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| Locothrope |
 Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:08 pm |
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Hello Everyday Drivers.
I'm here today to talk about something that really chaps my ass, namely Bikers, and the way they behave.
I'm not so thickheaded to think that all bikers are irresponsible, but i've noted a sentiment that I'm not particularly fond of; the concept of the 'cager'.
Am I the only one that finds this term both antagonistic and derogatory?
Don't get me wrong there are terrible drivers out on the road. But also, there are real terrible motorcyclists too. Just because you strapped yourself butt naked (i'm looking at YOU, GXR squids!) doesn't make you a better driver than me.
I live near some very awesome windy roads, and spend a fair bit of time on them, and yes, many of the people on those roads are motorbikers, and I do my best to respect them. I treat them better than I do other cars. But then with surprising frequency I see them doing amazingly dumb shit.
Like this one time I was engaged in some "spirited driving", staying in my lane, being fairly careful, after all It was the middle of the day and there was traffic about. As I come round into a tight downhill left hand-er, This biker, apparently fed up with the assault to his manhood decided this blind corner would be the perfect place for him to try and cut over the double yellow to pass whomever was in front of him. Only by some miracle between my brakes and his did we avoid a very nasty accident.
Seriously? what traffic school do you have to get rejected from to pass on a double yellow in a blind corner?
Moreover a biker was recently on this hill (where occasionally buses run) and he decided that he was man enough to put a knee down in a tight left hand turn, and wound up kissing the grill of said buss at almost 80mph. everyone decried how horrible the accident was, but nobody just outright said what should have been said: the biker was at fault.
Nobody seemed to even think for a moment, that he was responsible for being hugely retarded. Had he been in a civic and done the car equivalent, he'd be berated and hollered at all over; Called an idiot and a ricer and a tool. But why does being on a motorcycle somehow make you exempt from blame?
I know days when I've seen bikers lanesplitting in standstill traffic at upwards of 60 miles an hour. Not horribly illegal but still pretty dangerous given how many mirrors are irregularly spaced in and out of said cars.
I've seen the burnouts, read the articles about how one of you pissed in a lexus owners vents because he was driving poorly. I've even heard horror stories about how you have 'no other option' but to wreck shit on someone's car to remind them of trafic laws. My friend was talking about how he had to punch a bimmer's window to keep him from merging in. I asked is why didn't he brake and fall in behind him? I got stunned silence and a blustery "WELL YOU WEREN'T THERE!" to cover up the fact that just because he had a bike he felt like he had the god given right to damage someone's property. Can you imagine if all car drivers drove like you testosterone amped crotchrocket nutsacks? (cruisers on the whole seem to be a lot more mellow than ducati-humpers) Just chill out, SERIOUSLY.
My question is this? Why? Why is it cool for you to dub us all "cagers" act like the world revolves around you, and that god himself has no way to rival your manhood, then demand special treatment from absolutely everyone on the road?
Sharing means you give too assholes. And if I see one more idiot newbie on a bike too afraid to lean into the turns on my favorite roads, but refuses to use a turnout because despite the fact I have taken every corner just as fast as he can, and am perpetually so close to his slow ass that I could switch on my popups and push him off his bike, I'll end someone.
Speaking of slow, this brings me to my next point: CYCLISTS.
Listen you be-spandexed jerkwads, Just because you're thinner than me, and choose to ride slower than me, doesn't mean you get to own the road. You have a whole goddamn lane allll to yourself, STAY IN IT. do I drive my car in your bike lane? No I don't, so NO, you don't get to ride your bike in the car lane. And even in the bike lane, it pisses me off, nobody ever just rides in the center of the bike lane, no no no, always they're on the leftmost edge as if their worth as a human being depended upon their ability to crush a playing card between their arm and my mirrors. And then, the moment I tire of their shenanigans and put it down a gear and move to pass them, All i see is frantic flailing of hand signals like Michael J. Fox doing semaphore on amphetamines.
never, ONCE does the thought of MOVING OVER TO THE RIGHTMOST PORTION OF THE LANE, occur to these oblivious idiots, they stay firmly planted and force me to wait till i can pass (usually on a double yellow, but ALWAYS ON A STRAIGHT WITH HIGH VISIBILITY FOR THE NEXT 100 YARDS)
And I STILL get dirty looks from them.
So you know what cyclists, to hell with you. You don't do anything but slow everyone down. oh and if you're going to claim you're "helping the environment" go tell that to china, where millions of people ride bicycles and more pollution than the US wishes they could make, pours out of every day.
Sharing the road does not mean only cars respect you, it means you respect cars. Yield to the automobiles when appropriate and possible, and the same courtesy will be returned to you.
If you can't get that through your head, then maybe you should look into chrome plating yourself, at least that way you'll look nice on the grill of some mack truck. |
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| Todd |
| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:39 pm |
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Joined: 23 Aug 2007
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Gotta thank you for joining us!
Been reading all your postings and very pleased you found us. Also really enjoyed your Awarning rant here, well done, my friend.
Please keep it up, we welcome everyones comments. PLUS, we'll never post anything in the "Tales of the Everyday Driver" section of the Forums, that's entirely for you guys... so if something random strikes you and you're not sure were to put it - there you go...
Great writeup here - especially the chrome commentary in the close.
Again, great to have you with us. We can't thank all of you fans enough already. Excited to release all the info of the TV debut, but keep coming by... more Web content is always on the way.
Tell everybody! 
Drive safe (and that doesn't mean slow...)
Todd. |
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