This should be interesting

One need look no farther than The Dragon, US Route 129 for proof of Bear's principle.

The Dragon is freaking awesome. However, it is not worth the trip unless you go during the school year on a week day. I've hit The Dragon twice on weekends. I think the one day, I counted about 14 cops in 11 miles. All the idiots that use road as race track have ruined it for the rest of us. The LEO's have gone off the deep end with their presence & enforcement. Do I blame the LEO's? No. They found a new source or revenue & they exploit it very well. So I can honestly say, I have no further reason to run The Dragon. I would much rather ride the Blue Ridge or the Cherohala. Then there is the abundance of really good back roads all over the area. So point becomes that when you give "The Man" or society a reason, they are almost always all too happy to show you who's in charge.

KC-10 FE out...
lane: :usa2:

 

Update

Apparently, some folks that ride with the group Assphalt Junkies out of Cincinnati are pursuing this in some legal fashion, although they appear to be rather tight lipped at this point.

Who knows? At this point its mostly web bullshit except for one very salient fact.......this vid has gone viral.

So something might get done eventually ....maybe

All that would be great, but it wont change anything much.

I dont know the "final solution" other than the obvious, which is take yer shit to the track, which not everyone is going to do.

The only thing I know to do is keep changing up your routes, stay advised on hot routes, and try every now and then to not piss the locals off by acting stupid

and yes, KC is right, no one has much interest in the Dragon anymore if its going to be like that

This whole business reminds me of Spring Break in Palm Springs or Panama City.....too many people, the thing got too popular....and was ruined. I dont know how to make something like that go away.

I keep hoping no one has figured out my own private loop, but I recently discovered at least one person has, so now if we are on it together the locals are going to think, holy shit, here come those maniacs again. I really dont want to give up riding on the street, or be reduced to riding on the street like Im either in a fucking parade or am on a moped. But this may be what happens, unless Im willing to slab it out to somewhere in the Southwest on an Indian Rez. :joker:

 

I am seriously disappointed in ya'll. If one of you was to suffer that cousin humping asshole trying run you off the road....a lesson needs to be handed oot. Jethro was just lucky Toxic and myself were not on hand to handle the problem. Aggravated assault.......duh....no shit. My grandmother would have expected no less.

 

Toe if it had been me and you and Toxic out somewhere in the San Joaquin Valley and that shit happened Id have gladly held him down while you delivered your sermon along with your overhand rights. Since I know you guys I know there would have been no recording of events.

However because someone recorded that incident its now transcended the incident and has become something bigger, a treatise on sportbikers, their behaviors and so on, and a lesson in roadrage.

You dont need to be disappointed, but the facts speak volumes. When lots of asshats on bikes spoil an area, youre well advised to stay away, nothing earth shattering in that info.

With the everyday introduction of high tech into the common man's life, its damn likely youre being recorded when you kick a dickheads ass.

If nothing else, when youre done, search him for the camera

My comments are based largely because I tend to ride alone.

 

The consensus is then not to post up cool places to ride or you might run into Hillbilly Harry's cousin, the local LEOs, or get busted by a Canadian cop and get buttreamed by a sled dog.

 

Gentlemen and (presumably) Ladies

Yes indeed, when witnessing the endangerment of a fellow biker such as this, the red mist descends and as a result sees the end of all rhyme and reason. In the absence of said rhyme and reason events usually escalate into tragedy. It serves as a testament to the involved riders strength of character that in this case the events did not follow the natural downward spiral into anarchy which so often is the case.

As for us, the spectators, we are obviously very bias when commenting on these events. Surely slandering Mr. H. Billy’s name with derogative comments about his personality, heritage and sexual preferences aids in the dissipation of red mist that clouds our judgement. We can however not distance ourselves from the fact that Mr. Billy himself was also acting under the influence of “red mist” initiated by our self centred and ignorant use of his home turf as our own personal playground.

Whom of us would tolerate the repeated use of the road we live in as the devils playground where neither chicken nor child can safely venture? I know I don‘t.

See, I live on a suburban road used as a shortcut between two main access roads due to the effective deployment of “traffic calming” measures on the road intended for that purpose. One can petition local government to apply the same calming measures to this road but until the death toll does not indicate this as a requirement, nothing can unfortunately be done.

So what to do?!
Exactly what Mr. Billy did as a matter of fact! Well not literally but the same principal applies! When Arshole Johnny Boy Racer comes up the road with his boosted and winged sports cage, hitting the rev limiter before every gear change, the Red Mist descends and images of actions that can make him loose control, running off the road and his ultimate fiery demise in a ball of flame and smoke take over my otherwise amiable nature.

Heaven knows what will happen when I find myself in the right place at the right time holding a brick in one hand and my 1911 in the other.

So, rather not judge Mr. Billy until you have driven a mile in his pickup!

See Ya All, gotta go find some bricks!

 

I am jeal-ous of ur righting skillz in Rhodesia err? is it Zimbabwe??? what do they call them nice fidos now? Zimbabawe Ridgebacks? or are they still kalled Rhodesian Ridgebacks?

I live around a place where there were affluent homes sick of cars using their street as a crossing for another. What they ended up doing was installing speed bumps from hell!!! We are talking ones with bricks and look kind of decrative until that is you hit em with your car. Then your arse gets some air :smile:

Seeing red comes to mind when I was watching this vid, We have squids down here that ride in shorts and sneaks doing riding wheelies on the road all the time. I dont respect them but I wouldnt aim my car at someone either no matter what. They ride, for how long only someone with a crystal ball would know.

We can't fathom how something we love so much (motorcycles) can be hated by someone else. Kinda sux but such is life :sad: I used to think about being respectable so I dont deteriote the general publics opinion of bikers, but I adventually figured out its a losing situation and just do my own thing. If I get a safe opening I take it, if I can get by a slow car safely, I do it. Just bike thinking as opposed to CAR THINK. Two wheels is about freedom and chit. Cheers

 

Actually, Mike, we can judge BillyBob. We can judge his behavior. It's there for all the world to see thanks to GoPro cameras.
BillyBobs behavior is reprehensible. He deserves a world class ass kicking. He will most likely get one if he keeps it up.

We can parse his reasons for such behavior and nail down the probable events leading up to it, but BillyBob is ultimately responsible for himself.

Comments made to the effect that overuse and abuse of public roads can somehow excuse his behavior are wrong.

 

No fuggen way if there is no Tim Horton's there.

 

Thats correct Rider, Them Dawgs still called Rhodesian Ridgebacks. The .ZA is however South Africa, a bit further south. Amazing though, I see you are from South Florida! Who would have thought USbekistan also had a place called Florida! :wink:

Redneck son brings home his new girlfriend to meet his parents for the first time:
Virgin!!! What do you mean she is a VIRGIN!!!
I Will not have it I tell you, I WILL NOT HAVE IT!
If she aint good enough for her pa and brothers, she aint good enough for my boy!

 

well, except among friends. Kinda like your favorite fishing hole.

 

Agreed.

Kinda like when a girl says no, that's it, even if she's dressed/acting like a slut. Which many guys disagree with, until it's their daughter/sister/etc. Then all of a sudden they get it.

Same principle applies here. Regardless of the biker's behavior, and even taking into account the rest of them rascally rice-burner racers making the area unfit for normal folk; still doesn't make it OK for Mr. Billy to try to kill some of 'em with his truck...

 

...and the dude was packin an ATV for a backup piece.

 

I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback. They are also called/ known as African Lion Hounds.

Back to topic. Sorry for the hi-jack.

 

I envision the scene in Pulp fiction when bruce willis is hitting marcelous wallace... PUNCH " You feel that sting...that's pride fucking with ya".

 

Update.............video from the Lexington Ky news station with the police

story starts at the 6:00 min

[video]http://www.lex18.com/videos/lex-18-news-at-6-june-9-2011/[/video]

 

Great find Bear.

Funny how all over the Internet, people were telling about how the fellow in the truck was up for attempted murder and such, some even telling how long his sentence could be, etc. Just goes to show ya, can't trust everything you read on the 'net...

 

In some hoods in LA, those would be commercials in half a dozen languages.

 

Take a look at some of the other stories on that vid and you'll see some of what I deal with every day. And you westerners think earthquakes are bad.

But judging a region by what makes the nightly news is like judging its' cuisine by eating from its' dumpsters