[DungeonMaster]

Motorcycles are a lot like boats. People really want them until they own them. Then they find out that in most weather riding sucks, and with the general lack of skill of American drivers it’s somewhat suicidal, so they sell it.

I was surprised to hear that my brother in law sold his Street Glide recently. He said he is tired of taking his life into his own hands every time he has to share the road with the terrible drivers out there.

Still have Heritage but the concern about the hazards is taking away the fun.

2 weeks ago a guy on a bike hit a hole left in the road by a careless backhoe operator and crashed and "ground most of his face off". Shortly after that a guy died when he t-boned a car that didn't stop for a light.

Two years ago the safety guy who worked with our company was killed when t-boned by a pick-up truck.

[discostu]

And riding “safe” (full face helmet, leathers) really kind of kills the “open road and freedom” image of motorcycles. Not to mention making you boil in your own juices the minute the temperature gets above 80.

[Sequoyah101]

And that is why I didn’t buy a bike when I retired. Oh I wanted to but see no reason to put my wife through all of this kind of mess. The thing about a bike is not that you can’t be too careful but that you can’t be careful enough.

[newgeezer]

Wow.

And, with all the a**wipes texting and whatever else these days, it’s only getting worse.

I suppose it’ll get better only when autonomous cars are commonplace.