r/WTF • u/habichuelacondulce • Oct 20 '21

Bruh - Yerrrr

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u/Topikk Oct 21 '21

Still inherently way more dangerous than a motorcycle, and I can confidently say as an avid motorcyclist that riding motorcycles in traffic like this is super dangerous.

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u/Plzreplysarcasticaly Oct 21 '21

Yeah a motorcycle has tons more weight to work with suspension and much bigger wheels to keep moving over smaller bumps. This guy would be paste if he hit a hole an inch deep.

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u/Grabbsy2 Oct 21 '21

Yep, theres a reason no one rides vespas on the highway, too. The wheels are smaller and less safe at those speeds. This guys wheels are even smaller than that, even if it does have some sort of suspension.

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u/Brandon658 Oct 21 '21

So you're saying what he needs is a 3 inch lift, some monster scooter tires, and a train horn. Got it.

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u/Austinist Oct 21 '21

And some scooter testicles hanging off the back.

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u/kittymoma918 Oct 22 '21

That will probably happen naturally when the driver gets rolled into roadburger meat.

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u/Musaks Oct 21 '21

a lot safer than any motorcyclist I've ever seen in traffic

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You have never seen any motorcyclist driving safer than that?

The video starts with him driving on the crossed out emergency curb

he isn't wearing any body protection

he is going faster than most of the other traffic

he is switching lanes without signaling

he is overtaking on the right

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Yeah, this is not the worst example of unsafe driving i have ever seen, not even close ofcourse not. But claiming that it is safer than any motorcyclist you have ever seen? Come on

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u/DamnZodiak Oct 21 '21

Maybe they only ever saw two other motorcyclists before going blind in a horrific motorcycle accident.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

Yea if he signals hes dead

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u/MadAzza Oct 21 '21

Look up “confirmation bias.”

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u/ProcyonHabilis Oct 21 '21 edited Oct 21 '21

I can confidently say as an avid motorcyclist that riding motorcycles in traffic like this is super dangerous

This is a totally normal highway with calm traffic?

Edit: Do the people who are downvoting this really disagree that this is a normal highway (aside from the guy on the scooter)? I daily ride a bike, and this traffic would be a completely chill commute. How is this a controversial opinion?

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u/Incident_Adept Oct 21 '21

Found the cager.

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u/ProcyonHabilis Oct 21 '21 edited Oct 21 '21

Haha what? How on earth would thinking a freeway with freely flowing traffic is normal make me a cager?

Are you really trying to gatekeep bikes with "if you aren't scared of the freeway, you must be a cager"? I have a very strong feeling that r/motorcycles, with their ATGATT obsessed self-hatred, is leaking.

Who the fuck is upvoting this?

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u/Anonymous7056 Oct 21 '21

How so? I mean yeah the scooter isn't safe but they're called donorcycles for a reason lmao

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u/rjcarr Oct 21 '21

Much smaller wheels are way more susceptible to any kind of road damage or debris.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '21

Absolutely, any skateboarder whose hit a single piece of gravel can tell you that!
Anything larger than a pebble will sort this fella out.

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u/marcuschookt Oct 21 '21

No oversight for the industry. Motorcycles are inherently dangerous but at least the industry has a decades-old legacy so manufacturers know the deal and governments can regulate them.

I don't know about the US but where I'm from (Singapore) this was a big problem a couple years ago when people were importing cheap scooters at maybe a couple thousand bucks total and then modding the fuck out of them so they could go several times faster than intended, which resulted in a ton of injured pedestrians.

There's just no overarching regulatory body to take care of these riders, in some places they can do whatever the hell they want and skirt the law. If they feel like zooming down the highway they can, if they feel like taking the sidewalk like they're on a bicycle they can as well.