What most likely happened what the SUV driver endangered the bikers earlier on. Probably did something really unsafe and arrogant. That's usually why bikers get upset. Car drivers driving stupid or reckless makes the car a weapon.
They wouldn't have slowed him down for no reason at all. Doesn't even look like a break check just that they were all stopping the SUV. You'd be shaken up and upset too if someone had prior endangered your life. People get killed constantly from clueless or reckless car drivers. Of course the riders were bothered by what ever the SUV guy did. If someone had done something that almost killed you or your friends you would too.
They would not have stopped him otherwise. Then he used his SUV as a weapon and assaulted them. Well of course you're going to follow him when he tries to flee the scene. He could have killed someone. Honestly it needs to happen more when people endanger others life on the road. Will be the last time they do it. The SUV driver really got off easy for what he did.
These guys rode in packs to intimidate. There was nothing safe about it.
Pure speculation. Either way, the bikers actions have cost them they're annual ride, and made a bad name for themselves. Or a bad name worse. whatever.
If he lives in a free state and packed, the punkasses that smashed his door and attacked him would be dead. Perfectly justified.
Down here, if you have a concealed license, you can carry with you on your person and car and almost anywhere with a few exceptions such as Federal buildings, schools, etc.
i agree. but dari is right. you ride in a pack for safety. I rode for roughly 20 years. Though i will day we didn't do shit like that. most of the guys i road with were family men and rode with respect.
Like i said in another thread the driver shoulda floored it and fuck the bikers. I wouldn't have stopped for nothing and been on the phone with 911
They would not do it for no reason at all unless the SUV did something before to endanger them. I'd put money on that.
You are arguing semantics here.
The bottom line is that a bicyclist who wants fair use of the road pays far FAR less in 'vehicle use' taxes compared to a driver (or motorcyclist, for that matter).
Yet they want special, and now 'protected' bike lanes?
I've read first hand stories of bikers riding alone and having people in cars throw something at them thinking it's funny and some cars forcing them off the road because the biker wasn't going fast enough even being in the slow lane. Stuff like that happens ALL the time. If someone did that to you I bet you'd be upset and shaken up. People in cars think they are bigger so they can do what they want, not realizing what they are really doing is assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder.
Think of it this way. If those were bicycle riders on a ride and this SUV guy endangered them before and the bicycle riders tried to stop him and then the SUV ran over the bicycle riders and took off, then the bicycle riders followed him you'd be looking at this a whole nother way. Well it's not really much different except that you hate motorcycle riders.
As a driver and a cyclist in NYC I think you're wrong. I think you have no idea what type of pollution vehicles cause and are only thinking out of your ass. Noise, chemical, and congestion pollution muck everything up in the City. Thanks to Mayor Bloomberg there are now more bike lanes and I'm grateful for that because now I can take a Citibike to work. It's healthy, less polluting than train or car, and leaves space for others in those vehicles.
Remember, driving is not a right. And you pay all those taxes because for a very good reason. A bike and a car are not equal.
I've read first hand stories of bikers riding alone and having people in cars throw something at them thinking it's funny and some cars forcing them off the road because the biker wasn't going fast enough even being in the slow lane. Stuff like that happens ALL the time. If someone did that to you I bet you'd be upset and shaken up. People in cars think they are bigger so they can do what they want, not realizing what they are really doing is assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder.
Think of it this way. If those were bicycle riders on a ride and this SUV guy endangered them before and the bicycle riders tried to stop him and then the SUV ran over the bicycle riders and took off, then the bicycle riders followed him you'd be looking at this a whole nother way. Well it's not really much different except that you hate motorcycle riders.
and you do realize with that same logic, any of those bikers would also have a gun, and the suv driver would have definitely died.
looks like a bunch of dipshits and the real shame here is he didn't manage to drive over more of them.
I've read first hand stories of bikers riding alone and having people in cars throw something at them thinking it's funny and some cars forcing them off the road because the biker wasn't going fast enough even being in the slow lane. Stuff like that happens ALL the time. If someone did that to you I bet you'd be upset and shaken up. People in cars think they are bigger so they can do what they want, not realizing what they are really doing is assault with a deadly weapon or attempted murder.
Think of it this way. If those were bicycle riders on a ride and this SUV guy endangered them before and the bicycle riders tried to stop him and then the SUV ran over the bicycle riders and took off, then the bicycle riders followed him you'd be looking at this a whole nother way. Well it's not really much different except that you hate motorcycle riders.
looks like a bunch of dipshits and the real shame here is he didn't manage to drive over more of them.
and you do realize with that same logic, any of those bikers would also have a gun, and the suv driver would have definitely died.
Road rage is real. Once it kicks in combined with mob mentality you better be armed.
This guy did everything he could against a hostile mob.
Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop.
Drive away and rEload. Or drive over.
This isn't third world shit here. Bunch of monkeys attacking you? Open fire.
Road rage is real. Once it kicks in combined with mob mentality you better be armed.
This guy did everything he could against a hostile mob.
Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop.
Drive away and rEload. Or drive over.
This isn't third world shit here. Bunch of monkeys attacking you? Open fire.
Did I not get the memo that we were living in a Mad Max society? I know things are a bit behind the times here in Ohio, but how is it not third world to murder a bunch of people over who was in the right in a traffic dispute?
I get what you are saying, especially on the note of mob mentality, but the person who kills everyone who is behaving tribal is not much better IMO. Not that the driver could have easily found the "leader" and neutralized the situation, but I think this thread is testament to knee jerk reactions running rampant when the reactees don't even have the full story.
They would not do it for no reason at all unless the SUV did something before to endanger them. I'd put money on that.