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Old 11-24-2009, 08:51 AM   #1
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yeah forget that whole passing in a no passing zone.........then there's the passing several cars.


sheesh bikers car do no wrong.


guy died here recently practicing wheelies, ran into a building, 2nd time i've heard of tht over the yrs.
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Old 11-24-2009, 08:58 AM   #2
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yeah forget that whole passing in a no passing zone.........then there's the passing several cars.


sheesh bikers car do no wrong.

No kidding. It doesn't really matter if she signaled or not since it was a NO PASSING ZONE...and he was attempting to pass several cars.

Oh I hate when people don't signal but no passing means no passing...not too hard to figure out imho.
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Old 11-24-2009, 09:35 AM   #3
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Old 11-24-2009, 10:57 AM   #4
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yeah forget that whole passing in a no passing zone.........then there's the passing several cars.


sheesh bikers car do no wrong.


guy died here recently practicing wheelies, ran into a building, 2nd time i've heard of tht over the yrs.
I'm not saying that but "alleging" that this guy was "doing wheelies" prior to the accident has nothing to do with the accident itself. Besides, I have personally been in the situation where I was pulled over by a cop because he got a call that someone on a sport bike was doing wheelies. If a bike came by doing a wheelie at any time during the day, of course, it just had to be this guy after the accident!!!

The only reason that wheelies were mentioned was to "spice" up the story. If this accident had occurred between two cars, it would have hardly made the paper. I'm more interested in the fact that "alcohol was involved" personally. You love focusing on "evil sport bike riders", I one the other hand, have a huge hatred of people who drink and drive. There are no lower forms of life, IMHO! You've read one article where a bike actually killed a person in a car. Let's compare that with the number of drunk drivers who have killed people on bikes? Or even in other cars. I would rather take 50 guys doing wheelies on their bikes than even one of you assholes who just "have a couple beers" and drive your cars home.
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Old 11-24-2009, 11:03 AM   #5
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This is why I hate all forms of news media. Everything get sensationalized. The guys driving record isn't that bad, no proof was ever made that this guy was the one doing wheelies and the story never stated who was drinking. That facts are she turned left and he ran into her. This isn't even news worthy but a motorcycle was involved so the media spices it up to bring more negativity to the riding community.
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This is why I hate all forms of news media. Everything get sensationalized. The guys driving record isn't that bad, no proof was ever made that this guy was the one doing wheelies and the story never stated who was drinking. That facts are she turned left and he ran into her. This isn't even news worthy but a motorcycle was involved so the media spices it up to bring more negativity to the riding community.
Exactly!!! The guy was an impatient dumb ass to be sure but I've seen this same maneuver many times. I honestly also avoid passing on double yellow and I try not to pass multiple targets because you never know what the front vehicle is up to... but I won't condemn another person for doing something even if I've only done it once. That is the very definition of hypocrisy.
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Old 11-24-2009, 12:07 PM   #7
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