# Rider buys new bike.  Killed leaving the lot

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**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [May 13, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rider-buys-new-bike-killed-leaving-the-lot/258377 "2011-05-13T05:13:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![aero93](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a4c791/32.png) [@aero93](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/aero93)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/rider-buys-new-bike-killed-leaving-the-lot/258377/39 "2011-05-17T15:24:32Z")

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> [@CANADIAN TICKET???](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/canadian-ticket/42281/4):
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> Unfortunately not.
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> If every rider accepted this risk there would be a lot less riders on the road riding a lot more behaved while wearing gear.
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> You also wouldn’t see people selling their bikes once they witness a friend crash and or die.
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> The “it won’t happen to me” mentality is too common.

well at least to me it was a risk that i knowingly took, learned how to ride last year when i bought my 08 gsxr600, rode it for 5000 miles and sold it. first and only bike i have ever owned, i think its rider responsibility and calculating risks where riders vary.

one of my main reasons for selling it was that no one rides them like a normal person ( at least in my experiance ) , every chance they get its in and out of traffic and 120 down the northway and that got old pretty quick.

edit ; granted once and a while i have dipped in and out of traffic and gone a bit quicker then i should have on the highway but to a limited extent not all the time like my group of friends did

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