Memorial Day Street Stunt Ride

[ram57ta]

Yeah, pretty much. I go out and have fun but keep things within my own comfort level. What's wrong with that? I got my thrills and got home safe. I'm good with that.

I can't hate on that to a certain point. When I did the Talimena, Eureka Springs, and the Three Sisters (aka as Twisted sisters) rides down near Fredricksburg me and a couple of my buddies rode pretty far outside of whats legal. Difference is that we didn't block traffic for our own entertainment, we didn't spray paint the roads and traffic signs, we didn't lead the police on any high speed chases, and if we HAD been lit up by a cop we would have stopped. Odds are...when cops try to chase or pull over bikers and the riders run and get away...the cops eventually will develop the attitude that ALL riders are of the same mindset....and then they are more likely to fuck with ALL riders. I don't like being profiled because I ride a sportbike.

Yeah, pretty much. I go out and have fun but keep things within my own comfort level. What's wrong with that? I got my thrills and got home safe. I'm good with that.

[Hell-Bent SS]

So you go out and act like a dumb ass and don't even know the guy?? Then you go on here saying you do it for the thrill but run home as soon as you see the first cop??

[Cooter]

It's like a bunch of tapout and affliction guys, but on bikes.

I think the term you're looking go is "douche bags"

[CexMashean]

It's like a bunch of tapout and affliction guys, but on bikes.

[dsrtuckteezy]

henry jones not giving a fuck!

This did though...don't know how to imbed Vimeo links, so just click it.

https://vimeo.com/42994507

It didn't.

[clevelandkid]

Nothing really... people talk about it on the internet, but I doubt anyone would do it.

• People thought the president would be shot, he isn't.
• People thought the westboro protesters would be shot, they aren't.
• People talk a big game behind their keyboard, you know this!

It could happen.

[Cooter]

digress

[Aceman85turbo]

Lol full of shit...

only about 10 people got it on video.

What were you riding?? Did you stay with the group the entire time?

I was on the yellow FZ6R, a bunch of us exited regal and continued our ride.

Yeah, I'm 35yrs old and feel like I know where to draw my own personal line in the sand when it comes to putting myself in a position to get arrested. I like to think of myself as older and wiser, but I still like to digress from time-to-time and have fun. If this shit bothers some, you guys would have hated me in the mid 90's, when we reeeally rode dangerously on shitbox bikes and ran from the cops almost nightly back in Akron, OH. 5-6 guys weaving in and out of traffic, splitting lanes in 100mph++ wheelies is a lot more dangerous, and I can tell you caused a lot more wrecks, than these group rides do. These just seem to agitate more people.

[ceyko]

If it were on a runway or closed off area, I wouldn't attend. The risk and thrill of doing it on public roadways, in the face of the cops and their threats, is what makes it fun for me.

All of us can relate with this sort of attitude from younger days, but even you said once you saw the helo you got out of dodge. Seems like you missed out on a lot of fun.

If it were on a runway or closed off area, I wouldn't attend. The risk and thrill of doing it on public roadways, in the face of the cops and their threats, is what makes it fun for me. I know most won't like that answer, but I'm being honest. I've ridden streets with police escorts before, almost in a parade setting, and it was boring.

And, to confirm what others said above, I didn't really know either of these two guys. I don't attend any of these types of rides for any other reason than to have fun, raise my pulse a few beats and ride with my buddies.

Lastly, I don't agree that stunter's riding habits have a real, sincere impact on sportbike riders that simply follow the laws. It does occassionally happen where you'll get pulled over and get the 3rd degree from some Ahole cop just cause you were on a sportbike, but more often than not, you're guilty of something else (usually haulin ass) and then they think you're like the rest of the riders out there that break the law (and you are, just in a different way). Stunters represent far less than 1% of the riders out there, yet the vocal 99% think that they're being represented by these riders. Most every time a cop sees a sportbike, they're just cruising down the road like everyone else. It's the rare exception that they're going Mach 3, and even more rare to see people stunting. Think about how many motorcycles you'll see today, and then think about how many of them you'll see doing wheelies. And STILL people think that they're being judged because of this event that has only happened 3 times in DFW...ever. Now if you're riding a streetfighter'd f4i with no headlight, round bar and a cage and you get upset for being stereotyped a stunter, then you're just retarded.

I may put a rough vid together from my GoPro footage...just don't have the motivation to go through the little footage I did get right now.

[Blackout]

i just don't get this. i think its great you want to have some kind of tribute for your friends who died doing what they love but this isn't a good way. you have a year to plan something on private property and stay off the streets. this is why i got rid of my sport bike. i didn't want to get lumped in with people who act retarded on the streets.