Caught my second DUI driver of the year!

[flatgrind]

Alcohol impairs your motor skills, and makes you drive on the wrong side of the road. Weed doesn't impair your motor skills, but makes you paranoid as hell, so hopefully they'll stay on the right side of the road.

 

[SHUMBA]

People really scare me. I can’t count the times I look over at a car next to me while riding and see someone texting or something on the phone.

Ya, just fuckin scarey, at least give em a blast of the horn and I shake my finger at them...Oh, I have two video cameras mounted on my helmet.
Prism tube wifi cameras...these are great!!!
SHUMBA

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[SHUMBA]

yesterday as I was driving to the airport to pick up my wife I notice a strange motorcycle coming up behind me .... some squid on a duel sport riding a wheelie at 65 mph and he was changing lanes between cars on one wheel . he got close to one car but manage to veer away and finally on the off ramp he puts the front wheel down . he was on that back wheel for 3 plus miles at 65 mph and you know what the car drivers are thinking .he is heading to his own funeral but doesn't know it . idiots abound out there.

Brave man, all I can say
SHUMBA

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[SHUMBA]

Around here, distracted driving has become a bigger issue than intoxicated driving as far as being the cause of crashes.

Oh, for sure, statistics show that it is causing more accidents than DUI.
SHUMBA

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[SHUMBA]

Having made the same 46 miles each way commute since '93 until about a year ago, I rarely saw rear ender accidents, maybe once a month or so, if that back in the 90s and even early 2000s. That was before smart phones became so ubiquitous. More recently I would see them 2-3 times a day! It actually became uncommon to have a day without one. What really pissed me off was the effect on traffic, could rarely find a day without a jam up because of these rear enders. Not to stereotype anyone but almost all the cases I saw were younger people, teens, 20s & 30s that were driving the car that ran into the one in front of them. No doubt texting or watching Tic Tock. they'd even still be on their phones when the cops arrived. Super thankful for California's allowed and then fully legalized lane splitting! You would be a total sitting duck stopped at the back of a column of cars.

Ya, wish we had lane splitting up here in Canada, nah we're still living in the dark ages..
SHUMBA

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[SHUMBA]

The guy I bought my ST from was taken out on his Victory by a distracted driver. He survived a blindside sideswipe at 70 mph but injuries were bad enough for him to quit after a lifetime of riding.

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Sad sorry to hear this
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[SHUMBA]

I lived in the LA region for 10+ years on & off where lane splitting was normal and no problem. Since then I've had people try to open their doors on me and definitely people moving their car to close the space to a car next to them but I was slow enough or far enough it didn't matter. The thing is that those were in the DC/MD area usually on the Whitehurst Freeway or Canal Road where lane splitting is not legal so I imagine they were trying to stop me or "teach me a lesson." The thought of somebody forcing an accident (vehicular assault?) was the reason I put the front & rear video cameras on the bike.

Yup, I've got two video cameras on my helmet, a front and a rear camera.
Sena Prism tube cameras and a 20,000 mw battery tucked into my riding jacket.
These will run all day long 8 hours or so of video capture. When the micro SD card is full, it just keeps on recording and "loops" over the earlier footage ..don't mess with me.
SHUMBA

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[Sierra1]

. . . . definitely people moving their car to close the space to a car next to them but I was slow enough or far enough it didn't matter. . . . so I imagine they were trying to stop me or "teach me a lesson". . . .

That's the issue we have around here. Especially the "bro-truck" drivers. I've even seen them "black smoke" bikes that pull up beside them. (at least the ones with diesels) On the highway they'll edge toward your lane to see if they can scare you. And, if you're out on a back county road, they'll ride down the center of the road. The funny part is that since the roads are so bad, and their oversize tire follow every bump, and pot hole, they're usually quite easy to pass quickly before they know what you're doing.

 

[SHUMBA]

That's the issue we have around here. Especially the "bro-truck" drivers. I've even seen them "black smoke" bikes that pull up beside them. (at least the ones with diesels) On the highway they'll edge toward your lane to see if they can scare you. And, if you're out on a back county road, they'll ride down the center of the road. The funny part is that since the roads are so bad, and their oversize tire follow every bump, and pot hole, they're usually quite easy to pass quickly before they know what you're doing.

Fill a coke bottle with gas and as you pass , throw it into the box of their truck...ha ha...light em up
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[Sierra1]

If only. . . .

 

[twinrider]

yesterday as I was driving to the airport to pick up my wife I notice a strange motorcycle coming up behind me .... some squid on a duel sport riding a wheelie at 65 mph and he was changing lanes between cars on one wheel . he got close to one car but manage to veer away and finally on the off ramp he puts the front wheel down . he was on that back wheel for 3 plus miles at 65 mph and you know what the car drivers are thinking .he is heading to his own funeral but doesn't know it . idiots abound out there.

He may be an idiot, but I still wish I had his skills...

 

[Madhatter]

but for track use only.....me too.

 

[Sierra1]

Yeah, whenever I think I can ride good, I see some dumb ass like that. . . . and realize I can barely operate a motorcycle.

 

[PhilPhilippines]

Yeah, whenever I think I can ride good, I see some dumb ass like that. . . . and realize I can barely operate a motorcycle.

I can barely operate a motorcycle compared to the majority on here. I can enjoy a motorcycle though and hopefully improve as I do...

 

[Madhatter]

Drunk or impaired drivers kill the innocent every day. But they are not going to ban cars or bars . And the police can not be everywhere. Sometimes it takes a citizen to stop a possible tragedy. My sister in law lost a cousin to impaired driver. Sometimes you have to act .

 

[Tenman]

 

[Checkswrecks]

Deleted comments were getting into the attack mode on others whether intended to be or not.

 

[squarebore]

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No I wasn't acting like the police. I was acting like a citizen concerned for the welfare of others. Maybe you would like to see this guy plow into oncoming traffic, or hit a pedestrian in a crosswalk? Me, Im going to act when I see a danger to my community. As this guy clearly was.

This is not the case of someone driving 5mph over the limit, This is a case of a person RECKLESSLY putting lives in danger. If you don't see the difference in that, no one here can help you.

Sorry mate, no offence intended. Just a difference of opinion. Cheers

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[Madhatter]

everywhere you drive in Texas there are road side memorials (usually a cross and flowers maybe a photo and family momentous )for those who died behind the wheel ( some are just bad accidents , most had some substance involved ) ..... better to be arrested than have the undertaker handling you..... or someones family member.

 

[Sierra1]

Apparently years ago, TxDOT went around the state, and started removing many of those memorials. People complained. It was explained that only those road side memorials that have resulted from a DWI crash, are protected by statute.