Can you make it to the market on a bike?

On Aug 6, 1:43 pm, donquijote1954 wrote:
I guess the scooter ain't very safe either...

Zigzagging: Most Dangerous Driving

Don't ask me for a study that backs up such a statement, it's just
obvious. Every time you get on the road you see these wild vehicles
(usually SUVs and larger vehicles) zigzagging all around playing a
game of Russian Roulette --a game they always win since they are
bigger...

So there I was last night riding my scooter with my girlfriend
(sitting ducks, so to speak), taking the middle lane on a three lane
road, when a beat-up van with three terrorist rats* cut me off almost
to the point of making catastrophic contact (*forgive me my jungle
talk referring to the small time predators, unlike the big time
predators in SUVs).

WHY? Well, I know that if I had had a gun I would have emptied it in
his head and so feeding the ROAD RAGE ESCALATION, but I didn't and I
wouldn't have caught up with him anyway. So I was left to cope with my
rage and impotence, if only having the consolation to be alive. But
still that hasn't answered my question. WHY? I guess it may have do to
with the instinct in "Natural Born Killers,"** but there's some deeper
cause, one that points at the system that doesn't crack down on them,
and that simply fails to implement some basic RULES OF THE ROAD.

This dawned on me later: They were provoked into this reckless,
criminal driving (no excuses for that) by a road that was completely
blocked by a few cars, oblivious to that basic rule of "slow vehicles
keep to the right." And there's lies the problem: When there are no
rules of the road, then you get the Law of the Jungle...

** NATURAL BORN KILLERS, the movie

REVIEW
Why not kill them at birth, or even before
By Jacques COULARDEAU

This is Apocalypto in the all-American modern version. Our society
produces, be they born or not born, a whole fringe of killers that
absolutely know what is wrong or right, good or bad, but who do not
care a fig about it, even if at times they do not find any pleasure in
murdering. The film explores the destiny of a couple of two young
people who meet by accident but find in themselves so many common
alienations and frustrations based on about the same social, cultural
and personal environment : sexual abuse and violence from parents,
rejection from society, total lack of care and help in education that
is inexistant or social counselling that is just impotent. They end up
taking what they want by force since it is not provided to them free.
But the film goes a lot further. It analyzes the role of the media
that systematically sell paper and prime time advertising with this
showing of violence and with fake or unfake interviews of murderers
and other criminals. The lower, the better. The nastier, the more
profitable. The bloodier, the tastier. Then the film also shows that
the prison system is a system of incarceration and containment, in no
way of reform, education and improvement. These prisoners are there to
survive because no one dares execute them all. They are the
sacrificial victims of society that needs them to regenerate its lost
virginity, purity and morality. They are the sacrificial victims of a
god that has nothing to envy the Maya gods. This god is the god of
selfish greedy consumerism. Till it explodes. And the official end of
the film shows that such criminals can disappear in society forever,
and they are then living among us unknown and unseen. The alternative
ending shows that you need the intervention of an angel to execute
these criminals. The film preaches and advocates that these criminals
are natural born killers, hence that they will never be anything else,
hence that they have to be purely and simply executed as soon as they
are noticed and as fast as possible to avoid as many victims as
possible, why not at birth ? This vision of crime in our society is
criminal in itself because it produces the criminals concerned by
considering there is no other way, it is their fate and ours.

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You guys always lose me with these SUVs are evil threads. I never
have any problems with them when I'm on my motorcycle. You just have
to drive your motorcycle like a car, following the same rules, keep
your high beam on in the daytime, and make eye contact. If you are
experiencing problems, I would guess it is one of three things: you
are not keeping up to road speed, you are not accelerating as quickly
as everyone else, or your bike just too small to be seen/noticed.

You might want to consider something a bit bigger. I've ridden the
Honda Silver Wing and that's a sweet ride.

Other than that, the best you can do is get a really loud horn, such a
boat horn or something.