1. I hope the rider made it and is ok. As a rider of a Street Bike, i know alot of people dont like us because of some street bikes who ride stupid and make all street bikes look bad, not all ppl who ride street bike ride like that.
2. Everyone who rides a bike ANY KIND dont matter if its a street or cruser bike, still not "Perfect"!! no matter how long you been driving if it was a year to 25 years it can happen to anyone.
3. Who even said it was a street bike? who even said it was the bikers fault? when ever there is an accident involving a motorcycle, it was was comes up it being a street bike and that they were driving stupid and not paying attention. It could have been that cars fault. Cant really judge who fault it is UNTILL you get the facts, dont just assume it was the bikers fault.
4. I mean when im driving i see cars whip in and out of traffic just as well as a motorcycle can, do you ever pay attention that were on the road or that were any where around you? most of the time you dont. I have been cut off plenty of times to where its not my fault and the car is not paying attention or they just dont give a crap. I mean its just not street bikes who act crazy Harley bike and any other brand or cruser riders do the same, but there a cruser so there should be a difference? NO! If you feel no sympathy for a street bike do you have sympathy for a cruser? were all on 2 wheels and the only difference is the way the bikes are look, sleek and sporty for a street bike then you have a Fat and noisy bike for the cruser, but since the street bike looks that way it does we all drive like a$$holes? NO!!!
5. Everybody has "cut loose" before on there bike dont matter where you live or how you do it.
Hope you dont mind if I chopped this up into understandable bites
I may not hit every point in each section, but I think we can get most of them
1. True, and those who judge all by the actions of a few are not in the right.
2. Nope, no one is perfect, even after 25 years, you can crash, I did just last month, and I have been riding since 1982. Nobody is saying that rider have to be perfect, they cant. But riders CAN ride responsibly, and whipping through traffic at a high speed differential isnt being responsible.
3. Not sure what you mean by "street bike", I will assume you mean "sport bike" but I think you might be seeing the coverage through a narrow focus. Generally speaking, it falls into two categories. Sportbike types who exceed safe speed, either in traffic or through a corner, running out of brakes, traction, or road, or cruiser types who either enter the roadway in front of folks, or folks enter in front of them. I think we covered a few times that there is no way to assign fault without more information, we were discussing different scenarios that could have been, given the info we have.
4. This seems to be addressing the person who said thay had no sympathy if it were a sportbike rider, and I agree with you on that basic point that its silly to assign sympathy based on style of bike. That said, you seem a bit biased yourself, with your "sexy sport bike" and "fat noisy cruiser"
5. I do cut loose on all my machines from time to time, most, but not all folks do, but the key is where and when you do so. A blind curve leading to a entrance point, at night? That would not be my choice for where to cut loose.
I know. Sorry for the tangent... dont know where it came from LOL. Basically, the accident in Calvert makes me so mad because of what I said about him not even being on a call. And even if the cop was responding to a call, they should drive so fast as to put others in danger.