. Which is pretty much our exact definition of trolling. This is a warning to knock it off.
Not really. Lane splitting, when done right, is done when traffic is moving between 0-30mph. The motorcyclist shouldn’t be going more then 5-15 mph faster then the rest of traffic. The faster traffic is moving the closer in speed the two should be.
It’s quite easy to do and safer for the motorcyclist as they are not sitting still enough to be hit. I picked it up quite quickly when I was in Europe a few years ago and really wish I was able to do it here.
This of course doesn’t mean that if traffic is actually moving at the speed limit dickheads should be doing 100mph between traffic. It’s those assholes that give the rest of us a bad name. And there are times like the OP when you can’t see more then a few feet behind you because of the curves so he very well might have missed someone doing 2 times his speed.