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Out for a prework ride yesterday. Heading down CT 66. Speed limit 45 most people do 60. I come out of a turn, up haead 2 mopeds (not scooters mopeds) each has about a 7 foot whip antennea looking tihing on the back. With an orange flag at the top(safty I guess). But they are riding side by side.
Doing about 35. One is about 2 feet inside the double yellow (right where I like to be) the other is about 2 feet off the shoulder. I figure if I dont get past them in about 30 seconds I'm gonna have some asshat in an SUV on my back tire.Next safe place to pass is about 3 miles up. I check my rear view I got a dump truck bearing down on me about 100 ft back and closing.Time to make a choise.Cant see far enough head to use the oncoming lane.Screw It I drop down a gear.Crack the throttle and shoot the gap between the mopeds.
I did not hear anything on the news so i guess the dump truck did not take them out. But I realy realy hope that I scared the crap out of them.And they went home and talked about that jerk on the motorcycle.
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Moped morons.... .....that jerk on the motorcycle.
Well least your honest......
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Moped morons.... .....that jerk on the motorcycle.
Well least your honest......
 yeah well, not somthing I would do under normal conditions, but i think a alot of us would have made the same move. 
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
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But they are riding side by side.
What is it with some people? Around here pedestrians, joggers, bicycles will do the same thing. Side by side with no sidewalk, then won't go single file when a car or motorcycle comes along. 
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Were they wearing faux Star Trek uniforms??? 
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But they are riding side by side.
What is it with some people? Around here pedestrians, joggers, bicycles will do the same thing. Side by side with no sidewalk, then won't go single file when a car or motorcycle comes along.
Well Pete, I'm thinking their mentality is that they feel they have the right to use the road as they do, which ironically they SOMETIMES actually do!
However, the "feeling" that they seem to be lacking is that sometimes in the REAL WORLD exercising those "rights" will ALSO often put THEM and oft-times other folks at risk too.
(and thus, they could be suffering a slight deficiency in one particular set of their genomes which would normally prompt the self-preservation instinct in most people...or, in other words......THEY'RE FRIGGIN' MORONS, dude!!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I might have used the, oh so intimidating horn on the guy near the yellow line.
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Speaking of mopeds, I shake my head every time I see one take off from a light and the rider drags his feet all the way through the intersection.
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Speaking of mopeds, I shake my head every time I see one take off from a light and the rider drags his feet all the way through the intersection.
Was that YOU behind me??? 
Actually, 'Morons on Mopeds' would make a great, ironic club name, IMHO. 
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A bike coming up behind me gets more of my attention than a dump truck. Stupid is one thing, quick and stupid is something else entirely.
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But they are riding side by side.
What is it with some people? Around here pedestrians, joggers, bicycles will do the same thing. Side by side with no sidewalk, then won't go single file when a car or motorcycle comes along.
Well Pete, I'm thinking their mentality is that they feel they have the right to use the road as they do, which ironically they SOMETIMES actually do!
However, the "feeling" that they seem to be lacking is that sometimes in the REAL WORLD exercising those "rights" will ALSO often put THEM and oft-times other folks at risk too.
(and thus, they could be suffering a slight deficiency in one particular set of their genomes which would normally prompt the self-preservation instinct in most people...or, in other words......THEY'RE FRIGGIN' MORONS, dude!!!!)
Too many people are the center of their own universe.
They lack the ability to see this world past their own immediate circle... you know... politicians!
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In my state kids ride mopeds because you can legally at 14 My kid road one for 2 years before getting his motocycle license at 16... I thought it was good training for him... He had to deal with dicks in cars and on bikes and made him a better rider today... we should not be so Quick to forget what it's like to be a kid and in the wind
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Dwight, Why are you always so quick to call everyone a FRIGGIN MORON!!! ...My kid had a ball on his moped just like I'll bet a bunch of you old hens had on a mini bike many years ago, when other old hens called you FRIGGIN MORONS!!!
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My kid had a ball on his moped just like I'll bet a bunch of you old hens had on a mini bike many years ago
That's great that your son was able to legally ride a moped. That's great experience to carry over to safe motorcyle riding. Just stay to the side like a bicycle so others can get by. In the original post the "moron moped" riders were obstructing traffic.
I cut my teeth on a Craftsman mini-bike. Riding in empty school parking lots, back yards, trails, and such.
But every time some darn "old hen" (usually the lady across the street) would call the cops on us! 
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