Motorcyclists are INDEED second class citizens

[GregR6]

To CNN:

In the attached link, CNN has depicted a photograph of a professional world level motorcycle road racer. (Max Biaggi) Is this a copyrighted photo by CNN? If not, does he know you are using his photo to illustrate an accident caused by an illegal stunt in a parade in Connecticut that injured 3 children? As a road racer myself, the ignorance shown by CNN to associate a person performing an illegal stunt with a profesional racer widely portrays a negative perception of responsible racers and motorcyclists as a whole.  I am requesting that you retrieve a photo of the actual accident. If one is not available, please take the current photo off of this article. It does a disservice to Mr. Biaggi as well as all motorcycle road racers, and moreso questions the legitimacy of your reporting.

Had to send one to Max...

Max! As a road racer competing in Championship Cup Series in the US, we have discovered a CNN article that depicts you in association with an article reporting an accident by a stunter injuring 3 children. Many of us have written CNN requesting they remove this picture. Until that time, I am sending you a link of the article.
http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0001/20040516/1958286373.htm&photoid=20040428XPW105

We hope this can be resolved quickly, as we are all disgusted not only from the incident itself, but their apparent ignorance of the motorcycle community as a whole. Thanks Max. Best of luck to you this year.
Regards,
Greg Ludt
Havelock, NC
CCS #50

edit/Well, before anyone else makes an idiot out of themselves, simply write questioning WHY they associated the two. The copyright issue is moot, as if you click on the picture it DOES give an appropriate caption... oops...  :-[


still BS tho >:(

[Nate R]

d**n, where do you do wheelies.  They said 100 dollar fine for each one at Gateway last weekend. If you can't do them at the track, then where?

XSBA.

[GregR6]

XSBA.

are you serious?! LOLOL Where do you think these guys started/practice? If you say these riders don't do/did stunts on the street....
hahaha

[Lowe119]

I e-mailed CNN also, but wasn't as polite  >:( ;) :-X

[MZGirl]

are you serious?! LOLOL Where do you think these guys started/practice? If you say these riders don't do/did stunts on the street....
hahaha

Don't know how much XSBA is going to take off.  The street is a "free" playground (no gate or entry fees) for a lot of these riders.  Plus, the street has a captive audience, which is what they want.

[Jeff]

Even the street can be a semi-acceptable place.  I have seen many stunters practice in basically abandon areas with no people/cars/obstacles.  Still illegal, but sure beats down-town main st in my opinion.

[Lowe119]

They need to make a stunt night at these rural airports. If I owned one, I'd do it.  8)

[Speedballer347]

I'm embarrassed that those guys represent motorcyclists to the general population.  The stunting trend is bad in a lot of ways IMHO...   :-/

It was NOT a stunt team, nor even a stunt rider responsible for this.

It was a bunch of local inner city MC clubs in the parade, and their idiot squids were acting up...and eventually caused this disaster.  It was an accident waiting to happen IMHO.
Not stunt(er) related.

"Witnesses said he was riding with the Flaming Knights motorcycle club.

Scores of bikers from several different clubs participated in the parade. Throughout the route, young people on all-terrain vehicles and dirt bikes sped up and down Dixwell Avenue.

Before the crash, a few motorcyclists were scolded by police for spinning tires or doing wheelies along the route."

[tshort]

Second class??  That disrespects the bikers out there that don't pull this stuff.  How about NO class? :-[

[Jeff]

Second class??  That disrespects the bikers out there that don't pull this stuff.  How about NO class? :-[

Doh!  Pulled out the trump card and smacked me with it...  :'(  :-*

[Super Dave]

are you serious?! LOLOL Where do you think these guys started/practice? If you say these riders don't do/did stunts on the street....
hahaha

Well, the same goes for road racers...

I started in a time before track days ever existed.  I rode on the street, but recognized really quickly that I couldn't do anything on the street that honestly did anything for me on a track...so, I got an old dirt bike.  

Why isn't that an option for Stunta's?

Just because they don't have a place to "practice" their "sport", I'm still not going to enable them to have opportunities around my family on streets that my taxes pay for.  

It's easy to go someplace, anyplace, and ask to do something.  Airport, dragstrip, etc.

[the_weggie_man]

Are you kidding?  Glen Curtiss can't get airports, stadiums or even race tracks  to let him go motarding much less stunting........ And the XSBA thing is a joke. They let them come out to the track 5 times a year to stunt but they'll "practice" on the street all year. And that's only the few guys that do XSBA.

Not all, but most of the others are just idiots who don't give a damn about anyone else. Stunting during a parade with the streets lined with families is as stupid as it gets!  These people won't let me say what I really think.