Packs of motorcycles swarming St. Louis area highways

I have a humble record of keyboard kills.
My main score is on monitors.
Twenty and couinting so far.
Keyboards, ten.
As for the kill marks, those were washed off the case by the missus.

181 posted on 09/18/2011 4:30:55 PM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)

Turns out you were right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqgPx38a2Yw

Of all things, they’re claiming their “right to assembly”.

They’re too stupid to foresee any and all of the possible “unintended consequences” of this organized, intentional mayhem.

They’ll inevitably ruin things for those bikers who *do* observe traffic laws and ride responsibly.

Even a mass “run” by the Outlaws or HAs is peacefully law-abiding, especially compared to these maniacs.

[and yes, I’ve seen them and they stay in their lanes and ride responsibly, despite the popular stereotype]

I wonder how long it will be until “Streetfighterz Ride of the Century” meets a few spike strips laid down by cops?

182 posted on 09/18/2011 5:48:11 PM PDT by Salamander (Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)

To: Da Bilge Troll

183 posted on 09/20/2011 4:31:01 PM PDT by PghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)

Here are pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67704549@N08/6157089537/in/set-72157627693633464/

Wow! Thanks for the link! Now I can show people around here that it wasn't just somebody's imagination!

184 posted on 09/21/2011 11:50:17 AM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)

>>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.<<< My bet is they are sportbikes - and they are very easy to do tricks on. The epitomy of “fast” is the modern day 1000cc sportbike (hence the term “Literbike”). They will do 186 mph (300kph) stock off the show room floor - and that’s only because of manufacture’s agreements with european version of AMA. They can go faster. They put out about 180 bhp (weigh about 450lbs wet), redline around 13,750rpm, 0-60mph in about 3 seconds, and easily pass 100mph in first gear (six speed trany). They make all high-end stock sport cars (Corvettes, Mustangs, etc.) look silly off the starting line and there after - and for a fraction of the cost. But they’re not for eveyone. There is an old saying: “The motorcycle is God’s way of weeding out the Gene Pool. The Literbike is God’s way of determining whether the weeding worked.” I love mine!

I was a SEAL, crossed oceans solo on sailboats, that sort of thing. But I thank God that he whispered in my ear on about my 4th or 5th borrowed dirtbike excusion, that I would never live to be old or bold if I went that path. But I love everything you wrote, what they represent in human/engineering terms, and I love to include them in my novels.

Matt "now all my thrills are vicarious" Bracken

(Along with small STOL planes, insanely fast boats etc.)

185 posted on 09/23/2011 2:09:25 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)

To: Da Bilge Troll

Oh noes! We have biker flash mobs now?

186 posted on 09/23/2011 2:15:22 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)

To: Salamander; HiTech RedNeck

We wouldn’t know anything about that.
Aww, let them hang on to their stereotypes . . .

187 posted on 09/23/2011 3:52:15 PM PDT by BraveMan

188 posted on 09/23/2011 4:10:39 PM PDT by Salamander (Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)

Wow!

No mopeds I could see.

I did see at least one Bagger.

189 posted on 09/23/2011 4:17:51 PM PDT by BraveMan

One Bagger?

[how ‘bout bloggers...were there any bloggers in the pack? you can identify them easily...they’re the ones texting while riding on one wheel]

;]

190 posted on 09/23/2011 4:28:37 PM PDT by Salamander (Alice Cooper hit me with a stick.)

To: HiTech RedNeck

That was hilarious, thank you!

191 posted on 09/23/2011 5:22:17 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)

To: Da Bilge Troll

Oh, I thought they said bikes. Here's 14,000 at once:

192 posted on 09/23/2011 5:23:39 PM PDT by gura (If Allah is so great, why does he need fat sexually confused fanboys to do his dirty work? -iowahawk)

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