Black Bikers Experience

  

  

  

If you don’t know now you will. Airtran Airways is a no go!!! I was in Dallas, TX for training about a week. Friday my flight was leaving at 7:35pm. I checked in and went thru security, no problem…
  

  

The problem started once I arrived at the gate. They instructed us to move down to another gate because our flight will leave from this gate. Moved to the new gate and then they said the flight will be delayed an hour. That was fine about 15 minutes later they said the flight was canceled due to bad weather conditions in Atlanta.

  

Confused yes because I spoke with my friend and he said it was raining and lightening but blowing over within the hour. I called my companies travel agency and booked the next flight out for me and my co-worker which was 7:30am Saturday.

  

Told to go to the counter to change ticket for tomorrow’s flight. Well this is when it gets good. The guy and girl at the desk first told me we had to pay $300 plus to secure the flight. They told others there were no flights til Sunday.

  

Called travel agency again and went to the counter with the phone and now they told us that we would need to pay the difference combined of over $300 plus because it would be more to leave on Saturday. What the hell…

  

They canceled the flight and me the customer had to pay more to go home? I didn’t make this decision, they did. Never new Airtran new how to play “Three Card Monty“. The said if our companies travel agency canceled the flight they had canceled, they’d apply that money toward our tickets and then we’d owe the addition money. Catch this, we were told there were no seats available on the flight leaving out Saturday morning but if we paid the $300 plus maybe, just maybe we’d have a seat. How do you go from not having seats to having seats if you pay the money. Airtran got game!
  

They had a flight that left at 5:10pm going to Atlanta and another one of our co-workers was on that flight. We thought he was home by now; not so fast. As we were walking to get our luggage and take a taxi back to the hotel; we passed the gate they moved us from. What an amazing thing we saw. The flight that left at 5:10pm didn’t. The people from that flight was at the gate we were moved from and they were leaving on our flight to Atlanta.
  

What happened to the bad weather being the reason to cancel our flight. Airtran was so horrible that they didn’t try to accommodate this family who the mother was going to her father’s funeral. The manager at the gate told her he couldn’t help her. He could have made arrangements to get her on our original flight…since it did leave for Atlanta without us.

  

I said I was going to give Airtran Airways a shout out but not in a good way. Bad, sorry, horrible customer service and liars at that. I almost forgot when I did get back to Atlanta there was a female employee of Airtran that was checking luggage to make sure baggage claim check was the same as the one on your ticket. She asked me to fly Airtran again. I told her the story…the short version. It was like this, Hell no never again!

  

She said that the pilots make the decisions on canceling flights and they get away with it because they are Union…I don’t blame Frontier Airlines from dissolving their partnership with Airtran; they suck!

  

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LOOK TWICE, SAVE A LIFE! MOTORCYCLISTS HAVE RIGHTS TOO

  

It has taken me a moment to digest what has been happening on the road to riders who live in Georgia. With no exaggeration there has been since riding season started the middle of March seventeen bikers hurt and out of the seventeen at least 5 to 6 have died.

  

Now I thought about it and said this is not the time to blame anyone for how we’re riding reckless out here and who may have been the mentor of these aggressive riders that promote this bad and unsafe behavior. Riders help Riders stay alive. We have a responsibility to each other to do whatever we have to do to keep someone alive another day.

  

I’m sorry to say 99% has been male and all sportbikes. So what’s up? I am a victim of riding and allowing myself to let others push me beyond my limit and make a decision to get back on a bike that was unsafe and I could have died. That shit won’t happen again. We don’t want to be left behind or called soft cause we won’t do the stunts and tricks others are doing.

  

I know we tend to get this intrepid mindset once we’ve had a few drinks or what else you use that is considered a mind or mood altering substance, to blast, do donuts, wheelies, fly between vehicles on the road…you know what I’m talking about. If this is what happens to you and you don’t know your limit then damn it you don’t need to ride when you are drinking. We can’t be afraid to flatten tires, take keys, knock their ass out or whatever it takes to keep them alive another day.

  

This behavior is the most selfish thing you can do to your friends and family because you probably don’t have insurance, 401K, savings or something stashed for a rainy day. Then here we go with all these fundraisers every damn week, why because most of the times it’s for a person’s selfish behavior why money needs to be raised to help offset the funeral cost. We get these texts saying fundraiser at this clubhouse or that clubhouse and they’re challenging each other with how much a person should donate. Well I’m putting a challenge out to these clubhouses; donate all the proceeds from your bar to the fallen rider. How about that!

  

I love everybody man and it’s high time for black motorcycle clubs and black riders to become accountable for this insidious behavior; the safety of their riders on the road. I was blown away this weekend we had seven riders down and 3 deaths from the seven. This shit ain’t funny and it’s getting real old too soon.

  

This is a suggestion that I brought up to another female rider about the Georgia Motorcycle Council deciding what the consequence should be to the club and the rider for acting a damn fool on two’s. Since most of us are willing to change rather quickly when it hits us in our pockets; then fines are what I am proposing for their asses! If it appears to be consistent with a particular club, then black ball them or refuse to let them fly their colors until they have taken a motorcycle safety course and have documentation that they’ve completed it successfully. We have to stay aware of motorists that are aggressive, on cell phones, texting or not knowing how to respond to us on the road. That’s enough in itself, wouldn’t you agree.

  

You have to implement drastic measures for drastic times…it’s that time. The dialog must start with finding the solution to keep riders alive this season and the seasons too come. We forget our bikes have been up from say December to March and we need to acclimate ourselves to the level we were in the previous season. Some ride all year and they don’t get rusty but some of us do. Ride your ride and don’t give a damn about what someone may think about you not wanting to lose your life.

  

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I felt it was time to include sport bikes due to having friends who ride them. So I thought I’d include them into the mix. Well this kid is awesome. Jason Britton is part of Generation “X” and this is his story.

Jason Britton grew up in Huntington Beach, California. He started riding motorcycles at the age of two. While most babies were throwing tantrums on the floor, Britton was already on a bike (without training wheels). By the age of ten Jason was BMX racing. By twelve, he was popping wheelies and racing motor-cross. Now by thirteen he achieved expert status in the 80 cc class. With those accomplishments he moved onto street bikes, where else could he go.

Britton has taken his riding talent and skills in extreme sports to a new art form. He takes on challenging Hollywood roles in films such as “Torque” (doubling for Ice Cube) and stunt work in “Biker Boys,” and “Waist Deep.”

Jason is the currently hosting “SuperBikes” and is the Executive Editor of 2Wheel Tuner Magazine. Even with all his success, Jason still keeps it real. Now a seasoned rider/entertainer, he still finds the time to collect bikes and make extreme videos. His “No Limit” riding style can be seen on many extreme videos such as “Urban Assault”, “All Twisted and Pucked-Up”, “Urban Assault II” , “Get On Up”, Get On Up II”, “Revolution Twenty 04,” “Revolution Twenty 05,” “Get On Up III” and newly released “Get On Up 4”.
With all of this under his belt you can still find him road racing in competitions both locally and nationally.

If you happen to attend the latest stunt show or local bike night in Cali, you may just get a glimpse of him in action.

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Sean McCleery has been so very kind to me in sending me everyday videos from OnTheThrottleTV and I promised him that I would share the ones that I felt would work for the blog. This was a video that I thought you, my viewers would be interested in. As bikers we all need to show some love for our Soldiers who come back to us injured.

Steve Levow has created a racing charity that is an advocate for injured military personnel. His program assists their rehab by getting them out to the track to enjoy the sights and sounds of motorcycle road racing. We caught up with Steve at New Jersey Motorsports Park after a great weekend entertaining a group of soldiers on the mend from Washington DC area medical facilities.

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