sitting on your couch can kill you to. I almost died there myself. lucky for me someone found me and took me to the E.R.

Quote from: 007brendan on September 27, 2010, 11:50:50 AM

QuoteIt's nothing more than that south park episode where the guys on Harleys rode around making more and more noise thinking everyone thought they sounded awesome, when everyone else was just irritated. The majority of people around my town without helmet just figure there's no point in riding a motorcycle if the girls can't see your face to know it's you. Meanwhile everyone on the outside just looks at them and thinks there's something wrong with them.

There are so many things wrong with this:
1. Pretends to know why someone has chosen not to wear a specific piece of gear.
2. Assumes that everyone agrees with him.
3. Contends that people not wearing a specific piece of gear are "irritating" him.

If I say 'the majority of people around my town', and you're not sitting there with me seeing what's going on outside of my office window 40 hours a week, how do you assume you have any idea what the people around my town do? You really assume all the chumps wearing ruff ryder vests and revving their gsxrs non stop at redlights as they do constant loops around the same city block for hours at a time are doing a single thing other than trying to get noticed? Some people are very predictable, and the crowd I see all day is one of them.

I know that not everyone agrees. Clearly the 22 year old girls walking/carrying their 4 kids down the street are easily impressed, and probably don't agree with me.

Do I really need to contend that someone irritates me? Is there really someone here who's able to argue that something doesn't irritate me?


I know it sounds like some people are just being condescending, but the way that every single person on a motorcycle behaves is a reflection on everyone else on a motorcycle. I've wasted more than enough of my life sitting on the side of the road after being pulled over for absolutely no reason other than being on a motorcycle, just because when a suburban cop sees someone on a sportbike they assume that you're doing something illegal. For all the people who do stupid things and end up with their face smashed into the pavement, which then gets plastered all over the news making everyone else in the motorcycle community have to deal with condescending comments from the rest of the general public on an ongoing basis just because I ride a motorcycle, I feel a little bit of irritation is deserved to the people who go out of their way to give otherwise good motorcyclists a poor public image. It may be your freedom to ride without a helmet on, but it turns a bit more public after a city worker has to shovel another motorcyclists face off the road with a shovel. Fair enough?