Ok so I RARELY ride with any sort of group, generally i'm a lone rider besides the occasional ride with my brother, but a few friends of mine were going riding last night, just a cruise, most of us had a passenger so it was just a nice group of about 6 of us cruising over Gauley Mountain.
Well to my suprise one guy brought his buddy, now most of my cruising buddies don't gear up besides a helmet, and a few wear gloves, but thats their choice not mine so I don't say anything. Anyway the new guys on a Yamaha R6S, the back tire is showing about a 1/2 inch wide strip of wire! He's in a helmet (equipped with a helmet hawk), a muscle shirt, jeans, and timberland boots and his girlfriends (a little on the chubbier side) is on the back in a t-shirt, jeans, and FLIP FLOPS! His tire pressure was low, so I warned him, and offered to let him ride back to my house and pump some air in, he declined. So I say "Fine then, but stay in the back so when you go down you don't cause anybody else to crash." and he did just that at first.
When we got on US Rt 19 from Beckley he rams the gas and goes around everybody nearly hitting the group leader who was changing into the left lane to go around a semi truck. So at this point i'm already pissed, we told the guy to take it easy because his tire was extremely dangerous (normally we'd tell him to go the fuck home when he showed up with the bad tire, but we were only going about 15 miles at a group set limit of 60 MPH) We stopped in Glen Jean for gas before we headed up the mountain and I told him to slow it down or turn around because we didn't want any of that stupidity, and he wasn't impressing anyone. He said ok, and he rode correct and in the back until we took the downtown exit into Oak hill, WV to meet up with another rider. Then I look in my side view to see him up on the back wheel with a passenger and a bad tire! He flys by me like that in a 25 MPH zone. At this point I see every other rider shaking their head, even the guy who brought him along (who apologized, said he had no idea he rode like that), I wanted to kick him over while he was going by me. When we stopped to meet the other rider everybody told the guy if he done anything else stupid we ourselves would call the police and report his liscense plate as we weren't going to be responsible for him. Needless to say he acted stupid again blowing down the interstate at 130.
BUT this is where it gets bad...Before my buddy even had time to call the police (he has a bluetooth helmet, dials by voice and doesn't have to stop) we hear a siren behind us... Now me, and everybone else besides the squidly man was only doing 5 MPH over the limit, nothing bad, we were just in a straight line cruising. However we ALL get pulled over (officer went by us all, slowed beside each one of us, bleeped the siren and pointed us off to the side of the road) and then he goes to get the guy on the R6s and brings him back. We ALL got tickets because there was reports of a group of people on "Crotch Rockets" riding aggresively, doing wheelies, and travelling what had to be an excess of 100+ MPH. We were pissed, I asked the officer to come back to his car and I explained to him that 5 out of the 6 of us were riding casually, just cruising down the rode to have a good time, not riding stupidly, and thankfully from that he dropped the Reckless driving part of our tickets, but we still all got speeding tickets for 60 in a 55, and the squid at least did get what he deserved and will probably get his liscense revoked for riding like a complete dumbass. He got tickets for:
Riding without an endorsement/learners, No isurance, Reckless driving, 90 in a 55
Anyway, we decided no more outsiders unless we know their riding style first. Sorry for the long post, but I had to vent a little :rofl2:
Well to my suprise one guy brought his buddy, now most of my cruising buddies don't gear up besides a helmet, and a few wear gloves, but thats their choice not mine so I don't say anything. Anyway the new guys on a Yamaha R6S, the back tire is showing about a 1/2 inch wide strip of wire! He's in a helmet (equipped with a helmet hawk), a muscle shirt, jeans, and timberland boots and his girlfriends (a little on the chubbier side) is on the back in a t-shirt, jeans, and FLIP FLOPS! His tire pressure was low, so I warned him, and offered to let him ride back to my house and pump some air in, he declined. So I say "Fine then, but stay in the back so when you go down you don't cause anybody else to crash." and he did just that at first.
When we got on US Rt 19 from Beckley he rams the gas and goes around everybody nearly hitting the group leader who was changing into the left lane to go around a semi truck. So at this point i'm already pissed, we told the guy to take it easy because his tire was extremely dangerous (normally we'd tell him to go the fuck home when he showed up with the bad tire, but we were only going about 15 miles at a group set limit of 60 MPH) We stopped in Glen Jean for gas before we headed up the mountain and I told him to slow it down or turn around because we didn't want any of that stupidity, and he wasn't impressing anyone. He said ok, and he rode correct and in the back until we took the downtown exit into Oak hill, WV to meet up with another rider. Then I look in my side view to see him up on the back wheel with a passenger and a bad tire! He flys by me like that in a 25 MPH zone. At this point I see every other rider shaking their head, even the guy who brought him along (who apologized, said he had no idea he rode like that), I wanted to kick him over while he was going by me. When we stopped to meet the other rider everybody told the guy if he done anything else stupid we ourselves would call the police and report his liscense plate as we weren't going to be responsible for him. Needless to say he acted stupid again blowing down the interstate at 130.
BUT this is where it gets bad...Before my buddy even had time to call the police (he has a bluetooth helmet, dials by voice and doesn't have to stop) we hear a siren behind us... Now me, and everybone else besides the squidly man was only doing 5 MPH over the limit, nothing bad, we were just in a straight line cruising. However we ALL get pulled over (officer went by us all, slowed beside each one of us, bleeped the siren and pointed us off to the side of the road) and then he goes to get the guy on the R6s and brings him back. We ALL got tickets because there was reports of a group of people on "Crotch Rockets" riding aggresively, doing wheelies, and travelling what had to be an excess of 100+ MPH. We were pissed, I asked the officer to come back to his car and I explained to him that 5 out of the 6 of us were riding casually, just cruising down the rode to have a good time, not riding stupidly, and thankfully from that he dropped the Reckless driving part of our tickets, but we still all got speeding tickets for 60 in a 55, and the squid at least did get what he deserved and will probably get his liscense revoked for riding like a complete dumbass. He got tickets for:
Riding without an endorsement/learners, No isurance, Reckless driving, 90 in a 55
Anyway, we decided no more outsiders unless we know their riding style first. Sorry for the long post, but I had to vent a little :rofl2:
