I've never started a thread here before. I start this thread with trepidation because I need to get this off my chest
Most of the discussion here is about the bike. Alot of us here, including myself, ride alot and would like a safer world to ride in, less cars, better manners, etc. However, and maybe no one cares, but my observation is that the people who ride the Critical Mass rides are for the most part a bunch of arrogant, self righteous jerks.
I say this because I have now had two run ins with these people. In the first run in my car was surrounded and "touched" (not lightly) repeatedly. Not only that, but when they saw my bike in the back they began a string of verbal abuse that did not stop until they were all past. Frankly, it is none of their bleeping business why I was driving and not riding at that time. That along with the total disregard of my personal property, I was about to get out and start kicking some a** when my wife intervened and calmed me down.
The second incident happened as I walked home on a Friday a couple of weeks ago. The whole pack shot through a red without regard for pedestrians or cross traffic, almost hitting some of us. When we voiced our displeasure we were hooted at as if we were the ones in the wrong.
Now I am the first person to give a driver using the bike lane to "pass on the right" an earful, but these people are too much. If I were a cop I'd round up the whole pack, toss them in jail for the night, and let them grow some manners. They think they are being a role model for a kinder, cleaner, gentler world when they are in fact being a role model for bad behavior. And they give all bikers a bad name as well.
Just my opinion!!
Most of the discussion here is about the bike. Alot of us here, including myself, ride alot and would like a safer world to ride in, less cars, better manners, etc. However, and maybe no one cares, but my observation is that the people who ride the Critical Mass rides are for the most part a bunch of arrogant, self righteous jerks.
I say this because I have now had two run ins with these people. In the first run in my car was surrounded and "touched" (not lightly) repeatedly. Not only that, but when they saw my bike in the back they began a string of verbal abuse that did not stop until they were all past. Frankly, it is none of their bleeping business why I was driving and not riding at that time. That along with the total disregard of my personal property, I was about to get out and start kicking some a** when my wife intervened and calmed me down.
The second incident happened as I walked home on a Friday a couple of weeks ago. The whole pack shot through a red without regard for pedestrians or cross traffic, almost hitting some of us. When we voiced our displeasure we were hooted at as if we were the ones in the wrong.
Now I am the first person to give a driver using the bike lane to "pass on the right" an earful, but these people are too much. If I were a cop I'd round up the whole pack, toss them in jail for the night, and let them grow some manners. They think they are being a role model for a kinder, cleaner, gentler world when they are in fact being a role model for bad behavior. And they give all bikers a bad name as well.
Just my opinion!!