# Another motorcyclist killed.

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [August 7, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/another-motorcyclist-killed/259840 "2011-08-07T20:10:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![usmc2801](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/usmc2801/32/6387_2.png) [@usmc2801](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/usmc2801)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 9:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/another-motorcyclist-killed/259840/108 "2011-08-10T09:14:05Z")

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> [@SOLD](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/sold/38885/8):
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> I’ve come to terms that no matter what you do, how safe you believe you ride, you will go down on a motorcycle. Every single person I ever rode with on a regular basis or knew someone who owned a bike all had an experience where they went down or got clipped by a car.
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> Most of the general public on the road have no courtesy or awareness of motorcycles on the road, which is a lot of the reason why I gave it up. I was simply coming off a red light passing through an intersection and an older couple in the left lane did not see me and cut right into me and smashed me. I was lucky I didn’t go down, I still to this day can’t figure out how I didn’t but it made me realize it is way too dangerous to risk my life on a bike… That or i’m just getting old.

Bike or not there are a lot of similar cases in a car, people just dont seem to look these days when changing lanes, they assume if there directional is on its clear to move over, but I hear ya about not wanting to ride, all this shit going on lately makes me not wanna ride because I dont trust being on the road with everyone out there and old people ARE THE WORST.

A few years back I had some old guy go right on red as I was going through an intersection (I had a green light) and he clipped the back end of my old bike, fortunately I managed to keep the bike up and didn’t get hurt.

Although nowadays the sportbike rider age group seems to be getting younger and younger (that or I’m just getting really old) which makes me nervous as well because if you have less then 2 years of exp driving a car you should not be on a street bike at all, they need to pass a law that shouldnt allow people to get a motorcycle permit until you have had a drivers license for at least 2 years.

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