Newbiker08
08-17-2008, 06:23 AM
Ok, I didn't really know how to title this thread but the other night on my way into work I ran into the first people to give me trouble for being on a motorcycle. And you know the worst part about it ? They were other bikers.
A quick note -Up till that point everyone I have encountered on the roads on a motorcycle from black to white to riding ninja's to Harleys to goldwings to scooters has been entirly polite. Chatting me up at stop lights or a friendly wave in passing. You know that Picture people have of bikers? older bald headed guys with no gear riding a big loud Harley. Those have been some of the nicest people on the road to me.
SO anyway.. at roughly 10:30 pm I am sitting at the first stop light on my short commute and I'm turning down the choke now that the bike has come up to temp, and I cant hear my bike over the sound of the 4 straight piped monster HD's that pulled up behind me. But I can hear thier laughter. They were laughing at me, and actually pointing. ( I've spent my whole life with ears that stick out and been laughed at many times , it doesn't bother me) Now I don't know if they were laughing because I was wearing full gear in SC heat. (even at that time of night it was most likely around 80 degrees), wearing my backpack, or because I was on a 250cc motorcycle. So the light turns green, I take off, not fast not trying to race or bait the people behind me, and accelerate in a timely manner so as not to interfere with the flow of traffic. I'm riding almost in the middle of the lane just out the oil(tireruts are bad bumpy in town) in the left lane, the right lane is empty. About third gear is when the four HD's passed me ON EITHER SIDE OF ME IN MY LANE!! Thats right, three wide in my lane with the lane to the right completly empty. If this had happened three weeks earlier on one of my first rides I woulda panicked and probably taken all 5 bikes down in a pile. So they blow past me and I keep some distance until I pull up behind them at the next light where they had pulled up behind a couple of cages and started reving their loud ass bikes . When the light turned green and the Cage didn't immediately move they all hit their horns (sounded like stebels to me, loud as hell) and started throwing the bird which was returned by both cage drivers. After they pulled off I waited till the light was yellow before moving on. I didn't want to be accidentally associated with those pricks by any means. They pulled in at the local bar and I headed on to work angry that 4 guys their girls and their loud pipes had made it more dangerous for me on the road, and helped to perpetuate a bad name for people who choose to drive a motorcycle. :cuss:
The more I think about it I almost wish I had wiped out and taken them down with me. I had full leather, armored gloves , steel toe boots and a full face helmet. They had t-shirts. I bet the cost of repairs for their HD's would been ALOT higher than mine for the GZ.
A quick note -Up till that point everyone I have encountered on the roads on a motorcycle from black to white to riding ninja's to Harleys to goldwings to scooters has been entirly polite. Chatting me up at stop lights or a friendly wave in passing. You know that Picture people have of bikers? older bald headed guys with no gear riding a big loud Harley. Those have been some of the nicest people on the road to me.
SO anyway.. at roughly 10:30 pm I am sitting at the first stop light on my short commute and I'm turning down the choke now that the bike has come up to temp, and I cant hear my bike over the sound of the 4 straight piped monster HD's that pulled up behind me. But I can hear thier laughter. They were laughing at me, and actually pointing. ( I've spent my whole life with ears that stick out and been laughed at many times , it doesn't bother me) Now I don't know if they were laughing because I was wearing full gear in SC heat. (even at that time of night it was most likely around 80 degrees), wearing my backpack, or because I was on a 250cc motorcycle. So the light turns green, I take off, not fast not trying to race or bait the people behind me, and accelerate in a timely manner so as not to interfere with the flow of traffic. I'm riding almost in the middle of the lane just out the oil(tireruts are bad bumpy in town) in the left lane, the right lane is empty. About third gear is when the four HD's passed me ON EITHER SIDE OF ME IN MY LANE!! Thats right, three wide in my lane with the lane to the right completly empty. If this had happened three weeks earlier on one of my first rides I woulda panicked and probably taken all 5 bikes down in a pile. So they blow past me and I keep some distance until I pull up behind them at the next light where they had pulled up behind a couple of cages and started reving their loud ass bikes . When the light turned green and the Cage didn't immediately move they all hit their horns (sounded like stebels to me, loud as hell) and started throwing the bird which was returned by both cage drivers. After they pulled off I waited till the light was yellow before moving on. I didn't want to be accidentally associated with those pricks by any means. They pulled in at the local bar and I headed on to work angry that 4 guys their girls and their loud pipes had made it more dangerous for me on the road, and helped to perpetuate a bad name for people who choose to drive a motorcycle. :cuss:
The more I think about it I almost wish I had wiped out and taken them down with me. I had full leather, armored gloves , steel toe boots and a full face helmet. They had t-shirts. I bet the cost of repairs for their HD's would been ALOT higher than mine for the GZ.