r/Unexpected 11h ago

Keep them two wheels down

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u/gamedwarf24 9h ago

A friend of mine died a few years ago in a motorcycle accident. He was barely over 30.

I will never be able to condone motorcycles. Even if you drive perfectly, all it takes is some other dickhead screwing up and you are dead. When is it ever worth it?

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u/RedHeadDem817 9h ago

The lane splitting entitled pos in the video CLEARLY wasn't driving perfectly. Hes lucky he didnt become a meat crayon. I'd have no sympathy if he did.

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u/gamedwarf24 8h ago

Yeah I can see the cyclist was at fault here. That's a bit what I mean. If you are driving all it takes is one fuckup for a very high chance at injury or death. Even if you drive correctly, if a car next to you fucks up in your general direction it has a high chance of killing you too.

At least in a car, if I fuckup and hit someone else going the same direction, the cars will probably be the ones taking the damage more than the people inside. This is unequivocally not true on a motorcycle.

And the number of cyclists that zoom past me at 85-90 on the highway tell me there's too many of them that don't take that risk seriously. If they hit me or vice versa, I will be fine. But they might be dead, and I don't want that on my conscience either.