Granbury Love

[LonestarCBR]

...albeit at 5-10 over the limit.

Then again, who cares! Its always disturbing to me to see how people equate legality to morality, as if the second something becomes illegal, it is also equally immoral. Speeding is in itself not necessarily immoral at all, as long as there are no other confounding factors involved. The same goes for passing in a no-passing zone and many other traffic violations. Along the same lines, texting while driving is perfectly legal in many (although not all) places, yet there is plenty of research that has shown for the effects to be not unlike those of driving under the influence. In spite of that, a lot of people find the former endearing and the latter to be outrageous.

This political ad was paid for by the Fort Worth Motorcycle Rider's for "Striple for Congress".

Preach on brother, preach on!

Please note that I might have inadvertently (or advertently) SLIGHTY misrepresented on the "5-10 over". But in all fairness, I was being chased by a swarm of wasps.

[Striple]

Please note that I might have inadvertently (or advertently) SLIGHTY misrepresented on the "5-10 over". But in all fairness, I was being chased by a swarm of wasps.

LMAO! My preaching may not apply to your situation in particular...

[Envy]

I dont even know what to say to this. A spider bit me? Im sorry if a spider bit you close to your junk, assuming you have any, then it would have to be a petty damn big spider. Ive dropped a lit cigarette in my lap while driving and im sorry my arm didnt clench n jerk the wheel. This pisses me off because I have been hit several times by cagers in california. Had car doors opened or my personal favorite was the drink being thrown out as I lane shared in deadlocked traffic. Not even 10 mph. Just enough to get air flow. Terry you remember that drunk guy with the beer that almost ran me over. I mean wtf is wrong with people that they cant value another humans life over there road rage or prejudice. I mean if you dont like a black person your not gonna go outta your way to harm them for them being black. Of course not. Because you know its morally wrong. So in what world is it morally ok to hit a biker because hes a biker? Not trying to offend anyone but this really really pisses me off. And its bikers keep getting hit and cagers thinking nothing of it that makes me seriously reconsider riding. I mean lets face it. People have a preconceived idea of groups. Nothing changes those notions for the most part. Case in point when you think of a teen, what do you think? How about after you think of all the teens that have massacred friends and other students? Still the same huh? IMO societys thinking has become twisted on what is acceptable. I think our country has become numb to violence. Because if some guy swerved to hit a couple 10-20 yrs ago he would prolly be swinging from a tree.
As for people saying he did nothing wrong, i would say this. They have proven that the brain is hardwired, meaning it is an instinct, to avoid danger. Ie you get violently attacked by an invisible spider that leaves no bite mark, if you did have a reaction to swerve it would be AWAY from oncoming traffic.
I do apologize for such a long rant. As I said I feel very strongly on this. Especially after a guy I know was t-boned by a lady who ran a red light, slammed into him, all witnesses told the cop she ran a light that had been red a while, and he still got a ticket and put at fault. This only a few months ago.

[LonestarCBR]

Yes, I remember the a-hole. I think everyone really shares in your level of pissedoffedness over the Tintop Road incident specifically, and the general lack of concern for motorcyclists in general. Most of us have encountered just such a-holes when riding (surely when driving).

People who say he did nothing wrong are simply like this guy, and don't care. They're too lazy or jaded (by today's violence) to even give a crap about anyone else, and for these people that even trickles down to their family members in many cases. You see all kinds of evidence of it daily.

Switching gears a little, and a responsiblity of ours that I know all of us take seriously, but others don't...I'm driving down I-20 around Arlington a few days ago, being my usual impatient self driving in the far left lane and talking to the slow drivers clogging up the "fast lane" when I see a bike coming up behind traffic at a high rate of speed. I would estimate I'm driving 70-ish at the time, the roadway is 4 lanes wide, and afternoon drivetime traffic is heavy.

He's riding a cruiser, and I think "no way he's going to make that quick left and then get back right" so I think he must have a lane to the right I can't see because of the traffic. He's easily driving 15-20 faster than I am, he's not slowing down, and then he lane splits between two cars side by side. He was probably running 25-30 faster than they were as I was passing them. I'm sure it likely scared the hell out of cagers, and most assuredly pissed them off. He could have easily been the guy on Tintop Road last week, only he'd have been a speed bump for numerous cars before everyone got slowed and would have likely cause multiple other wrecks trying to avoid the melee. Just a total jackass, and I wondered "is he even watching the local news", or did he use that as a ticket to ride wrecklessly. I'm sure he does it daily, and while I'm personally never nervous riding or driving in heavy traffic and I approach it aggressively, he still scared me a little. Give me a little daylight and I'm gone, but I'm not going to blast through traffic without some small semblance of a lane I can point to as being mine, even if for a second or two.

[Striple]

Yeah, a$$holes are everywhere, but we should blame the a$$hole, not the bike/truck/car.

[JTChiTown]

Hey, even if the biker is an asshole, being an asshole isn't enough of a reason to put someone into the pavement.

Like going into a convenient store, Rob it, get shot. Be a dick to the cashier, get shot. Which is acceptable which isnt?

[WickerMan]

Likely people's attitudes will change a little when Mr Crum pulls a pair of 20 year sentences run concurrently, or even worse (for him) consecutively. But honestly attitudes like his have been around for as long as I have been driving (almost 30 years) so this is nothing new to me. GoPro and YouTube will likely cause some people to change, as this stuff comes more into the public eye.

I suit out like a leather condom, I don't lane split (ok once I did for 20-30 cars in stopped traffic), I always signal, I don't haul ass thru intersections with cars waiting, I expect people to pull out in front of me and think about where I will go when/if they do. I try to keep myself in check. What more can you do?

[LonestarCBR]

What more can you do?

Add lasers, tasers, and phasers.

In fact, I'm searching eBay now for a used Flux Capacitor, I'll just keep a more happy time programmed in, ride around at 87 mph everywhere I go, and if an ugly situation presents itself, a little goose of the throttle and...nothin' but a twirling license plate to mark I was there.