Hey jackass on the motorcycle Thursday morning on Portland street. Just because your motorcycle CAN fit between cars stopped at a red light doesn’t mean it SHOULD! Wait your turn in line just like every other motorized vehicle is.
It’s people like you who get killed on the roads by driving like a jerk, then complain that people in cars don’t respect you. Get a life.
—I Hate You
This article appears in Jun 4-10, 2009.
call it a green initiative. hehe
Hell, while i’m on a bicycle I act like a car and wait my turn. Just wait until his antics land him in the intensive care unit and make him a quadriplegic.
Fuck I hate motorcycles. Asdie from asshole-ish behaviour like this (and a hundred other bitches on here), they’re just too damn loud to begin with.
Is it impossible for a motorcycle to start moving without revving the engine so that it wakes the dead?!
I’ve seen a bunch of idiots do this. I happen to know one of them (the company he works for sells certain supplies to my company) and the next time I had to go to his work place, I told him right to his face that he was an idiot for doing it and someday, somebody was going to intentionally open their door just to see him get hurt. All he did was shrug and say in his Cockney accent “more money for me then”. He thinks he could actually sue someone for it. Just goes to show the mentality of these idiots that do this.
Yeah and if you open your car door and the shithead hits it, the idiot will want to sue your ass off. Well it could be worth it for the possible increase of your insurance rates.
OP’s just jealous….
What amazes me is that there are a group of these Morons who are actually lobbying City Hall because they think they should get free parking!! Their reason? They are environmentally friendly! Go figure. Every stand beside one of these noisy monsters and smell the exhaust!? At least car mufflers have pollution control devices on them. These Harley’s essentially have a piece of pipe going from the motor to the outside. Boys if you can afford the $60,000 bike you can afford to pay for parking.
Riding lanes is illegal. Its one of the first things they taught us in Motorcycle safety school. So to the person who bitched about them suing you if you opened your door and they hit you, chances are they wouldnt get too far… and get a ticket for not obeying the law.
As for bikes being loud, they are loud for a reason. How many times have you been driving on a deserted highway or even a moderatly busy one and have a car pass you and you think “where did that come from”… if you had crossed the lane line inadvertently or intentionally and hit the passing car the accident would be bad but there would be a chance of survival with half a tonne of steele protecting you. Motorcycles dont have that protection, so the loud mufflers are there for safety – you can actually hear them coming and know that they are there. But I will agree that some are just too plain loud and annoying.
Hope this clarifies!
PS> I did not spell check, grammar check or even read through this before posting so keep the grammar policing to yourselves please.
NM, it is always possible to move a bike without excessive noise. My thoughts are that people in the city next door should not have to hear my pipes. Loud is good only to a certain degree (ustwess has that point covered). As for lane hopping, that’s an injury waiting to happen.
Try traffic jams in europe. 2 motorcyclist are killed a week in London Uk.
I ride.
I don’t lane split.
I don’t have obnoxious pipes.
We’re not all dicks.
re Bobby33: Motorcycles have catalytic converters by law, fyi, and in Nova Scotia we inspect our motorcycles annually.
Motorcycles are sexy!
Only quiet ones.
I don’t really like crotch rockets. I do love riding on the back of a harley!
Actually it is a fallacy believig you can hear bikes coming up behind you. The sound of an engine is going towards the rear, not the front. With other traffic and a radio on, chances are you won’t hear it. Hell half the people can’t hear an ambulance or the police with their sirens on (facing forward) until they are almost on your ass and half the time not even then.
Thanks gerg and Bro Tim. Saved me some pixels. Loud pipes do not save lives…just annoy people.
Stop generalizing. People in cars are model road citizens? ya whatever…but they are not all morons.
I have never lane split, but trust me, if you open you door on a moving 500lb gas filled motorcycle, expect to b e taken to the burn unit. Ya that’s what I thought. Wiped the smug grin off her fuckin mug eh? I witnessed such a scenario in California (where it is oddly legal btw) and the door of the car did not tear off as usual, it directed the front wheel of the bike into the drivers compartment, the gas line tore off spewing gas all over the driver…and the hot bike engine..you can visualize the rest….Darwin award.
Some drivers are arrogant and annoying on the road too. The only difference between the arrogant motorcyclist and the arrogant driver is that the motorcyclist is HOT. Non arrogant motorcyclists are even HOTTER.
So fuck you OP.