Originally Posted by bdcheung (Post 9759112)

Red herring.

Originally Posted by Sonoma76 (Post 9758196)

There's a difference between cycling legally on a road and taking up the entire roadway and illegally racing on it for a couple of hours.

Originally Posted by calamarichris (Post 9758642)

There are irresponsible cyclists (moto & pedal) all over. You can't point to the actions of a few and judge an entire group.
I sure don't like it when I see one of ours blitzing red lights or taking-a-lane of a 50+ mph two-lane road (willfully inconveniencing and sometimes endangering anyone stuck behind them), just as much as I mislike seeing your (lame) video.
What were these motorcyclists doing wrong, exactly? They were annoyingly loud, and it is indeed against the law to change the exhaust pipe on their motorcycles.
Speeding? How fast were they going?
What was the speed limit on that road? (They white-sign speed limit, not the yellow-sign advisory limit.)

Pedal-partisans may claim it's perfectly legal for them to ride two-abreast or take-a-lane, even as traffic backs up behind them. But this is just as irresponsible & dangerous, and only sows hostility & hatred like the OP seems to have for these 'super bikers'. Did you know that the yellow speed limit signs (they usually say 25 or 35) around many corners are advisory speed limits, and are not binding or citable? Even if the yellow sign says 25, if it's a public highway, the actual speed limit is 55, or whatever the most recent white sign decreed.

There are responsible, reasonable cyclists (pedal & motor) out there too. We have a lot more in common with those people than you might think.

Originally Posted by plodderslusk (Post 9758363)

I have never encountered bike riders in a group like that in Norway. Really scary! The bikers here have a regular café stop on a road used by a lot of bicyclists on the weekends. There might be hundreds of bikers at the stop sometimes. I have never seen anything but polite and friendly driving from them around us cyclists. The US are usually 10-15 years ahead of us, hope this trend never comes here.

Originally Posted by silversx80 (Post 9759210)

Not quite. Being able to compare similar experiences will allow one to make a safe extrapolation. Not being able to do so will lead to speculation from misunderstanding.

That said, you implying that I assume too much, or make an invalid point, cannot be based on anything other than speculation unless you share a similar experience.

I do not need to be one of the riders to understand what is going on in their head.