What happened to helping a brother out?!
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What happened to helping a brother out?!
The wife and I went for a ride today and stopped for gas about 5 miles from home. When she tried to start her bike(02 fatboy)....nothing. I got it started but it did and/or seem right. We head home slowly with her in the lead and about a mile down the road she starts to smoke out both pipes, she pulls over right away. I look it over again and got oil coming out air cleaner and all over side of motor. She hasn't rode that bike in about a month cause she has another and it's almost like the thing sumped the crankcase full of oil. As we are only about 3 miles from home I send her home on my bike to get truck and I sit and wait on the side of road with 4-ways blinking away.
Now, in the 15 minutes I sat there before she got back I had atleast 6 bikes of different makes go by and you wanna guess how many stopped OR even gestured to me?!.....absolutely friggin' zero!!!!.
Then as I'm like an idiot trying to push it home down the side I had atleast 3 pickups with EMPTY trailers on back drive past and not a 1 of them douches stopped either.
I try to stop or atleast slow down and gesture to every bike I see on the side of the road and I will continue to do so but I was really disappointed in my fellow local riders today.
Thanks for letting me vent, time for some of the whiskey I just brought home from Tennessee.
Scott
Now, in the 15 minutes I sat there before she got back I had atleast 6 bikes of different makes go by and you wanna guess how many stopped OR even gestured to me?!.....absolutely friggin' zero!!!!.
Then as I'm like an idiot trying to push it home down the side I had atleast 3 pickups with EMPTY trailers on back drive past and not a 1 of them douches stopped either.
I try to stop or atleast slow down and gesture to every bike I see on the side of the road and I will continue to do so but I was really disappointed in my fellow local riders today.
Thanks for letting me vent, time for some of the whiskey I just brought home from Tennessee.
Scott
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That's pretty bad brother. I've had a few good experiences and a few bad as well over the last few years, never on a bike though always a cage. The bikers seem a bit better around here, more so than the rest of the population
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That's bullshit! I broke down last year and the only one's that stopped for a welfare check was the CHP. Totally cool. They even waited for the tilt to show up and help load it. At least try and help a brother out! Douche bags are running amok these days.
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I'm not saying this is why but the majority of the people today have cell phones and more than likely have called for help. I know the last 4-5 times I've stopped to ask if they needed help, they already had help coming. One drove up as I asked and one was just taking a break.
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↑ That ↑
If you just stood there like an ofe, nobody is going to swing in to check,,
The guys with the empty trailers have a life too, they where probably going someplace to do something with their trailer.
What do you look like? Are you someone that people want to help or look like some freak.
Is it Karma? Karma tends to be a two way street,,
No sense gettin your undies in a bunch.
If you just stood there like an ofe, nobody is going to swing in to check,,
The guys with the empty trailers have a life too, they where probably going someplace to do something with their trailer.
What do you look like? Are you someone that people want to help or look like some freak.
Is it Karma? Karma tends to be a two way street,,
No sense gettin your undies in a bunch.
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