Why do bikers treat trikers like inferiors I’ll never understand.
I’m not sure. It could be because they think trike riders “aren’t skilled enough to handle a real motorcycle”. Which only shows their own ignorance, because while a trike is stable at rest, unlike a bike, also unlike a bike it is unstable at speed. You can’t countersteer a trike or lean into turns, and you don’t get any benefit from physics either. You gotta muscle three wheelers around corners.
That being said, I haven’t seen the same contempt some bikers have for trikers applied to sidecars. That’s probably because sidecars are just too uncommon and weird. Also it doesn’t pay to p~~~ off the guy hauling the cooler.
Of course it’s the biker chicks who are most impressed by hacks. You should see the looks of longing in their eyes when I pull up beside them as they are shoved up behind some sweaty squid.
Why do you call it “the hack”, around here we call inferior craftsmanship “hack”, I’m not a hack but know a few.
Sidecars are called hacks. There are two theories, and each is probably a little bit true. The first comes from the old term for horse drawn taxis (possible even going back to the days of sedan chairs – I don’t know): hackney. One of the first uses for sidecars was as small taxis taking the role originally occupied by sedan chairs, so they were called sidehacks. That was reduced to hacks soon enough.
The other theory is that, well, they are kind of a hack. Not as in inferior craftsmanship, but as a sort of inelegant but effective after the fact solution to the problem of adding extra cargo and passenger space onto a motorcycle. Just bolt a third wheel with a chair on it to the side and off you go. What could possibly go wrong?
You ever notice sometimes you’re in traffic (highway) and all the drivers around are (for intents and purposes) Professional? Blinkers, slow lane changes, keeping right, and good spacing? and eyes on the road and using rear view to log where cars are and how many?
Yup. That’s when I start looking for the unmarked police car they’ve all noticed but I haven’t.
While other times you twist the throttle to get the f~~~ away from a clusterf~~~ of poor drivers?
Oh yeah. Been there too. Sometimes you just have to get the f~~~ outta a bad situation before it happens. I’ve occasionally even pulled completely off the side and stopped to let a mob go past just to get out from the middle of them. You ever get that feeling on the back of your neck that things aren’t quite right with the cagers around you, but you can’t quite place your finger on why? I’ve learned to trust that feeling.
Of course the worst are the asshats who slow down to 35 – 40 on a 55mph highway when it’s just two lanes, but as soon as they get to a passing lane they jack it up to 75 – 80 like they’re suddenly on a freeway. And the asshat right behind them is always the type to camp out in the passing lane, never actually passing the asshat in front, but preventing anyone else from passing either. Which only encourages the third type of asshat who gets so p~~~ed off at them, and rightly so, that he passes on a double yellow blind curve, not so rightly, just to get away from them. And then you meet them all coming the other way. That’s another reason why I’m not always inclined to overtake. On some roads it’s a good idea to have a cage a few lengths ahead to act as a blocker for that kind of oncoming traffic. Cages have crumple zones. I don’t.
She was that F~~~ED UP! It wasn’t alcohol, perhaps diabetic shock, I don’t know of any drugs that can get you that f~~~ed up!
She might have just been sleeping at the wheel. It’s amazing the condition some people will get themselves in and still think they can drive.
