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Crazy motorcycle people

walliewallie Member Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
We went up to the Hollywood Casio Saturday and had a great time
We seen this guy coming down the road
Like 90 mph and how they can maneuver that bike on the back wheel is beyond me as per video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCjc3O0cXyw



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  • RocklobsterRocklobster Member Posts: 7,060 ✭
    edited November -1
    Those idiots are why my insurance is so costly.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The wild and crazy young men. I was a wild motorcycle rider years ago, not sure how I lived to be 30 years old.
    I never did a wheelie but I totalled 2 bikes, one a BMW. Didn't get a scratch on me.
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rocklobster
    Those idiots are why my insurance is so costly.


    Very few of the kids on crotch rockets are insured so I really doubt that's what dictates the price of motorcycle insurance.
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  • wpagewpage Member Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hell on wheels...[:D]
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
    quote:Originally posted by Rocklobster
    Those idiots are why my insurance is so costly.


    Very few of the kids on crotch rockets are insured so I really doubt that's what dictates the price of motorcycle insurance.




    Clearly you don't understand how insurance works. They are not insured and cause death and mayhem. Other peoples insurance has to pay out to cover the loss. Ergo our rates are higher because of idiots.
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
    quote:Originally posted by Rocklobster
    Those idiots are why my insurance is so costly.


    Very few of the kids on crotch rockets are insured so I really doubt that's what dictates the price of motorcycle insurance.



    Insurance rates are based on overall accident statistics, not claims.
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  • MG1890MG1890 Member Posts: 4,460 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Uhhh, here in NY no insurance means no license plate.... You insure the vehicle, not the driver.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    How much damage can a motorcycle/ rider really do to an F150?
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  • asphalt cowboyasphalt cowboy Member Posts: 8,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by GuvamintCheese
    How much damage can a motorcycle/ rider really do to an F150?


    You would be amazed.

    A couple that actually involve pick-ups.
    http://www.macochee.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CR5_motorcycle-crash_5_4-.jpg

    http://www.journal-news.com/news/news/ohio-motorcycle-crash-fatalities-down/nMwW9/
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
    quote:Originally posted by Rocklobster
    Those idiots are why my insurance is so costly.


    Very few of the kids on crotch rockets are insured so I really doubt that's what dictates the price of motorcycle insurance.




    Clearly you don't understand how insurance works. They are not insured and cause death and mayhem. Other peoples insurance has to pay out to cover the loss. Ergo our rates are higher because of idiots.


    I'm pretty sure I know how insurance works. The number of motorcycles crashing into cars or other vehicles etc. is just a very tiny fraction of the over all accidents on the highways compared to the number of cars and trucks that are involved in accidents. Next time you're driving in really heavy traffic look around at how many motorcycles are on the road. Maybe one in a thousand vehicles are a motorcycle if that many.


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  • asphalt cowboyasphalt cowboy Member Posts: 8,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by MG1890
    Uhhh, here in NY no insurance means no license plate.... You insure the vehicle, not the driver.


    I hope NY is more efficient than KS. Some here pay for a months minimum liability, renew the tag, and drive the rest of the year with no insurance. Insurance companies are supposed to report lapsed insurance to state after which the tag is to be pulled by LE. I lost my 72 FLH to just such a driver with no insurance.
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd know him anywhere. That's Awful Kanawful.
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by us55840

    [:D][:D][:D][:D]

    It all depends on WHERE AND WHEN!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5_DxhCDP6k

    [;)]


    Some days you can find anything on the highway but isolated events are not going to change your insurance rates.


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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by asphalt cowboy
    quote:Originally posted by GuvamintCheese
    How much damage can a motorcycle/ rider really do to an F150?


    You would be amazed.

    A couple that actually involve pick-ups.
    http://www.macochee.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CR5_motorcycle-crash_5_4-.jpg

    http://www.journal-news.com/news/news/ohio-motorcycle-crash-fatalities-down/nMwW9/


    I saw the aftermath of one in Savannah one day at East Bay and MLK. Crotch rocket impacted the bed of an F150 halfway between the axle and the door. It bent the frame most of the way to the far side. the bed was destroyed. Judging from where the other first responders were standing the riders remains came to rest several hundred feet farther up East Bay.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hit one head-on and the rider is coming through your windshield. A 200-lb sack of stupid hitting your phiz at 60mph is not going to improve your looks.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    quote:Originally posted by Smitty500mag
    quote:Originally posted by Rocklobster
    Those idiots are why my insurance is so costly.


    Very few of the kids on crotch rockets are insured so I really doubt that's what dictates the price of motorcycle insurance.




    Clearly you don't understand how insurance works. They are not insured and cause death and mayhem. Other peoples insurance has to pay out to cover the loss. Ergo our rates are higher because of idiots.
    Exactly.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • asphalt cowboyasphalt cowboy Member Posts: 8,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    quote:Originally posted by asphalt cowboy
    quote:Originally posted by GuvamintCheese
    How much damage can a motorcycle/ rider really do to an F150?


    You would be amazed.

    A couple that actually involve pick-ups.
    http://www.macochee.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/CR5_motorcycle-crash_5_4-.jpg

    http://www.journal-news.com/news/news/ohio-motorcycle-crash-fatalities-down/nMwW9/


    I saw the aftermath of one in Savannah one day at East Bay and MLK. Crotch rocket impacted the bed of an F150 halfway between the axle and the door. It bent the frame most of the way to the far side. the bed was destroyed. Judging from where the other first responders were standing the riders remains came to rest several hundred feet farther up East Bay.


    I found the one I was originally looking for. Didn't involve a pickup, but illustrates potential damage caused by squids.
    http://www.cmsnl.com/news/what-a-155-mph-motorcycle-crash-looks-like_news176.html

    There are quite a few, shall we say, gruesome images here.
    BE FORWARNED some of these images are Very Graphic.
    https://www.google.com/search?q=motorcycle+crash+images&biw=800&bih=378&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Nn4QVbarMsqHyATG24KYBA&ved=0CEUQ7Ak&dpr=2

    If he keeps it up, the squid wallie showed will probably wind up on that page.

    SQUID=FUTURE ORGAN DONOR.
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some grim photos, asphalt cowboy. They ought to make everybody applying for a motorcycle license watch that slide show.

    In high school I was on the football and soccer teams with my good friend Mike Elk, who was killed in a motorcycle crash, age, Guess What? 20 years old. He was a college student at West Georgia College. Closed casket funeral.
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I love riding motorcycles, but like many other things they can serve well as gene pool chlorine.
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  • riflemikeriflemike Member Posts: 10,599 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by MG1890
    Uhhh, here in NY no insurance means no license plate.... You insure the vehicle, not the driver.


    uh pretty sure they will start without a tag and insurance.....
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  • MG1890MG1890 Member Posts: 4,460 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by riflemike
    quote:Originally posted by MG1890
    Uhhh, here in NY no insurance means no license plate.... You insure the vehicle, not the driver.


    uh pretty sure they will start without a tag and insurance.....


    Yes, they will. I thought we were talking about uninsured OPERATORS.
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  • asphalt cowboyasphalt cowboy Member Posts: 8,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by us55840



    Not all wrecks involving motorcycles are the fault of the motorcycle rider. Many are caused by cagers causing the wreck [:0]


    Most, involving a cager, are caused by the cager.
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  • MG1890MG1890 Member Posts: 4,460 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Far more bike riders are hurt by car drivers than vice versa.
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