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Originally Posted by isaac
In the eyes of the law, the world stunt champion pulling a wheelie on the street is just as bad as a 15 year old kid who stole a GSXR1000 and has never ridden before, pulling a wheelie on the street. There's obviously a vast difference in actual safety there, whereas the perception of safety is identical, and that perception is what the police act upon, irrespective of the facts of the situation. That's what's stupid about our society.
I'm glad I was here to clarify.
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But that's the whole point to begin with with making these laws.
We can't tell whether the person pulling a wheelie is a beginner on a gsxr1k or a professional stunter. What we can assume, though, is that there are a whole lot more people that don't know how to bring the front back down safely every single time than who do.
This isn't what is stupid about society. Just because maybe ten percent of the people that do this on public streets are able to do it safely, does not mean it's ok to do. (and I know that I'm going to get a lot of flack for that sentence, and people will use straw man fallacies/etc to get their point across)
The "problem with society" (if I can reeeeeally stretch) is today's entirely consumerist and materialistic debt based society. People just have to buy newer faster bikes every year (not you, of course. I love your bike), and a "bigger is better" mentality has really permeated today's market. This leads to many untrained and uneducated people on bikes that are twice as fast as bikes a few decades ago (which were still seen as "too fast for beginners"). This leads to more stupid squids poorly performing wheelies, and causing a great danger to themselves and others, requiring the steps to catch and prosecute these people in order to stop them.
If everyone did wheelies just fine, then it would, honest to god, not be a problem at all with the law. A fair analogy would be having the arms that come down at railroad crossings. Why stop me before the train crosses? I can cross it safely and effectively without putting myself or others in danger! The problem is that not everyone can do it, and some people have been killed because of it.