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Originally Posted by Antithesis
BBS, I understand you're not posting your ideas about this out of any type of spite or to mislead people, but I'm sorry, there are enough dinks driving bikes that I actually do notice when someone is driving one in a courteous or even somewhat normal manner, and the numbers of people doing that are similar to the numbers of those driving like idiots.
I'm sure the statistics about driver fault are true, but that doesn't mean that bikers don't drive like bozos a lot of the time.
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And I don't doubt that your intentions are the same.
However, I think this is a clear cut case of not knowing what you don't know.
I truly believe that someone who rides is much more inclined to notice just about every bike the pass on the road than someone who hasn't. As I said before there are several reasons for this.
In your case, I don't doubt that you think you notice bikes as readily as someone who rides, but that's human nature.
You don't know what you miss and you assume that you've missed nothing.
Everone sees the guys doing wheelies at 100mph, and most people will see the coureous guy who lets them in, but who notices the ones that blend into the rest of the traffic?
It's the same as driving in any other circumstance, you notice the jerks, and you notice the really coureous people, and 99% of the other cars are just background noise.
Besides, assuming we're both not exagerating, and are telling things as we have seen them then one of the three has to be happening:
1) I'm missing all the jerks that you are seeing
2) You're missing the majority of average motorcycle riders that I notice because I'm looking for them. (Keep in mind folks on bikes have a tendancy to do things like nod at each other at lights, and wave as they pass making them much easier to take note of. They generally don't do this with cars.)
3) Through some odd statistical annomoly you and I have been exposed only to entirely opposite ends of the spectum of bike riders
So which do you think is most likely cause of our disagreement?
I think most people would agree with #2.