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Which is why they are labeled *donor cycles* by medical personnel.
One thing I still can not wrap my mind around here in NH is the lack of helmet laws and the vast number of bikers I see not wearing them.
People hate you because you drive even more like a reckless moron weaving in between traffic and straddling lane lines.
Half the bikes need to be ticketed for violating noise levels.
Lets not forget hardcore criminal biker gangs, waiting to be triggered by anything they consider “disrespect”, and gangs of idiots racing each other thinking the road is their personal racetrack or where they can practice their trick driving.
Yeppers. I have been riding since I was 13 inthe summer of 1957. I paid $25 for a Whizzer motorbike and hid it from my parents for 2 maybe 3 weeks until they found it in the bushes. Damn thing barely ran and then only very part time. It taught me a lot though. Mostly how to cuss.
Still on two wheels at age 80 even though I ain’t real fast, just kinda half fast.
Correct. Ride like you're invisible. Think of cars as 4,000 pound hammers. Ride with extreme caution and have fun.
Agree. I stopped riding after I turned 58 and had hit 2 deer in 2 years after moving from CA to Northern Idaho.
I don’t know, I’ve seen a lot of fat, fat, fat motorcycle riders.
Yeah buddy!
I spent some of the best days of my life straddling my 450 Honda with my ultralight spinning rod strapped to the side.
But when I started having dreams where I would be riding and a car would pull out in front of me and I would wake up, I took it as an omen.
Another name for motor-bike riders is....Organ Donors.
I saw an old guy standing beside a motorcycle outside Home Depot. Figured, old guy = Harley. Nope, it was a beautiful, new, Triumph Bonneville. Wow, I figure I need one for my mental health.
Only problem is that at my advanced age I’d need training wheels.
I ride but not a cool bike. I see some of the HD (not all) crowd as some of the biggest conforming non-conformists in the world. “My HD is noisy and I have HD branded this and that, so I’m cool.”
Like I said, Most are fine.
I ride a practical bike I bought for someone who had never ridden. They ended up never actually riding it and I just kept it. It’s practical, gets mileage in the upper 40’s and I do enjoy the wind and freedom feeling I get riding it.
I find it not only a physical work out, but a mental work out as well. It takes 100% concentration to increase odds of survival.
Trust me..there is no greater joy than riding around on the back roads in the Black Hills of South dakota.
But not during the rally
I rode a Yamaha SR 500 for years until it wore out. Still keep up the MC license but I haven’t ridden in a while. Fun times!
Good friend just killed riding his bike… it wasn’t good for his health, even though he liked it.
Having ridden since I was 14, I did not move from dirt bikes to street ones till I was pushing 50. The most dangerous thing about street biking is people in cars and trucks, period. Especially young people in a big hurry to go nowhere...
Lol
My body still nurses 50 year old wounds from the H2 and GS1100 RS and GPZ
all tricked to max available 1975-84
Lots of metal in me
A hot bike today in an urban area would kill me pretty quick
Life insurance actuaries don’t lie
I ride and it IS terrific therapy. Rode 13 miles yesterday - my first for 2023. 42 degrees and partly sunny. It was bliss.
Learned to ride in 1967, raced desert and motocross for many years including Barstow to Vegas. Still ride my dirtbike and street bikes on a regular basis
Honda XR650R
Honda XR650L (street legal version)
1975 Kawasaki Z1B900, bought NEW
2 Yamaha 1976 RD 400’s
2 Yamaha 1985 RZ 500’s (my favorites)