racer987

I'm saying that this video is noble but it's not going to be effective. Cyclists will watch it and agree, motorists will watch it and not care. Sure laws exist but they will never completely eliminate the problem. How long have speeding laws been in existance? Do people still speed? There only real solutions are to convince your local politicians to open up more bicycle lanes, or to avoid riding in these dangerous areas where you know you're at risk. Trail conflicts are a different matter altogether. I won't even get into that. What I'm trying to convey is that this attitude of cyclists vs motorists will get nowhere. You can't fight the stupidity or indifference of drivers. As long as people drive they way they do (like asshats) then there is no safe way for people to ride in traffic. You can't change human nature, you might as well try starting a campaign to ban hateful and dumb comments on youtube. Look at it this way, I don't like crime. I want to live in a safe city. But I don't go alone into the ghetto at night, wearing expensive clothes and jewelry, and declaring "I am somebody's son, I am a human being, I have children, I deserve to be able to safely walk down a public street." This is what you guys are doing. It's not the right way to affect change, and being stubborn about it is putting your own life on the line. You call it giving up. But why can't road cyclists ride backroads with less traffic? Why can't they stick to paved biking trails? Plenty of other enthusiasts groups like motorcyclists and sports car owners seem to find these roads just fine. Where they can do their thing outside of the public eye and away from traffic.

Well I'm gonna piss a lot of people off with this comment, but as a dh rider I would say the problem is cyclists insisting to ride where they shouldn't, and refusing to accept the simplest solution, stop riding in traffic. I don't understand why people enjoy commuting to work on bicycles. Dodging traffic, having sleepy commuters buzz by you, choking on exhaust fumes, do you really love cycling so blindly that this is fun? I love riding motorcycles. Commuting to work on one ruined that sport for me, from beautiful relaxing sunday morning riding, to dirty, cold, stressful commuting to my job. Cyclists, I challenge you to exercise common sense and restraint. You can ride wherever there is a paved road. You know you will never change all the motorists perceptions. As a motorcyclist I have been down the same road and it is not worth it. There will always be distracted drivers, teens staring at their cell phones instead of the road. Women doing makeup while driving, men drinking coffee and reading the paper. People driving with their dogs in their lap and yelling at their kids in the back seat. I challenge you to find safer roads to ride, ones with little traffic, a wide shoulder, and little debris. Share these with your friends and fellow riders, make a map of them online. I challenge you to love your hobby so much, you are willing to drive several hours away just to ride in a safe spot, like I do with my dirt bikes. To give up riding to work in rush hour traffic, where you know you are pissing people off and riding on borrowed time. There needs to be a compromise, but riding several abreast and holding up traffic, causing road rage, this is putting your lives on the line to try and fight a stupid cause. Seriously, I hope you guys use some common sense, if you are really worried about your safety and not just winning an argument of us VS them. This mentality will get you nowhere.

Wow, love all the gopro fan boys hating on this thing. I've had a go pro HD since they were released, preordered mine months ahead of time and had one before most people even knew they existed. Let me tell you, this camera is far from perfect, it was just the first to arrive on the scene and with good marketing skills, dominated sales. It still has some serious short comings like bulky size, poor low light performance, hard to use interface, etc. If you guys weren't all 12 year old fan boys you would realize that competition like this is necessary and forces gopro to step up their game and improve their product. The ideal POV/Action cam just isn't there yet. When they make a smaller mountable bullet cam that you can truly stick on the side of your helmet and is dead simple to aim, giving a true sense of vision, with HD quality, I'll bite. The Gopro is decent, but lets face it, you are still left sticking a block that sticks out way over your helmet or out to the side that gives a really weird perspective, as if you were 12 feet tall. You have to feel around and push a crappy button blindly, hoping the thing actually turned on, or you have to take your helmet off before each run. And hope to god you didn't wack any branches and have aimed it properly, or else your entire vid could be of the ground rushing by or the sky.

how are they aluminum when the first pic clearly shows titanium written right on the knee pad?

but now ur moto is at the top of the hill. unless the one guy rides the moto up and loads it back on the truck and drives it back down? Seems like a lot of work for the one guy unless its a small pitbike.