Uncle Punk

Hey wait a minute I never said squid one was doing squid two, but if you hear it on the internet if might be true. They can walk to each others house. I think it's mean for you guys to start such a rumor.

My mother is on her third old lady car, the first two were even the same color. Sucks for the kid in the Cavalier, just gets it back and BAM old lady nails him checking out no helmet squid.

Correct we have two separate squids here wheelie boy and look at me no helmet boy.

I agree, old people suck no one over 62 should be able to drive, yea that's the ticket says the man in much need of a thread high jack.

You guys just don't understand. Avenger and I have been regifting the same birthday rock for the past 15 years or so. We both know the consequences of fucking with each other. I can see it all playing out now possibly ending up with naked baby pictures of Avenger in the sink getting a bath.

You are correct about other posts covering this same subject. I thought I would start one specifically about 536 instead of a thread about the aftermath. I’m just trying to be proactive with a thread that can be bumped to the front page instead of an old ride report. I know the post is kind of an old ride report but it's meant to be anecdotal to show how easy it is to get complacent.

It's a damn shame we have a moderator witnessing this thread and he won't do anything about it except shit stirring. I need help from a higher authority. Nothing to see here, move along.

I'm disappointed, I thought there were rules around here that the original poster was NOT allowed to be owned in their own thread. If that rule doesn't exist well it should.

utoh, I might be in trouble here. Nevermind, can we get this thread closed? At least by the time Avenger gets home from work. Nothing to see here, move along.

I am currently being blackmailed into not disclosing squidly picture for fear of a more squidly picture of me being posted. The stupid thing is I can't tell if it's a bluff or not but you never know.....

Finally some talent in this thread.

Since posting this I have received photographic proof of the squidlyness of second squid. Now I have to text him to let him know he has been called out.

536 is a serious road that can and will bite you. We had eight guys in a group and two went down on 536 both of them in the same corner. This curve will take people out so hopefully we can prevent as many people as possible from getting bitten by it.

I can say that I haven't crossed a yellow line in years until riding this road. In my mind that's the same as a crash, it was stupid and I am beating myself up over it. I not only put myself in danger but if someone had been coming the other way I could have harmed them from my own stupidity. I didn't go down only because I didn't give up but I wasn't in control enough to stay in my lane.

We rode across 78 to get there which is a nice road but it kind of lulled us into high speed mode. We get to 536 and start down it heading toward the river. Whoa, this is a fun road, we all stop at the stop sign, the group is now all together and we make the turn to the right up the hill. I am riding in the second spot at this time, as we come up hill to a marked 15 MPH right hand turn, it shouldn’t be a big deal but not so fast, this stupid thing is a decreasing radius turn compounded by the fact it starts to go down hill as it gets tighter so you lose your braking as the road falls out from under you. First guy touches the yellow line on exit, I cross it completely and the third guy low sides on the road, slides across it and ends up in the hay field. The first guy and I check up, I stop and the fourth guy gets up to me and asks if I am alright, why are you stopping? He never saw the third guy go down in front of him. While we are having this interaction around comes the fifth guy and the six guy stands his bike up and rides down into the hay field. Not one rider following the guys that went off knew what had happened. If you look at the pictures you will see there is not too much distance from the stop sign to this curve but this road is so curvy it had separated us by then. No real damage to either bike or riders, they rode them out of the field and on to the road for us all to continue on for the rest of our day.

Please be careful out there. I am sure and I hope others will add their advice to this about their experience with this road.

Overhead view from stop sign to curve

Overhead view of just curve.

Road view approaching curve.

Road view looking at exit of curve.

When the other squid shows up he will call me out but it won't be from riding the green bike.

Names were not mentioned Justin. If you hadn't called yourself out it might not have happened until the other squid saw this thread. That's only because you called him out to me. I did talk to him tonight and he filled me in on the rest of the almost accident information. I can't believe the two local guys I know on here are both SQUIDS. Are you guys going on the squids and posers ride?

You will NOT find me riding the green bike without gear on. If I had been working I never would have seen you so this is more proof that unemployment is ruining everything.

I have seen a recent increase of squidly behavior in my neighborhood. Today I was driving down the road when a car turned left in front of me, (Plenty of room.) well there is this motorcycle right behind the car that then proceeds to ride a wheelie right past me once the car cleared the path in front of the motorcycle. The guy had a helmet on but wasn't wearing a jacket; he also had a backpack on like he was coming home from work. SQUID

When I get done with this incident I hear about another squid in the area just yesterday who was riding down the same road less than a quarter mile away without a helmet. Apparently his bike is so beautiful he is blinding the old ladies in the area and is rendering their driving skills useless. Said old lady drives right into the back of another car without even touching her brakes within striking distance of squidly boy without his helmet. I don't know if it was the beautiful bike that distracted her or his man beauty although I don't know if that's possibly because he might be 40. SQUID

You is just jealous of the Gunner greatness!

After reading a ride report about someone going down in the curve that was the subject of my OP in this thread does anyone think I should make a shorter OP in an original thread about this curve? I know sometimes I don't read a post if I open it and see all them words. I am trying to get a thread that more people will read; this curve will take people out. Hopefully we can prevent as many people from here as possible from getting bitten by it. Okay, maybe now that I'm not working I might just be a post whore.

Is that the king of internet self gratification? I vote you is winar!

I had forgotten what the original post was about, now I remember. No way did it stay on topic but it was a stupid one so who cares.

I missed Barney but I now know how to talk to women, chewing gum I think. I also know which camera not to be using filming porno. GGrreegggg has an interesting sense of humor; he must be fun to hang with. Did you see I invoked your name in the thread I started about 536?

I think the title of this thread is awesome also. Where you bored at work this morning? Thunderstorms woke me up this morning so I now have a well rounded education.

I caught that thread this morning, it was hilarious. Why did it get pulled? Does it make me cool to know what frosting like a cake means or pathetic? I also know why that tab is there. I wonder if everyone who was mentioned in the thread knows about it.

Shit. I should have known better than to get involved in an internet discussion about politics. I am bored and need a job more than I need to write a thesis. You win on wearing me down on shear volume. We will be able to point counter point each other all day. We can also bring logic into the discussion from outside sources not related to healthcare but it will all be moot. I can rebuke your assessment of my failed analogy but you are correct it will not address your OP.

If you have a contract with an insurance company you have the legal right to make them honor it. If said company fights all of its obligations and wins unfairly their business will go away to a competitor who honors its contracts. You are free to take your business elsewhere. Government’s role is to see that the contracts both parties agree upon are handled correctly. This is why we have a republic country not a democratic one. (Explaining what that means and how it applies will take forever and I ain't gonna.)

Merely stating that I don’t believe it’s the government’s role to provide our healthcare is not what you’re looking for but that’s as simple as it gets. If the government is responsible for our healthcare are they also responsible for our deaths? If so I want to sue them for allowing my grandmother to die from natural causes, the government is responsible for it damn it where’s my money? You want more absurd, should they be responsible for our births?

Oh yea, I forgot about different rules down where he is from. What happens up here can't happen down there because he says so. Forgive me since I am old its ease for us old guys to forget. Gunner hasn’t changed and it was at least four years ago when I had a run in with him.

I have seen this before so I don't need to go watch. He will call you out to race him then he will threaten you with physical violence because you won’t race him then ban.

I will agree that cooperation works best in some cases; however that depends if it comes about naturally or artificially. If you don't cooperate with others people who do will put you out of business quickly. If the government makes you do things that defy logic they can, have and are putting businesses out of business. Insurance is a form of cooperation that has a very good track record of its value to the masses. National defense is another that we can’t do by ourselves, our highway system is another. (Except for the Amish, I hate those fuckers using our roads but that’s a whole different rant.)

If healthcare wasn't socially engineered the way it is now competition would make it look much different than it does now. I don't think as many people would be without it either. Someone would come up with a business model that will fill the voids where there is money to be made. When people start to look at healthcare as a form of their own happiness and make it a priority for themselves instead of a government handout costs would be easier to control. Go back to my auto insurance parallel, if I could drive anyway I wanted caused as much damage as I could sustain and the government paid my premiums how long do you think it would take for the system to be broke.

Healthcare insurance is a business if you think you can do a better job than the companies currently in business go right ahead but I guarantee you will be back here complaining about the government’s involvement not allowing you to make any money. If you were responsible for making the decisions some of these companies are making you might be making the same decisions if you are responsible for your company’s bottom line. Remember insurance is a business and you can take your business elsewhere. If you make enough wrong decisions another company will come along and give you what you want if they can make money doing it.