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Better skip the helmet too, otherwise it will snap your neck off when you shoulder-check for a lane-change.

Sorry man, any credibility that you had was lost right there. I respect your right to not wear a helmet for whatever reason you want. As I always say; "Anyone who rides without a helmet obviously has nothing up there worth protecting." You are my new poster child for this. Casper, where do you find these people?

I did. i was just taking you out of context for the lulz.

You'll work on that WHAT? I'd say "That's what she said", but that IS what she said...

Ridign with varying levels of gear is your choice. What makes you someone a "horrible person" is openly criticising other riders for riding at a reasonable speed while being appropriately geared up.

ATGATT. If you promise to not laugh at my expensive helmet then I will promise not to laugh at your brain (as the coroner picks it up off the road with a dustpan and brush).

The legal part of my brain is saying: "Hope his building truly is hurricane-proof. Although by not charging money the duty of care required from him should be low enough to withstand any claims should those bikes get damaged..." The biker in me says: "Nice!"

Ah, my bad. Read it too quickly.

Text the groundhog and ask... Shooer6876: Sup. How tall are u? WhistlePig33: idk, like 18" lol y? Shooter6876: no reason.

If it makes it any easier then instead of thinking in terms of "the whole football field" you could trying thinking in terms of "how many yards will Michigan return EVERY DAMN KICKOFF against OSU this coming season". Oh wait, that is the same distance

So when i vote I have to give the vote app access to my name, bio information, friends list, all information I've shared with everyone, favorites list, AND sign up for spam etc? Sorry.

So why doesnt HE sell it? Not worth the hassle. Walk away. Unless you want to keep the Vulcan.

Finally, someone brings REAL SOLUTIONS to the table. So, do you point it over your shoulder, or do you lock the throttle, stand up , turn around, sit back down facing backwards and put the red do right on the trucker's forehead? I need a bike-size trunk monkey. Sort of a "Motorcycle Macaque". Give the little bugger a Derringer. How'd you like me now, ladies? I need to get one of those long triangle stop sticks and mount it across the back of my rear wheel up under the hard cases, held in place by strong magnets. Then I can just pull on the string attached to the magnets and drop that puppy right in front of their tire. Then when the polcie show up I say; "Sure, I'll confess to driving around with a stop stick release mechanism attached to my bike just as soon as you point it out to me on my bike.

Update: I rode to work today!! I've been going on short rides around the neighborhood. At first I couldn't flex my foot up to shift down unless I lifted my foot up off the peg and my ankle was sore for a couple days after that. Next ride I could reach the pedal without lifting off the peg but it was sore (but the soreness didn't linger) This morning I was able to ride to work (25 miles) and I actually forgot about my ankle during most of the journey - which is good. It didn't bother me at all. I'll cage it tomorrow to give my ankle some time to object, but if I get no longering soreness from the bike commute then I'm going back to commuting on the bike 100% starting next week, a little short of 3 months since the injury. It's great to be back on the bike. I had been warned to write off this season completely. Still, I lost half of it.

My taxable value has not dropped due to the economy. Our area just didn't lose house values because of so much new development, net strip malls etc. Any loss in value from the economy was balanced by an increase in value due to improvements in local amenities.

And if someone is putting your life in danger you're going to take your hand off the bars, dig in your jacket with your gloves hand to retrieve nuts/ball bearings and put a chip in their windshield? (I thought it was referred to a "embedded in their windshield" earlier?) A bike can get away from a dump truck, it's that simple. Split lanes if needed. And you'd be surprised how easily a startled driver can lose control on the freeway.

I'm still looking into setting up the 2-way comms with my dvr. Would be nice to tell the bad guy; "Nice hair, will give Bubba something to hang on to!"

Way to kill the light-hearted mood, man.

Skinny kid on bike going to PMITA prison when I wheel my child in to the courtroom in a wheelchair becuase said biker forgot the difference between ethuggery and the real world and my minivan got caught up in the multi-car wreck caused by said biker throwing crap at some truck he was unhappy with.

Utterly hypothetical. I read a bunch of horror stories about gym contracts. One I read was from a lady who complained that the gym's agent told her it was a month-to-month contract with no termination fee, and he covered the contract with his hand under the pretense of pointing at the line she needed to sign - when she asked him to move his hand he told he she was holding up other members and just sign it already, dammit, and he didn't give her a copy. The courts sided with the gym when she tried to cancel a few momths later and found it was a 3 year contract. So I wondered if she could have take the contract from him and crossed out the early termination penalty and duration of contract terms that he claimed were irrelevant. And of course once my brain set off down this path I started wondering about all the other garbage they have you sign for stuff. COuld I sign up for a phoen and ask them to waive the termination fee? And cross it out in the contract if they agree? (of course they will agree verbally and "forget" when it comes time to enforce the contract) So, your responses have absolutely been of tremendous help. I know now that if I want to modify a form contract before it is signed the modifications have to be countersigned by someone that I can convince a jury that it was reasonable to for me assume was in a position to accept the changes. So in my uhaul example the yard lackey not objecting to the scribbed-in changes would not do much to legitimize those changes (even though it truly represented the agreement I had with the manager). However if I had them countersigned by the manager then I'm sute I'd be in a much stronger position.

I drove that way every day for years. I would be in the right lane at Nissan North and stary there until i got to the freeway. After you've been waiting in line for 30 minutes to an hour it can be very difficult to let someone bypass the whole backup and sneak in front of you - especially when you know that the only reason you ar ebeing held up for an hour is because people are bypassing the whole backup and sneaking in front of the people in front of you. I won't go out of my way to let people in past the campus light. Before then I'll let you in if you signal. After the campus light I'm going to maintain my speed/course. If you can find a way in then whatever. But I'm not going to slow the cars behind me down even more. And I'm not going to chase you down for getting in front of me, that's idiotic. Oh and I know how easy it is to get stuck it the left lane - sometimes the right lane backup starts suddenly at the Huntington Bank and then it because really tough to get across because that lane is stopped and the lane you are in is still moving to full speed.

You will be judged harshly if you do anything other than ride away.

No plate on the scooter? Is that from a state that does not require a DL to ride a scooter?

If someone is riding your ass you should assume they can read your license plate already. You throw crap up onto someone's windshield then you should be prepared to be chased until you stop for the police (or to get beated up / shot), or you can go home and wait for the police. BTW, that could be reckless endangerment - which can be a life-changing felony conviction. That could even lead to manslaughter charges if you cause a wreck that kills someone. In a similar situation it is best to get as much identifying information as safely as possible and GTFO. Accelerate, slow, stop, ride up the embankment and through a field, whetever is reasonable under the circumstances. I wouldn't hesitate to lane-split if staying put put me in danger of death. E-thuggery is all fun and games, by in the real world any action that you undertake to try to damage a moving vehicle in attempt to make it stop will takes you out of victim status and make you a criminal yourself.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume that the man handing you a contract to sign is authorized to countersign amendments. But my legal training was in the UK and we didn't get into contract law. There is also a risk that by amending the contract it could be found to no longer be an adhesion contract, so if some other section would otherwise be ruled unconscionable or "outside reasonable expectations" then I'd lose those protections. "Outside reasonable expectations" is the concept that protects a person who hastily signs a gym membership from suddenly being told there is a clause that requires them to wash every other member's cars every week during the contract. Sure, you could actively choose to agree to it, but the courts recognize that people sign these things without reading them and won't enforce clauses that no reasonable person would expect. So lawyer's fees, reasonable collection practices, liability waivers, arbitration requirement etc are all enforced even though you didn't read those clauses because they are normal expected clauses - but it should be easy to get out of a clause that requires you to paint their building once a month.