• jscummy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Have you ever seen Americans drive? Or the ones that ride motorcycles?

    Give everyone a motorcycle and half the country would be dead in a week

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, fuck motorcycle drivers. I know there’s plenty of them out there who operate your machines properly, but there SO MANY absolute asshats on motorcycles, always making the highway way more dangerous for everyone around them.

      If I could remove one vehicle from the earth it would be motorcycles. Idgaf how fun they are for you, people can’t be trusted with them in general.

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        1 year ago

        Like most drivers you probably just don’t notice the ones that aren’t loud / ridden by asshats.

        Many bikes have basically the same performance as a civic, you are painting with far too broad a brush here.

        In a decade running a motorcycle as my only transport, I’ve never been remotely a threat to the 5,000 pound tanks I’m forced to share the road with, but almost been taken out by left turning stop sign and red light runners more times than is reasonable.

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          1 year ago

          Yep couple assholes ruin it for everyone, I recognized that already,but also, it’s a particular type of danger that isn’t posed by anything else, and I dont think your pleasure is worth my stress tbh.

          To be clear when I’m talking about danger I’m talking about the motorcyclist turning into an unrecognizable pink streak on the asphalt, not “hurting my car”…

          If you pull some stupid shit and die on the road next to me that affects me more than you, since youre fucking dead then, so therefore: I should get more say in it than you.

          Wrap it in whatever guise you want, you’ll never convince me that riding a motorcycle is anything other than selfish.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t use it for pleasure, I use it to get around. If car drivers are stressing about rider safety (I don’t get that impression) they can show it by putting their phones down and paying better attention to the world around them.

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            1 year ago

            So wait. I am transporting one person, not taking up much space, obeying the rules of the road, don’t have loud pipes nor speed, and you’re telling me I’m selfish? When you literally just said you don’t care about our pleasure?

            I don’t think it’s us thats the selfish one here.