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Please tell me you waved back!! 😭

Big commercial vehicles turn wide around corners, because we're trained to do that, from vans and wrecker trucks to dump trucks and 18 wheelers. Some of us get lucky and never have an accident, and if it's a person who isn't very smart, they stop paying close attention, they start using their turn signal at the last second like this van did, they start changing lanes before actually looking behind them in their side mirror, they stop caring about maintaining a better awareness of the vehicles around them than regular drivers, they forget that they are held to a higher standard with that CDL, they don't think about how they could lose their job and their freedom in a single second from one seemingly insignificant bad decision that turns into a preventable accident. You obviously don't have the training a CDL driver does, and honestly as a trucker my eyes would've been on you way earlier and expecting you as a biker on a sport bike to do something bone headed - no offense. It's the way a good driver with a CDL thinks all the time. This guy had it coming, and now you know to think ahead, put yourself in other driver's shoes, and try to predict the least smart choice that they could make, because they probably will and it'll save you.

You forgot about the cold tires Mr seasoned biker 🤣

Brotherrrrrr

Bro feel the love ... My mum went 2 hospital to have me in 1972 on the back of CBR x So I ride Aprilia x

What happened 😭✌🏻

I ride to fight my anxiety. To feel happy and free. And it helps me get to work with a smile on my face.

Тебе ни кто не мешал!

Definitely not buddy

Someone tried squeezing in next to me when I was off to the side at a red light, but another person in a different car defended me to my surprise lol It was unexpectedly heartwarming. They were like, "NUH UHHH BRO STAY BACK STAY BACK" lol It's those little moments for me. He just kept trying to inch forward but I ended up passing him anyways. Turned out the guy who defended was also an avid rider himself.

That's what happened to me, only the car didn't stop. Now I'm in a cast for 6 weeks and need a new helmet. And maybe a new bike. 😢

Doichland

It's two cylinders from a radial style airplane engine

That’s the sound of it dying but just barely staying idle

Simple way to describe it and im butchering it slightly is both spark plugs fire at the same time. When one cylinder is on power stroke the other is on exhaust stroke. The excess unburned fuel in the exhaust stroke it getting lit hence the iconic potato potato potato sound. Fortnine has a great video explaining this in depth

They sound like shit imo

The sound of wasted energy

You should be at the Trail of Tears and hear thousands of them fire off at the same time!

Most of them in the states sound like absolutely dog shit with an old guy with a cigarette in his mouth wearing nothing but shorts and an American flag tank top.

Intentional

You have the world's library in your hands. Look it up. It's the positioning of rods

I believe intentional misfire. Funny thing Harley try to patented the sound

Sounds like it constantly needs a tune up. Would drive me up a wall..

Hope you are OK. I got knocked off last monday. Have a broken thumb and bruised ribs. Waiting for surgery on my thumb. And I hope the bike can be fixed.

Am i pinned?

Well, like my friend used to say: "it is not riding too fast, it is flying too low..."

Maybe going 0.3 m/h

Ride safe bro! 🏍

Good ol fashion American engineering that's how!

I hate it

What kind of bike is that?? Anybody??

Potato potato potato

VTwin

2 large bore pistons spinning slowly

H-D copyrighted the sound in the 80's

V twin

I love sport bikes but engines v giving more fun on road

Thats a vtwin for yea

I love the sound of a Harley!

Unequal headers to different tones coming out the exhausts

they had no idea how to properly engineer something but they struck gold

Its a water pump motor originally. You'd hear them idling away along the rivers.

Big single’s sound much better.

Sounds like a tractor 😂😂

American ingenuity

* biker no where near being taken out by a truck *

Ent that in Alcester

Dry prob, love the sound, whats your setup

Mototherapy, or helmet psychotherapy. Works great to clear your mind and start fresh.

So you dont like traffic?