Truisms.
We ride every damn day. Many of us commute on our motorcycles
and have for years. This long-earned experience has helped us
form some conclusions that we feel to be absolute laws of the
road.
- When you have a short commute, you spend more time
putting on your gear (leathers, boots, gloves,
spine protector, helmet,etc...), and warming up
the bike, then actually riding.
- After endangering your life, a driver is more
likely to flip you off than to apologize.
- The one guy going the speed limit will ALWAYS be
a bottle-neck of trouble.
- Drivers talking on their cellphones are noticably
more stupid than drivers without them.
- People with dealer plates still on the car. We see
them do as many or more bad lane changes and
oblivious moves as the cell phone users.
- Motorcyclists are equally or more capable of
operating their vehicles than the drivers
of cars. We have to be.
- People in SUVs are oblivious to the drivers/riders
around them. Is this why they buy the SUV?
- Commuting makes people into cranky, selfish,
aggressive morons.
- Most drivers are rude. The rudeness of the driver
is directly proportional to the cost of the car.
- Professional drivers are no better at driving
than anyone else. Some are far worse.
- Semis are giant slow smog-belching machines that
do not belong on the roads during commute time.
- If there was an IQ test along with a driving
test, we would run out of bicycles.
- Carpool lanes aren't inforced for shit.
- Americans are serious addicts and their drug of
choice is gasoline.
- A housewife in a minivan filled with 3.2 children
and a cell phone should be against the Geneva
convention along with mustard gas.
- Cutting from lane to lane when traffic slows down
doesn't get you any further ahead -- unless
you're on a motorcycle.
- Lanesplitting is legal, you bastards! Cops do it!
So let us through! Are you so annoyed that we
might get there before you do?
- Truly useful public transportation in the SFBay
area is a myth.
- People don't slow down when it rains. Until
the accident blocks traffic, that is.
- CalTrans (the California Department of Transportation)
doesn't care at all about motorcycle safety
when doing construction. Or much about
automobile safety either.
- Parking your motorcycle outside your office window
is rather distracting, and tends to reduce your
work output.
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