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    The risks of motorcycling

    The sooner you stop worrying about the actions of others and focusing on your own actions and what they bring your life, the better off everyone will be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SwanTiger View Post

    The sooner you stop worrying about the actions of others and focusing on your own actions and what they bring your life, the better off everyone will be.
    I agree with a lot of what you're saying however, people need to realise that their actions often directly affect the well being of others. I wish everyone would make a better effort of focusing on their own actions but sadly there's far too many who don't seem to care how their actions affect others. Therefore, I'll continue to worry about their actions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by katman View Post
    I agree with a lot of what you're saying however, people need to realise that their actions often directly affect the well being of others. I wish everyone would make a better effort of focusing on their own actions but sadly there's far too many who don't seem to care how their actions affect others. Therefore, I'll continue to worry about their actions.
    What is there to gain in worrying if the other person isn't worrying? The fact is there are people like that in our world and nothing is ever going to change that. It is just a course of nature that some will make mistakes and pay for them, sometimes they'll bring an innocent party into the equation and they'll pay too.

    Once you accept the fact that there has been, still are, and always will be people who make mistakes, including yourself, life will be a lot more peaceful.

    In the big scheme of things, we're all dying from the day we're born.

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    Lots of good points here. I agree with most of them.

    Over ten years of riding i find less joy in riding flat out everywhere. These days i tend to save it for nice roads, no traffic and sunny days and just pootle about otherwise.
    The real mystery is how come that fat bastard Hurley has never lost any weight.

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    id also like to add a selfish priority...

    not dying alone where no one will find you for a week cos that affects others aswell.

    just a realisation i had, that i dont want to happen to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SwanTiger View Post
    sometimes they'll bring an innocent party into the equation and they'll pay too.
    That's the very reason that it's time for an attitude change.

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    Have you just had one of those birthdays ending with a zero?

    Each one brings a whole new view. After a few they actually start make you more selfish again - lol.
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    The best advice I ever got when I started my life riding bikes was...

    1. Everyone in a car is out to kill you. Ride EXPECTING the very worst you can imagine.

    2. Old men wearing hats and old ladies with a blue-rinse hairdo do NOT turn in the same direction as their indicators might suggest.

    3. The most important one : it really doesn't matter if you're right or wrong --- if you're on a motorbike and you're in a crash, you'll come off second-best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SwanTiger View Post
    The sooner you stop worrying about the actions of others and focusing on your own actions and what they bring your life, the better off everyone will be.
    What are you, a fracking fortune cookie?
    Determined to kill my bike before it kills me

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    Katman is PC incarnate.

    One day I'd like to take you riding with stretch and I.
    The hissy-fit would be worth filming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SwanTiger View Post
    What is there to gain in worrying if the other person isn't worrying? .
    Now YOU'RE worrying about us worrying.

    That's worrying.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by katman View Post
    I agree with a lot of what you're saying however, people need to realise that their actions often directly affect the well being of others. I wish everyone would make a better effort of focusing on their own actions but sadly there's far too many who don't seem to care how their actions affect others. Therefore, I'll continue to worry about their actions.
    I for one am glad someone is worrying about my actions so mcuh. It's the reactions I find ya gotta watch.

    Merry Christmas btw Katman, I've enjoyed the shit slinginig this past month

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    thanks Swannee - if only I'd known that I wouldn't have been T boned by that mercedes when I went through a green light.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post
    Now YOU'RE worrying about us worrying.

    That's worrying.....
    Don't worry about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by White trash View Post
    I for one am glad someone is worrying about my actions so mcuh. It's the reactions I find ya gotta watch.
    And the typing.

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