On his Facebook account this week, Killboy posted a DGMR picture of a big rig being turned around by the THP near the Resort. (It was also posted on the DGMR Facebook account.) It's good news that the THP and NCHP are enforcing "no big rigs on the Dragon" more aggressively.
You would think this news would cause a flurry of "Likes" (it did) and a few positive comments (it did), and that would be the end of it. Instead there is a thread 58 comments long (so far) that is sometimes funny but mostly silly. Truckers claim they don't get no respect from an America that would shut down without them. They point out that (Dragon aside) other drivers don't realize how much room a big rig needs, and routinely cut them off. Or hide in their blind spot. (True: you see it all the time.) One or two truckers even claimed they could drive the Dragon safely. And there were rants against sportbikes, and how they are even more dangerous than big rigs on the Dragon. One commenter said "now that the big rigs are taken care of, let's sick l.e.o.'s on the sportbikers."
Pilote is long accustomed to gear nazis weighing in on Killboy's pictures, and the flurry of counter-comments, and then the flurry of debate on ATGATT. Or whether or not a lap dog should be on a bike, and if doggles make it OK, or just cute. And how doggles demonstrate the responsibility of the riding pet owner. Then some peacemaker weighs in and says "to each his own." (Of course you wear gear--especially when riding hard. Of course you don't take your lap dog on your cruiser.) These debates are boring, but they're over quickly, like thunderstorms. They also pop up often, like thunderstorms. So they don't annoy me like rants against sportbikes do.
The most interesting questions raised by Killboy's Highlights never get answered. I am waiting for a Highlights subject to weigh in on them:
1) Why would anyone ride a chopper on the Dragon?
2) Why would anyone buy a Spyder? Why not a cruiser or a convertible?
3) Why would anyone ride a trike?
Until then, do we really need a thread 58 comments long about how truckers don't get no respect and how sportbikers ride with attitude? And should be thrown off the Dragon so cruiser riders don't have to put up with them? Frankly, I'm tired of cruiser riders clogging up my river runs. And 10-speed riders. Maybe I should post a rant about it.
When Killboy started posting his 12-minute videos, he said one would be devoted to what we're supposed to learn in elementary school: how to work and play well with others. I said here then that I hadn't seen evidence of poor social skills on the Dragon (and I haven't). But you can find it in the Highlights comment threads. And this one wasn't even a Killboy pic! It was just a snapshot of a big rig being turned around, something we all could be grateful for. You would think.
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