My beautiful addiction

[The Stranger:Me]

Yet when someone opens their bike up in front of me my natural instinct is to get past them and fuck them up.
Why is that, does anyone have an answer for me?? I am 43 years old.
Gary

Take out a big life insurance policy.

[surfchick]

it takes a mission dollop of self-control NOT to use the road as a proving ground if you spot another biker... might have to make the decisions to mellow in the face of of fellow bikers ahead of time and then stick to it -as in the spurr of the moment your instincts will always be to be alpha-male-top-diggity-dog and gun it if there's the potential to catch and pass someone...which on your bike will always be a possibilty really. up to you...

[Mark Pav]

The best drugs are found on race tracks............ Get ye to a track day. You will learn things you just cannot on a road.

[90s]

Just pick your time and place to open up the throttle.

You probably will find altough some of your old habbits are back, you are still not taking the same risks in the same places you would have all those years ago.

Having said that I have mentioned on another thread (the insurance one) that males mid-late 30s, inc. me, esp. if they have returned to bikes (like me) are one of the highest risk groups at the moment.

Back on a big bike sooo much more powerful than the ones earlier in our careers (not for me though, sadly :-( ), with much higher conrnering speeds and many get addicted to the power, push the limits and come acropper pretty fast.

I guess the first step if you survive the first few thrill-addicted weeks is to then ask the question you have. I think we can all have some fun on the roads when it all seems clear and we are well-protected etc etc. No risk? Hell no. Managed risk? Well like someone said earlier, everythings a risk.

A guy my dad was in the Navy with died when he flicked his bedsheet over his head making the bed, and it broke his neck when he flicked it back. Stats are full of crazy in-house accidents like this. Much more common than motorcycle deaths.
So take it easy, think of your resps. Then have some fun when the time and place are right.

[90s]

Stats are full of crazy in-house accidents like this. Much more common than motorcycle deaths.

In fact check out today's NZH:

"Gardening injuries landed 87,000 British people in hospital last year and included 6500 cases involving a lawn mower, 5300 involving a flower pot and 4400 involving secateurs, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said."

I'd rather go out on a bike than be killed by a flower pot.

[_intense_]

all for only arround $100/120 per day

// *ahem* plus new tyres...

[avgas]

i know the feeling. i just have to keep telling meself to think of the loved ones and it all seems a whole lot more dangerous. the alternative is amputation.