ROC tomorrow Sept 17th anyone going?

[mike93hatch]

they usually shut down the highway...

[-=TWITCH=-]

Just got home it was EPIC!!! All of the Cops where actually very cool. They actually blocked a part of 1-70 from car traffic and only let the pack go through. I am sure this was to keep the pack out of traffic but non the less it was pretty awesome. If you rode half way normal cops didn't bother you one bit. Uploading pics now.

Chris

[-=TWITCH=-]

Lots of pics!

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[desmo2]

Originally Posted by -=TWITCH=-

Just got home it was EPIC!!! All of the Cops where actually very cool. They actually blocked a part of 1-70 from car traffic and only let the pack go through. I am sure this was to keep the pack out of traffic but non the less it was pretty awesome. If you rode half way normal cops didn't bother you one bit. Uploading pics now.

Odd. Your report doesn't match this report:

ST. LOUIS • Drivers have reported huge packs of motorcycles swarming the highways around St. Louis, with the bikers pulling stunts, making hand gestures and forcing cars off the roadway.
There has been no official word yet from the state highway patrol or other public safety officials.
The reports started coming in around 2 p.m. from various spots on I-270 and I-70, most recently in the north St. Louis county area. Some claimed to see as many as 800 to 1,000 motorcycles in a pack.
There has been at least one major accident, which resulted in serious injuries and forced the closure of I-270 near New Halls Ferry Road. The injured were flown to an area hospital, according to the state highway patrol. No further details are known at this time.
Brian Johnson of St. Louis said he was heading on I-170 north to Lambert International Airport with his wife when he saw the pack of motorcycles on the other side of the highway.
"There was a good half mile stretch where it was 20 bikes wide the whole highway," he said. "It was hundreds after hundreds after hundreds of bikes."
Johnson said the bikers were not your typical Harley Davidson types; most were wearing racing suits and riding speed bikes like you would see in stunt shows.
He said the first group of bikers were pumping their fists; the second group created a ringlike formation and had bikers riding down the middle doing wheelies.
Johnson said cars were forced over to the shoulder of the road and trying to get off. There were also traffic tie-ups on his side of the highway as drivers slowed to gawk at the spectacle.
"When they were out around the other cars it was dangerous," he said. "When they took over the entire highway it was like being in a motorcycle show."

Read more: Packs of motorcycles swarming St. Louis area highways

I added the bold type to several key points. This "Ride of the Century" is garnishing HUGE negative publicity for sport bike riders, and on a national level. How is this a good thing?!? It isn't just a "good time" when cars are being "forced off the road" and serious injury accidents are occurring, with injuries serious enough to require the victims to be flown via helicopter. This crap is stupid, dangerous, and just plain criminal. In my view, you can't just participate as a 'spectator'. If you are in the pack, you are guilty as a pack. That may seem broad, but much of the anarchist behavior that is demonstrated at this event every year is the product of a pack mentality. I have heard and read stories of vehicular traffic having their doors kicked and mirrors broken off as the pack envelopes them. Why?!? Is that 'fun'? That behavior likely wouldn't occur if there were only a few bikes riding together, but get hundreds together and you can get away with it! After all, how are they going to catch you or pick you out amongst that mob!?! Sure, there are probably hundreds of people just along for the ride, but those hundreds are providing the "safety in numbers" camouflage that those who get off on assaulting the general public need to get their sick kicks in relative safety.

There is NOTHING good that can come from this.

[mike93hatch]

i know there was one rider who got hit by a truck..

[shapeless]

It's junk like this that gives motorcyclists a bad name.

[Ammo]

+1

[earz]

+1

I learned lOng ago that anything more than three people is too many.

[ryoung57]

Looks like ROC made the WERA BBS. It isn't pretty:


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