#1 this is exactly the kind of shit that gives bikers a bad name. Dumbass motherfuckers going blind around curves on the wrong side of the road. And splitting lanes. Fuck ya'll whiny entitled bitches who think lanesplitting is ok. It's always dangerous and stupid and they act surprised when something bad happens. Just because your vehicle is smaller and faster doesn't mean you're magically free from consequences.
#2 "what happened?" WE DON'T FUCKING KNOW! BECAUSE YOU HAD ONE JOB! ONE FUCKING JOB! To film the thing... and instead you filmed your feet as you took two steps back. YOU WEREN'T EVEN RUNNING!
Nah. If this is propane, that is how u get insta-frozen mouth, throat and lungs. Propane in it's liquid state(which is what it is when compressed into one of those) is ULTRA cold, u should wear thick gloves to handle it when filling tanks, and that is just in-case u get a little leak and it sprays on your hand. Happened once to me and when it 'thawed' a day later it was a huge chunk of missing skin (I was lucky, affected area just fell off rather than rotted)
#2 when I worked in construction, one of my regular jobs was "clear out the warehouse while we do the crane lift" and I regularly had people ignore my instructions. I really needed a video like this to say "when I tell you to get behind the fucking red tape, this is why you do what I tell you!"
His mistake was cutting the lines inside the circle, ACROSS the circular cut line, creating a spot for the crack to start and run. You can see the fracture runs at two spots from the straight cuts. It wasn’t by much, but that’s all it takes.
Even that would've probably been fine without that god awful bullshit song played over and over again. God I'm so tired if every fucking gif and youtube short using that goddamn thing
Hard to tell from that video, but it looks like the operator didn't extend the outriggers fully and has his boom extended all the way at a low angle. I guarantee he had alarms going off in the cab and hit the over-ride.
#1 INCREDIBLY predictable... NEVER cross the yellow lines, not even with any of your body parts. If you can't stay in your lane while cornering, you're riding too fast.
I had that happen on a bicycle when I got caught out by a decreasing-radius turn at the bottom of a high-speed descent on a narrow 2-lane. I had two options. 1) continue in the wrong lane around a blind curve and hope there was no oncoming traffic. 2) ride immediately across onto the opposite gravel berm. I chose 2 and got some lovely road rash but at least didn't kill myself or someone else. Yeah, stupidly too fast.
Yeah, but "safely" doesn't mean "smart". If you ride a motorcycle, it's all about patterns and habits. It generally goes too fast for split second decisions. I own and operate a Honda Blackbird, if i some day teach myself a pattern of cornering narrow corners by using the ENTIRE road, EVEN when it's "safe", I'll endanger myself unnecessarily. I won't do it.
Knowing that you run things on autopilot to that degree is not generalizable to everyone. For a very close example - there are passing areas on single lane roads, but it's not always safe to pass. It's not reasonable to say, for that reason, that no-one should ever pass. You should pick situations that don't involve split-second decisions. Not all things are necessarily slippery slopes.
I don't mind them hating life or trying to kill themselves. More power to them. What I hate with a passion is that they risk other people's lives doing that.
I've been a motorcyclist for almost 50 yrs and I can assure you that I was swearing at those dumb motherfuckers from about 2 seconds after the video loaded and a full minute after it ended. Those stupid cunts deserve every bad thing that happens to em.
I'm a motorcyclist, but yeah I don't get these guys. I just like to be out in the open air and just going around at the same speed as traffic works for me. It's good therapy. These guys, I don't even know what their motivation is other than trying to impress one another.
I always assume it's similar to people who hang glide or do wing suits or base jumping. Just adrenaline junkie thrill seeking and I think in groups they also escalate each other. I wish people could enjoy that kind of risk taking without endangering others or leaving bike parts and oil etc in the ecosystem
People don't realize those truck tires run 90psi on the low side. More likely it was running toward 120psi. Car tires generally explode starting somewhere around 80psi.
I think you're misreading the series of events here. I read the comment before me as US-centric, and not only because it mentioned deportation. It was certainly wrong, because this event seems to have occurred only about a week ago, and nobody is IIRCing someone getting eventually deported after an event that occurred a week ago.
Truck tires are like 100 psi... Nothing to mess with, there's a reason they inflate them in cages. We've had car tires pop because the guy mounting them wasn't careful enough and damaged the bead... 32 psi isn't much, but that's shotgun blast level of noise. One even went off while on the balancer.
A colleague of mine once accidentally popped one with a forklift, when he was loading a trailer. Said he was sure everyone at the galvanising plant must've heard it, even though it was facing away from it. Forklift had one pedal for forward, one for backward, and a brake, and he got them mixed up.
To be fair, it was the only forklift there with that pedal set-up, all the other forklifts had a switch for forward/backward, and he was quite stressed at the time. The boss was pushing us to work overtime every day, so he probably wasn't getting enough sleep, since he had over an hour of driving to/from work.
Yup. “Oh wait it’s not fun anymore, now I’ll pull over and play by the rules!” -American politics. Oh, shit, were you talking about the motorcycles? Yeah that too.
“Look twice and save a life. Motorcycles are everywhere!”
But I think it’s very much a two-way street. Let’s make a deal. I’ll do my best not to hit you and you don’t ride like a fucking jackass with nothing to lose.
You can’t pin all the responsibility of keeping bikers safe on the car drivers. The bike riders need to take some responsibility for themselves also.
It's like with driving anything, people can only anticipate you doing things you're supposed to do.
Expecting people to recognize and look for bike shaped things around them instead of just car shaped ones is reasonable, but expecting them to anticipate someone trying to split lanes or pass on a solid yellow at 20 over the speed limit is expecting the wrong person to do the work
Agree 100%. My comment is buried deep enough it mat not get seen and downvoted, but as a responsible rider, I gotta inform you: there are times and places where lane-splitting is not only legal, but expected. It should not be done the right way, but drivers should be expecting lane-splitting cycles. Not crazy assholes, but regular responsible riders following the law and being safe. In California, where I live, it is legal. Again, safely and responsibly done. Thanks stranger!
I saw the same cycle vid on another site and commented that you never ever cross the center line in those situations, don’t even dip your shoulder over. I got ripped to heck by a bunch of morons
Knew a guy that rode with a sizeable crew in NW WA. Some idiot in the pack lifted his front and rode with a wheelie for a minute. Someone else rode up to the front, flagged everyone to pull over. Walked up to the idiot that popped a wheelie and decked him in the face and proceeded to berate him for pulling such a dangerous move in a pack of other motorcycles. One goes down, THEY ALL GO DOWN
#1 no need to stop, this is the normal lifecycle of your standard plastic racer squid. Note the often unseen and colorful plumage (helmet) and the way he unnecessarily leans hard and dips his knee when taking a turn on a normal road that's wide enough and slowly curving enough for cars in order to emulate actual competitive racers, perhaps as a way to intimidate other riders?
Nature eventually takes care of squids like this, though perhaps not as quickly as the tank-top, sandal-wearing variety.
Because of the gore smear they leave on the road. Also they are using squid somewhat incorrectly, a real 'squid' is a teeshirt-no gloves-maybe helmet-tennis shoes/crocs + any bike. These guys are fully geared but that ciff full of sharp boulders won't care much.
Because of the wile-e-coyote-like-shape they make in the wall when they crash, all splayed out like you threw a squid at a wall.
In general, squids are any unsafe motorcycle drivers, though especially the ones who zip through traffic on cheap plastic racing bikes, often wearing no protective gear to prove how dumb they are, the stereotype is wearing shorts, tank tops, open-toed sandals and 80's-style mirrored sunglasses that make them look like a douchebag.
Now a days, you'll find them wearing more helmets than normal because they need something to attach their go-pros to and the dash mounted ones just show the sky when they ride wheelies, but at it's heart, it's just reckless motorcycle drivers trying to go fast and/or do stunts.
idothingsheren
#9 ended a lot better than I thought it would!
HairyChairstepper
#1 this is exactly the kind of shit that gives bikers a bad name. Dumbass motherfuckers going blind around curves on the wrong side of the road. And splitting lanes. Fuck ya'll whiny entitled bitches who think lanesplitting is ok. It's always dangerous and stupid and they act surprised when something bad happens. Just because your vehicle is smaller and faster doesn't mean you're magically free from consequences.
LordHosk
#2 "what happened?" WE DON'T FUCKING KNOW! BECAUSE YOU HAD ONE JOB! ONE FUCKING JOB! To film the thing... and instead you filmed your feet as you took two steps back. YOU WEREN'T EVEN RUNNING!
cryborg
#3 No one wanted to be painted that day.
MyronTheDormouse
#1 : motorcyclist goes to the mountain for curves. Also motorcyclist: straight lines
CrisprCAS
Bikers: "How dare cars not watch for motorcycles!?!?!??!"
Also bikers: #1
controlsthepresent
As a motorcyclist, those guys can get fucked. They give us all a bad name and are complete fucking morons.
qtRaven
As a fellow rider:
epicfail48
As a third rider, gentleman, we have a quorum on the resolution
KirbyUOR
#10 Do you want incinerated lungs? Cuz that's how you get incinerated lungs.
AtmaDarkwolf
Nah. If this is propane, that is how u get insta-frozen mouth, throat and lungs. Propane in it's liquid state(which is what it is when compressed into one of those) is ULTRA cold, u should wear thick gloves to handle it when filling tanks, and that is just in-case u get a little leak and it sprays on your hand. Happened once to me and when it 'thawed' a day later it was a huge chunk of missing skin (I was lucky, affected area just fell off rather than rotted)
NuclearGradeIrony
Could also get exploded dude.
SaladinIskander
Good way to die as well, friend of mine died huffing gas like that, brain aneurysm or something.
tveye82
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Roqinn
As the gas expands it also cools down. You could get cold damage to your lungs, throat and mouth.
ImNotActuallyEvilAfterAll
When the journey is even more important than the destination.
WeAreNotSmilesTImes
#9 Guy's a pro.
PeteyVonWho
#2 when I worked in construction, one of my regular jobs was "clear out the warehouse while we do the crane lift" and I regularly had people ignore my instructions. I really needed a video like this to say "when I tell you to get behind the fucking red tape, this is why you do what I tell you!"
MisterJ85
#9 I’m just glad he didn’t cut his thumb off
teateainaBenzo
That’s not how diamond tile grinders work. I mean, you could but you’d have to really try. The broken tile is way sharper than that blade.
ProfessorBanesworth
I was sitting here expecting it the whole time. I was fighting between scrolling away and wanting to see the train wreck.
WeirdandOdd
jqubed
I had to scrub through the clip just to make sure that wasn’t what I was about to see!
ReallyNotSure
yet
Keitterman
i skipped to the end to make sure there was no blood before watching it
noReallyIamPrincessBob
His mistake was cutting the lines inside the circle, ACROSS the circular cut line, creating a spot for the crack to start and run. You can see the fracture runs at two spots from the straight cuts. It wasn’t by much, but that’s all it takes.
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
#5 whoa, is that a store that sells BJs?
CrisprCAS
Isn't that where your mom works?
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
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TheBigCheese93
#9 Hey, I sent that to you!!
Fayen
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scoutMoonDiver
Thank you for your service.
WeAreNotSmilesTImes
#10 Just unlocked a new level of idiocy.
Jamesstin
They're probably getting high off it.
OhIfIMust
If he'd accidentally inhaled while that flame was still going...
WarlockSniper
boom.gif
CobainsSarcoma
#3 🎶look both ways before you cross the streeeet🎶
arajad
#3 reminds me of the white blood in Sin City.
OhIfIMust
https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-20-2021/rzKJKH.gif
MrStealYourGiF
#2 PSA don't work your cranes too hard or they will have to lie down for a nap.
SlyMrFox
Also, the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. I think they got impatient or ego driven. Smaller cuts would have been preferable.
Mithi
But time is money!!!
defaultname2000
#10 got so high he thought he's a dragon
Fortherea
#2 someone didn't do the math right
KazVonHoppel
Yeah they were way off on the weight of the branch, should have brought it down in 3-5 pieces, but time is money.
defaultname2000
or did not do any math at all
ReallyNotSure
what is math? baby dont hurt me
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
gablestout
#1
OhIfIMust
#3
SnarfyMcSnarferson
Wtf is that from
OhIfIMust
Aw hell yeah, you gotta see “Alien,” then the sequel “Aliens,” the source of the gif.
SnarfyMcSnarferson
I have bit its been yeeeeeears
LespritDeLescalier22
Aliens
IAMSRC
"I weep for the future." ~ Chez Quis Maitre D'
IWantedOneOfThoseLongUsernamesTooSoIGotOne
I was way, way, way too many years old before I got the "Chez Quis" joke. Possibly because it never occurred to me to pronounce the "s".
Also, the interior scenes were filmed in a now-defunct restaurant called L'Orangerie. I ate there once and it was very good.
litgeek306
You're Abe Froman? The Sausage King of Chicago?
ClutterMonkey
#1 Bet they all did the speed limit after that.
Mountaineer30680
18-22 year olds on crotch rockets? Good f'n luck. 😂 Source: 35 year motorcyclist.
quietwalker
Hah. No, They just waited to drive 70 miles an hour for bumper to bumper rush hour, on the shoulder and between cars.
Ximinipot
#2 The cameraman had one job. One job.
noReallyIamPrincessBob
Dude, the crane tipped over. It’s pretty obvious.
firlefranz
Yup.
v
ethaniel
The dump is called "idiots of imgur" for a reason.
Sennox
Fair Point
brazzy42
What do you expect from someone who asked "what just happened" TWICE after seexing exactly what happened?
noReallyIamPrincessBob
Three times!
DevilsAdvocat
yep, not die.. honestly think they did pretty well in that (yea, would have been neat to see the fall)
Shilzy
And it WAS NOT to repeat the same shit over and over! Geeezus fack
Nytfa111
Spell it right, or don't bother. Cuz the way you have it looks like it sounds like 'Geezer', not 'Jesus'
Moonthatspellsmoon
Even that would've probably been fine without that god awful bullshit song played over and over again. God I'm so tired if every fucking gif and youtube short using that goddamn thing
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
That one branch shouldn't've been heavy enough to topple that rig.
LinemanMatt
Hard to tell from that video, but it looks like the operator didn't extend the outriggers fully and has his boom extended all the way at a low angle. I guarantee he had alarms going off in the cab and hit the over-ride.
Mithi
This. You have to work hard to topple modern cranes. Ignoring or outright disabling alarms is aboslute necessary for shit like this to happen.
ToenailClippingsJar
Extend the arm fat enough and it most definitely will be heavy enough to topple it.
msvdopro
Leverage is a cruel master.
evilspock
Yeah - that's what they thought.
Branches are *stunningly heavy*. Wood is heavy. And that one was easily 3 times bigger than anyone sane would have cut at once.
They're damn lucky the crane didn't hit a house or a person coming down like that.
nuncamente
Wet freshly cut wood is so fucken heavy!!
evilspock
Excellent point! If you're used to fire wood - yeah, that branch is the same plus a chonk of water.
nuncamente
Buckets of water if it’s a wetboi like a willow or some sycamores.
Eidodk
#1 INCREDIBLY predictable... NEVER cross the yellow lines, not even with any of your body parts. If you can't stay in your lane while cornering, you're riding too fast.
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
I had that happen on a bicycle when I got caught out by a decreasing-radius turn at the bottom of a high-speed descent on a narrow 2-lane. I had two options. 1) continue in the wrong lane around a blind curve and hope there was no oncoming traffic. 2) ride immediately across onto the opposite gravel berm. I chose 2 and got some lovely road rash but at least didn't kill myself or someone else. Yeah, stupidly too fast.
NickRivieraMD
I mean, you should not, it is illegal, but you can, safely, sometimes. You definitely cannot on blind fucking curves though.
Eidodk
Yeah, but "safely" doesn't mean "smart". If you ride a motorcycle, it's all about patterns and habits. It generally goes too fast for split second decisions. I own and operate a Honda Blackbird, if i some day teach myself a pattern of cornering narrow corners by using the ENTIRE road, EVEN when it's "safe", I'll endanger myself unnecessarily. I won't do it.
NickRivieraMD
Knowing that you run things on autopilot to that degree is not generalizable to everyone. For a very close example - there are passing areas on single lane roads, but it's not always safe to pass. It's not reasonable to say, for that reason, that no-one should ever pass. You should pick situations that don't involve split-second decisions. Not all things are necessarily slippery slopes.
Eidodk
Where i live, it's directly illegal to pass on single lane roads with an unbroken center line - EVEN if there's room. It's easy - just don't do it.
NickRivieraMD
Yep I said that at the start.
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
#8 oh shit, blew his shoes off. He ded
NorthernHalibut
That’s the first thing I always notice on these videos of idiots puncturing hogh pressure tyres.
helloit
you know it's bad when the shoe flys off
ninjarabbit
but he was wearing his safety sandals, idk what additional precautions he could have taken…unlucky I guess
thisnameisntfunny
scoutMoonDiver
Wow!!
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
StrandedonEarth
#2 Bonded and insured, right? RIGHT?!?
OhIfIMust
(Shut up, boy...)
CrabbyBlueberry
That name again is Mister Plow.
BJWTech
What? That don't matter. Lowest bid wins the contract!
gumblemuntz
You'd have to be to rent the crane, right?
swedeonamoose
#1 Ever get the feeling motorcyclists just hate to be alive considering how some of them ride ?
rbudrick
And they hate you too!
bitemark
They want to die, but not before they can cost someone massive guilt and property damage
ButtscratchMcPherson
I don't mind them hating life or trying to kill themselves. More power to them. What I hate with a passion is that they risk other people's lives doing that.
imakesoap
I would feel awful for the rest of my life if the car I was driving injured someone (or worse) even when it was totally their fault. Traumatizing
fubars
I've been a motorcyclist for almost 50 yrs and I can assure you that I was swearing at those dumb motherfuckers from about 2 seconds after the video loaded and a full minute after it ended. Those stupid cunts deserve every bad thing that happens to em.
WeAreNotSmilesTImes
Donor-cycles.
LordFancypantsicus
My dad was a neurologist. Called them donor sleds.
jridley
I'm a motorcyclist, but yeah I don't get these guys. I just like to be out in the open air and just going around at the same speed as traffic works for me. It's good therapy. These guys, I don't even know what their motivation is other than trying to impress one another.
rubberbear
I always assume it's similar to people who hang glide or do wing suits or base jumping. Just adrenaline junkie thrill seeking and I think in groups they also escalate each other. I wish people could enjoy that kind of risk taking without endangering others or leaving bike parts and oil etc in the ecosystem
jridley
Yeah I have no problem with people doing this, if they do it at a track.
SlyMrFox
Adrenaline junkies.
MrSwissroll
#8 IIRC, the dude got arrested right afterwards and they ended up deporting him...
linuxfailer
i saw your vid, unlike the other commenters i think. well played dude
DarkfireDragon
How did he not die?! What made him think that was a good idea?
Euchre
People don't realize those truck tires run 90psi on the low side. More likely it was running toward 120psi. Car tires generally explode starting somewhere around 80psi.
OhIfIMust
I thought this was in Haiti.
1stCivDiv1371
It is
NickRivieraMD
this doesn't look like the US to me
mcglirkymeow
That statement is about as American as the stereotype gets. "Purdy shure we're the only ones who use the internets and deport people. Hy-yuk!"
NickRivieraMD
I think you're misreading the series of events here. I read the comment before me as US-centric, and not only because it mentioned deportation. It was certainly wrong, because this event seems to have occurred only about a week ago, and nobody is IIRCing someone getting eventually deported after an event that occurred a week ago.
SideBoobsWillGetYouBanned
Hah, my thoughts exactly when reading that 😂
WarlockSniper
Fucker is lucky to have survived that, to be honest.
What a goddamned moron.
Pyrocious
Everybody nearby was lucky, no telling where that knife wound up flying.
WarlockSniper
Indeed. But just the tire exploding like that could cause SERIOUS trauma.
What a goddamned moron.
MapleSyrupMafia
Truck tires are like 100 psi... Nothing to mess with, there's a reason they inflate them in cages. We've had car tires pop because the guy mounting them wasn't careful enough and damaged the bead... 32 psi isn't much, but that's shotgun blast level of noise. One even went off while on the balancer.
epicfail48
110psi. Pedantic, i know, but its a shit-ton of pressure
Silvergreylion
For comparison, a car tire is about one third of that, and a bicycle tire about half.
Silvergreylion
A colleague of mine once accidentally popped one with a forklift, when he was loading a trailer. Said he was sure everyone at the galvanising plant must've heard it, even though it was facing away from it. Forklift had one pedal for forward, one for backward, and a brake, and he got them mixed up.
MapleSyrupMafia
That doesn't sound very certified to me!!!
Silvergreylion
To be fair, it was the only forklift there with that pedal set-up, all the other forklifts had a switch for forward/backward, and he was quite stressed at the time. The boss was pushing us to work overtime every day, so he probably wasn't getting enough sleep, since he had over an hour of driving to/from work.
Fortherea
#1 fucking assholes, all of them
ButtscratchMcPherson
My first thought was "Christ, what a bunch of ***holes."
Mariguamar
Yep
Radijsjes
Going on to the wrong lane while you're turning in to a blind corner. That's just a suicide attempt.
firlefranz
Ah c’mon - the solid yellow line is just a suggestion, huh? /s
v
Radijsjes
As much as gravity is just a theory, yes. 🤣
firlefranz
ExistentialDreadlocks
Wrong. Science studies people too. It should say laws of nature.
HobbstheTiger
As a rider myself, I completely agree
iktome99
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desalniettemin
Revoke their driver's license permanently.
FurtiveGlancer
#1 ded? hope so
Ree81
Like, I'm for socialized healthcare...... but thefe mfers should get a fine of ~$4,000 at least, to cover costs.
cttypo
Someone I know was waiting on an organ. Nurse said we are coming into donor season. 🤔🤷♂️ followed by its motorcycle season.
Mongicane
Yup. “Oh wait it’s not fun anymore, now I’ll pull over and play by the rules!” -American politics. Oh, shit, were you talking about the motorcycles? Yeah that too.
IRCBrink
Not everything is about you...
Mongicane
Fair. Disregard the word “American”
Greypuppy
Grandpa, take your pills
MadamPuddifoot
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SnarfyMcSnarferson
I wonder if he died in yeeting himself off the mountain
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
He may wish he had.
GIMike1972
An ambulance ride alone costs more than his zippity-do-da scooter! $$$$$$
DontYouHateWhenAllUsernamesAreAlreadyTaken
Prime riders of DONOR-CYCLES.
TurnsOut42WasASlightMiscalculation
Donor ORGANS
UnsolicitedRichardPicture
Can’t really donate when your insides are spread across a wide area.
philmoregraves
People who act like this deserve death, but the ppl that are subjected to their behavior dont deserve to be the executioner
DonaIdJ
Wise words
theinternetkeepsmealive
Exactly, imagine having to live with that for the rest of your life.
ExistentialDreadlocks
I'd be ok with it, as long as he's liability insured.
VindictiveBathToaster
I see bumper stickers all over that say,
“Look twice and save a life.
Motorcycles are everywhere!”
But I think it’s very much a two-way street.
Let’s make a deal. I’ll do my best not to hit you and you don’t ride like a fucking jackass with nothing to lose.
You can’t pin all the responsibility of keeping bikers safe on the car drivers. The bike riders need to take some responsibility for themselves also.
Deal?
NotAllowedToArgueUnlessYouPay
Deal.
AndroidSoul
It's like with driving anything, people can only anticipate you doing things you're supposed to do.
Expecting people to recognize and look for bike shaped things around them instead of just car shaped ones is reasonable, but expecting them to anticipate someone trying to split lanes or pass on a solid yellow at 20 over the speed limit is expecting the wrong person to do the work
nuncamente
Agree 100%.
My comment is buried deep enough it mat not get seen and downvoted, but as a responsible rider, I gotta inform you: there are times and places where lane-splitting is not only legal, but expected.
It should not be done the right way, but drivers should be expecting lane-splitting cycles. Not crazy assholes, but regular responsible riders following the law and being safe.
In California, where I live, it is legal.
Again, safely and responsibly done.
Thanks stranger!
wadatahmydamie
I have friends who ride responsibly. They fucking despise people like this.
WHOLEMILK
I saw the same cycle vid on another site and commented that you never ever cross the center line in those situations, don’t even dip your shoulder over. I got ripped to heck by a bunch of morons
ownzyou123
Knew a guy that rode with a sizeable crew in NW WA. Some idiot in the pack lifted his front and rode with a wheelie for a minute. Someone else rode up to the front, flagged everyone to pull over. Walked up to the idiot that popped a wheelie and decked him in the face and proceeded to berate him for pulling such a dangerous move in a pack of other motorcycles. One goes down, THEY ALL GO DOWN
cryborg
I hope he came back a better rider.
Fortherea
I meant all of them in the video, not all motorcyclists.
blfpd
So, two of them?
wadatahmydamie
I knew what you meant, but I can see how you would’ve taken it the way you did. For clarity:
My motorcyclist friends would agree with you, these people are all assholes
Fortherea
Glad we cleared that up. It is extremely annoying when your own people give you a bad rep!
quietwalker
#1 no need to stop, this is the normal lifecycle of your standard plastic racer squid. Note the often unseen and colorful plumage (helmet) and the way he unnecessarily leans hard and dips his knee when taking a turn on a normal road that's wide enough and slowly curving enough for cars in order to emulate actual competitive racers, perhaps as a way to intimidate other riders?
Nature eventually takes care of squids like this, though perhaps not as quickly as the tank-top, sandal-wearing variety.
WeAreNotSmilesTImes
chatterer
Why are they called squids?
randomwalrus
They explode. But blood, instead of an ink cloud.
Ionico
Because of the gore smear they leave on the road. Also they are using squid somewhat incorrectly, a real 'squid' is a teeshirt-no gloves-maybe helmet-tennis shoes/crocs + any bike. These guys are fully geared but that ciff full of sharp boulders won't care much.
quietwalker
Because of the wile-e-coyote-like-shape they make in the wall when they crash, all splayed out like you threw a squid at a wall.
In general, squids are any unsafe motorcycle drivers, though especially the ones who zip through traffic on cheap plastic racing bikes, often wearing no protective gear to prove how dumb they are, the stereotype is wearing shorts, tank tops, open-toed sandals and 80's-style mirrored sunglasses that make them look like a douchebag.
Nytfa111
Dry hair is for squids
Euchre
Like a douchebag?
You're being too kind.
quietwalker
Now a days, you'll find them wearing more helmets than normal because they need something to attach their go-pros to and the dash mounted ones just show the sky when they ride wheelies, but at it's heart, it's just reckless motorcycle drivers trying to go fast and/or do stunts.