Hey y'all, been reading Hunter Thompson's Hells Angels and wanted to share this excerpt:
Nearly everyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The Highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their own fear of death, jail and lawsuits...which are less likely if they can find a motorcyclist to challenge, instead of another two thousand pound car or a concrete abutment. A motorcyclist has to drive as if everybody else on the road is out to kill him. A few of them are, and many of those who aren't are just as dangerous - because the only thing that can alter their careless, ingrained driving habits is a threat of punishment, either legal or physical, and there is nothing about a motorcycle tho threaten any man in a car.
As true today as in '66 when it was written. 40 years ago. Be good if we'd all moved on a bit.
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