Brotherhood
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Joined: Jan 2006
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From: The Lone Star State
RE: Brotherhood
Hopefully if I ever need help, someone will help me, regardless of whether they are riding a metric, harley or whatever. I don't think brand preference should govern how we treat other people.
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From: Rochester, NY
RE: Brotherhood
I would venture to say that most of us will stop. But then most of us, especially us older guys, have been there ourselves. Back when I started riding the bikes when they were not as reliable as they are today and it the rare biker from those days who didn't have a breakdown of one kind or another. Generally inthe middle of nowhere.
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From: Bellville, Tx
RE: Brotherhood
Many yrsago the trans went out on my Lambretta scooter, I had put 3K mi on it touring Europe, it was pretty worn out when I bought it. In the middle of nowhere in Normandy I had almost made my destination, missed by 15 mi. A guy in a little flatbed helped me load it and drove me, out of his way, to San Malo, the townwhere I was to meet up with my VW bus coming in on a boat from the Channel Isles. I gave him the scooter for his trouble and we had a bottle of wine over the deal. It was a good experience, sure glad he didn't share your attitude. Just keep on sleepn eagle.
Road Captain
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: Milwaukee
RE: Brotherhood
i think i will help bikes when they are on the side of the road ( i am a new rider), but I honstly do not stop for cars when i am in my cage. it is just too dangerous in today's crazy world. yeah, there are still risks with bikers, but it is more of a society that takes care of one another.
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From: Between Chicago & Milwaukee
RE: Brotherhood
I was leaving an establishment that usually has a lot of bikes around and there was another guy there with his woman trying to get his bike started (kickstart) After about 4 trys it still didn't fire up.For some reason I thought he'd be ok and I was having a lousy day anyway so I blasted out of there in a hurry to get back home.
I was flying along pretty fast,probably about 3 miles down the road when out of nowhere thesame guyand his passenger appeared....hestayed behind my bike for abouthalf a minute and then WTF blasted past me at about 95 MPH...
Maybe he was pizzed at me for not offering to help,maybe just letting off some steam over his bike acting up maybe all that and more rolled into one.
All I know is I felt like s**t about it and would have told him that if I caught up to him,but they ended upgoing a different direction.
Lesson Learned....
I was flying along pretty fast,probably about 3 miles down the road when out of nowhere thesame guyand his passenger appeared....hestayed behind my bike for abouthalf a minute and then WTF blasted past me at about 95 MPH...
Maybe he was pizzed at me for not offering to help,maybe just letting off some steam over his bike acting up maybe all that and more rolled into one.
All I know is I felt like s**t about it and would have told him that if I caught up to him,but they ended upgoing a different direction.
Lesson Learned....
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Tourer
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: SRQ (Sarasota)
RE: Brotherhood
I stop for anyone needing help . . .
Biker - cager - bicyclist - dog walker - Heck it don matter!
I might go out of my way a little more and go get my trailer/tools/parts and do a little more for a biker (any biker)
But I'm thinkin if someone needs help - and you just ignore them - yer a *********
don't expect me to wave tho
Biker - cager - bicyclist - dog walker - Heck it don matter!
I might go out of my way a little more and go get my trailer/tools/parts and do a little more for a biker (any biker)
But I'm thinkin if someone needs help - and you just ignore them - yer a *********
don't expect me to wave tho
Intermediate
Joined: May 2007
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RE: Brotherhood
I help anyone in need, it's just a humane thing to do. But reminds me of a couple months ago. I helped a Harley rider that was trying to fixan oil leak with some kinda putty on the side of what I thought was the tranny. He follow me to my house about a couple miles down the road. I let him use some JB weld. Then we checked the oil level and he had way too much, and he blow dried it for a while and off he went. Thinking later, and what model he had (Dyna), I realized that the leak was not coming from the tranny, but the engine oil tank. He didn't know much about bikes, and I've never owned a Dyna, but relized it later. I didn't have any contact info to let him know. I think he may have been driving on a dry tank, ugh. So, it pays to know your own bike!