A little favour please

[Mom]

When you are on your bike, can all of you consider yourselves totally irreplaceable to your loved ones, your wife/hubby/partner, your children and your friends? Think about how hard it will be for them if you are not there anymore.

Will you please engage your brain and your spidey sense before you get on your bike, even if you are just heading to the shops. Good gear will help.

Dont take risks for the sake of a bit of adrenaline (it is over rated in my experience and I have had the pure shit, they inject it if you are really needing a boost), we ride bikes, they go fast and have ommph if we need to use it, please respect it.

If you notice you are making mistakes (may you not pay the ultimate penalty for them in the meantime) slow down until you can get some training, or more experience.

RIP Adrian - I hoped like hell it was not you...

[Gone Burger]

Not going to ask Mom - but love and thoughts are instantly with you.

[hellokitty]

:love: Hey Anne, I thought of you the other day when I saw the news about the Warkworth accident - I got on here and saw you posting about a plumber or something everyday and average and was glad that you were obviously at home and on the computer instead of the biker on the news...
Sucks for that biker's family though :crybaby::crybaby:

[EJK]

Saw the news and was concerned. I'm so glad that it wasn't you or Mark, Anne.

My condolences.

[Corse1]

Hey Mom......I always think of the family when riding...but that doesn't mean that adrenalin doesn't take over sometimes.
The more I ride the easier I take it. I would hate to put my family through unecessary pain.

However..the road is the road and the danger is always there. Its my passion and to give it up for the sake of the family means that I would not be true to myself and indulge the passion that is the strongest.

You only live once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mom]

However..the road is the road and the danger is always there. Its my passion and to give it up for the sake of the family means that I would not be true to myself and indulge the passion that is the strongest.

You only live once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree with everything you posted. All I ask is to consider your nearest and dearests. No giving up required.

[trailblazer]

always do and i never get on the bike after an arguement or if im mad. My father was taken from us before i got to no him and i never want to put my family through that. But like corse1 said riding is my passion and to be without it incase of a maybe would be wrong.
RIP to all fallen riders.

[Edbear]

When you are on your bike, can all of you consider yourselves totally irreplaceable to your loved ones, your wife/hubby/partner, your children and your friends? Think about how hard it will be for them if you are not there anymore.

Will you please engage your brain and your spidey sense before you get on your bike, even if you are just heading to the shops. Good gear will help.

Dont take risks for the sake of a bit of adrenaline (it is over rated in my experience and I have had the pure shit, they inject it if you are really needing a boost), we ride bikes, they go fast and have ommph if we need to use it, please respect it.

If you notice you are making mistakes (may you not pay the ultimate penalty for them in the meantime) slow down until you can get some training, or more experience.

RIP Adrian - I hoped like hell it was not you...

Well said, Anne! :yes:

[avgas]

when you are on your bike, can all of you consider yourselves totally irreplaceable to your loved ones, your wife/hubby/partner, your children and your friends? Think about how hard it will be for them if you are not there anymore.
i can tell you all, hand on my heart - that when you life flashes before your eyes.......have a guess of whom you think about?
Its not worth it.
If you cant control yourself tape a photo of your family on the tank

[trailblazer]

i can tell you all, hand on my heart - that when you life flashes before your eyes.......have a guess of whom you think about?
Its not worth it.
If you cant control yourself tape a photo of your family on the tank
might just have to get my boys face airbrushed on to my tank that should keep me sane.

[Edbear]

i can tell you all, hand on my heart - that when you life flashes before your eyes.......have a guess of whom you think about?
Its not worth it.
If you cant control yourself tape a photo of your family on the tank


might just have to get my boys face airbrushed on to my tank that should keep me sane.

Hmmm... If I did that with my wife's picture, I'd spend too much time staring at her and not where I'm going... :love: :facepalm:

[superman]

Hmmm... If I did that with my wife's picture, I'd spend too much time staring at her and not where I'm going... :love: :facepalm:

You dog Edbear :p

[Edbear]

You dog Edbear :p

They tell me I'm incurable... :innocent:

[trailblazer]

my wife would kill me if i put her pic on my bike she hates it probably more than i like it.

[oneofsix]

my wife would kill me if i put her pic on my bike she hates it probably more than i ike it.

Her picture or the bike :innocent:

[Edbear]

my wife would kill me if i put her pic on my bike she hates it probably more than i ike it.

Which kinda defeats the original purpose, rather... :blink:

[trailblazer]

[QUOTE=oneofsix;1129987625]Her picture or the bike :innocent:[/QUOTE
the bike but she don't like her pic being taken either.

[raftn]

When you are on your bike, can all of you consider yourselves totally irreplaceable to your loved ones, your wife/hubby/partner, your children and your friends? Think about how hard it will be for them if you are not there anymore.

Will you please engage your brain and your spidey sense before you get on your bike, even if you are just heading to the shops. Good gear will help.

Dont take risks for the sake of a bit of adrenaline (it is over rated in my experience and I have had the pure shit, they inject it if you are really needing a boost), we ride bikes, they go fast and have ommph if we need to use it, please respect it.

If you notice you are making mistakes (may you not pay the ultimate penalty for them in the meantime) slow down until you can get some training, or more experience.

RIP Adrian - I hoped like hell it was not you...

AN excellent and timely reminder to us all Anne.

[Eyegasm]

Motorcycle riding is the one reason I went out and got life insurance.

I am worth quite a few hundred thousand when I kick the bucket, Yet I know that money will never replace a father. I feel better knowing that if it all turns to custard my son will be taken care of.

[Corse1]

I agree with everything you posted. All I ask is to consider your nearest and dearests. No giving up required.

Sounds good to me. They are always on my mind..............

[ynot slow]

After each ride I used to look skywards and say thank you,mainly that a)I returned safe,b)the bike went ok.

Seriously doing 180km each way each week can make you blaise with familiarity of roads,but always send a "got here text" when arriving,or "having coffee at 'vegas"when gassing up.

[hellokitty]

but always send a "got here text" when arriving,or "having coffee at 'vegas"when gassing up.

:yes: I learnt that the hard way, I was out all day on my bike visiting a friend who lives out in the country and man did I get a bollocking when I got home. My husband thought I was dead in a ditch somewhere :blink:

[Edbear]

:yes: I learnt that the hard way, I was out all day on my bike visiting a friend who lives out in the country and man did I get a bollocking when I got home. My husband thought I was dead in a ditch somewhere :blink:

That's the beauty of cellphones, my wife and I are always in touch and I've always sent a text or called her if I was away on my own. Way back when mobile phones became "affordable" I got one mainly for the safety aspect of having communication ready to hand when on the road. Makes me feel old when I think how long ago that was...

Nice to know you're missed and he's worried about you, though, eh?