So...do you, or have you, ever ridden like an a-hole? [View all]

"Roving thug biker GANGS" are obviously a hot topic right now; this seems like something worth discussing. My "gang" of a couple of my friends from NYC, my good buddy from college who lives up around Albany, a few of his friends and I all lean towards the sporting end of the spectrum - we all ride at least moderately fast machines (I have a lightly tuned SV650, couple of us have 600cc rockets. No liters though) and get together for a group trackday a few times every summer. We don't and would never race through traffic, or block roads, or stunt really (I respect it as a growing segment of the sport but not for me), let alone gang up on a car and beat the driver. None of us have a single ticket in four years as a group.

But, I'll confess, on intimately familiar backroads with very good, long, visibility and clean runouts, the slightest thought of coming in hot, grabbing the brakes hard, and touching a knee at the apex might sometimes begin to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. I'm willing to be a "dickhead" or even "thug" (I've gotten some choice abuse for venturing out in my track leathers) and risk my own bike and skin and as long as there's nobody else involved, frankly I don't see the big deal.

You?