05/18/2026
Don’t be that guy!!!
Motorcycle season is here, and that means you’ll start seeing more riders and larger groups on the road. What many people don’t realize is that these rides are often for something much bigger than just “a bunch of bikers riding together.”
They’re charity rides. Memorial rides. Benefit runs. Support rides for sick children, grieving families, veterans, cancer patients, injured riders, and people who need help. They ride to raise money, show support, and stand beside people during some of the hardest moments of their lives.
And before anyone screams “that’s illegal” about riders blocking intersections, understand this:
Many of these organized rides spend months coordinating with local law enforcement and city officials to help keep riders and the public safe. In many cases, police departments are fully aware of the route, assisting with traffic control, or even escorting the ride themselves.
Why?
Because keeping hundreds of motorcycles together is far safer than allowing impatient drivers to split the group apart in moving traffic.
So please… be patient.
When you see a biker stopping traffic at an intersection, they are not trying to inconvenience you or ruin your day. They are trying to keep the group safe and together. One impatient decision from a driver can change lives forever.
I watched it happen.
A truck decided they didn’t want to wait. Instead of stopping, they went around the rider who was blocking traffic for the group. They came within inches of hitting a motorcycle. Inches from destroying a family. Inches from someone not making it home that day.
All because someone thought their few seconds mattered more than another human life.
Please understand this:
A motorcycle offers no protection against a vehicle. No steel frame. No airbags. No second chances.
So when riders are protecting an intersection, don’t blow through it.
When you see motorcycles, slow down.
Look twice.
Pay attention.
Give grace.
Because the person on that bike is loved by somebody.
These riders are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, and best friends. They are real people with families waiting for them to come home.
And one careless moment from someone in a hurry can turn an ordinary ride into a funeral procession.
Your hurry is not worth someone else’s life.
