robbydecker wrote: ↑19 Feb 2025, 13:47
Motorcycles should be banned from most roadways, imo.
I'm no motorbike hater. Had a couple of nice dirt bikes back in the day.
I'm also in Really Strong favor of having Much More trails and land acreage in general, that is available for dirt bike riders.
They(The dirt bike trailways) could basically run alongside all the bicycle paved pathways.
I'm also in strong favor of dirt bike riders having much more leniency amongst law enforcement, traffic laws, ordinances, etc.
I'm referring to short perimeter zone area riding, where you're only briefly riding on a main roadway, because you're switching the bike onto another trailway area for instance.
But yeah, big fast motorbikes zooming along on highways and such, and especially where there are an abundance of darting deer(Doe running from a Buck), and often darting across a 50-55 mph traffic area. This in itself would be such a mental obstacle for myself if I rode motorcycles.
Trailways would be so much more practical and safe for motorbike riders, and obviously everyone would be riding motorbikes made for that specific type of terrain.
ATV riders could join in as well since not everyone can ride on 2 wheels.
- - Since you don't say what grade you're in, I'm assuming your young, dumb, and full of the confusion of your years.
Never had a dirt bike, but I'm completely conversant on Transportation via my racing bicycle where I routinely exceeded speed limits to pass up most cars/trucks. Then came warehouse to warehouseAtlantic/Pacific/Gulf Big Rig deliveries, so I'm highly experienced.
I consecutively had 3 street Motorcycles. My 2nd one was the fastest production motorcycle made where my buddy and I one summer decided to go visit Rocky Mountain National Park leaving Austin, Tx. I had already started modifications of strip down weight and hop up performance. I averaged 45mpgallon which was triple my mileage from when it was new.
We had to repeatedly pass up 100 big Campers clogging the park rather than inhale their erupting tail pipes where we found a fire road leading up to a mountain top we wanted to camp on. Respectively entering the existing trail, we found a tree canopy to camp under where we made no physical impact on the natural environment other than a small campfire for our steaks that took 2 hours to eat rare. Initially we took a hike around the 14,000' mountain top, but upon returning watched a family of dirt bikers tearing around everywhere, leaving cosmetic damage that takes maybe a century to cover up at 14, 000 foot Altitude. You be kissin' cousins?
I sold my last two for my impending marriage, but eons later I picked up my 4th, a 2024 Kawasaki 650 Ninja that will do 170mph which is modest for motorcycles these day, so I promised my neighbors I'd keep it under 140
This 500 is the same style and color layout as mine.
I pay a road tax like every vehicle registered in Texas, yet my bike is doing no road damage whatsoever in a town featuring 6000lb SUVs, some capable of doing up to 180 mph in between massive 80,000lb Tracker/Trailer Rigs, the kinda stuff you promote as a Carbarian. Thus my local roads are now much rougher and more dangerous than most dirt trails, but this homologated track bike and rider is fully sensitized to making as small of a footprint on our planet as I have done my whole life.
The bad news is you and you ilk will continue to tear up our beautiful planet...c'est la vie...
