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I Kind of Lost My Shit Last Night - Or, Maybe I'm Just an Asshole

yodaisgod said:
When someone uses the term "murdercycle," to me, are generally ignorant. I tend to stay away from ignorant people.
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I need to follow that advice. I normally say something and they get pissed off for some reason.
 
Saw someone on the phone with a folder of paperwork propped up on the steering wheel while doing 70 on 680. Another one who was counting money.
 
When my dad came home with a JD with no papers, that he wheedled from an old farmer with $25. & Iver Johnson 22.
His dad said NO, and dropped trou, to show off a fist sized hole in one butt cheek. He got tangled up in the back sprocket of his Indian and it chewed his a$$.

Granddad helped dad on getting the JD rolling.
All the adventures (& tickets) he had riding without any lights, horn, speedo, until the judge had to see the registration. No pink slip, no way to get one, the judge took a ball peen hammer to smash the cases at the serial #, and returned the bike.
 
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If people act ignorant, I can respond with sarcasm and anger, or I can educate them about motorcycling in a way that makes sense to them. I explain to them how lane splitting is legal, people doing it at all speeds and conditions are breaking the law, and that while they might not like us splitting, I don't like them eating, drinking, taking, applying makeup, smoking tobacco, smoking weed, doing work or reading the newspaper while driving either and perhaps they could have a word with all their driving buddies.

ALso when they complain about speeding I inquire if they always keep it under 65 or the occasionally drive faster. Or what the proper move is when the left lane is being blocked by a slow driver.

It's very easy once they realize they apply the same judgement to law as we do.
 
Yep

littlebeast said:
there are run-of-the-mill badgerers intent on convincing others that their world view is the only correct one, and then there are others who are damaged, and have difficulty processing that damage, or recovering from it.
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This.
 
OP, you were so-o-o-o much nicer that I would have been.

I probably would have said something like - Blaming a rider's injuries on their motorcycle is like blaming a rape victim's injuries on their appearance. Aren't we supposed to know better than that by now?

When a semi hits a car no one says the car driver should have been in a bigger vehicle.
 
pKx said:
I enjoy calmly answering statements like this with, "you would purposefully injure or kill someone for doing something completely legal? Remind me to stay away from you."
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I prefer to just let loose with a: " Then that makes you a fucking psycho. "

No, I'm not very subtle sometimes.
 
louemc said:
Things don't go bad (for me), on a motorcycle either.
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Don't or haven't?
I've got well over 250K miles of street riding under my belt and have had zero injuries and only one minor, low speed lowside on the street in my 34 years of riding. That doesn't mean that I am such an amazing rider that I am impervious to the danger. It simply means that I have had a good combination of judgement, skill and luck thus far.
 
Everyone has an opinion.. Sometimes I tell them to keep it to themselves:)
 
A lot of folks like that are totally OK with skiing. Ask them how well that worked out for Sonny Bonno or Michael Kennedy.

We can't all be afraid of life, some of us need to show everyone else how it's done.
 
Murdercycle and Donorcycle comments always bum me out.

The term Donorcycles come from head trauma associated with crashing without a helmet. Even at a low speed a relatively minor crash that would leave all the organs intact would be fatal. The fact that I ride with a helmet all the time means that doesn't really apply. It's like being called the wrong racial slur. The intent to be mean is there without the knowledge to be mean the right way :|

Murdercycle implies some intentional act to end my life. Why not call it a "Suicycle?" Then let's talk about the people we care about that have succumbed to their demons and how riding keeps me sane.

Both terms piss me off to no end and I will take the conversation into some uncomfortable territory when people throw them out there.

Anyway, Kurt you're fine.

Totally an asshole

But fine :teeth
 
Lunch Box said:
I see that as being akin to "cager," which is used quite commonly here. :dunno
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budman said:
That is better for sure.

Cager is like biker to me.
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To me, cager is a term from Easyrider magazine. There were always issues of it laying around a shop I used to work at.

It's a term I don't use. Sort of like new riders calling someone a squid, because they aren't wearing gear like they wear. I believe being a squid truly refers to a rider's skill level, as in, "not a very good rider". I don't use that one, either, at least not in that context.
 
I once dated a girl whom had her brother and father both pass away in separate motorcycle accidents. She was totally OK with my riding, because she understood that riding is a passion. I'll always remember what she said "Who would I be to speak ill of someones life long love affair? When I have one of my own." Some people get it, some people don't. It probably didn't hurt that she was a Master BMW tech and had two track cars...

That Urgent Care tech lectured us with her burning stare of judgement. No words necessary.


If you haven't fucked things up for your wife yet, I don't think you have to worry about this instance fuck'n them up :twofinger
 
Kurt, I hear it too. And I get the "but you're a mother" and the constant "ride safe comments." When they imply I'm a careless human for riding while parenting I remind them that there's many things I do every day that will kill me whether slowly or quickly.

The ride safe thing used to bother me. Now I just say thanks and go about the day. :dunno I don't see anything wrong with standing your ground and letting them know you're not going to be budged by their comment. Maybe they realized they were being pushy. Or not. But fuck 'em.
 
FreeRyde said:
If you haven't fucked things up for your wife yet, I don't think you have to worry about this instance fuck'n them up :twofinger
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She's patient beyond reason. :dunno
 
Thankfully I've pretty much stopped getting the unwanted advice once I started riding for work, and that's even with spending a lot of time at John Muir around the nurse staff who are typically the worst offenders :laughing
 
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