{"id":8694,"date":"2018-06-21T10:59:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T16:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=8694"},"modified":"2018-06-21T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T16:59:24","slug":"an-ugly-vignette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/an-ugly-vignette\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ugly Vignette"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If we feel vulnerable on our motorcycles, how vulnerable must scooter riders feel?<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

I have no idea what led up to this but I caught the very end of an ugly encounter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Following my surgery in March I am now going to rehab sessions three times a week over at Porter Hospital. I was heading north on Downing, getting near Porter, when my eye was caught by the unusual motion of a scooter heading south.<\/p>\n

The guy on the scooter was pretty interesting all by himself. He was wearing a helmet and for a jacket he wore a Mexican-style serape. Kind of odd looking. But that was not the point.<\/p>\n

The point was that there was a pick-up right behind him, very close, and as I watched the scooter came to a very abrupt, very unstable stop, and as the pick-up blasted on past him the obviously angry rider threw up his arms in a middle finger salute. Holy crap, what just happened?<\/p>\n

Of course the supposition is that the pick-up was crowding the scooter. Maybe he was not going fast enough for the pick-up driver’s sense of urgency or whatever. Whatever the case I’d say it’s pretty certain the guy in the pick-up was being a total jerk.<\/p>\n

It wouldn’t be the first time. Heck, one time I watched as a guy in a pick-up deliberately pulled up slowly behind a motorcycle and tapped bumpers. The rider pulled forward and the guy pulled forward again and tapped his bumper again. Deliberately. Just being a jerk. Why do people do things like that?<\/p>\n

I’ll never know the details of this vignette over by Porter but I will remember for a long time what I saw.<\/p>\n

Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n

The only way to see the sunset is to ride into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have no idea what led up to this but I caught the very end of an ugly encounter on Wednesday. Following my surgery in March I am now going to rehab sessions three times a week over at Porter Hospital. I was heading north on Downing, getting near Porter, when my eye was caught […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,326],"tags":[913],"class_list":["post-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety","category-scooter","tag-pick-up-vs-scooter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}