Yeah, another big factor is the loss of driving skills by the general public and lack of the right law enforcement someplaces. Getting a license in many states is as simple as $40some and taking a dumbass test that the guidebook already tells you the exact answers to. Montana has gone that way and our cops (they are good folks) have to spend all their time now on paperwork and are told to avoid doing anything that might get the city sued so the jerk drivers get worse and are in their second generation of in-breeding.

Love the U.S. of A., but in Spain for instance to get driving privileges you spend a considerable part of your life and Go To School to learn A to Z everything bout the laws, the vehicles, situations, and a lot of study on "how to drive", courtesies like ya don't run with speed control on in the passing lane and much more. Costs sometimes thousands of dollars for the schooling and many don't pass their first tries and some never do.

"DRYVSAFE"

 

You're right! Now adays its easy to get license. When I got my license back in the 70's I had a course in high school which I had pass and the driving test was more difficult. Although I have say when I got my motorcycle license in the 70's there was no required training. You learned to ride on your own. The riding test was to go around a couple of cones and go down the street and come back.
I never really learned to ride properly until I took a riding refresher course.

 

Bob,

Yeah, though I've been in the saddle (and thrown off it!) for about 46 years, I'm gonna take the MSF-type advanced course when it comes to town again next Spring.

Cheers!

 

I had two old blue headed women driving a big *** Escolade that she had no business driving come right over on me today while they were running there pie holes and not paying attention to the road. I honked the horn at her and she had the nerve to put her window down and with as much attitude as some old rich bitch could muster asks me what my problem was.

Well I wouldn't normally cuss an old women but this one was a C--t so I told her she should pull her f--kin blue head out of her wrinkled up old *** and pay attention to her driving and stop running her pie hole if it was going to effect her driving that oversized grocery getter.

 

I posted this in the Great Lakes section talking about our Tomahawk Fall Ride a few weeks back.

All four of us got lucky.

"All said and done the four of us put on almost 800 miles each for the weekend. The only part that sucked was on Friday when I almost got smoked pulling out onto Hwy 13 going north. We all pulled up to the stop sign, I looked right, then I looked left and saw that all was clear. Letting out the clutch and looking right again there were two headlights directly in front of me in my lane going 70 mph trying to pass three other cars. In the blink of an eye, the car tires were screeching and he started to go sideways. At the last absolute second, and I'm talking five feet from me and my bike, he got out of the way and cleared me. Yeah, pucker factor hit about 32, and that is on scale to 10. I looked left and right again pulled out and got into town a couple of miles later. We took a long lunch. I needed to relax, that effed me up for a little bit. Never had one that close before. Talking about it with the boys, it would have been like dominos if he got me since they were all right there turning to.

Just happy someone was looking out for us that day."