I'm still rattled 24 hours later
armilite
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So yesterday I was heading to the golf course to play the last round of the season with my brother. It's 11 miles from my house. I take a major road for at least 8 miles pretty much a straight shot. I was smack dab in the middle of the airport on a 3 lane road. As I approached the intersection I had a green light ahead of me were maybe 50-75 motorcycles not Harleys. As I hit the intersection still having the green light I noticed none of the bikes turning to go in the same direction I was going were stopping. There were another 100 or more bikes running the red light and turning right in front of me and were missing me by mere inches. I totally freaked out they were passing me on my left and right as well as coming into my lane. About 200 yards ahead of me was another stop light so I stopped. After it turned green I took off and about another 500 yards is a tunnel that has a runway above it. The tunnel is about 250 yards long and by the time I reached the other end I had caught up to the back of the back along with 4-5 other cars. At the next intersection which borders the south end of the airport they all turned left and that's the last I saw of them.
Just before I had gone through the tunnel I had dialed 911 the first time in my life. I was on hold until I pulled into a gas station as they were making their final left turn. As I told the 911 dispatcher what had happened she didn't seem to believe me. Are you sure your not exaggerating the amount of bikes. I said no there may have been 200 bikes for all I know, she then said she would notify the authorities. I kinda doubt that she did and thought I was some kinda crack pot. Another thing was she would have had to notify 2 different municipalities as this was a border road. One side would have been Milwaukee the other side was Oak Creek. One thing I despise is crappy driving and as I'm sitting here typing this that if I were in a slightly different mind set you would have been reading about this on the 6 o'clock national news. It would have been so easy to take out 30-50 of those bikes with the Exploder I could have quickly thrown it in 4 wheel drive and taken a ton of them out. And I wanted to throw this in as well they were driving like total * hats as well weaving in and out and doing wheelies. If I had done so I think I could have gotten away with it.
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I've seen 4-6 of them pullin that crap and have just been able to lay back and let them put some space between us. I guess I'm jaded now because when I hear about a m/c rider getting splattered it never occurs to me that ig might be one of my friends, but assume it's one of the asshats that had it comin'.
I hate when they do that. It's scary and makes me mad. Glad it didn't cause an accident.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But how was the golf?
Check the front of the truck to see if any are stuck to it.
You know me I felt better when you said they weren’t Harleys. But still being in the middle of a couple hundred crazies while your trying to be a responsible driver is a ways over the top.
Glad you didn’t get hit or hit one, may have kept you from playing golf!
Well actually I didn't golf it was supposed to be today not yesterday. I texted my brother and told him I wasn't going to come. I told him I wouldn't get anything positive as I was still rattled and would try to hit every ball 400 yards.
Hey Bob just so you know I'm still bowling on Tuesday nights not just everyone. Well at least for the next 4 weeks anyway.
I hate to say it ( but getting old does that ) but easy way just pull off soon as you can or next exit give some room allow them to get a few miles ahead . yes it sucks to have to do it however
it would be the least confrontational way . no matter the driver of the car or truck ( me included ) would loose if any retaliation was taken against any of the bikers in the form of the rest of the group taking revenge or the courts and cost involved possibly both .
many years ago I would have said run as many as you can over 😈 and don"t look back
Its amazing how little it takes these days to have people think the rules no longer apply to them.
I was in heavy traffic when I saw a police car coming down the emergency lane. It was followed by FOUR school busses and about six personal vehicles then, lastly, another police car. It was a high school band making their way to a Friday game. I was so ticked off it was unreal. The traffic was just heavy, not congested beyond reason.....so there was NO reason to have the high school band escorted down the side of the road. They didn't make it far before they were stuck. If they had just followed normal traffic they would have all arrived fine....but this parade of stupidity was someone's idea of how it should be done. I want to call the school every time I think about seeing that nonsense.
Well I live just north of Daytona and twice a year, there are approximately half a million bikers in town so a group of 100-200 bikes is not a scary thing around here, just an annoying thing.
I met a bunch 2 wheelers twice yesterday. Same ones best I could tell. First time they were riding 3 abreast with the 3rd on the yellow line. I moved over to the right to give them more space. Second time I met them still riding 3 abreast with the third one on my side of the yellow so I held my ground until dumb * dude had to brake and duck behind his buddy. Three rows of cycles back another crossed the centerline into my lane in an aggressive move. I flashed my brights at him and held my line. He retreated back to his lane and signaled me that I was NUMBER ONE.
How dumb are these guys. My old Chevy is paid for and has a deer buster grill guard. Who's going to win this game of 'chicken'?
Retribution??? I've got a cell phone and 40 rounds of 9mm plus 500# of Ranch Hand front bumper backed by 5000# of steel and they've got a 1/2 ton of aluminum and a cooking pot on their head.
That kind of thing pisses me off to no end. They will get their due and I'm glad it wasn't you that had to dish it to them Curt. Peace brother.
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
I hate this kind of BS from bikers. Too many times I've had car drivers behave VERY aggressively toward me, and I can only imagine it's because some other rider did something to make them mad.
Sure, I love to go fast on 2 wheels, but I do it in places where there's nearly no other cars and if I go down I'm not taking someone with me. At least I TRY not to set a bad example.
Same happened to me on a lesser scale on my little highway.
They had some sort of rally and, came to the T road where there highway met mine.
They had a guy block both lanes of traffic so they all could turn.
To be honest, it pissed me off royally.
Not enough to plow thru but still.
You forget where I live the home of Harley Davidson so I have to put up with their crap every year as well and the percentage of bike owners here are most likely higher then most cities in American. So I'm dealing with it on a daily basis from April till Nov.
I feel for you, I love bikes but in moderation, seven months ..................... no way.
And I live a block off 2 mail north south streets on each side of me, plus the road parallel to my house is the only west street with a direct shot to the freeway within 6 blocks either way. You can't come east on it because it's a one way going west for 140 feet, the shortest one way in the city. So I've got bikes going past me 24 hours a day 7 months out of the year.
I would relocate.
Pick your battles, imo, that is not one of them, very irritating, yes been there but in the end I would be in prison.