Driving my truck to work, I take the freeway. On 9a which goes
around Jacksonville, there is only one stop where a new bridge is
being built, otherwise one can drive 70+ mph around the entire city.
However at this one stop, traffic REALLY tends to back up. Esp at rush
hour, sometimes it takes up to 20 minutes to get thru the bottleneck.
At least a few times a week, a motorcycle rider not content to wait
in line, will ride up between the cars, getting ahead of everyone else
waiting patiently (well some not so patiently). Today, at a bit past
noon, I was stopped at the usual bottleneck. I heard the bike coming
up behind me and watched his as he split the lanes passing several
cars, he went by me and another few cars in front of me but he must
not have been paying attention. There was a large truck with trailor
mirrors attached to it about 4 cars up ahead of me. The bike rider
apparently did not see the mirror as he went by the truck, I think
that the mirror hit his helmet and took him right off of the bike
which traveled on bouncing off of a couple of more cars. What was a
usual 20 minute wait turned in an hour or so while it was all
straightened out. The bike rider was dazed but I don't think he was
hurt. I just hope he had insurance to pay for the damage that he
caused.

J. Clarke wrote:
S'mee wrote:
On Jul 9, 11:28 pm, JaxKayaker <prh... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
IF you idiots would ditch those damn cars it wouldn't be an issue
now
then wouldn't it...you stupid trolling cage monkey.

Funny thing is I can do all my grocery shopping for a family of 4 on
my motorcycle AND get better gas milage.

I'm curious--how do you load it on the bike?  When I've tried that
I've run out of storage real fast and the bread or the eggs or
something always get crushed.

Let's face it.  Cages are BETTER for some things.  Going to the
grocery store is one.

Driving my truck to work, I take the freeway. On 9a which goes
around Jacksonville, there is only one stop where a new bridge is
being built, otherwise one can drive 70+ mph around the entire city.
However at this one stop, traffic REALLY tends to back up. Esp at rush
hour, sometimes it takes up to 20 minutes to get thru the bottleneck.
At least a few times a week, a motorcycle rider not content to wait
in line, will ride up between the cars, getting ahead of everyone else
waiting patiently (well some not so patiently). Today, at a bit past
noon, I was stopped at the usual bottleneck. I heard the bike coming
up behind me and watched his as he split the lanes passing several
cars, he went by me and another few cars in front of me but he must
not have been paying attention. There was a large truck with trailor
mirrors attached to it about 4 cars up ahead of me. The bike rider
apparently did not see the mirror as he went by the truck, I think
that the mirror hit his helmet and took him right off of the bike
which traveled on bouncing off of a couple of more cars. What was a
usual 20 minute wait turned in an hour or so while it was all
straightened out. The bike rider was dazed but I don't think he was
hurt. I just hope he had insurance to pay for the damage that he
caused.

Dr Phil

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:45:07 GMT, Uncle Vic <address at (no spam) withheld.com
wrote:

One fine day in rec.motorcycles, .p.jm at (no spam) see_my_sig_for_address.com
wrote:

You should try using the brain Ged gave you. When I lanesplit, I am
not "ahead of everyone else in line," I am _beside_ them. When you
walk down the sidewalk, do you get pissed off at cars that are
cutting in front of you? When you ride a bicycle, do you make sure
all the cagers stay behind you? When you are in line at the
supermarket, the person in front of you is also trying to get to the
cash register. I am not in some competition with any other cager to
get to the same place or parking space. On my bike, I'm either going
to my garage, or to a motorcycle parking space. No cage would fit in
either space.

Another bogus non-argument. You might as well say 'No one is
going to MY driveway except me in my cage, therefore I couldn't
possibly be a problem'. Yeh, I kinda figured that part out.
However, they are ALL going the EXACT same place at the moment -
that place being 'another mile down the particular road thay're on'.
And everyone in that trafic jam is in competition for it.


If anything, you should appreciate bikers who lanesplit. They, at

As much as I 'appreciate' bikers with straight pipes. After
all they're just looking out for the safety of those around them,
right ? Bullshit.

least, are doing something to alleviate the traffic congestion. The

Bullshit. Another myth from riders who think they're a
piviledged class. 'Everyone should THANK us for riding' !!! Yah,
right.

Oh, cry me a river, you ignorant fuck. Apparently it's guys like you
we bikers have to watch out for. The ones who lie in wait, then
swerve to the edge of their lane to block our path while the good
drivers follow California Law and share the lane with us. I've had to
deal with

Aa a good driver, I follow North Carolina law. And, no, you
don't pass me in my lane. And no, that strip of paint in between
lanes is not 'the motorcycle lane'.

Deal

"drivers" like you, and I always end up getting past you anyway, so
what's the fucking problem, asshole? If you want to solve the
problem, get your own bike. Face it, we ARE a priviledged class, by
means of the Laws of Physics. Deal.

Bwahahahaha !!!! :-)

Competition? Well that figures. You think using the roads is a
competition.

If it wasn't, you wouldn't be trying to cut ahead of everyone
else on line.

One fine day in rec.motorcycles, .p.jm at (no spam) see_my_sig_for_address.com wrote:

Competition? Well that figures. You think using the roads is a
competition.

If it wasn't, you wouldn't be trying to cut ahead of everyone
else on line.

Who the fuck is in line? Should we just connect all the cages, front to
tail, and make them stay in a neat little line? Just for you?

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA

You ignorant fuck.

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:22:36 -0700 (PDT), Rob Kleinschmidt

Absolutely. The motorcyclist had it coming when you
ran into him, as did that bastard pedestrian.

Bullshit strawman again, from a different source now.

In fact, in the situation described, I did not 'run into'
anyone ( afoot or otherwise ).

An experienced and skilled motorcyclist should be able
to both break off the mirror and kick in the door panel
as he passed. Especially if he practices regularly.