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I agree but it can be very relative to your location as well. A lot of crashes are not the riders fault, and when one lives in an area with the highest population of self entitled moms on cellphone, kids texting, illegals with no insurance doing whatever they want in a traffic pattern you can't even use your blinker in for fear of letting idiots know where your going capital of the friggen universe the chances greatly increase that a crash is imminent and dressing for said crash greatly improves ones chances of survival.

BRUMBEAR wrote:I agree but it can be very relative to your location as well. A lot of crashes are not the riders fault, and when one lives in an area with the highest population of self entitled moms on cellphone, kids texting, illegals with no insurance doing whatever they want in a traffic pattern you can't even use your blinker in for fear of letting idiots know where your going capital of the friggen universe the chances greatly increase that a crash is imminent and dressing for said crash greatly improves ones chances of survival.

You forgot self entitled men, too.

nah just a comma sorry and I'll add the white collar my call is more important than your life CEO beemer men as well as moms on cellphones

Just 1 crash in 2001. Was riding in a group trying to catch up to the leaders (I was in 3rd slot out of 12) and trying beyond my own skill level (or the bikes) on a curvy secondary highway. Missed a corner around 70km/h and ended up flying 100 ft through the air as the bike endo'd into a 4' ditch and going 25' backwards. I was miraculously fine with a sprained wrist but the bike totaled and lesson was learned.



Mike

BRUMBEAR wrote:nah just a comma sorry and I'll add the white collar my call is more important than your life CEO beemer men as well as moms on cellphones

OK.

We have a very large ethnic bunch where I am...and the ones I am speaking of...would probably shoot me with a gun if I ever said to hang up and drive.

Not all in that ethnic group are like that...but they are not as visible...the others that I do speak of usually have loud cars, flashy cars, expensive cars, cars with boom boxes...therefore they are highly visible and obnoxious. There is a large gang component and they don't give f**k about any rules.

Wait a minute you just described NJ

Or New York

I guess a lot of places have those same problems. They just seem to get worse instead of better. No amount of policing seems to have any effect.

blues2cruise wrote:I guess a lot of places have those same problems. They just seem to get worse instead of better. No amount of policing seems to have any effect.

That's because the "Policing" only equates to speed traps and easy money. If the police were truly concerned about safety they would put the speed trap efforts in to stopping a-hole drivers: people who drive distracted, aggressively cut off other drivers etc. In Alberta you can see someone texting at just about every intersection, but you NEVER see any police doing anything about it - even though there is a law against it. If the speed inexplicably drops on an off-ramp from 80-60km/hr., they are all over that!

Hey you know NJ too Highside