• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

Douchey, inconsiderate riders that make super-awesome-you (considerate) look bad...

Karbon said:
It's a sad and unfortunate downside to riding a moto. It's soft risk that you have to accept, another factor that's beyond your control.

Kind of obvious, no?
Click to expand...

The really bad ones don't last long....of course they are replaced by more douchey riders when they are retired.
 
I waved to some guy on a scooter, he waved back.... but his mom kept pushing his scooter across the intersection.
 
Ant said:
:facepalm

Bruce pinched those famous words from.......

Day+the+Earth+Stood+Still3.JPG
Click to expand...

I'm actually old enough to know that... but Bruce's movie is waaaaaay better...

moto-rama said:
The really bad ones don't last long....of course they are replaced by more douchey riders when they are retired.
Click to expand...

Well, that's one way of putting it... :laughing
 
Every night I start out riding my 30 mile commute convincing myself to take it easy and not ride like a dick. It lasts about 5 minutes before the car douchery begins. Slowly but surely, my demeanor gets worse and worse as I have to deal with dickheads. By the time I get home I'm so pissed off and ragey that I want to ride with a sock full of quarters. I try, I really do.
 
vorhese said:
Every night I start out riding my 30 mile commute convincing myself to take it easy and not ride like a dick. It lasts about 5 minutes before the car douchery begins. Slowly but surely, my demeanor gets worse and worse as I have to deal with dickheads. By the time I get home I'm so pissed off and ragey that I want to ride with a sock full of quarters. I try, I really do.
Click to expand...

More often than not, if I get a chance, I pull up to them, shake my head and give them a:

2v80mly.gif


Treating people like children can be very entertaining.
 
Beauregard said:
I'm proud to be the mean looking biker on a chopper who waves to little kids.
attachment.php
Click to expand...

Sorry bro, you don't look mean you just look uncomfortable.

If you didn't have that full face on, we'd be able to see your grimace.

:twofinger :laughing
 
Karbon said:
It's a sad and unfortunate downside to riding a moto. It's soft risk that you have to accept, another factor that's beyond your control.

Kind of obvious, no?
Click to expand...
Kinda obvious yeah?
Yo Karbie, I'm do'in my part ta learn 'em 'bout the ways of the road & how ta be courteous to others. :p

QuincyRallySpring2011017small.jpg
 
I'm more of a believer in it's the stereotypical people that have the problem....not the douchey rider. Just like how I don't judge a person because they are the same nationality as somebody else that has just done me wrong.
 
Archimedes said:
I think most of the public moto-hate is actually only in the minds of the motorcyclists. As a community, motorcycling suffers from a persecution complex that magnifies the perceived scorn from the public at large way beyond what it really is. I think a big part of it is motorcyclists being butt hurt by the fact that the public at large doesn't bow down and worship their motorcycle awesomeness and really couldn't give a rats ass about them. Seems like everytime someone jumps on a motorcycle, they suddenly expect all drivers to be perfect and that all imperfections were intentional attempts to harm them. Memo to everyone, most people don't care about motorcyclists one way or the other.
Click to expand...

Couldn't agree more. Never really thought about that
 
Archimedes said:
I think most of the public moto-hate is actually only in the minds of the motorcyclists. As a community, motorcycling suffers from a persecution complex that magnifies the perceived scorn from the public at large way beyond what it really is. I think a big part of it is motorcyclists being butt hurt by the fact that the public at large doesn't bow down and worship their motorcycle awesomeness and really couldn't give a rats ass about them. Seems like everytime someone jumps on a motorcycle, they suddenly expect all drivers to be perfect and that all imperfections were intentional attempts to harm them. Memo to everyone, most people don't care about motorcyclists one way or the other.
Click to expand...

I'm on board with that thinking as well.

And since I made that realization, I've noticed a lot more cage vs cage, cage vs bicycle, cage vs pedestrian, bicycle vs pedestrian...etc....inconsiderate behavior. Motos don't have the monopoly as recipients of douchy behavior.
 
Erbuck said:
I'm on board with that thinking as well.

And since I made that realization, I've noticed a lot more cage vs cage, cage vs bicycle, cage vs pedestrian, bicycle vs pedestrian...etc....inconsiderate behavior. Motos don't have the monopoly as recipients of douchy behavior.
Click to expand...

Me too.. pretty well put.

Here's my thought process--> "Just passing though, scuse me, pardon me, HI.."

I have a funny story.. Living in concord; I'm giving my wife and her sister a ride in the Ural; I make a U-turn and was going really slow. This guy making a turn get all huffy and starts yelling. I hollar back.. "DRIVE YOUR DAMNED CAR! ALREADY!"

And he did.. Sometimes you have to remind people of what it was they were doing before they got distracted by you.. :laughing
 
Back in the '70s it was as easy as NOT wearing a BLACK leather jacket (which equated to biker or biker-wannabe). I sported a fine Schott in brown and was.....a Motorcyclist - stuntahs hadn't been invented yet.
 
Archimedes said:
I think most of the public moto-hate is actually only in the minds of the motorcyclists. As a community, motorcycling suffers from a persecution complex that magnifies the perceived scorn from the public at large way beyond what it really is. I think a big part of it is motorcyclists being butt hurt by the fact that the public at large doesn't bow down and worship their motorcycle awesomeness and really couldn't give a rats ass about them. Seems like everytime someone jumps on a motorcycle, they suddenly expect all drivers to be perfect and that all imperfections were intentional attempts to harm them. Memo to everyone, most people don't care about motorcyclists one way or the other.
Click to expand...

Well put. Its a riders cageless vulnerability that amplifies bad driving in their temporarily ego inflated minds. I realized this a couple of months ago riding home on 680. Its like " Hey I'm on this badass bike so you should pay attention to me and be nice". Not so much. Intentional acts do happen but 99% of the time its just vanilla cluelessness that I see on the highway.
 
yea WTF is w/ all these douchbag riders making us all look bad?!

draggin' knee on the street
100mph on the freeway
splitting lanes
passing over the double yellow


Assholes! the lot of 'em !


:later
 
try carrying a rifle across your back, should get you a bit more space from cagers :rofl
 
Junkie said:
try carrying a rifle across your back, should get you a bit more space from cagers :rofl
Click to expand...

Haven't seen that... but I have seen a guy riding with a sword strapped across his back. That got a double-take! :laughing
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top