Roads are not a race track

Jun 8, 2026 3:01 PM

Kyzyl

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According to the comment section everyone made it out alive. But they could just as easily become organ donors that day.

Someone very close to me died doing this. The funeral home had a hell of a time de-squashing the left hand side of his body, so that his mother could see her son one last time.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Hey there @UncleSlam123

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's the wheels in their lane,their heads in the opposite lane that worries me.I nearly took the head of a guy who hadn't crossed the median

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Guarantee some of the riders will later blame this crash on the car driver and all them a "fucking cager"

2 months ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 1

My favourite was the guy doing like 90 on city streets, a truck ahead pulls out and immediately brakes because they realized they completely misjudged the guy's speed, of course the bike eats it and he's mad that they "didn't commit" to the turn

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Still though, pretty impressive driving by helmet-cam guy to stay up on his wheels. Or maybe he’s just one lucky SOB.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Nothing impressive about it honestly, a bike in motion wants to stay upright

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

As someone who's been riding motorcycles for 30 years.... It's a goddamn shame they fucked that person's car up.

2 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I'm not totally sure, but a quick pause shows the speedometer reading 157 (what I believe to be ) kph. That's about 98mph, going around that blind turn. I believe everyone else already covered that these riders were foolish. I just wanted to confirm it numerically. Also, I haven't ridden in some years, but isn't braking on a turn typically a really, REALLY risky endeavour?

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This was not an accident, this was a deliberate risk they took. I nominate then to become organ donors that day anyway. Not sign up for the eventuality, but actual donate.

2 months ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 2

Every other comment is about not racing.

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2 months ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 2

According to the comments, none of them did, so no.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's because Darwin was cock-blocked by the Natural Selection Interference Squad, also known as the ambulance.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It is what it is.
Again, Darwin appreciates the result, not an effort, nor excuses.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

"aww. you made an effort. its the thought that counts!"

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

well, no. Charles Darwin only cares for the result. sorry

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Well, in rebuttal to that, even though not dead, all the lovely scarring left from those kinds of accidents, could have, unintentionally, removed him from the gene pool. That's rather Darwinian, albeit in a tangential way. LOL!

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

that could happen, but is rather rare occasion
so we are safe to assume of all of these candidates only few, with a proper luck, would filfill the condition
or much more probably not

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

It's almost as if there's a "speed limit" for a reason. huh...

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Donor kebab.....

2 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Thrill-a-minute assholes, followed by life as an invalid. I'm a thrill seeker, myself, but I have some common sense.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

12 second rule, riders. 2 seconds to perceive the threat, 4 to react, 6 to brake safely. Ignore it and you will eventually paint the road with your ass. Ride safely and courteously.

2 months ago | Likes 83 Dislikes 4

I was crossing the bay bridge to meet friends for dinner in the city. When passing through the Yerba Buena tunnel I came on the scene of a motorcycle accident that had occurred only minutes before. The right-hand wall of the interior looked like someone had taken one giant arcing brushstroke with a mop soaked in blood.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Meh. Meat crayons gonna meat crayons.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You’d be lucky if you only paint the road with you ass. It’s more likely your arms/face/skull.

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

In MN there is no requiring helmets for bikers. It's a deep and really enough fear for me that I will find another way than follow a biker a without a helmet. I don't need to see that ever

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

4 seconds to react is ridiculously high. 12/4/2 is supposed to be your visual scan, two seconds ahead of you for immediate threats (like an intersection), 4 seconds ahead of you for longer range threats (like the car in front of you) and 12 seconds for longer term threats so you can plan for them.

2 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

That 4 seconds to react is critical. I have to take a yearly driving course for work, and that's something they stress constantly, especially for the drivers of the heavy trucks. Your brakes, tires, and suspension can be top notch. But one of the major constants will always be your ability to start breaking, analyze if that will be enough, and adjust accordingly.

2 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

If it takes you 4 seconds to react you shouldn't be driving anything at freeway speeds. You should hit the brake in under 1 second: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26376036/

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

"Should" is the keyword. The 3 seconds is for leeway. Not everyone is perfect like you, unfortunately.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

4 seconds at freeway speeds is a damned football field of distance before you Start braking? AVERAGE reaction time is half a second (already cited).

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Then for you, you'll have plenty of extra time after reacting early. Reacting early will always be better than cutting it close and failing.
When the consequences are possible brutal deaths for multiple people. Giving everyone an extra 3 seconds is a tiny price to pay.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And reaction time only every gets better with age and no faults right?

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only one reason I support self-driving cars. Properly installed, set up, and fault-proof sensors are lightning fast compared even to the fastest, most alert human, and most of the drivers on the road are VERY far from that.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So in my opinion, self-driving cars are a good start provided there’s good data/research to go with it. It’s also one area I’m willing to let AI into as hopefully it’ll enhance the computer to learn more and more about how to handle safe driving. But I think one of the biggest things that will help self-driving is for cars to be able to communicate with each other. Think of it like if the car in front brakes, it’ll automatically send out a signal to other cars around it and react accordingly.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I swear, some people aren't happy until one of them ends up on a wheelchair for life.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And that, my friends, is why I get dispatch radio traffic from fire that says, ‘we’re just finishing up hosing the blood off the road. Then we’ll be code 4.’

2 months ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

Fucking morons. If you ride like this you should lose your license and have your bike crushed. It's the only way they'll learn.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Damn i hope everyone in the car was ok. i have ZERO sympathy for the bikers.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

oh no, the consequences of my action, and hopefully a nice life changing fine to pay for the damage on the car, and maybe, just maybe a life lesson about not being a self centered piece of shit

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I feel sorry for the car driver

2 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

*stares at pickup drivers*

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Squids gonna squid, group riding like this needs group impound and arrests.

2 months ago | Likes 204 Dislikes 6

I ride to commute, and this shit is why I don't do group rides. I have a little versys 300, it can do the speed limit everywhere I want to go, but not much more. I'm content just cruising the back roads to town and home again, getting great mileage

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Reminds me of this YT short of a highway patrol pulling over a group of dudes doing shit like this. And you can see how his soul leaves his body when he yells at them that he's had 12 calls about them. He was clearly a cop that has gotten tired of pulling bodies off the pavement from dudes racing with deadly consequences.

2 months ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 2

Good luck catching them all

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Can't out run a radio and a camera

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

RICO road riders

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

What’s a squid in this scenario

2 months ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Young, inexperienced rider with a bike way too powerful for his own good.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Idiots who ride sports bikes in unsafe ways and beyond their skill level.

2 months ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

They're re-defining it a bit. Primarily, squid means you don't wear sufficient gear (or any gear, like, t shirt and flip flops). The name comes from what their skin looks like after a crash.

2 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 2

The numbers of people i see riding wearing only t-shirt and flip flops is way too high, I can’t understand

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Stupidly Quick, Under geared, Imminently Dead.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Stupid, quick, underdressed, and imminently dead

2 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

"...and to prove that we're serious, we're going to run your bikes through this grinder here."

2 months ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

No nee,d they did that themselves.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I always thought it was dumb when they crush things like that. Or collector cars. Like ffs, sell them for some easy revenue

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'd rather pour the rage of the enthusiast community onto the transgressors.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Are the people in the car okay? Because they are the ONLY people in this clip whose wellbeing I'm concerned about.

Had this been on a track, I could be moved to be concerned for the bikers too. But not on the road. Nope.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What nation is this in? Let's find out who is in the wrong here.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Who is in the wrong? Anyone racing on public roads that haven't been closed and controlled for an event. Nations have nothing to do with it. The bikers are selfish idiots daring nature to select them out of the gene pool, and tough luck to anyone they might take out along with themselves.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Man, duck these guys. They put everyone else in danger. Like the car that they hit.

2 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

I seriously doubt any of them has left his insurance information.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Idiots.

2 months ago | Likes 355 Dislikes 2

Criminal idiots

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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2 months ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

I hope they all got hurt.

2 months ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 4

I was going to say "that is awful" but....I feel the same way.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

the bike that got passed was going over 200 kph at some points, he is damn lucky he had time to react, that car is probably totaled, let alone the bike and rider

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

In Australia we call them "Temporary Aussies"

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2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm french, so, pardon my french: when I talk to my son about them I use this terms, roughly translated: "road lords". It seems you have the same people in the US.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

criminals

2 months ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 0

Corpses

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

not according to the post

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Nice ad - they should tie those buttheads to a chair and make them watch it for hours on end!

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

yes, that was a good one

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Idiot. Criminal. Those distinctions are not mutually exclusive.

2 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

damn.

2 months ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

Good

2 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 6

can't sleep there, mate

2 months ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

My mother worked in an ER as an x-ray tech for her internship. She told us that if we ever got a motorcycle, she'd kill us immediately so she didn't have to wait.
She also said, "it doesn't matter if you're a careful driver on one of those,,,"

2 months ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Except it does. The odds of being killed on a motorcycle in general is 37x more than if you're in a car. But if you eliminate idiots - DUI, stunting, excessive speeding, riding without a license, riding without training, riding without protective gear, the odds go down to 1.8x more likely. Still almost double but FAR FAR less than the general population of idiots.
I know plenty of old guys (I'm one myself) who have never had a serious accident in decades.

2 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 3

That's how odds work. Still doesn't change the fact that you can't be careful enough to be safe.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

True in every aspect of life. You can't drive a car careful enough to be safe either. But you do want to enjoy life.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

that's true for anything, the best one can do is be smart about risks. If you never take any, that will probably be what bites you in the ass.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

100% nailed it. Be smart about risks. Some grandmas were saying the same :)

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As I get older I look at stupid bikers and think "Thank god for that supply of nice young fresh organs!"

2 months ago | Likes 113 Dislikes 3

That would all be fun and giggles, but they kill the innocent people.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

When I went through my Motorcycle Safety Foundation Basic Rider Course before I got my Motorcycle License, the instructor was checking everyone's ID before the class started, he noted that my license said I was an organ donor, I replied that they don't call it a "donorcycle" for nothing.

2 months ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

Oh I remember that. Learned a lot on a Honda 250 Rebel, totally worth it. But yeah if you don't wear a helmet your higher functions of the brain will be destroyed but your medulla will keep your hear pumping so they can get those tasty organs out.

2 months ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Exactlu what I learned on too. Bought a bike soon after and never took it over 25 mph around my neighborhood because I was too scared. Then moved to Sicily and you couldn’t pay me to ride here with the horrible streets and the insane drivers.

2 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

My grandma was a nurse and that's what she called people on 'murdercycles', organ donors.

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Larry Niven wrote a series of short SF stories in which virtually all crimes were punishable by death, because in addition to huge life extension technology being widely available, condemned criminals were automatically fed into the organ harvesting system. With the right incentives almost anyone can be inclined to wish for the death of another.

Not faulting you personally, either. If this gang of idiots ride straight over a cliff due to being unable to stop in time, oh well.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

My wife says when she used to work in (nonpediatric) hospitals, the nurses referred to these bikes as "donorcycles".

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've always hated that a corpse's organs can't be harvested indiscriminately. The laws should change so that any dead body can have its organs harvested to save the lives or ease the suffering of people who're STILL ALIVE. That doesn't mean the body is "desecrated", they just yoink whats needed & close it up in a perfectly presentable manner for an open-casket funeral. How selfish does one need be to care what happens to their lifeless HUSK after death. 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗽𝗲! Death is permanent!

2 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 6

The trouble with that is that the human condition is a self-serving sickness. While I'd like to believe that every surgeon is a good surgeon who will genuinely make sure their patient is, in fact, already dead before harvesting the organs, there are plenty of cases in which that simply wasn't true. I do believe that organ donation should be an opt-OUT system instead of opt-in, broadly legalizing harvest could potentially broadly legalize murder.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

That argument, thankfully, has no real purchase on reality. See my response to Ivain above.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Except there's been plenty in instances where people have been on the brink of having their organs harvested only to have the operation stopped at the last second. What's to think there haven't been instances such operations weren't stopped in time? Furthermore, humanity in general has a track record of using minorities' bodies against their will and already doing similar in the past. To think a person can not fall victim to having their organs erroneously harvested is wishful thinking at best.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Some of us have conditions or have family history that makes us ineligible to donate… my mom died of CJD and until recently I was not eligible and neither were my kids. They changed the rules recently, I know I can donate blood now and I think I can donate organs too… but I want to get a lot more use out of them first!

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

imho organ donation should at the very least be opt-out (as it stands it's opt-in). I suspect most people just don't give a shit either way and won't bother opting out so it'd help a ton. I'm registered as an organ donor but it still baffles me that I'm not an organ donor by default.

2 months ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Apparently Arizona is opt-out. Found that out when my eldest got their lisence. I saw the endorsement and complimented them on the choice. They told me that was the default.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Some countries do this and it’s great. Turns out most people don’t have strong feelings either way, so most are happy to accept the default. Those who do have traditions or beliefs or concerns can still opt out.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I can see your point. But you have to fight against the people that think that if you’re an organ donor, doctors will let you die for your organs. My ex’s sister believes this and also that dinosaurs didn’t exist. She’s a teacher btw.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Considering that one case where a donor body was used as a test dummy and exploded, I'd rather not create a law-enforced endless supply of corpses for people to fuck with. If dead person = guaranteed human body, people become worth more dead than they are alive. Not something I want to encourage in the current 'human capital' era.

That said, I have no objection to the opt-out approach rather than the opt-in approach. If people care enough they can opt out, otherwise they're donors.

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With due respect to you all, it's a warrentless argument born of sci-fi tropes and a misunderstanding of medical protocols. First, If doctors wanted to murder people for their organs, what's stopping them from killing the millions CURRENTLY registered as opt-in donors? Further, the team of doctors trying to save your life in the ER or ICU 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺. The trauma doctors do not know, or CARE if you are an organ donor. Much more to say here but no room.

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Oh, this person is an Organ Donor? Well, they're poor so they'll just die anyway, better to put their organs to some use for 'good' people."

The act of stealing people's rights always STARTS with good intentions, but the road from logical pragmatism to outright murder is very much shorter than we think.

2 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

If they’re willing to do that, they don’t need the organ donor status to do so. People’s willingness to obsess over rare possibilities while ignoring currently occurring harms kills a lot of people.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Hey, you're the one who is saying we should legalize organ selling. It's a natural fucking consequence of removing these restrictions.

The reason organ selling doesn't exist in the First World is because the legal systems around 'donated' organs are so strict as to make it impossible. Remove those restrictions and all of a sudden there's a 'doctor' willing to install these organs his suppliers just 'found'.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Uhh… where did I say selling organs should be legal? All I’ve been talking about is making organ donation opt-out instead of opt-in. Or did you confuse me with someone else?

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Which would be a meaningful argument if poor people weren't *already* dying from lack of organ availability that the rich can sidestep. At least with opt-out, there would be far more organs available to all those who need them.

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

While i agree you dont get to decide what other people do with thier bodies. Dead or alive.

2 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Not me, the state. And yes, you're right, sadly. Countless people suffering from horrific diseases, cancer, liver & kidney failure where they have to be on horrible dialysis machines, people in need of transfusions but there's no plasma, people waiting for hearts, lungs and so on. SO MUCH misery & death can be avoided, but no, but we have to yield to myth-borne religious beliefs & other similar senseless roadblocks... It's truly heartbreaking.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

It really is sad. I've made it clear to my family I want them to take everything that they can from my body. Burn the rest and throw me in a beautiful place

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If you don't understand why the law exists in the first place, you REALLY shouldn't talk with such condescension. It just makes you come off as an edgy teenager that just had their first real thought.

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Let me tell you as a German well aware of my country's history...it's a really bad idea to take away individual rights and hand the rights to your dead body over to the state. Gouvernments will abuse that power. Almost guaranteed. Suddenly the death penalty gets a lot more common, emergency calls get prioritised differently, etc.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Sounds nice, however real-world data disproves this slippery slope (though I won't use that argument because it's part of a much larger conversation not fit for here). Instead, I'll argue that here, first responders & ER doctors are completely separated from transplant teams; their only legal and ethical duty is saving life. Further, making donation universal literally eliminates organ scarcity, which immediately destroys any perverse incentive for the state or doctors to "let someone die."

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