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Originally Posted by Magnus  Yorkytalkjilly: What you explained about riders carrying guns made totally sense and for a min, I thought "I guess they wouldn't be carrying if it's that dangerous..." But then... I realized. Most of the riders on that video didn't seem to either care or don't understand much about keeping safe. The only piece of safety gear I saw on them were helmets... If I were to take a guess, I'd say it's more to hide their face then to be safe. Cruz was stupid enough to cut in front of the rover and break check so...
Celstu1: Do you ride a cruiser or a sport bike? I've don't think ALL riders are bad whether s/he rides a cruiser or sport bike. But I have to admit, I've never encountered a cruiser that drove recklessly before while I have with sport bike riders... I've always wanted to ride a bike. It's really too bad.. the bad apples will make things so hard for the good ones that actually follow the law. |
Haha, well I didn't say bikers wouldn't carry - I did confine my comments of why "savvy" bikers know implying they probably wouldn't and surmised what I would be worried about if I were a biker thinking of carrying and as I did say, bikers can be risk-takers, some do carry. But from what I read, long-time bikers who've ridden longer than some others have lived have had enough really bad tumbles to know that hard objects carried on the body reek havoc on flesh, muscle and bone in a crash with all the high-speed bumping, bouncing and rolling over and over for yards and yards that ensues. I did get the impression that these days many do carry a gun hidden away somewhere on the bike itself but that it's not readily accessible during the ride for fear it will bounce out and be lost during a bumpy ride or wipeout.
And they have their own terms for crashes and names for certain kinds of bruises, bone breaks. One thing I thought was morbidly funny on a couple sites was that the biker's say EMT's/police call motorcycles "donor cycles".