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The beltway doesn't have drivers equivalent to [b]what these bikes are doing 24/7/365[/b].  I spend many hours on the beltway. You're exaggerating to prove a point but most of the time it's too jam packed for a car to do anything close to what these bikes are doing.

Cool story though.[/quote]

Really? They're there all the time? I've driven on the Beltway and 270 many many times, and I've encountered a reckless group of motorcycle drivers once. Well, maybe twice, if you count a group on their way to Rolling Thunder.[/quote]

Yeah, really. There is too much traffic for cars to be weaving in and out, driving between other cars (not in a lane), and going more than 80.   Not to mention these bike ride in packs. You haven't seen a pack of 20+ cars driving recklessly at top speeds in traffic. You just haven't. Its physically impossible with the amount of traffic on the beltway at any hour.[/quote]

There doesn't need to be a pack of 20+ cars to equal the danger of a group of reckless motorcycle drivers. The difference is that dangerous individual car drivers on the Beltway are normal, so you don't notice them. Car crashes, including deadly crashes, on the Beltway are normal, so you don't notice them. Groups of reckless motorcycle drivers are not normal - and probably you don't yourself drive a motorcycle - so you do notice them.[/quote]

The traffic is too bad on the beltway for this.

Seeing dirt bikes riding on sidewalks and through pedestrians in addition to riding on one wheel in traffic is common in DC. You don't see a group of 200 bikes like this incident every day but you do see smaller groups. Last week. I saw a group of 4 dirt bike riders at the height of morning Rush hour riding up on one wheel, weaving in between cars and pedestrians without the first helmet on right near Union Station. They could've easily taken out someone on their morning walk to work.  And the one rider that we got a good look at was either a girl or prepubescent boy. [/quote]

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