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[SirMichael]

 I am totally amazed at what I see on the roads today!! I saw a guy at the intersection stall the bike twice, then once he got going, he just pulled out in front of a truck that left about twenty-foot skid marks trying to avoid him and the rider didn't even know he pulled out in front of the truck!! If the truck would of hit him, he would of been blaming the truck and not even know what he did wrong!! 

 Because of the high gas prices, everyone seems to want to go out and buy a bike or scooter and ride to save gas, which is great, but the problem is, that all these new riders have no experience what so ever and they think that they can just jump on a bike and ride!!

 I don't know how he or alot of these guys ever pass the riding test, cause many of these riders don't belong on the roads yet or ever!! 

 They should start taking the riding test more seriously and make them take a class or two if they are not experienced enough!!

 Don't get me wrong, I love to see more riders out there, but not like this!! Now we will start seeing more motorcycle accidents and that will give motorcycle riders more of a bad name and insurance will go even higher!!

 That guy that I saw on the bike didn't even belong sitting on a bike let alone riding one!! 

                                                                                        MIKE 

[hard10]

There is no riding test here in SC to get a permit. Just take the multiple choice written test and you can hit the road with no one to supervise you.

[SirMichael]

There is no riding test here in SC to get a permit. Just take the multiple choice written test and you can hit the road with no one to supervise you.

 That is pretty scary, so just anyone can jump on a bike and kill them selves or someone else!!

 Do you see alot of new inexperienced riders out there that don't belong?

[hard10]

That is pretty scary, so just anyone can jump on a bike and kill them selves or someone else!!

 Do you see alot of new inexperienced riders out there that don't belong?

Fortunately most of the newbies here are in the Military and they are required to take a MC class before riding. For the rest of the knuckleheads, yeah, it can be a problem. There's been a few accident here lately where inexperience has played a factor.

[Twolanerider]

Here there is an infestation of the little scooters.  The Vespa type things.  Through some quirk in the drivers codes there isn't a drivers test for most of them and they're not even required to wear a helmet even when on the public streets.  Despite the fact that motorcycle riders are so required.

Idiots don't know how to ride, get away with crap the rest of us never would and seem to enjoy every minute of it.  Saw one off in the ditch a week or so ago.  Was tempted to roll right on by.  Didn't.  But I was tempted.

[murphy]

I went out and bought a bike with my buddy three months ago... it's his first.

He's 50 years old and always had the itch to ride.

Brought him out on our mini bike for a couple of hours so he could learn the basics... did well there and graduated to riding the big bike through our subdivision.

After about four hours of training we had him on some slow speed roads.. nothing major.

Within a week he wanted to start riding into work... very busy there and I suggested no... he did it anyway.

Felt guilty because I provided the weapon to him, so I rode with him a couple of times to give him some pointers... after all, I've been riding for 37 years, he has about the same number, but in hours!

Can't tell you how may times I've said "if you continue to ride like you drive, you will die on this machine"!

Bike we got for him was a 750 Honda Areo.

Bike was in great shape, sat in a dude's backyard for two years, had clean oil in it.

Told him after he bought it that we needed to change the oil right away before he started riding... he chuckled.

About three weeks into it he was "cut off" buy a vehicle that "ran a red"... hmmmmmmmm!

He took the course at a local college, but found it boring because he already knew all the stuff because I had shown him the month before.

Rode a couple of more times and refused to do it anymore because he's a "gotta go fast from point A to point B" person... I'm not when I'm on the bike.

He told his wife he had to order a set of "safety pipes" for the bike... got a set of VH long shots to improve sound.

I asked him if he changed the air intake and jetting like I told him when he suggested it the week he bought the bike. He told me the kid at the shop to him it wasn't needed.

My daughter called me two weeks ago "Mario's been in an accident... he was hit by an SUV"!

Went to the hospital, after he was released we went out and bough him some lottery tickets.

He hasn't got his bike back yet... I suggested that he give it up because these things happen in threes... he told me yesterday that he's itching to get back on!

Hmmmmmm!

[SirMichael]

 I definitly think some people are just not ment to be on a bike! It's just like guns, they say guns kill people, well, guns don't kill people, people kill people!

 If you don't respect the bike and you ride like an idiot, well than, what do you expect the out come will be!!

 Those freestyle street riders are no better, they think that they can do their stunts on the public streets and it's ok, because they are stunt riders, well they are just as much as idiots as the inexperienced riders are thinking that they can just jump on a bike and go fast!!

 I live in just an average neighborhood and we have a guy that lives down the street and he likes to ride up the street super fast with his loud pipes, well I stopped him one day and told him that it's not cool in a neighborhood to be disrespectful like that, well he told me that I was being disrespectful stopping him like that and that It was a bike thing that I wouldn't understand!! So I told him, I think that HE doesn't understand the bike thing and if I see him coming again like he does, I would pull out in front of him with my truck and flatten his a$$$$$$ and show him what the bike thing really is!!!!!!!
 Now he goes up another street and goes nice and slow!!!!

 I just hate the lack of respect that people have on bikes out there and now with all the new riders out there everyday, it's just going to get alot worse!!

                                                                              MIKE 

[Sean M Cary]

Fortunately most of the newbies here are in the Military and they are required to take a MC class before riding. For the rest of the knuckleheads, yeah, it can be a problem. There's been a few accident here lately where inexperience has played a factor.

What they do here is park at Britt Motorsports outside the main gate and hop a ride in.  For some reason they don't want to tell the commands they have a crotch rocket (usual choice).  Recently they were directed by a order to alert their commands w/in 48 hours of the purchase.  The lot is still as full at Britt.

But you are going to see this more - Darwnism does have an effect in this case...natural selection will weed out some of the bottom feeders, but at who's expense?

Sean

[Janine]

Maine has 2 systems of getting your bike license. You can take a written test and get a learner's permit or take a MSF riders course, and if you pass the written and driving test, have your license on the spot, pass written/fail driving test and you will get a learner's permit. I did the Riders Edge new rider course and passed both tests. I had my license, but didn't feel comfortable about going out on the road right away. Hubby took me to a huge empty parking lot to practice for a few week, then I did small trips on lonely back roads until he and I felt confident enough for me to get into more traffic. The one thing I have learned is not to trust anyone or anything while on the road. I love life and I love riding. I don't want to loose either one of them!

[BIGDOG]

Motorcycling is one of the last bastions in the theory of Natural Selection. A harsh reality but some what true. 

[Twolanerider]

The little scooter riders around here, and some new bike riders as well, aren't just a hazard to themselves either.  And I'm not talking about the dings and scratches they might put on some unsuspecting cage. 

Too many are still in "cool mode" and think they just have to form up with another bike when they see one.  Sort of a "stud by association" kind of thing.  Twice have heard "beep beep" to find a little scooter tucked up on rear quarter much closer than they should be.  One I new was coming up.  The other was so low and low quiet I never saw it coming til he tinkled his little toy horn.

That same guy then wanted to lead.  So off he goes around me within the lane in city traffic.  Screw that.  The red bike has good torque at low RPM for a reason.  Funniest thing was watching the scooter trash guy flip me off in the left mirror as he faded away.  Did give new meaning to that "object in mirror are smaller" line.

[Gettinold]

Helen use to work for a doctor that after his mid-late life crisis of thoroughbred horses and corvettes that he would try motorcycles. He went out and bought a ultra classic and had it delivered to his ranch. Then called me and ask me to teach him to ride. That morning before I came out, he had taken it to fuel it up and dropped it twice in the gas station parking lot. Then the very first r turn that he took when I was with him ..... yea you guessed it, but luck was with him he rode it out down thru a ditch and thru the grass. He rode for a while in a undeveloped neighborhood dropping the bike 3 more time and almost hit a curb.
Said he felt he did good and was ready to ride to Daytona with us in a couple weeks. Told him we weren't going.    Well he went with some other friends and he made it there and back.
His wife soon decide she want to learn, oh no not me, she needed professional training. 
They both became avid bikers in the bay area and were well liked & known.
Sadly though on a trip they were hauling there bikes to Mississippi to attend a race event and were hit head on and both died in a fiery crash.
I always felt that I had influenced him to get a bike by talking bikes with him and showing him the different models, and to have him lose their lives in the way it happened that I felt guilt on playing the role that I did.

[hard10]

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I always felt that I had influenced him to get a bike by talking bikes with him and showing him the different models, and to have him lose their lives in the way it happened that I felt guilt on playing the role that I did.

Dave, I wouldn't feel guilty. They weren't riding when the tragic accident happened and you had no influence over their choices. God had other plans.

[Sean M Cary]

Sadly though on a trip they were hauling there bikes to Mississippi to attend a race event and were hit head on and both died in a fiery crash.
I always felt that I had influenced him to get a bike by talking bikes with him and showing him the different models, and to have him lose their lives in the way it happened that I felt guilt on playing the role that I did.

you opened them up to a different world they would never have known - what guilt can there be to that.  When its time, its time.  At least they can ride in heaven and not have to watch the rest of us have fun!

Sean

[Sean M Cary]

Dave, I wouldn't feel guilty. They weren't riding when the tragic accident happened and you had no influence over their choices. God had other plans.

Wow - same thought, same time...

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