35 years ago...and still walking.
Posted on 05/10/2014 2:08:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Some people are adrenaline junkies, some aren’t. I certainly was (less so now that I’ve surprisingly made it way past my youthful predictions.)
I thought that beer was the reason.
35 years ago...and still walking.
With risk comes reward. Not every risky endeavor involves possible death or maiming. Males are the drivers of genetic fitness. We’re more variable, far more geniuses, far more idiots. Women are the moderating force, genetically and so far as risk, although temperamentally this is often reversed, lol, with men being more even keel and women swinging wildly from one extreme to the other.
Motorcyclists are similar
One has a 38:1 odds ratio for dying per mile driven,
relative to passenger cars
They understand this, but
They love getting out of the cage of steel.
“There I was...thought I was gonna die” how low when you cut away?? To low for a reserve?
There are some beautiful street bikes, I’ve been admiring the new Indian Chief Vintage. But, I’m not too keen on that sort of risk. I sold my dirt bike to buy my first car at age 16 and that’s the last one I’ve ever had.
Heh.
Why Men Take Risks for the Ultimate Thrill
Based upon what I see on TV it’s the chicks that do this.
60’ over 5’ of water as it turned out.
RISK...it’s why I never married.
and then again, way back, early to mid '70's.
It’s just the way men are wired.
We seek risks to expand boundaries in order to better understand, and control what is around us. And sometimes the thrill of it alone gives us the same chemical reaction in our brains.
Men just aren’t into self-preservation like women are. That is why we did the exploring, went to war, and hunted.
Too bad he didn’t study women risk takers/thrill seekers. Doesn’t every kid get a thrill when they first learn to ride a bike? Learn to ride their first dirt bike? Get their first motorcycle license? Hang glide for the first time? Solo in an airplane? Do their first AFF jump and not that tandem crap? Learn to BASE jump? Learn to jump a skyboard? Childhood is pretty thrilling. Why lose it when you grow up? I guess I’m just a kid at heart living in an adult playground world. My husband will vouch it certainly isn’t from too much testosterone.
Rode motorcycles my whole life. Am amazed I didn’t fall or die.
Once on a Kawasaki H1-F, I was racing a guy and my front wheel came off the ground over a foot. Scared the crap out of me! I didn’t try to do that! Instinct made me lean fwd FAST!
And every friday night we’d ride our motorcycles to the bar after work and get hammered, then ride them home. Can’t believe I never fell. We were TOASTED after drinking 6 x 24oz beer specials.
Those pics made me go find my copy of Skies Call.
I have had the pleasure of sitting beside Ivan Stewart in a SCORE PRO Truck (off road racing) going 100 mph across the open desert outside Plaster city CA, Cartwheeling a Class 10 car in San Felipe through a cactus patch at 70 mph, Mexico, racing a Super Mod II Yamaha SRX snowmobile across frozen Adirondack lakes and hanging out of helicopters photographing off-road racing on the Baja peninsula.
All the psychobabble and such may have a basis in truth. But the answer for me was simple. It is the most fun you can have with clothes on. Although some have been known to race naked ;)
Those days are long gone now and I have other hobbies. Far more sedate ones. Nothing wrong with that either. To each their own.
I do it for the laughs alone.
Just did the 400 foot drop at Great America.
Hilarious!!!!
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