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To: Garth Tater

I’ve still got my skin (dude) at this advanced age. Rode everything from H1 Kaw’s to Vmax’s. More than I can say for most riders I’ve known over the years. More than half of the clueless young riders I’ve come across don’t know squat about counter-steering. They will be statistics. Slow old piece of iron, lol. The most impressive riding I’ve ever seen was a HD big iron that did a drag launch from a stoplight. It wasn’t just a wheelie, brought tears to my eyes, instant hookup and shifting on the fly. I’ve seem plenty of idiots do wheelies on the highway, there was no comparison, like I said future statistics. A young woman rider bought the farm last week near me, a deer took her out in the afternoon. That’s what being a rider is all about, enduring the danger without being stupid about it. It wasn’t her call. Kudos to her for BEING a rider though.


27 posted on 07/18/2017 7:36:41 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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To: OftheOhio
50 hp will not "jerk a knot in your ass." I've got an 88 Yamaha with triple the hp and I still have a hard time keeping up with some of the racers I meet on the road. It's not the young guns on their crotch rockets that end up in the morgues (they've still got reflexes and flexible joints going for them) it's the middle aged fat boys out for their weekend rides that end up with their skin on the road. If the young ones don't die their first year out they're probably good to go. But a weekend warriors never does get enough time in the saddle to be able to ride thru a situation.

Where are you at in Ohio dude? Anywhere down by the river?
28 posted on 07/18/2017 7:54:11 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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