The All Rise Against Racism Bike Ride for Peace starts this Sunday at 2 p.m. at Dorchester Avenue and Park Street in Fields Corner, will then proceed around 3:30 p.m. to Adams and Chelmsford streets, where the screaming happened.
The black woman who got screamed at by that white guy is organizing the ride, says:
Our action optic will demonstrate that I and others, as citizens of Boston, have every right to live, walk, ride and stand in every neighborhood in this City.
The City of Boston has many races, which makes us a diverse and a multi cultural community. We can live as one. Anyone who is a part of this community should be able live and ride no matter our skin color, ethnicity or what bike we ride (smile).
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That guy's racist rant was
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 6:29am
That guy's racist rant was awful, but motorcyclist revving up their screaming engines up and down Dot Ave may not be the best way to get most people's sympathy, so I hope it doesn't turn into that kind of a "peace" rally.
OMG MOTORCYCLES
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 9:19am
OMG MOTORCYCLES
OMG MOTORCYCLES
OMG MOTORCYCLES
OMG MOTORCYCLES
OMG MOTORCYCLES
OMG MOTORCYCLES
OMG MOTORCYCLES
OMG MOTORCYCLES
OMG MOTORCYCLES
OMG MOTORCYCLES
OMG MOTORCYCLES
You sound like one of those "lurid" 1950s pulp novels looks.
Nothing says "peace" like
By Kinopio
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 9:26am
Nothing says "peace" like excessive noise and air pollution.
Motorcycles are fuel efficient
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:17am
Way more than cars. Right up there with using transit.
Nope
By Sock_Puppet
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 2:15pm
Fuel efficiency of motorcycles is comparable to that of hybrid cars - slightly better than gas-only cars.
Public transit is a different ballpark.
Way to disagree...
By Andrew
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 3:08pm
... by proving the poster’s point. Good job?
My Victory Kingpin gets 45
By Brent Jeffries
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:00pm
My Victory Kingpin gets 45 mpg and that's a big cruiser. Many bikes get quite a bit better mileage than than.
Congratulations
By Sock_Puppet
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:11pm
Your bike is as efficient as a Honda Civic.
Now, is it legal or did you monkey with the pipes like Andrew did?
Small engine Honda bike
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:29pm
Also own a Honda Civic.
My Civic has never gotten 42 in city driving. Not even close. 25 is good, 20 is usual.
Unless you have a huge engine, any motorbike will do way better than that, even in the city. Like 70mpg.
I'm eyeing a BMW G310R - 60 mpg city.
Actually it's about 12 mpg
By Brent Jeffries
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:57pm
Actually it's about 12 mpg better than what people get in reality.
http://www.fuelly.com/car/honda/civic
And yeah, it's legal. Not all motorcycle riders make their bikes loud. That's an absurd generalization.
My “loud” (and legal!) pipes...
By Andrew
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 5:07pm
... combined with an aftermarket air cleaner get my Sportster up to 110 miles on the highway. Yes, I’m bragging.
Nice! I'm jealous of the BMW
By Brent Jeffries
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 5:54pm
Nice! I'm jealous of the BMW riders who get 60. 110 is crazy!
Easy upgrade with a Victory...
By Andrew
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 6:27pm
... and not TOO expensive, either - the savings on gas make it worth the investment after less than a year.
Happy riding! The Kingpin looks like it’s a blast.
Clarification:
By Andrew
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 6:35pm
110 Highway miles with a full two gallon tank. Hoping my new 4 gal. is done being painted before winter hits.
So you're saying you get 55 MPG
By perruptor
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 6:39pm
Not 110 MPG. Not really that great.
55 MPG sounds pretty great to
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 6:54pm
55 MPG sounds pretty great to me. 110 def sounds better tho. What does your bike get?
I mean...
By Andrew
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 7:27pm
... it’s a Harley, I’m lucky it runs.
Thanks for the math lesson, man. How many gallons do you get on your Huffy and/or hybrid?
What kind of mileage does
By dotratfromwayback
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 7:31pm
What kind of mileage does your bike get?
54 Miles Per Gallon
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:10pm
My Motobecane road bike gets 54 MPG
A pint of good craft brew has as much as 350 calories in it. (usually less, but the math works this way)
I burn about 700 calories an hour if I'm cycling 13-14 mph.
So, that's a quart per 13.5 miles x 4 = 54 miles per gallon
Relevance?
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 11:20pm
To the discussion at hand regarding actual motorcycles?
Thanks.
Answered the question
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:17pm
"What kind of mileage does your bike get?" was the question.
Maybe you should leave the pub, son - the grownups are having a laugh.
You should switch to drinking
By Mendacity
Thu, 08/16/2018 - 12:13pm
You should switch to drinking beef tallow. At 34,604 calories per gallon, you'd get 692 miles per gallon that way.
That's some serious
By Sock_Puppet
Sun, 08/19/2018 - 1:33pm
candlepower
Fuel efficiency is not the same as low emissions
By perruptor
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 6:37pm
It's interesting that you answer a comment about pollution with a remark about gas mileage.
I agree with you
By Waquiot
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:28am
And we all know it's bad when the two of us are in agreement.
I mean, the basic point that she shouldn't be screamed at by racist assholes is a valid one, but the cause of unity and peace will not be achieved by hundreds of motorcycle engines idling at this street corner. In fact, it might work the opposite way.
Hopefully the organizers will see criticism like this an find a better way.
You tell 'em
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 12:34pm
I'm sure that those people have no idea how to properly protest being treated like shit by white people. You go ahead and be patronizing so they will know how to be Good Protesting Brown People.
Because the Irish were black too, but then they got themselves respectable by staying on their knees and not being bad black irish people, amirite?
Um, okay
By Waquiot
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:16pm
Do you want more people like Sheehan or less people like Sheehan? Because if you want more people like Sheehan, the best thing to do is to send 200 motorcycles to that corner.
And if 200 Irish motorcyclists show up in front of my house on Sunday afternoon (I do not live anywhere near this, BTW,) I will probably react in a manner that will make Mr. Sheehan look tame. Sometimes it's about race, and sometimes it's about not wanting to hear unmuffled motorcycles. But you know the difference, amirite?
Here's a concept
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:20pm
This isn't your neighborhood.
This is a legal activity.
Mind your own business.
Just like Sheehan should have minded his business rather than harass a legally operating motorcyclist on a legal motorcycle on a public street who was just trying to figure out WTF the deal was with a detour.
Please
By lbb
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:25pm
Fewer. It's "fewer people like Sheehan".
So loud motorcycle noises turn people into foaming-at-the-mouth racists? Tell me again how this works.
Well...
By mplo
Sat, 08/25/2018 - 8:11pm
I don't think that loud motorcycle noises that're continuously going on for a long time will necessarily turn people into foaming-at-the-mouth racists, but it could, and more than likely would piss them off, just the same.
Translation
By Scratchie
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:45pm
Translation:
Don't be mean to the racists or they'll racist even more.
Not quite
By Waquiot
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 7:42pm
Punishing a community due to one person being a racist asshole by creating a bunch of noise pollution might anger the community. Since the community’s anger will be seen by some (read, you) as race based, they might conclude that black people just hate them. Allowing things to rise to that level, they might be more inclined to see Sheehan’s point of view. You’d be surprised to find out that people’s worldview gets affected by events around them. As a close example, the victim in this case now has a negative view of the people in this area due to a bad experience. If this goes down as a bike rally at this corner, we will end up with bitter people on all sides.
Or conversely, she and the others will try to make this a positive experience. I hope for that, but much like other commenters here, I got a thing against loud motorcycles and those that ride them.
One Question
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 8:32pm
What is all this about "punishing a community"? Why are you automatically assuming that these will be loud motorcycles?
These are legally permitted vehicles and their owners will be engaging in a legally permitted activity at a very reasonable time of day. Your jump to conclusions from LEGAL ACTIVITY to OMG MOTORCYCLES ARE PUNISHING PEOPLE!!!!!!!!! is patently ridiculous.
Seems like a leap of, oh, unexamined prejudging or something ...
Reread the end of my comment
By Waquiot
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 9:14pm
I’ve got a prejudice against motorcyclists. I mean some are good, like the guy who idled outside of my house late one Thursday night, but left when I asked him to turn the engine off because I was trying to sleep. He left soon thereafter, and trust me, it was a civil conversation (which happens sometimes.). Still, when I think about motorcycles, the first thing that comes into my mind is “noise.”
That's your problem
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 9:34pm
Much of my family rides, including my husband.Some of my cycling friends also ride motorized. Noise is not a problem with any of them.
Maybe you just need to be more observant and count the motorcycles that aren't loud while running a decibel app on your phone for objective input.
That’s why it’s called a prejudice
By Waquiot
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 9:59pm
It’s just that my biases are confirmed a lot.
You aren’t wrong....
By Lmo
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:34am
Many comments on the original video were bike enthusiasts suggesting ppl go to disrupt the neighborhood by having a rally there. This event seems to be more positive. Hopefully it goes smoothly.
And that's been my point
By Waquiot
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:50am
Now, if this ends up being a positive event, all the better. Heck, the kids in the neighborhood might want to see the bikes. But a rolling rally of motorcycles won't help anything.
As usual. Agreed!!
By Lmo
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 5:55pm
As usual. Agreed!!
Motorcycles can be pretty loud.
By mplo
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 4:52pm
Not that long ago, while driving west on the Mass. Turnpike (Route I-90) to Tanglewood, out in Lenox, MA for a concert, a fleet of about 8 Hell's Angels (remember them, and who they were/are?) passed me on my left. Their motorcycles were rather loud, and they were clearly accelerating to make them even louder. It was rather weird.
Duplicate
By SwirlyGrrl
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:08pm
crank down the replicator gnomes!
My disagreement with you not withstanding
By Waquiot
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 11:01pm
I agree that when the dupe comment happens, it's annoying to the poster more than to anyone else. But it happens to all of us at least once.
So, you've got a prejudice against motorcycles
By lbb
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 8:08am
You're not "the community", Waquoit, and you aren't being punished. Most people will simply shrug and go on with their lives. You have a prejudice against motorcycles, so you've got a big hair across your ass over this. It seems like a self-aware person would work real hard on getting over that, but that's your choice. You DO need to get a little perspective and acknowledge that you're not being targeted somehow, that we all put up with inconvenience and annoyance, and that the annoyance of a one-time motorcycle ride is in no way comparable to the annoyance of having a screaming racist in your face.
(btw, if you want people to be more understanding of your animus here, maybe you could tell us more about what you're doing to bring an end to screaming racism)
Have you polled the neighborhood?
By Daan
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 8:49am
You do not know if most people will just get on with their lives unless you've asked the people who spend however much time unable to do anything due to the noise of 200 people.
Please
By lbb
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 9:16am
Neither do you. I've lived in noisy places. Where I live now, there are motorcycle rides of hundreds of bikes that go by a few times a year. Annoying AF when it happens, but it's a few times a year. This isn't even that.
If they are literally "unable to do anything due to the noise of 200 people", why are they living in Boston - or anywhere but a desert island?
I don't think objections to noise are always unwarranted, but there seems to be a completely irrational level of screechiness (particularly on the behalf of other people who are not themselves objecting) over a one-time event whose numbers and noise are TBD.
How ridiculous
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 9:20am
Neighborhoods don't get to decide whether or not legal vehicles get to use public roads.
Grow up and get some earplugs or move to Vermont ... except you would bitch about "illegal tractor noise" when your neighbor built a driveway just to bitch.
Allow me to spin this
By Waquiot
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 8:53am
It's the "Quiet Intolerant" that I dislike.
Also, I never said I was going to be impacted. I just noted that Sheehan's neighbors, who seem to view him as a racist asshole, might not appreciate the Quiet Intolerant crowd descending on their block.
No matter how many times you try...
By lbb
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 9:18am
Waquoit, no matter how many times you try, you will not succeed in hijacking others' purpose and rebranding an antiracism rally as a rally for "Quiet Intolerance". You know that's not what it's about, and your insistence in making it so is a real jerk move.
Go pound sand
By Waquiot
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:46am
Or better yet, post your address so I can make a ton of noise in front of it.
Now if you don't mind, I'm going to make a nice comment to someone who decided to be positive, as opposed to you.
I can't think about my privilege
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:48am
I'm too busy making noise about noise that may not be made to even think about thinking about the racism that this is actually about and how people like me enable that racism.
So you'd rather have racism
By dotratfromwayback
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 6:59pm
So you'd rather have racism than the internal combustion engine? Got it.
oops!
By dotratfromwayback
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 7:03pm
duplicate...oops
what is it with
By berkleealum
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:09am
white people and "oh i totally support the cause, but their protesting mildly inconveniences me so they should consider something else"?
What is it with
By FootPad
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 10:21am
any color people thinking that flash mobs of any sort are the answer to any of our problems?
Here's a different approach
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They should consider something other than creating a noisy mob of motorcycles.
What is it
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 11:31am
With racist gits who do not share the trials of people of color deciding YOU have to do it THIS WAY WAAHHHHHHHHHHH
What is it
By ScottB
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 1:13pm
With people who don't understand that one can support a cause and yet simultaneously not support the way others express their support for that same cause? One can oppose the policies of the current president and yet also think that screaming "F--- Trump!" at the top of one's lungs is inappropriate.
Not liking noise on a weekend day != not liking people of color.
yes, you're right
By berkleealum
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 1:51pm
protest, but be sure not to offend anyone has always been the most effective vehicle for change
yes, you're right
By ScottB
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 1:58pm
Offending the people who otherwise support your aims has always been the most effective vehicle for change
Do tell
By lbb
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 3:32pm
Do tell us, please, exactly how you had planned to support their aims until you were derailed by the insurmountable obstacle of a motorcycle demonstration.
Alternatively, cut the bullshit and stop pretending you were ever going to support this in any way, and that you're not enjoying having an excuse to be smug and sanctimonious about not doing a damn thing.
Legal activity
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 1:58pm
Motorcycles are legal. Deal with it.
Few people complain
By Sock_Puppet
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 4:15pm
About the legal motorcycles.
It’s the ones where some idiot illegally monkeyed with the pipes to make them louder that people complain about.
How do you know they are
By dotratfromwayback
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 7:05pm
How do you know they are illegal? Did you check the decibel level of said pipes?
Disturbing the peace is illegal.
By Daan
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 8:50am
Deal with it.
Remind me
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 9:10am
Next time someone pulls out a leaf blower.
Threatening motorcyclists with stink bombs
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 10:01am
IS ILLEGAL.
Riding a motorcycle IS NOT ILLEGAL.
Other people have rights, too. Your pathological tantrums over needing quiet require a psychiatrist, not violent infringement of the RIGHTS of OTHER PEOPLE to do LEGAL THINGS.
Got that nutjob? Go get psychological help - you have no RIGHT to BULLY people (including your neighbors and family) over your stupid psychological illness.
Psychotic attacks on people doing legal things
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 10:38am
Is illegal.
I'm sure you will find your cell at the county lockup to be quiet enough for your need to bully people, though
ah yes
By berkleealum
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 11:43am
i had forgotten the TedX Talk chapter in Thoreau's book
This comment...
By anon
Tue, 08/14/2018 - 12:26pm
and several others in this thread (along with any UHub story which even remotely touches on race) are disgraceful and an embarrassment. At least they serve as a reminder of how shockingly racist this city has always been and continues to be.
I'm sure you're right in that a motorcycle rally won't gain any new sympathy - if they didn't already have it after seeing that video, nothing will change their minds (the fake "I think it was awful BUT..." kind of sympathy you're displaying isn't worth the pixels it's printed on anyway). Gaining sympathy and getting people to feel sorry for her isn't the point, as quite literally stated in the organizer's statement. But I'm sure you already knew that :)
I agree wholeheartedly!
By mplo
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 11:34am
How stupid can people get? The only thing that a protest like this would prove is that a bunch of motorcyclists revving up their already-loud engines up and down the neighborhood are just as stupid, if not stupider, than the guy screaming racist rants for the whole neighborhood to hear.
Wild Assumptions
By anon
Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:10pm
"How stupid can people get?" - you've got a good start on a demonstration of that
"a bunch of motorcyclists revving up their already-loud engines" - histrionic assumption, no evidence of this. Actually, these are street legal and licensed, so plenty of evidence to the contrary
"up and down the neighborhood" - again, no evidence
Worse than "guy screaming racist rants" - that's nice. When you are black and on the receiving end of such a rant, do tell us which is worse: a street legal bike or being violently attacked.
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