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Spiffness posted:Someone said it very eloquently: 'Those aren't motorcyclists, those are assholes on motorcycles, there is a big difference'. Awww geez, really? Eloquently? You're my new #1 favorite poster  Bugdrvr posted:As a motorcyclist who dislikes inattentive drivers as much as anybody (and who deals with MANY, MANY of them during my daily 60 mile commute), my opinion is SUV guy did nothing wrong. Yeah, it ain't easy when you ain't got time to bleed. sorry I would have done the same thing in that situation. Bunch of douchebags crawling all over the lanes, making a mess of traffic laws and trying the "own the road" because they're a large group? They can gently caress right off and ride properly instead of that macho bullshit. And once they start with clearly threatening behavior and trying to break into the vehicle, drat straight any father with his wife and kid in the car is going to do something desperate.
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Bugdrvr posted:If that were me and I had my wife and kid in the car I'd be playing loving motorcycle pinball until the cops got there.
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Oct 1, 2013 16:03
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This is fantastic. And will probably be a $1500 option on next years model.
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Oct 1, 2013 17:09
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For what it's worth, they've apparently arrested the guy on the bike who did the first brake check.
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Oct 1, 2013 17:14
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Good, gently caress that guy.
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Oct 1, 2013 17:18
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I wish the federal government would surround my jeep on sports bikes
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Oct 1, 2013 17:47
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IOwnCalculus posted:For what it's worth, they've apparently arrested the guy on the bike who did the first brake check. Hopefully an incitement charge on top of the traffic violations.
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Oct 1, 2013 17:59
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I saw that video yesterday and I was bummed about how many internet videos I see that I never hear any sort of resolution to about what happened. Then I come into work today and it was like the second headline on cnn.com. I'm not saying I want every news outlet to just cover memes and youtube from now on, but in this one instance it was nice. I just don't get people who go to these huge gatherings for the sole purpose of clogging roads and being dicks. Wouldn't you rather ride with a couple of people on some back roads than just try to get into Times Square surrounded by 1000 other bikes and not going anywhere? "Hollywood Stuntz" indeed. Edit: vv at one point I saw an ATV with what looks like a small yellow New York license plate on it. Are those actually road legal in New York if they have blinkers or something? davebo fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Oct 1, 2013 |
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Oct 1, 2013 18:04
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So the original poster of the video had more online that he quickly took down. But, as is the case, someone snagged them and put them on LiveLeak: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3cd_1380579664 You can see them lanesplitting and driving on the sidewalk with pedestrians on it.
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Oct 1, 2013 18:08
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Solar Coaster posted:So the original poster of the video had more online that he quickly took down. But, as is the case, someone snagged them and put them on LiveLeak: I honestly don't understand what the hell gets into people sometimes. I speed. I admit it. I also slow the hell down in residential areas, and ALL the way down in school zones. I stop fully at stop signs. I don't cut across the double yellow when they turned it sharper than they should have for the turn. I can't fathom taking a motorcycle on a sidewalk or surrounding an SUV just to be a dick.
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Oct 1, 2013 19:00
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http://youtu.be/BLwe7UqUX7k More video from the motorcycle group. I can't loving believe what I am seeing.
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Oct 1, 2013 19:49
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tetrapyloctomy posted:I honestly don't understand what the hell gets into people sometimes. I speed. I admit it. I also slow the hell down in residential areas, and ALL the way down in school zones. I stop fully at stop signs. I don't cut across the double yellow when they turned it sharper than they should have for the turn. I can't fathom taking a motorcycle on a sidewalk or surrounding an SUV just to be a dick.
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I really wish motorcyclist would stop trying to kill themselves around me to be honest. I know you guys (who do this) think you are hella fuckin' cool, riding in formation, but when your inside group is riding tires on the white line, that means you are in my lane bub.
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Last winter I was trying to park in a really busy part of the city and after about an hour of searching for street parking I found what appeared to be a row of public parking spaces that were rather hidden from the main roads, with a spot. Basically the only thing you need to know is that the parking spaces were at the bottom of a really steep hill shaped cul-de-sac with apartments on one side, and a giant cliff with i5 on the other side. After a few hours my friend and I come back to the car and we decide to chill and eat some sandwiches in the car before we leave. After a bit I notice this little hatchback (I think a Mitsubishi?) appears to be slowly backing down the hill into my friend's car (a shitbox so neither of us cared) and then pulling forward when it gets about half a foot from our bumper. Cue this happening several times. I'm thinking "oh boy looks like I parked in someone's reserved spot" because it's pretty common for people to be aggro enough about parking to block you in and call a tow truck in this particular neighborhood. Well, I was mistaken. It starts pointing toward the Mini Cooper parked next to me instead, rolls down the hill, and then a 18-20 year old girl wearing an extremely short black and metallic dress jumps out of the driver seat, runs behind the car, and tries to push it back up the hill. Obviously there's too much momentum. My passenger and I jump out of the car, the girl gets pinned between the two cars and both of her legs appear to be broken at the knee and there was blood everywhere. My friend gets there in time to stop some of the impact but her car literally bounced a good way back up the hill from the momentum. Once I get there we're able to hold the car in place, and some neighbors show up to help move it. Right away I can tell that the driver is heavily intoxicated, and she starts throwing up. Another guy who just showed up and I start asking her where the keys are, and she says that they're in the ignition but all of her locks except the hatch are frozen shut so the only way to enter the car is through the hatch. Without even giving us a chance she drags herself through the hatch and a giant mountain of clothes with two broken knees, SCREAMING in pain, and tosses us the keys. I still to this day have no idea why she did this. The other guy climbed in while his family and I pushed the car into a parking spot. After this is all said and done, she explains, "I'm really drunk and my clutch is out and my brakes don't work and my car is stuck in first, please don't call the cops" I share the road with this car. Oh yeah the handbrake worked just fine. The guy who steered the car into the parking spot simply said "that car is so hosed, it's amazing that she managed to not kill anyone on the way here. There are NO brakes." I never actually "drove" it but I'll take his word on it's state of fuckedness. The Mini didn't have a scratch on it 
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Oct 1, 2013 20:51
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So she was trying to do a hill start while drunk out of her mind and then proceeded to compound it with some fractures? Nice.
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Oct 1, 2013 21:05
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Idly browsing the for sale section for stuff for E87s, I come upon these wheels: I'm sure those two tires had excellent grip, especially in the wet.
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bolind posted:Idly browsing the for sale section for stuff for E87s, I come upon these wheels: Do used tire places sell stuff like that cheap to people who swap them out for drifting competitions at tracks or something? Surely there are penalties if police catch you with tires like that on public roads, right? Edit: apparently 1/16th inch is the legal minimum but I'm not sure if a cop would actually allow you to drive away on those tires or just write you a ticket. davebo fucked around with this message at 22:30 on Oct 1, 2013 |
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The driver of the SUV should have put it in reverse and ran over all of them. Every person in that group had the power to stop that from spiraling out of control and they did nothing but either watch or participate. A certain motorcycle gang around here likes to do big-dick stuff like that all the time and more than once I have almost run one over for that poo poo. gently caress em.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:So she was trying to do a hill start while drunk out of her mind and then proceeded to compound it with some fractures? Nice. With effectively no clutch or brakes too
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iForge posted:The driver of the SUV should have put it in reverse and ran over all of them. Every person in that group had the power to stop that from spiraling out of control and they did nothing but either watch or participate. A certain motorcycle gang around here likes to do big-dick stuff like that all the time and more than once I have almost run one over for that poo poo. gently caress em. Actually when he stopped the first time and they slashed his tires he hit three of them when he sped off. Sadly, no injuries.
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Solar Coaster posted:So the original poster of the video had more online that he quickly took down. But, as is the case, someone snagged them and put them on LiveLeak: You forgot to mention running EVERY red light. Edit: and riding in the oncoming lane 
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Oct 1, 2013 23:25
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Geirskogul posted:Actually when he stopped the first time and they slashed his tires he hit three of them when he sped off. Supposedly one of those 3 who were hit is now in a coma in the hospital with multiple broken bones and possibly paralyzed (according to his family).
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davebo posted:Edit: vv at one point I saw an ATV with what looks like a small yellow New York license plate on it. Are those actually road legal in New York if they have blinkers or something? No, my brother has an ATV with NY plates but that only makes it legal to ride on private property. Riding unregistered/illegal dirt bikes and ATVs through the streets isn't uncommon in NYC, I guess it's mostly a Bronx thing but I've seen it in person here in Brooklyn too, just not in groups. Your chances of getting caught are very low and even if you do you usually only end up with a couple hundred dollars to pay and maybe you wont get your ride back.
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BraveUlysses posted:Supposedly one of those 3 who were hit is now in a coma in the hospital with multiple broken bones and possibly paralyzed (according to his family). Probably had nothing to do with the initial attack on the range rover either. I wonder how many civil cases are going to come out of this after all the criminal ones are dealt with.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Probably had nothing to do with the initial attack on the range rover either. I wonder how many civil cases are going to come out of this after all the criminal ones are dealt with. here, found the story: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/01/20772232-1-biker-charged-another-critical-in-nyc-range-rover-chase?lite I feel bad that his family doesn't realize how much of a shithead this guy is. he's one of the few that got off his bike at the first part of the incident  (red circle) quote:Mieses, who lives in Lawrence, Mass., can be seen on the video getting off his green bike to check on Cruz, his aunt said. He was standing near the SUV when Lien suddenly took off and ran over him, she said.
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He's from Lawrence? That's all they needed to say. I heard a story about a firefighter from Lawrence. He had moved to Lawrence to take a job at the fire department there and was moving into his new house. When he and his friends took a break to get some lunch, someone broke into the house and stole a lot of what they'd already moved in. On their return to the house they discovered this and called the police. While they were on the phone with the police someone stole the moving truck (and the consequentially the rest of his stuff) right out of the driveway. He tried to get help through the fire department, the police usually look out for firemen, but he never got anything back. Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Oct 2, 2013 |
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PleasantDirge posted:So I happen to be friend of a friend removed from the young man who is currently in the hospital with broken ribs and is paralyzed for life and there is a LOT that did not get shown to you in the video. This post from the GBS thread was too good to not share.
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Holy poo poo, thank you for quoting that. The post itself is pretty hilarious but the next few postsBeardless Riker posted:This thread got exponentially dumb recently and it wasn't even my fault, gently caress that guy for stealing my thunder VikingSkull posted:Yeah, sorry man, that guy went on some next level poo poo. You got outclassed. 
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GBS, home to all Icon field armor owners.
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davebo posted:Do used tire places sell stuff like that cheap to people who swap them out for drifting competitions at tracks or something? Surely there are penalties if police catch you with tires like that on public roads, right? Bald tires aren't a primary offense, meaning you need to be a fuckwad who gets pulled over AND acts like a dick before you'll get cited for an unsafe vehicle due to this. I'm not saying that makes it OK, but you need to go pretty far into retardation to end up with a criminal citation for it.
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bolind posted:Idly browsing the for sale section for stuff for E87s, I come upon these wheels: This image is my in-laws Malibu. The back tires have no tread left at all. I berated them for a week before they finally went to the shop. They came back with the same tires. Apparently $100 bucks per tire was "a rip-off". They went somewhere else and got some used tires. Did I mention my in-laws are idiots with enough money to do whatever the hell they want?
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:He's from Lawrence? That's all they needed to say. Having grown up a few towns over from that poo poo hole I completely believe everything you said. (I grew up in brahdfaaaaaaaaahd, the pretentious side of Haverhill. We were the ones fixing the family cars in the driveway and making the neighbors unhappy about their property values.)
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argondamn posted:This post from the GBS thread was too good to not share. Bikers don't solve problems with violence but if you confront a biker you better be prepared to lose teeth and organs!!!! 
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bolind posted:Idly browsing the for sale section for stuff for E87s, I come upon these wheels: Does this look like 1 side being bald to anyone else? It looks like the middle 2 tires in that picture are narrower than the outside 2. To me, it looks like: [rear][front][front][rear] Is it just me?
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Probably lens distortion in the camera, I believe the ad said that the rears had 0% tread left and the fronts 80% so... 1-series are notorious for chewing fronts, so maybe some steel wire stuck out and their mechanic wouldn't let them go without getting new tires or something.
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Foggy as poo poo today with <25 yard visibility in places. From what I saw a rough breakdown was 25% head lights on, 50% DRL, 25% no lights at all. So 75% or so of the traffic was invisible from behind and 25% was invisible from the front.
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bolind posted:Probably lens distortion in the camera, I believe the ad said that the rears had 0% tread left and the fronts 80% so... Also 5'ers are notorious rear wheel chewers too.
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Galler posted:Foggy as poo poo today with <25 yard visibility in places. From what I saw a rough breakdown was 25% head lights on, 50% DRL, 25% no lights at all. So 75% or so of the traffic was invisible from behind and 25% was invisible from the front. That's the thing with all these new-fangled electric cars on the road, less than a quarter of the few dozen cars i've seen use any lights. It's as if the drivers are instructed never to use any of their lights or blinkers whatsoever. Are electrical cars that finicky that turning on your lights during low-visibility drains that much precious juice from the batteries? Last week at work i had to explain to two colleagues how to turn off the A/C function in a Mitsubishi Colt, it has 3 spin-buttons which you can all press for an additional function (A/C, Rear-window heater, close cabin filter), they wondered why it was so bloody cold in those cars, i told them next time to push the icicle icon. These are people that have driven in those cars for the past year now, including winter. Yes, they were driving cars with A/C in winter wearing thick coats, only a few have overridden the A/C by also dialing up the temperature switch. It's not just colleagues, one had a flat tire two weeks ago, drove it to a garage on-site, found out it's been rocking winter-tires since.... last winter, apparently our whole fleet of cars, vans and tow-trucks have been driving on winter tires the past spring & summer. Absolutely, Amazing.
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I had a older F250/350 almost drive right into the back of my e30 yesterday on the freeway. I was cruising along with traffic in seattle rush hour in one of the few sections that is not completely stop and go, sitting in the right lane following the car in front of me at a reasonable distance(I tend to stay back a couple car lengths in traffic so I can keep it in gear and give people room to merge if they need to) when the truck comes flying right up my back bumper. After he continues to follow me way to close, I do what I normally do to tailgaters, and just lift off the throttle and slow down a bit, only a couple mph. rear end in a top hat proceeds to get so close to me that I thought he was just going to start pushing me down the road. All I could see in my mirror was grill and headlights. All while I am in the right lane, and the next lane over is moving slightly faster. After sitting right on my bumper for a while, he finally moves over and proceeds to follow the car in the next lane just as close. I am used to people follow pretty close in traffic, but this guy was so close I was getting prepared to have him drive into me. Nevermind the fact that I highly doubt he could out brake me, I don't think he could even see my tail lights anymore since he was that loving close. I know seattle drivers are terrible, but this took it to a whole new level.
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