Biker Down threads!

[scumdog]

One thing that I find hard to get my head around is the posts that crop up when a biker down thread is started saying "I hope it is not someone we know".

Like that makes a difference. It is ok if the biker down is not someone we know?

In the words of Homer Simpson: "It's always funny when it's somebody we don't know gets hurt."

What I'm trying to say is; there is a mere shrug of the shoulders when it's somebody we don't know that gets killed - but a torrent of OMG, How Tragic etc when it IS someone known.

THAT is the difference I guess.

[Owl]

I thought it was "your wrong"?

Your right!

[Headbanger]

Like that makes a difference. It is ok if the biker down is not someone we know?

It makes a huge difference, the difference between real honest to god pain and a general feeling of unease over an event.

However I agree its better off left unsaid.

Salute to the fallen, You fuckin idiots.Beers in Valhalla.

[Ixion]

One thing that I find hard to get my head around is the posts that crop up when a biker down thread is started saying "I hope it is not someone we know".

Like that makes a difference. It is ok if the biker down is not someone we know?

I am sure you would be devastated if your own child died. Rightly and naturally so.

Yet a child died today in Bangladesh, and you (nor I neither) feel any grief.

That is the difference.

Tragedy naturally cuts deeper the closer to home it falls.

[Drew]

One thing that I find hard to get my head around is the posts that crop up when a biker down thread is started saying "I hope it is not someone we know".

Like that makes a difference. It is ok if the biker down is not someone we know?

Agree 100% with this...
The poster would be better to say absolutely nothing at all!

No, its not!
DAMHIK

Perhaps you guys should become Mormons. They base their entire faith on guilt.

Is it bad to feel relieved that it turns out not to be a loved one, that has fallen? No, it's human nature.

[u4ea]

I am trying to find some info on the rider who was killed in Hawkes Bay yesterday if someone could PM me please?? I dont want to be insensitive , just trying to find out more info than whats in Stuff..or arent I allowed under Moms rules??

RIP fallen Rider

[Maha]

I am trying to find some info on the rider who was killed in Hawkes Bay yesterday if someone could PM me please?? I dont want to be insensitive , just trying to find out more info than whats in Stuff..or arent I allowed under Moms rules??

RIP fallen Rider

There is YouTube footage on here of an accident in Hawkes Bay (Middle Road, you dont see the downed biker) but fucken unbeleivable what the rest of bunch do when they come across the scene, they turn around and fuck off!

[thecharmed01]

There is YouTube footage on here of an accident in Hawkes Bay (Middle Road, you dont see the downed biker) but fucken unbeleivable what the rest of bunch do when they come across the scene, they turn around and fuck off!

Wow, that's pretty awful!
Some people dont react so well when they see something like that though. Hopefully they feel pretty stink about not stopping now!
I always stop because I hope that someone will stop for me if I need it - although on Sunday in Foxton more than 10 riders passed me by when I came off and the only person who stopped to see if I was okay was the other girl in our group who just happened to be not too far behind me.
It happens..... I'm just glad I was able to keep riding (albeit very gingerly) and get myself out of the forest.

[Owl]

There is YouTube footage on here of an accident in Hawkes Bay (Middle Road, you dont see the downed biker) but fucken unbeleivable what the rest of bunch do when they come across the scene, they turn around and fuck off!

I wondered if they'd had a little too much to drink at the Patangata and didn't want to hang around for the police. I couldn't imagine fucking off because you don't like accident scenes. No one likes them!

[BigG]

There is YouTube footage on here of an accident in Hawkes Bay (Middle Road, you dont see the downed biker) but fucken unbeleivable what the rest of bunch do when they come across the scene, they turn around and fuck off!

Yer Mate you got to understand what happened before you make comments like that, we were talking to the dudes in the Patangata before and we arrived at the scene shortly after the accident, we were told to turn around and go back by the police and were not allowed any whare near the scene as there had been a fatality so an appology would be nice. You got to no what happened then you can make comments like that. We would be the first to lend a hand I no cos I bin there done that.

[Maha]

Yer Mate you got to understand what happened before you make comments like that, we were talking to the dudes in the Patangata before and we arrived at the scene shortly after the accident, we were told to turn around and go back by the police and were not allowed any whare near the scene as there had been a fatality so an appology would be nice. You got to no what happened then you can make comments like that. We would be the first to lend a hand I no cos I bin there done that.

I was making a point (albeit very subtle) of how the typed word and even footage can be viewed so wrong. What I said is a prime example of how biker threads tend to go. The point I was making though was, even given hard evidence, you can still get it wrong with what you post, so always best to shut the fuck up on biker down threads. Well thats the way I see it anyway.

When I first saw the footage, my first thought was ' yeah yeah they've had a few beers, the cops will crawling all over the scene soon enough, lets get the fuck out of here.
I re-watched it, my only change of thought was, 'perhaps they weren't with the downed rider? and I would turn around also, given those circumstances'.

No I will not apologies for what I said, I know what happened, the guys name, his age, how many kids, what bike he was riding, what the police beleive the cause of accident was etc. I Got a very nice pm for one of your own that told me all that, and more.

And this is why biker down threads piss me off.

[BigG]

I was making a point (albeit very subtle) of how the typed word and even footage can be viewed so wrong. What I said is a prime example of how biker threads tend to go.

When I first saw the footage, my first thought was ' yeah yeah they've had a few beers, the cops will crawling all over the scene soon enough, lets get the fuck out of here.
I re-watched it, my only change of thought was, 'perhaps they weren't with the downed rider? and I would turn around also given those circumstances'.

No I will not apologies for what I said, I know what happened, the guys name, his age, how many kids, what bike he was riding, what the police beleive the cause of accident was etc. I Got a very nice pm for one of your own that told me all that, and more.

And this is why biker down threads piss me off.

Well it seems to me that you got a knee jerk reaction and need to learn to keep emotions in check. Video's are edited and lots of stuff is taken out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeUQPT0LiBI