Packs of motorcycles swarming St. Louis area highways

STL Today ^ | September 17, 2011 | JENNIFER MANN

[Da Bilge Troll]

ST. LOUIS • Drivers have reported huge packs of motorcycles swarming the highways around St. Louis, with the bikers pulling stunts, making hand gestures and forcing cars off the roadway.

[Da Bilge Troll]

Reports of 800-1000 bikes in fast groups.

[PlateOfShrimp]

Toecutter?

[ransomnote]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmost of this reads like it’s the motorcycles that are swarming...instead of the motorcyclists. Creates an odd image in my head...but there were plenty of odd images in there anyway so.....

[Colonel Kangaroo]

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

PING!!

[bigheadfred]

Creates an odd image in my head...but there were plenty of odd images in there anyway so.....

AAAHHHH!!! I just saw one!! AAAAHHHH!!!! STOP THAT!!!!!

[GeronL]

Mad Max is coming a bit earlier than I thought

[HiTech RedNeck]

On the way to events in Florida?

[Spktyr]

800-1000 bikes in fast groups.

Well, that lets out the Harley crowd. :P

[HiTech RedNeck]

bro’s and sis’s in st louis

[ransomnote]

Resistance is futile.............

[null and void]

Darks? Cut that out...

[Basil Duke]

Saw them with my own eyes yesterday on I-55, about 10 miles south of St. Louis. There were probably 300 idiots roaring northbound in a huge pack - popping wheelies, standing on one foot on the seat, etc. The motorcycles seemed mostly to be the off-road type.

[fireman15]

Al Gore says that this is a direct result of Global Warming.

[freedumb2003]

The day a motorcycle “forces” me off the road is the day I turn in my physics-knowledge card.

[Krankor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM&feature=player_detailpage

[knews_hound]

To: Da Bilge Troll

800-1000 bikes in fast groups.

Well, that lets out the Harley crowd. :P

9 posted on Saturday, September 17, 2011 2:42:14 PM by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)

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800-1000 bikes in fast groups.

Well, that lets out the Harley crowd. :P

[mnehring]

Post of the day.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Unless it's the Roadog

[mamelukesabre]

I think someone doesn’t know how to count. 1000 motorcycles on an interstate would be a pack 3-5 miles long.

[Spktyr]

Offroad as in dirt/trail bikes? Or offroad as in race replicas?

[hinckley buzzard]

Fun, aren't they. I ran into this in the Black Hills last month during the Sturges Bike Rally. Most of them are decent folks on the ground, but when they swarm up and storm down the highways, they are a f*ing PIA.

[HiTech RedNeck]

1000 bike convoy

[Rushmore Rocks]

Sounds just like what happened here last month. (Sturgis Rally)

[Outlaw Woman]

Exactly...sheesh

[famousdayandyear]

I love you, man. LOL

[EGPWS]

Mad Max is coming a bit earlier than I thought

He doesn't look mad to me!

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’d think trail bikes because they’re easier to do stunts on than racing bikes. My first ride on a Bultaco Alpina 350 started with a wheelie and I didn’t even know it till the guy who was helping me out told me what had happened once I came back down the street.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I once had a dentist, an oral surgeon, just like that guy. My regular family dentist couldn’t understand it when I refused to be sent back to him for another extraction.

[goat granny]

now that is funny....a fight between a car and a motorcyclist, I'd bet money on the car winning.

Same as never swerving to avoid hitting some critter in the road...in that case the car might be the loser and the critter the winner...(Michigan as thousands of dead deer along the highways.) cars won in those case's...

[Spktyr]

Check out the “stunter community”. The power of modern sportbikes make stunts stupidly easy.

[Errant]

City Limits St. Louis Motorcycle Stunts

[ExtremeUnction]

..and forcing cars off the roadway.

It doesn't quite have to be this way. You see, most folks are in 4-wheel vehicles that weigh 3,000 lbs and up. So when a motorcycle starts to force me off the highway, well, I could just keep going straight. The car (or truck) will win every time.

[mamelukesabre]

its easier on a modern dirt bike

[buccaneer81]

Sounds like a target rich environment for The Snowman...

[PAR35]

forcing cars off the roadway.

I don't think a motorcycle could force my car off the road. I could see ending up with a flat tire or two from sharp edges. THUNK thunk.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You get a honkin’ 2 stroke engine on a frame of aluminum (I could pick that bike up with one hand) and the power to weight ratio is insane. That’s surely why it wheelied when I didn’t even try :-)

[paul51]

maybe they are looking for the bike paths

[buccaneer81]

Same as never swerving to avoid hitting some critter in the road...

I grew up in moose country. You swerve or you die.

[Spktyr]

Some are, but anything regarding power or doing them on the highway isn’t. Dirtbikes generally don’t have the power to do a sustained wheelie at 60+.

[Spktyr]

2 strokes are banned from highway use and have been for decades. In fact, most actual dirtbikes now are moving to four strokes more and more.

[Spktyr]

That’s from 2007.

[goat granny]

that one’s good for a good laugh....size matters...

[freedumb2003]

>>Unless it’s the Roadog<<

That is a car with 2 wheels. At 3,000+ lbs, it would indeed be a 50/50 fight with most standard sized 4-wheel vehicles.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Acceleration isn’t needed to keep a motorbike in unicycle mode once it’s there — just good balance.

[mamelukesabre]

You need to look up “supermotard”.

Modern dirt bikes are not what you think.

[Charles Henrickson]

These things go in cycles.

[cyclotic]

I was driving down a freeway around 3am doing about 85, only vehicle in sight. From behind came a pack of 6-8, widely separated go-fast bikes, easily running 130. They were separated enough and having obvious fun.

I didn’t have a real problem with it given the conditions and time of night. Close packs during daytime traffic-stupid.

[Graybeard58]

My regular family dentist couldn’t understand it when I refused to be sent back to him for another extraction.

What are you, some kinda anti dentite?

[Spktyr]

Supermotards are relatively unpopular in the US. I know what they are, but they haven’t really taken off here yet. I strongly doubt there’s going to be a crowd of a thousand or so assaulting StL.