My first and only form of transport was a motorcycle, for many, many years. I was a biker long before I owned and drove a car. Over the years I have owned and ridden many bikes, used to sell them for a living too. Recent years have seen my riding for pleasure, driving for reliability, hence my comment, but I have always been a biker at heart.
I am finally in a position to buy a reliable bike to commute on and that is exactly what I am going to do. I plan to spend many hours riding for pleasure as well.
Dont assume anything about people, it makes you look like a dick.
We agree on something there, but it was you who even raised the subject of the WRBs, and now you are saying that bikers are motley pimples.
Just what is your point?
Edit: To clarify - I agree with the part about riders that are intimidated shouldn't ride. I don't agree that motorcycling is inherently dangerous.
Keep on chooglin'
There's nothing wrong with the design per se, just the construction materials.
Make them from marshmellow posts and licorice strap cables and we'd be fine. THe stretchyness would wrap you up like a big sweet cacoon and while you eat your way free you could think about the error of your ways.
There, I've made about much sense as both sides of this post already. I didn't realise the amount of religious fevour about this subject
"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it." -- Erwin Schrodinger talking about quantum mechanics.
Motorcycling IS dangerous ... but it is not the roads that make motorcycling "unsafe" .. it's the users of those roads that make it so ....
I hope you take into account of tyre costs, service costs, insurance ... general wear and tear that you cant really put a price on ... just end up with. (The shiny bits dont stay shiny for long ... no matter how hard you try) AND ... petrol is usually only half the cost of commuting ...
Commuting is seldom fun (for long) ... regardless of what you use ...
Seriously ... WRB's are NOT just in the preserve of the north .... We have them down here, and I'm pretty sure ... from memory ... they ARE in the Hawkes Bay area. (Been there lately yourself ... ???)
From Collins English Dictionary ...Mitigate - Make less severe. Not, remove entirely.
It is MY opinion ... that whilst riding a motorcycle, one tends to spend twice (or more) the amount of time on thinking safety strategy's ... than you would in a car ... to be half as safe.
When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Bookmarks