Been a motorcycle rider for over 50 years, including the freeways of Southern California. Sold both of my motorcycles this year and am officially retired from Motorcycles. It was a great “ride” so to speak but age coupled with how dangerous it is out there now....it was time. The cell phone is a game changer. Too many people on their cell phones....causing too many accidents.
I got out alive and I’m happy.
May you have many more years of health & happiness.
I retired after a tourist from Alabama made an illegal left turn on red in Wash DC, and I ate his front driver side panel.
He had a cell phone glued to his face.
I’m glad you enjoyed your years with motorcycles and had a safe time. My father had a motorcycle he almost never used and a few times he let me ride it on a rural road. It was quite an experience to learn the rudiments of it but I quickly realized that riding it on streets would be something I probably could not do well. So in my case it was a few pleasant outings in a safe environment and I checked it off my list. It did help me be a safer driver just briefly seeing things from a motorcycle seat and knowing it isn’t easy.
That and the big screen TV on the dashboard.
A deer almost got me back in 97, while coming home from work in NW IL. That was the end of night riding for me. In 03 a 19 yr old offered me a few bucks more than my bike was worth, so I let it go. I wasn’t farming anymore, and it was my also my quick way to check the cow herd and mend fence. It wasn’t missed that much, so I never bought another.
6 yrs in Tennessee, and seeing idiots crossing the center line on all these twisty roads, and 3 deer strikes with the suv, has me convinced to stick with the cage night or day.
My grandmother used to refer to them as “murder cycles”.
Me too. Sold my Harley Wide Glide about 2 years ago. Enough with dodging all the idiots on the freeways. I was a long time rider since 16, but the morons with the phones is a new danger. Oh well, had great times.