More of us-Less Respect

[cktire]

Hit a deer a couple years ago and ripped off a lot of skin. Nothing you can do about that. Was going out for a ride yesterday and it was hot. I said what the heck and didn't put on my armor jacket. i got up the road 1/4 mile and came back and put the jacket on. I got down the road 5 miles and a car switched lanes right in fornt of me. No more then two feet. No signal....no warning. I had no time to slow down so I had to make it a three lane road.
I like others look ahead. I'm not thinking stop! I'm thinking escape route.
Old story.....thirty years ago when I was living in Piitsburgh I came up on a wreck. Traffic was slowing really fast. I looked in my mirror and the car behind me was swerving. I drove off the road and up and embankment. Scrapes and such! The car behind me slammed into the car in front of me. Escape!
I've noticed the RIII rear brake locks up really fast. Sure could use ABS.
Carl

 

[Jamie]

People are in a hurry to get nowhere, burning up the expensive gasoline and then *****'in about it. Cell phones, Blackberries in car GPS, dildoes, whatever. No one takes their driving seriously. It is a serious business, a lethal business.

Am afraid to be at a loss to relate to to your reference to dildoes, grumpy Flip, but I am otherwise in total agreement with you. GPS aside, some cars are loaded with on-board electronics that just mobilize 100% of the cager's attention. Or more than 100%, if said electronics become major irritants (e.g. BMW's infamous IPod, according to Car & Driver)

I am from a generation when the only distractions from the the road ahead were the radio and the ashtray. And even back then, there were instances when I wished I had kept my focus on the road as opposed to fiddling with either.

Best. Jamie

 

[chiburbsguy2006]

I am from a generation when the only distractions from the the road ahead were the radio and the ashtray. And even back then, there were instances when I wished I had kept my focus on the road as opposed to fiddling with either.

Best. Jamie

Since Jamie mentioned fiddling with the radio, several years ago we were going to my cousin's wedding in our 6 month old Jeep Cherokee. We were following my Mother who was following another cousin. The road was 2 lanes each way. In front of all of us, three cars going the same direction as us pulled next to each other in our two lanes. My cousin stopped, my Mother stopped and I stopped. Unfortunately for us, the guy in the pickup truck behind us was, admittedly, fiddling with his radio and he hit us at 55 mph. Totaled our new Jeep, totaled my Mothers car and put a small dent in my cousin's bumper. Everyone went to the hospital (my pregnant sister, her handicapped son, my 75 year old Grandmother and my wife) except me and my Mother - neither wearing seat belts. I'm just glad that we were the one that took the brunt of it. My Mother had a wheelchair in the trunk. It would have been shoved into the back seat probably killing my sister and Grandmother. No one was seriously hurt - bumps, bruises, aches and pains for a few weeks, etc.

Of course the cops thought I ran into my Mother and then the pickup ran into us. Fortunately my cousin was a Cook County cop and after he got stopped, he looked out his window and saw that we had stopped and it was the pickup that caused everything. If we had been on the bike...I most likely wouldn't be typing this now!

 

[HeR3tic]

I've just learned to be clairvoyant...Unfortunately, have to be 2 steps ahead; not foolproof but a lot safer.

A good defense is a good offense. 20 oz ball peen hammers that is. Defensive driving (riding) is the only way to stay alive. Them other pukes couldn't give a dime for you and yours. It's sad but true.

Does anyone on this board, besides me, use a cellphone while driving, or drink coffee/soda while driving, check a map. look for sometihing in the glove box, smoke a cigar...

Of course but at the right time.

Don't Get me started on women drivers. "I say chain em in the bedroom with just enough chain t reach the kitchen" Mav

If you keep 'em bare foot and naked you won't need the chains and you save on scratching the floor tiles. I'd allow a house coat for fetching the mail and retrieving UPS deliveries though

I for one do not do anything but drive, when I'm behind the wheel...I have never gotten a cell phone call that was more important than another individuals life...

Good practice and words to live by.

 

[Toystoretom]

Real Brain farts

Next time you hold your cell phone up to your head I want you to think about this:

YouTube - Pop corn with cell phones : made by Cardo Systems

YouTube - Cell Phone Popcorn

YouTube - Popcorn - Cell phones : made by CARDO SYSTEMS

Being in a metal car body amplifies it 100 times......Proven fact

 

[goodfellow]

Whoa!

Boy,
all this stuff gives me jitters and paranoia....


greg

 

[britman]

Jippy Pop for Me

I am probably one of the last four white people on earth who does not own a cell phone. Every black person over the age of 12 already has one. I get so tired of listening to other folks conversations in the grocery store, restaurants, or from the next stall. Remember when you actually had to make all of your calls from home, work, or pull over and find a phone booth. Speaking of that, where in the hell have all of the phone booths gone. Are they in a retirement home, on some deserted island, or being leased out to Pygmy's as condo's. When I broke down a couple of weeks ago in a busy shopping center I did manage to find one working phone mounted to the front of grocery store. The other two I tried were not working. I have been informed by my wife that I will have to carry her cell phone when I depart for Eurka Springs just for that reason.

 

[RidinSunshine]

Britman, with the exception of the picture you just described my most recent shopping trip an hour and half from home. Included the ol' lady and all. My old lady had those dark blinder sunglasses on people use after their visit to the eye doctor. She never saw me either. And she came from two lanes over making a sudden turn in front of me. Which means she wasn't even in the correct lane for that turn. But I saw her coming and just had to slow down and then blew in my pityful horn at her, which she failed to hear also.

 

[RidinSunshine]

Am afraid to be at a loss to relate to to your reference to dildoes,

Best. Jamie

Let me help out with this one. I went to a "ladies" party some months ago that the sales person actually recommended one to use while sitting in traffic.

 

[TxRIIIRider]

hahaha.. and all this time, I thought it was the cell phones that were distracting!

Let me help out with this one. I went to a "ladies" party some months ago that the sales person actually recommended one to use while sitting in traffic.