[sarnali2]

Riding in on my Bandit this morning, O-dark thirty, 44 and raining the usual winter stuff. I'm cruising along about 50 or so in the left lane next to some cowboy in a lifted Chevy pick up, I hear his revs increase and he swings right into my lane. I swing onto the shoulder and around him and back into the lane and continue on my way no problem, he must have freaked because he dropped way back.

It did get me thinking though, when you get these safety-crats talking about unsafe motorcycles and what not, how about these idiot monster trucks? I mean here I am next to this guys window glowing in the dark in my HiViz, refective diamond and arrows on my helmet and a Holeshot Can right next to him. His mudder tires were making so much noise he can't hear it and he's apparrently so high up he couldn't see me. If I'd have been in a little cage he would have ran right over me.

These POS's are pretty popular around here because there's lots of places to go 4 wheeling but what kind of dumbf**ker would pay $300 a piece for those big mud tires and then run them on the street or lift a truck so much you need a ladder to get in? not to mention non-existant crash avoidance stability and the amount of gas it takes to run those tires. if they want to improve road safety, putting a limit on those things would go along way.

 

[sarnali2]

The only time I got hit was a sedan but most of the close calls have been with these wannabe cowboys and loggers with lifted trucks, SUV's and Jeeps. Most of them drive like d*ckheads and the vehicles themselves are about as safe and roadworthy as a chopper.

This must be the SUV capitol of the world here, I have two myself and it seems like every other vehicle you see is a Suburban or Expedition or a cute ute like a CRV or Vue. Granted with the snow in winter and hills they're handy to have but adding those huge tires and lift kits just screws up the handleing on a vehicle that's pretty shakey in the first place. Those tires and kits are only of any real value in deep mud and who's going to take a $40k vehicle off road in the first place?

Makes a pretty piss-poor commuter that's for sure, can anyone say "over-compensating?"........

 

[sarnali2]

The funny thing is that 9 times out of 10 skinny tires are better anyway. My '89 Range Rover uses 205/16's and will go anywhere I point it, I think the only thing that would slow it down is deep sand.