View Poll Results: Riding While Texting
Yes -- I text and ride often
1
2.50%
Yes -- I text and ride rarely
3
7.50%
Sorta -- Only in emergency
4
10.00%
No -- I either pull over or do not text at all while riding
8
20.00%
No -- Phones are meant to be frickin ignored while riding
24
60.00%
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Texting....While riding
Senior Member
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 624
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From: Central Wisconsin
So you guys talkin riding or driving ... bike or car??? I voted as in "car"
Textin on a bike is just too much too much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G2EN83pt40
Textin on a bike is just too much too much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G2EN83pt40
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Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 663
Likes: 1
From: Brooklyn
If I feel the phone vibrate I might pull over in case it's my wife or kids with something urgent. But I can't imagine getting the phone out, opening it, reading the message, replying, all with gloves on, while operating a motorcycle. Nor can I imagine why I'd want to.
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Joined: Jul 2008
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So you guys talkin riding or driving ... bike or car??? I voted as in "car"
Textin on a bike is just too much too much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G2EN83pt40
Textin on a bike is just too much too much
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G2EN83pt40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K59eMpWsyNE&NR=1
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Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 27
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From: Joplin Mo
Got off easy for a thread like what??? I was just curious. What you think people are just gonna start texting just because this thread? Everybody here is grown up and knows that its dangerous and stupid. What am i gonna get mt account deleted for simple curiosity? Id hope not. Im not trying to come off as a dick. I just dont want to be considered less of a rider because ive done it a couple of times.
I think it just distracts you and the brain. Like you may think if you text real quick and slip it back in your pocket it'll be fine, but I think the mind lingers on the text or response. Like asking someone a serious question or something. So you could be riding thinking about the response (daydreaming) and BAM! - Instant organ donor
September 2009 ROTM Winner - Faster than a Speeding ..........
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 3,808
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From: UK
So what in your opinion , would a rider have to do , for guys on here to think him less of a rider?
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From: Joplin Mo
No has the right to say that someone is less of a rider... Who chooses these standards? Did god write it down on a peice of paper and send it down? I mean cmon.. If anything, the guy sitting in front of a computer looking for a reason to accuse someone of being less of a rider, is less of a rider.
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Joined: Jan 2000
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From: Conyers, GA
No has the right to say that someone is less of a rider... Who chooses these standards? Did god write it down on a peice of paper and send it down? I mean cmon.. If anything, the guy sitting in front of a computer looking for a reason to accuse someone of being less of a rider, is less of a rider.
Maybe not God ... but 77% of those voting seem to think it makes you a less safe rider. Hey, you wanted numbers -- I got you numbers
