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Leroy Brown
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Tailgating at the stoplight
For all the riders who like to pull up RIGHT behind the car in front of them at the stoplight, put their bike into nuetral and not pay attention to the traffic coming up behind them....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31948125...r=1&beginTab=1 Check out picture #3... ....try to learn the lesson from the picture instead of the hard way. Amazingly no serious injuries. 
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Re: Tailgating at the stoplight
Anyone who does that to a beautiful V4 bike should be beaten mercilessly.
 Yep, always leave yourself a way out and keep an eye on everyone. I nearly had someone do that to me once years ago. I saw them coming and had a way to scoot around the car in front of me. Dirk
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Fri Jul 17th, 2009, 08:13 AM
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Re: Tailgating at the stoplight
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Check out picture 4. 
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Fri Jul 17th, 2009, 08:21 AM
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Re: Tailgating at the stoplight
Pretty impressed with that rear wheel's ability to support the engine & front end of a car tho...
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Re: Tailgating at the stoplight
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MRA #211 - High Precision Racing "A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self- preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property, and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means." --Thomas Jefferson |
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Re: Tailgating at the stoplight
Leave an out and watch your six. I had some idiot run the red after I stopped for it on Foothills and Valmont. Luckily I moved over to the left of my lane as he split his crap POS Accord between me and the pickup in the next lane.
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Fri Jul 17th, 2009, 08:55 AM
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Re: Tailgating at the stoplight
No matter how close I pull up to the car in front of me, I'm usually always to the side of it. I like to be in side-mirror view of people around me.
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Fri Jul 17th, 2009, 03:10 PM
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Re: Tailgating at the stoplight
+1 on what Webman said.
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Re: Tailgating at the stoplight
Damn! I should have kept my Magna. I never knew how good it would look as a lowrider.
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