What happened to helping a brother out?!
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08-06-2016 | 07:51 PM
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When you pass me by and I'm looking at you with my hands in the air does that count as a hand gesture ?.
I am 6' 1" and was wearing a sleeve less T and I have tattoos and a goatee so maybe it was my fault nobody stopped.
Karma?!...I check on everyone I see on the side of the road whether they are on a bike or in a cage and I would like to consider myself a good person.
I am sorry for venting about this event but I will continue to stop to check on people no matter what they look like or if they gesture to me first.
Sometimes I just wonder.......
I am 6' 1" and was wearing a sleeve less T and I have tattoos and a goatee so maybe it was my fault nobody stopped.
Karma?!...I check on everyone I see on the side of the road whether they are on a bike or in a cage and I would like to consider myself a good person.
I am sorry for venting about this event but I will continue to stop to check on people no matter what they look like or if they gesture to me first.
Sometimes I just wonder.......
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#12
08-06-2016 | 07:53 PM
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08-06-2016 | 08:07 PM
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In 2012 I broke down on the way home from Sturgis. No cell service in the middle of SD on I90. A guy with a bike on a one bike trailer stopped to help. We ended up unloading his bike and loading my bike. I rode his bike while he trailered mine to an exit I could buy a battery at (about 50 miles). Wouldn't accept anything more than a handshake for his troubles.
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08-06-2016 | 08:07 PM
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The wife and I went for a ride today and stopped for gas about 5 miles from home. When she tried to start her bike(02 fatboy)....nothing. I got it started but it did and/or seem right. We head home slowly with her in the lead and about a mile down the road she starts to smoke out both pipes, she pulls over right away. I look it over again and got oil coming out air cleaner and all over side of motor. She hasn't rode that bike in about a month cause she has another and it's almost like the thing sumped the crankcase full of oil. As we are only about 3 miles from home I send her home on my bike to get truck and I sit and wait on the side of road with 4-ways blinking away.
Now, in the 15 minutes I sat there before she got back I had atleast 6 bikes of different makes go by and you wanna guess how many stopped OR even gestured to me?!.....absolutely friggin' zero!!!!.
Then as I'm like an idiot trying to push it home down the side I had atleast 3 pickups with EMPTY trailers on back drive past and not a 1 of them douches stopped either.
I try to stop or atleast slow down and gesture to every bike I see on the side of the road and I will continue to do so but I was really disappointed in my fellow local riders today.
Thanks for letting me vent, time for some of the whiskey I just brought home from Tennessee.
Scott
Now, in the 15 minutes I sat there before she got back I had atleast 6 bikes of different makes go by and you wanna guess how many stopped OR even gestured to me?!.....absolutely friggin' zero!!!!.
Then as I'm like an idiot trying to push it home down the side I had atleast 3 pickups with EMPTY trailers on back drive past and not a 1 of them douches stopped either.
I try to stop or atleast slow down and gesture to every bike I see on the side of the road and I will continue to do so but I was really disappointed in my fellow local riders today.
Thanks for letting me vent, time for some of the whiskey I just brought home from Tennessee.
Scott
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08-06-2016 | 08:36 PM
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You're confusing the bikers of years ago with these generic **** ants that only care about themselves. The ones of us that will stop are few and far between these days.
I'd for sure have pulled over. Set the bar low for your expectations when it comes to today's "biker". You won't be let down so easy.
I'd for sure have pulled over. Set the bar low for your expectations when it comes to today's "biker". You won't be let down so easy.
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