The fact that most people are oblivious to everything around them is one of the reasons I like motorcycling.
The sport is "self cleansing".

If you live your life as a self-centered, distracted idiot, (as most people do), and you happen to ride a motorcycle, you will most certainly be "cleansed" from the rest of us alert and courteous types.

Good video. Thanks for posting.

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Currently Commuting On: 06 Harley XL1200C, 06 DL1000, 07 GS500F, 2 mopeds, and a pair of sneakers.

My best friend hit a mattress on the interstate several weeks ago while riding home on his Trans-alp. Ruined his right knee. A really great surgeon put it back together for him, he hopes to return to work around New Years. The people who lost the mattress out of the back of their pickup truck had no insurance and don't work. His insurance picked up the bills but he is still not working and has pain and suffering. The state trooper told us and about half of the population here in Kentucky are driving without insurance. Scary.

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Doug in Kentucky (Semper Fi)
Live in the moment, for only the moment is real.
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2009 Suzuki Burgman 650 Executive
1980 Honda Express (my toy!)
2007 Wee-Strom (in process of being sold)
2001 Honda Helix (Sold)

While turning off a road into a parking lot I hit a black plastic garbage bag lying flat on the road. It was like an oil slick. Because I was turning at the time, the bike went right out freom under me. Ouch!

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2011 Black Suzuki DL650 ABS
2007 Suzuki Burgman 400
Daily Commuter (No Car), North Dallas, TX

this is one of the reasons our rates are so high in florida. 30% of all vehicles on our roads are uninsured. if you ask me, if you are uninsured and cannot pay for the damage you cause, you should be jailed one day for every dollar of damage. extreme? yeah. but coming from a guy that just had over $40,000 in surgeries to fix a broken ankle caused by an uninsured mother ****er, i'm sure you understand... and yeah, my health insurance covered it but my rates have gone up as a result.

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'07 DL1000

I know what you mean. Here in Michigan we have very high insurance rates. Report: Michigan has highest car insurance costs in nation | MLive.com Thing of it is, it's not going to get any better only much worse. It's just the way people think because they could care less about others and any harm they do. They only think about themselves. All you have to do is take a look at a Craigslists rant section and see how many people hate motorcycles. It's a war out there on these mean streets. Stay safe and alert.

I can say the opposite, in NH insurance is not required, not sure the % that goes uninsured, but its high, yet out rates are among the lowest in the country and have no adult helmet or seatbelt requirement either

so when people claim that mandatory requirements will lower costs, I say a big BS, how is it we also have no broad base (sales or income) tax either

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07 Strom 1k (7x,xxx miles)
99 SV650 (135,006 miles)
82 XV920R
A man with a gun is a citizen
A man without a gun is a subject
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A good reason we should carry uninsured motorist. It can cover lost wages and pain and suffering.

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