Do you ride like an asshole?

Agreed, I do not advocate blind faith/reckless abandon..If you are a weekend warrior or timid/need a testosterone shot, you still take chances simply by riding.
I know it is important to maintain an edge of situational awareness by regular application of skills, & sure, - there are rare situations that are randomly disasterous, but root cause analysis tends to validate being switched on & presenting that way to others in your frame of reference..

My P!! didn't have a need of a mirror but I think a divine influence took it away to save me till today.

Jeeeze, watch it...or we`ll have Matt claiming it ascended to paradise for exclusive use by its maker...L.O.L.

This bloke seems to have an opinion, I recall enjoying some of his stuff.. [H.S.Thompson]
"I have ridden a 500lb Vincent through traffic on the Ventura Freeway with burning oil on my legs & run the Kawa 750 triple through Beverly Hills at night with a head full of acid..."
"Some people will tell you that slow is good - & it may be, on some days - but I am here to tell you that fast is better, I`ve always believed this..."

Yeah man ole Hunter Thomson said he like his cafe racing around in town, best after dark. I can relate to Hunter in everything but his death wish. J.A.W. and Matt, its annoying to keep shooting at each other across our club room here even if only a 2 smoke Vespa involved that could pull wheelies the hot Brit bikes couldn't in the day.

Hobot, whats that pot-kettle-black routine again?
I take your point about niggling,[unless, however, a non-response signals tacit acceptance..] but its not like you dont indulge,too, is it? - With ol' Dances W.S.?

& on the subject of old Britbikes doing wheelies back in the day, was Steve Mc Queen riding like an arsehole in Germany in The Great Escape?
Does anyone know if that stunt rider B.Ekins did the bloody marvelous indoors, up staircases , through rooms riding in that Evel Knevel movie?
I caught part of an early Lee Majors movie recently, where he played a disgruntled Vietnam vet hammering a Triumph, escaping the pigs, man..looked to be ol`Buds work too.

Dances and me don't have personal history just slapping around on philosophy or mechanical deviations extremists. I'll stay out between you and Matt.

Bad to riding like a rolling anus, some riders in cities carry ball bearing and other stuff to leave its mark disciplining drivers to be more alert and forgiving of cyclists. Some my pass craft had tail light cuts out and figured out a way to drop soapy water when rear brake applied just before it most needed point. Fish head juice in air ducts. A wheelie now and then gets respectful distance too.

Hobot, feel free to PM Matt,[ he wont reply to mine], so I am bound to confront/crack down on his cracking up - in open forum - on a point-by-point reality orientation basis.
Apologies, if it is too tiresome..

I recall trundling along maybe dome valley / twisties . About four bikes . The one struggling at the rear clawed past the ones hed bunched as your trying to string em out , charged past full whellie at all of 70 into the lane centre , threw out the picks then hurled it over and stuck the thing full throttle .

After brakeing to avoid going up its arse or over it , trundled past trying to get a bit of spaceing for the sweepers . Next thirty seconds astonished
as to as its amusement or imbacelity . The telipahc ' Got It ' as it attempted to hurtle past rounding it of absurdly .

Point and squirt seems to tipify Jappers , Where running the bends more apt to old english iron thats happy to sit on a sweeper without endless corrections

Classic Fawlty Towers quotes.."How ever did they win"... [Must ask Graeme Crosby]...but - "don`t mention the war."

I asked a motorcycle cop about my opinion that a motorcyclist is generally (if not always) safer if their speed is slightly (say, 5 mph) faster than the speed of their surrounding traffic.

He concurred and even allowed that that is what he was taught at the California Highway Patrol school for motor officers.

I then asked him if this safety fact was taught to all police officers, by way of giving them cause to understand why motorcycles so often are cited for speeding. He said they were not so taught and allowed that maybe they ought to be.

Yes, the higher the speed the higher the risk. Yes, on surface streets as opposed to multi-lane freeways, higher speed increases the risk of collision from oncoming left turns or merging side streets or driveways, BUT that higher speed allows you to apply more mental and visual power toward those threats by limiting their application to threats that are in that forward 180* field of threats and by NOT having to pay attention to what is in that rearward 180* field of threats.

Only need to go a few mph faster than most traffic where safe to do so to keep rear end clear. Going faster than wise ain't the same thing as riding somewhat aggressively to get noticed or avoided. I wiggle my forks side to side on approaching traffic or those pulling up to road, when able to. Aggressive braking when aware of what's behind can be consideded aggressive behavior and has saved me more than once when car eased on out for one reason or another. Once was car that thought they could beat me and they should of easy but they ended up mostly just spinning tires on loose stuff so only got cross wise in my lane by time I should of been there but my aggressive habit of tire squeal braking practice saved both us. Still once in a saddle never in full control of events.

Yeah, riding to work draws various comments from co-workers, to which I reply along the lines of... well, I could take the Train, they are protected by ringing bells,flashing stop lights & barrier arms, - yet people still drive into them - & a train can`t take evasive action , or even stop in a timely distance...

DonOR said:

Is this guy the kinda asshole who gives so many of us bad cred or what?

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I've always known of these guys as 'squids'

Some say its because of the way they act, darting around and trying to squeeze through impossibly tight gaps.
Some say its a contraction of 'squished kids' because that's how many of them end up.

Oh, to be young and immortal again.

Why is everyone slower than you is an idiot, but everyone faster than you is an asshole? I think is has something to do with the Doppler effect.