los panda
10-20-2012, 11:48 AM
5/7 mornings and 5/7 nights, i see the people on motorcycles effortlessly navigating through the gridlock. it's a great edge to have.
the warpath will be the next website i donate to, i'm overdue.
edit* wrong "too"
mooby
10-20-2012, 12:48 PM
Sometime soon I'm hoping to take a class to learn how to ride a motorcycle, it's something I've always wanted to try and it would tremendously help me out on my commute to work in the warmer months, because I could just take HOV right up 95 to my job (the HOV lanes on 95 are for cars with 3 people or people on motorcycles.).
The safety risk doesn't concern me as much because like FRPLG said there's inherent risks in nearly everything nowadays and riding a bike is no different.
RedskinRat
10-20-2012, 03:29 PM
the warpath will be the next website i donate too, i'm overdue.
That's a given, mine is usually in the form of a self-imposed fine.
I was more interested in other sites as we're all already here.
firstdown
10-22-2012, 11:37 AM
Most accidents involving motorcycles are caused by car drivers. Google it.
I hope I never grow up, I could become a utter bore like you.
SoA? Why would I want to emulate them? Odd statement.
Loser shit? Get a job? I have a job, very well paid, that how I have a bike as a toy.
You have issues, or you're posting drunk. Either way, go **** yourself.
Does it really matter who causes the accident when your on a motor cycle. I loved riding dirt bikes in my day but seeing my buddies pics (Orthopaedic Surgon Trama Center) I would never ride a bike on the streets. He jokes and says he paid for his house by putting motorcycle riders back together. He showed me a pick one night when we had been drinking that made me throw up.
With that said I agree with you Who wants to grow up?
Schneed10
10-22-2012, 02:35 PM
Yeah sometimes I just like to toss a grenade and walk away. I'm just messing with you, Rat.
That said, to FRPLG, I have to debate the risk question at least a little bit. Yes everything has risk. And everything, well at least most thing, have a benefit. Getting in a car carries risk, but the benefit of being able to reach distances more than 5 miles away fairly quickly makes that risk completely tolerable.
If talking about a motorbike, you have the same benefit of being able to transport yourself those five miles. But the risk of dying in an accident is significantly higher on a bike than it is in a car. On a bike, all it takes is a little nudge from some idiot not checking his blind spot, and down you go splattered on the pavement. In a car, sure you can die in accidents, but it often ends up as just an annoying fender bender.
Risk is about cost/benefit, and the benefit of substitutes. Ergo, why take the risk of riding a motorbike to get somewhere when you can do it much more safely in a car?
Answer: because motorbike people think it's fun. That's the benefit they get that a car doesn't offer them. It's just that while they think it's fun, I think they look like idiots, and root for them to Ben Roethlisberger themselves.
But, to each his own!
Schneed10
10-22-2012, 02:39 PM
Sometime soon I'm hoping to take a class to learn how to ride a motorcycle, it's something I've always wanted to try and it would tremendously help me out on my commute to work in the warmer months, because I could just take HOV right up 95 to my job (the HOV lanes on 95 are for cars with 3 people or people on motorcycles.).
The safety risk doesn't concern me as much because like FRPLG said there's inherent risks in nearly everything nowadays and riding a bike is no different.
Not a believer in degrees, huh? Everything is either risky or it isn't, there are no shades of gray? No degrees of risk?
DynamiteRave
10-22-2012, 03:03 PM
Most accidents involving motorcycles are caused by car drivers. Google it.
I hope I never grow up, I could become a utter bore like you.
SoA? Why would I want to emulate them? Odd statement.
Loser shit? Get a job? I have a job, very well paid, that how I have a bike as a toy.
You have issues, or you're posting drunk. Either way, go **** yourself.
Because SoA is awesome :D
I just wanna ride in the bitch seat. I don't think I'm coordinated enough to ever learn how to drive.