Just saw a motorcyclist that had been hit by a car near Pullen and Hillsborough. Don't know if the guy was all right or not--people were helping him and the police and EMS were on the way.

4/5/2007 11:56:11 AM

And sometimes I wonder why my girlfriend constantly questions why I would want one of these "death machines" as she calls them. I hope that he is alright but I am sure traffic is fukzored in that area now.

4/5/2007 12:05:09 PM

Yeah, a lot of rubbernecking--I was looking, too. It didn't look good, though; there was a lot of debris.

4/5/2007 12:07:30 PM

Did he at least get a chance to gun up Hillsborough at 60mph making as much noise as possible before turfing it?

Hope they are alright though.

4/5/2007 12:13:30 PM

Any body see what kind or what color the bike was?

4/5/2007 1:41:06 PM

^ Yeah, but I didn't get a good look--the bike was down on the road at a weird angle. It looked black and gray, and the guy's helmet--I'm pretty sure it was a skinny guy--was black and gray, too (full-face helmet). It was a sport bike--not a Harley or that type of cruiser.

4/5/2007 1:51:01 PM

shit might have been a f2. kelly king rides one.

4/5/2007 6:48:17 PM

hope it wasn't terry - he does some stupid shit but at least he's indestructible

4/5/2007 7:37:34 PM

my dad wanted to teach me to ride his motorcyle. i said "no thank you, i'd rather live."
lots of things getting hit by cars today

4/6/2007 2:10:40 AM

any idea who it was or if the guy was ok?

4/6/2007 2:57:25 AM

^ WRAL doesn't know shit. When I called them to try to find a link, they denied that the story had even aired--when I saw it on the 5-6 p.m. news! RPD hasn't updated their traffic reports page yet either.

4/6/2007 3:01:10 AM

someone post woot force one.

4/6/2007 4:03:41 AM

Since I know the person in the wreck isn't dead, I want Action Gopher, too.

4/6/2007 4:47:43 AM

good thing I'm invulnerable....

4/6/2007 11:16:50 AM

yesterday was crazy. I saw two wrecks happen and a friend called me after he left the office to tell me there had just been an accident and to take a different way when I left.

4/6/2007 11:19:40 AM

i remember laying my bike down on pullen a year or two ago. some lil sorostitute looking girl pulled out in front of me making a left turn onto pullen and i had to lock the brakes up and let it slide. she looked like she was about to have a heart attack. i picked up my bike and rolled off

4/6/2007 2:00:12 PM

it's hard for me to feel bad for motorcyclists when they get hurt or die

to me it's just darwinism in action

the ones that don't value their lives will be weeded out

4/6/2007 5:00:52 PM

JBaz?

4/6/2007 7:30:32 PM

^^well if social system didnt get in the way of the darwinism by protecting the weak and incompetent, you in particular wouldn't have even been conceived in the first place. think about THAT.

4/7/2007 1:01:20 AM

a homo says what?

4/7/2007 6:00:09 PM

my friend's boyfriend in high school had a motorcycle...the idiot used to cruise at 110 to school on it. He took her out for a ride once and started going 100...she yelled at him and made him let her off...she sat on the curb and called her parents to come and get her. Less than a week after that, he burned out on a curve and broke his arm and dislocated his shoulder...dumb fuck.

4/7/2007 8:36:09 PM

a lot of girls i know LOVE riding on my friend's bikes...

4/8/2007 2:53:08 PM

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"a homo says what? "

i dont know what a homo says, but my guess is one of them would be all over you for being a little bitch and taking it up the ass

4/8/2007 2:59:30 PM

my aunt and her husband do an annual bike ride to raise money for some charity. Well, they had just started and for some reason the cop car in front of them(they were leading the pack) stopped. Her husband wasnt paying attention and the bike ended up sliding on its side. He wasnt hurt, but the bike landed on her leg(they thought it was broken) It turned out not to be broken but she was sore for like 2 weeks.

4/8/2007 4:23:41 PM

Richard Herget was the motorcyclist--on a Suzuki--if reports are correct. BTW, this is public info.

http://rpd.carolinasimaging.com/index.htm

[Edited on April 9, 2007 at 10:49 PM. Reason : PS: Enter "Pullen" in the street block. ]

4/9/2007 10:47:46 PM

that sucks, hope the guy was okay.

^cool site. i found the report from my bike wreck on there. under the name sealy (spelled wrong ) on buck jones rd. oct. 31 2006.

4/9/2007 11:09:17 PM

how is it possible this thread has gone 5 days without posting this picture

4/10/2007 7:35:35 AM

holy shit

where is/was the rider?

4/10/2007 10:44:32 AM

that was from ~2000.
he was fine, somehow

4/10/2007 10:46:00 AM

I see the side air bags deployed as planned

4/10/2007 10:51:08 AM

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"it's hard for me to feel bad for motorcyclists when they get hurt or die to me it's just darwinism in action the ones that don't value their lives will be weeded out"

That is such a stupid comment. Motorcycle riders value their lives just as much as anyone else. There is nothing wrong with enjoying riding on a motorcycle. The problem is most people driving cars don't realize that it can be a dangerous activity and that they need to focus and pay attention. That soccer mom talking on her cell phone with her 2.5 brats in the back of her oversized SUV is the biggest threat a motorcyclist has. About 90% of car-motorcycle accidents are caused by the driver of the car not paying attention. Sure, some motorcyclists might go out "stunting", but they're a small fraction of the motorcycle community. When I ride I ride as focused and safely as possible, and I've still had to lock the brakes up on a few occations because car drivers pulled out right infront of me.

No matter who is at fault, I'm not going to be an ass when there is someone laying on the road in pain.

4/10/2007 2:37:06 PM

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"a homo says what?"

yes. you do.

4/10/2007 3:14:37 PM

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"That is such a stupid comment. Motorcycle riders value their lives just as much as anyone else. There is nothing wrong with enjoying riding on a motorcycle. The problem is most people driving cars don't realize that it can be a dangerous activity and that they need to focus and pay attention. That soccer mom talking on her cell phone with her 2.5 brats in the back of her oversized SUV is the biggest threat a motorcyclist has. About 90% of car-motorcycle accidents are caused by the driver of the car not paying attention. Sure, some motorcyclists might go out "stunting", but they're a small fraction of the motorcycle community. When I ride I ride as focused and safely as possible, and I've still had to lock the brakes up on a few occations because car drivers pulled out right infront of me. "

I would say motorcyclist value their safety less than people who don't get a bike (ignoring people who just don't want a motocycle). It doesn't matter who's fault the accident is... and I agree a majority of motorcycle accidents are someones fault that didn't see the bike. That's even more reason for someone not to ride one. Your safety is out of your control for the most part and relies on other drivers.

Now I'm not going to say people who ride deserve the accidents they get. Fuck no, vehicle drivers need to watch out for bikers. At the same time though, any person who rides a motorcycle accepts the risk that comes with riding one. Either they value the thrill of riding a motorcycle more than people who don't ride or they value their safety less. It's the same thing in the end.

4/10/2007 3:50:49 PM

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"it's hard for me to feel bad for motorcyclists when they get hurt or die to me it's just darwinism in action the ones that don't value their lives will be weeded out"

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"a homo says what?"

isn't trolling the lounge cheating?

4/10/2007 3:52:34 PM

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"it's hard for me to feel bad for motorcyclists when they get hurt or die"

OMg what a fucktard. Lets hope I dont see you when Im on my bike

4/10/2007 4:22:07 PM

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"Either they value the thrill of riding a motorcycle more than people who don't ride "

yep. that's pretty much what it comes down to (for me anyway). as i've said before in the garage, i don't regret the fact that i used to ride despite what happened to me. i just consider it the price i had to pay for the awesome experience of riding. will i ride again? hell no.

4/11/2007 12:43:05 AM

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"a homo says what?"

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"i dont know what a homo says, but my guess is one of them would be all over you for being a little bitch and taking it up the ass"

haha.
























homo.

4/11/2007 1:41:25 AM

the bottom line is, if i get in an accident i'd rather be surrounded by steel...than some leathers

4/11/2007 1:52:16 AM

i'm not saying i don't ever feel bad for motorcyclists, it's just harder to feel bad for someone who goes flying by me at 115mph on the beltline and then gets messed up after they wreck themselves. it's sort of how i look at someone who OD's on drugs. whether they're willing to admit it or not, they're willingly putting their safety and well-being at a huge risk by their actions, so it's harder for me to feel sympathy towards them than i would towards someone who was just going about their business and got t-boned by a drunk driver. i'm pretty sure i'm not the only one that thinks like this.

[Edited on April 11, 2007 at 2:02 AM. Reason : /]

4/11/2007 1:57:54 AM

why is the line drawn at bikers? why have sympathy for someone t-boned by a drunk driver? i mean, they took the risk to drive. as was mentioned before, the majority of bike wrecks ARE people just riding along minding their own business until someone not paying attention does something stupid.

i see your point, and somewhat agree, but i feel like that's the way it is anytime you do anything. you're taking a certain amount of risk to even get out of bed every morning.

having sympathy, care, or whatever for someone in an accident doesn't have anything to do with the risks they took or what got them there imo.

on the flip side, for victims, it's about understanding and accepting that accidents are ultimately a result of your decisions. someone else might have been at fault, but you knowingly took to risk to be on the road in the first place. there is no expectation of complete safety in/on any vehicle.

[Edited on April 11, 2007 at 2:45 AM. Reason : .]

4/11/2007 2:40:27 AM

where do YOU draw the line then, going the other direction, say someone was playing russian rollette with a single bullet in a revolver and happened to kill themself on the first try. would you be equally as heartfelt and sympathetic to them as the one one killed by a drunk driver? like some big tragedy had just occurred even though he willingly put himself at that risk? if so, you have a very strange thought process...

4/11/2007 3:33:48 PM

thats not the same kind of risk. can you not see that? sheesh.

4/11/2007 4:13:40 PM

i know that i have just started to ride within the past month. yes its kind of scary but i have yet to leave the damn parking lot because I want to make sure I can stop, go and swerve before i get out there. the farthest ive been is like 4 blocks on a regular street.

4/11/2007 6:28:52 PM

this thread angers me immensely... & it's not even worth it to contribute

4/11/2007 7:40:12 PM

^ You just did--sort of.

4/11/2007 9:14:51 PM

^^^ Get up with hanya, she probably gave me enough advice to keep me alive and my biek working the first month.

4/11/2007 11:01:05 PM

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"thats not the same kind of risk. can you not see that? sheesh."

i know it's not the same kind of risk. my point is that, whether we admit it or not, everyone has a sort of "spectrum" of how much sympathy they feel towards the death or injury of a person they don't know. for me, it mostly correlates to the amount of personal responsibility the person had in their death/injury. i would feel much more sympathy towards someone who died as a result of a drunk driver than i would towards someone who was stunting on their bike at 120mph on the highway. i wouldn't be as quick to think "oh, that's so sad." i would more often tend to think "what an idiot." that's all i'm saying.

4/12/2007 2:01:18 AM

^ most would agree with you on that. but you do realize that people that stunt or do fly by's on the highway are an incredibly small percentage of motorcycle riders?

4/12/2007 9:10:10 AM

Fallacy of composition.

4/13/2007 11:47:16 PM

set em up

4/14/2007 12:39:04 AM