Peckers

[ethics]

What not to do when owning a sports bike.

Hate assholes like this:

http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=254976

[MNeedham73]

And unfortunately for you Leon, guys like that give the rest of you sport bike riders a very bad reputation.

[tke711]

What bunch of morons. It's one thing to pull a wheelie, but it's completely another for them all to block 5 lanes of traffic.

[Brazbit]

Saw jackasses like that in Portland the last time we were down there. Bunch of friggen morons.

[ethics]

For the record:

I don't care about the wheelies.
I do care that you had to block off traffic just to say, "hey, look at me! I want attention!"

And another thing, who cares? It's not like this is so difficult people who own sports bikes can't do these? I mean, PW's are so 1995.

[cmhbob]

In defense of the bikers, a couple of things:
Blocking all the lanes may not have been narcissistic, but a safety deal. It ended up slowing down the traffic, so that if one of them did go down, traffic would be slightly better able to react.
Along those same lines, the folks running the cameras (and everyone else) should have backed off, in case one of them went down. If you see reckless driving, you don't stay close to it. You increase the distance between you and the bad driver.

[Brazbit]

In defense of the bikers, a couple of things:
Blocking all the lanes may not have been narcissistic, but a safety deal. It ended up slowing down the traffic, so that if one of them did go down, traffic would be slightly better able to react.
I think that is what they think they are doing but they are not blocking off enough following distance to do any good. With the speed those idiots do if they go down that minimal distance still leaves them becoming roadkill.

Along those same lines, the folks running the cameras (and everyone else) should have backed off, in case one of them went down. If you see reckless driving, you don't stay close to it. You increase the distance between you and the bad driver.
That is what we did. Had we had a camera I would have zoomed in for license plates and dropped it off at the local PD as Els slowed away from them but alas I did not have such a camera at the time.

And there is no defending these assholes. Nothing they are doing is defensable. If some idiot wants to go do this shit head out to the local racetrack not the local Interstate. Hell rent the track, charge admission, have fun. There is no excuse for intentionally endangering others on any public road let alone one of the busiest on the west coast.

[MNeedham73]

Got that right, Braz. I-5 is not a road to be dicking around on, especially not in the LA area.

[Coot]

That's actually up around Stockton, not that it makes any difference. I'm surprised you can find 5 sports bike riders in that locale. ;)

[cmhbob]

I agree they were morons; I was just playing devil's advocate to some extent.