"start seeing motorcycles" stuff

[darxus]

http://ruiner.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/howclose.mpg (3.2mB, from http://community.livejournal.com/motorcycles/1370305.html)

I would appreciate you watching this short video. I met at least one person who is now dead because someone failed to see him while he was riding, with no excuse.

I have this kind of problem on a regular basis. If I didn't regularly expect people to be this stupid I would... not be so healthy.
One of the people actually said to me afterward, when I pulled up to them, "I'm sorry, I didn't see you!" Those words... piss me off.

Comments

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

What kind of car do you drive? I want to know to avoid you like the plague, because if I happen to piss you off for some reason (like I need to swerve out of the way of a long patch of sand and happen to go over the double yellow to do so, or I "lane-split" just before a light because everyone else is turning left and I want to turn right) you'll feel no remorse in injuring me. You must not be in Boston, because I've seen cars regularly pull all the "asshole" shit you describe (including lane-split past me), but that's perfectly alright according to road etiquette around here.

[mrpet.livejournal.com]

Brynn, you damn well know what I meant and you certainly know that I'm in Boston since I live in your old room :) I would feel no remorse for hitting somone who deliberatly put themselves in harms way against the law. If I hit someone due to my own fault or inattention, of course I would feel remorse. People have to swerve to avoid things all the time that is not the issue. What I'm taking issue with is that people somehow feel no matter what they were doing on the bike they are somehow exempt from the laws if physics and of the land. I'm not saying that you or Darxus or any of the other bikers on this thread are a part of this class.

In MA it is illegal to pass a car in the same lane, it doens't matter if you are in a motorcycle or a car. This is what I was referring to as lane splitting. I could care less if two bikes shared the same lane. If someone does it in a car and gets hit they will be as at fault as the motorcycle would be. If I did it in a car and got hit I would not be blaming the other car since I shouldn't have been there in the first place.