Motorcycle discrimination

 

This has been going on since I started riding 35 years ago. It was worse, at
least in California then.

http://autos.aol.com:80/article/motorcycle-discrimination/  

 



An interesting read.

Couldn't help comparing and contrasting with how things are on this side
of the pond.


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BMW K1100LT  Ducati 750SS  Honda CB400F  Triumph Street Triple
Kawasaki GT550  Suzuki TS250ERx2 GN250  Damn, back to eight bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
chateau dot murray at idnet dot com

 


Back in 1975, during the Nixon recession that Jimmy Carter was unable
to fix, there were two or three times as many motorcycles on the road,
and many riders were commuting to work on their bikes.

Others were idled by layoffs and collecting unemployment.

The national unemployment rate was about 15%...

I was riding 100 miles a day, seven days a week and hanging out with
the bikers at the motorcycle hangouts in the daytime and cruising Van
Nuys and Hollywood Boulevards looking for pussy at night, and going to
the Rock Store and Newcomb's Ranch on weekends.

Of course I was more exposed to traffic enforcement than somebody
driving a tan 4-door Ford sedan...

I was getting about 6 citations a year, mostly for violating the
national 55 mph speed limit.

Los Angeles Metro Division was very active on surprise patrols of
surface streets in the San Fernando Valley too, they were watching for
equipment violations and
obviously expired registrations

When I finally wised up and quit commuting by motorcycle and quit
spending so much time doing Seymour Rhodes tours and squirreling
around in the canyons, I stopped getting tickets so often.

But the last ticket I got on a motorcycle was about five years ago
when I was stopped by a special enforcement task force looking for
squids riding The Snake above the Rock Store.

The cop followed me for about five miles before he decided to pull me
over for expired registration.

The moral of the story is, if you hang around places frequented by a
lot of motorcycle riders, you're going to get tickets...

If I want to go for a motorcycle ride in the Santa Monica or San
Gabriel mountains nowadays, I ride during the week, because the cops
are patrolling for squids on weekends.

 



This is utter nonsense.

http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/future.htm : about 5 million bikes in
1975.

http://www.webbikeworld.com/motorcycle-news/2009/motorcycle-owner-survey
.htm

Over 10 million bikes in 2008.

Krusty gets it wrong again non-surprise.




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BMW K1100LT  Ducati 750SS  Honda CB400F  Triumph Street Triple
Kawasaki GT550  Suzuki TS250ERx2 GN250  Damn, back to eight bikes!
Try Googling before asking a damn silly question.
chateau dot murray at idnet dot com

 

On Aug 29, 11:47 am, totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk (The Punchbowl
Turd) wrote: