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Range Rover Runs Over Bikers

#102
Chainsaw Willie said:
It would still happen. People are amazingly stupid around trucks. Few people actually comprehend mass, speed, and stopping distance. The stunters were entirely trusting that the SUV driver was a decent human being and a competent driver, probably thought of him as a "sheep".

If I were to have my spine sheared, I don't think I would care if it was a driver in a Peterbuilt or a Mazda. To a stunter in T -shirt, jeans, and sneakers, BOTH weapons are capable. Heck, I wouldn't brake-check another bike.
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Yeah, but I somehow doubt they would have acted so "tough" with a semi. Who knows though, maybe they are that stupid.
 
#103
I don't know how many times I've been coming home from late gigs (going north on US 75 out of downtown Dallas) and had a group of crotch rocket idiots just come flying by me doing at least 100mph...weaving in and out of traffic and chasing each other. They come up on you so fast that if you are changing lanes you have no time to react...Not sure but it might be the same crew of morons...but they always seem to be out there between 1am and 3am...
 
#105
fishtx said:
I don't know how many times I've been coming home from late gigs (going north on US 75 out of downtown Dallas) and had a group of crotch rocket idiots just come flying by me doing at least 100mph...weaving in and out of traffic and chasing each other. They come up on you so fast that if you are changing lanes you have no time to react...Not sure but it might be the same crew of morons...but they always seem to be out there between 1am and 3am...
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I see that all the time. If they don't hit me it's not my problem
 
#113
Relic said:
He brake-checked him to get him to stop. I'm not sure if he was going for an intentional hit but it wouldn't surprise me.

Another thing I had heard (and this may be total BS, I dont know yet) was that this whole thing started when one of the bikers brake-checked the SUV a few moments earlier to clear the lane ahead to the group could do stunts etc etc. The SUV clipped him or cut him off or something of the sort and that's when they started harassing him. It was the second brake-check when they tried to stop him cold and the rider was hit that is shown on the video.

I could be wrong though
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That was how it went down in our news report.
 
#114
mbelue said:
Truth be told I left there nearly 10 years ago over some good old boy crap at work. Moved elsewhere in the south found allot of the same. Finally left the south for good, here in the Pacific northwest I'm sure I'll find the same thing. I should probably stop blaming the region though.
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You really shouldn't blame a region. I was raised in the South and lived in WA while in the Navy and it's just as rural, if not more so, in WA outside of Seattle as anywhere in the South. His story is very common for anywhere in the US before 1990 I would imagine.
 
#115
fishtx said:
I don't know how many times I've been coming home from late gigs (going north on US 75 out of downtown Dallas) and had a group of crotch rocket idiots just come flying by me doing at least 100mph...weaving in and out of traffic and chasing each other. They come up on you so fast that if you are changing lanes you have no time to react...Not sure but it might be the same crew of morons...but they always seem to be out there between 1am and 3am...
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75 or I30 between Dallas and Fort Worth - pick your poison.

There was an incident pretty recently in Dallas where a whole gang (and I think news reports said they were an actual organization "gang") of those guys managed to block all the traffic on 75 coming out of downtown Dallas for a few minutes in the middle of the day while they videotaped themselves doing stunts on the freeway and glaring at all the stopped cars behind them. As far as I know, maybe one guy got arrested after all that.

Can't say I blame the guy in the SUV. If I was to find myself surrounded by a group of riders (especially if it was obvious they were 1-percenters) I'd want to get out of there ASAP too.
 
#117
tastybasslines said:
Those "cow catchers" should be banned. They bolt to the frame and don't allow the crumple zones of the car to work the way they should in a collision. They are no different than a battering ram and dangerous.
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That is the idea. They were originally built to take a large animal down and under the vehicle at 60 mph. They are actually getting banned in a lot of places, especially urban Australia where they are very popular for taking out Kangaroos.
 

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