Very nicely put Dave. I have avoided replying to this thread because of some of the immature and dangerous stunts the "cagers" here would do to try to kill a motorcyclist. Was raising my blood pressure a lot last night.

I have been riding for 37 years, 31 of those on the road. I don't lane split and I tend to drive slower on the moto on the average than I do in the car. I don't buzz around people or drive like an @sshole. If I want to go really fast I save it for the track.

Over the years I have been hit with a beer bottle (the Londonderry NH police refused to take a report, said I "must have done something to tick them off" :p ), cut off, and have had more close calls with oblivious car drivers than I can count any more. My favorite was having some yahoos throw a coolers-worth of ice at me on I-89 in Vermont (I got them arrested by the VSP.) I wasn't doing a darn thing except being a lone motorcyclist on the road. Sometimes I think that is why it happens -- people get mad at another motorcyclist or group of cycles and then revenge on another on when they see it. My 0.02.

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