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| TurtleWax Taster ![]() Joined: Mar 2006
Bike: 08 ElectraGlide ( IN Vivid Black)!!!!!!!!!!
Location: Bridgewater, Ma
Posts: 579
| Finally figured it out. Riding to work yesterday it hit me that the worst place to ride is by a Donut shop in the moring when the cagers are in a hurry with cell phone in one hand, coffee in the other and steering with there knee. Their are late for work and calling thier BOSS and NOT LOOKING FOR US!! Dam Scary Not so bad going home but I definatly don't go to work by the coffe shops. |
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| Ditch Magnet ![]() Joined: Jul 2005
Bike: 2005 Boulevard C50
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 163
| Oh man you said it |
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| Third gear and cruising ![]() Joined: Feb 2006
Bike: Buell XB12Ss Lightning
Location: York, Pa
Posts: 521
| I can top that. Today I drove by a high school letting the older kids out for lunch. THey were also all on cell phones and driving like idiots. They were running the red light in front of the school, not paying attention and speeding. I am tempted to contact the school of the problem and perhaps persuade them to moniter the parking lot/street light.
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| Throttle Jockey ![]() Joined: Apr 2004
Bike: '05 Boulevard C50
Location: Central Kentucky
Posts: 3,208
| I agree Shea, some mom in a suburban on a cell phone pulled right out in front of me and my son leaving his school today - still in the parking lot - but a quick blast of the C50's might stock horn startled her into locking up her brakes. I was shocked that she heard the pathetic little squeak, i was ready for her to just keep going. It's amazing how somebody can come to a stop sign at a T interesection and just want to cruise through with her head turned all the way to the left the whole way - never looking right. Man, if I was only driving a big rusty dump truck. Hang it up and drive, beotch...
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| Birthday Boy ![]() Joined: Aug 2005
Bike: '05½ C50 Limited
Location: Baltimore, MD
Posts: 860
| I drive through DC to get to Arlington, VA every day ... and I live inside the B'more beltway.
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| Ditch Magnet ![]() Joined: Sep 2005
Bike: C50
Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 164
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| U.B's LoveChild ![]() Joined: Jan 2006
Bike: 2008 C90 SE
Location: Ajax ,Ontario ,Canada
Posts: 1,214
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The moron drivers in Toronto would give them a run for their money. I find that on my travels in the states , American drivers are a lot better than canadians.
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| Throttle Jockey ![]() Joined: Apr 2004
Bike: '05 Boulevard C50
Location: Central Kentucky
Posts: 3,208
| The DC area is the worst I've seen in the U.S., worse than NYC, Chicago, LA or Atlanta. The old people in Florida can be pretty scary though. If Canadians are worse than DC drivers, that explains the really high insiurance rates up there! (but it doesn't explain why you guys are still alive...)
__________________ Tim Wisner AMA, SCRC Happiness is something we create |
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| Third gear and cruising ![]() Joined: Feb 2006
Bike: Buell XB12Ss Lightning
Location: York, Pa
Posts: 521
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| Seat Tester Joined: Feb 2006
Bike: Still under consideration
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 88
| Remember, They ARE out to kill you.
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| Birthday Boy ![]() Joined: Aug 2005
Bike: '05½ C50 Limited
Location: Baltimore, MD
Posts: 860
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| It's A Conspiracy ![]() Joined: May 2005
Bike: '06 XB12X
Location: 30 41'47.99" N 83 11'26.54" W Hold My Beer
Posts: 9,560
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LOL ...And now with the WAWA/Gas Stations. Are you familiar with the new one down Aramingo near I95? It feels like one have to dispense extra eyes like a pilot dispenses flares. I was almost run over by some cupid doll in a Scalade. She could barely see over the dashboard, Rap music blasting and her cell plasted in her face. i am always on the look out 360* but i ride differently depending which part of the city I am in. Some areas people behave differently than others. This past Friday I went to my first bikers viewing/funeral. biker was rear ended by some female in a minivan. Her excusae is that she was afraid in that area. Bike was stopped at a traffic light waiting, in a mayor road full of traffic. A local and express lanes road. She was affraid! | |
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