I never started biking because anyone else.
I started riding because of me.
It was a very egotistic decision.
I did not care that my mum was scared that I would get killed.
I did not care that my then friends did not have an interest in bikes.
I was already at 16 riding alone. There was not that many where I lived who had a bike. At that age.
My bikes have never pulled females. Or perhaps I always thought they were attracted to my other attributes...
My bikes have always been a way of getting away.
At times they have meant more to me then other living beings.
I have been riding with "groups".
But even then it was about me.
I did it because of me.
That there was others around me with similar looks at life just made it easier.
Gave me reasons to disappear.
And nothing has changed.
I still do not look for other reasons then my selfish ones why to ride.
I still ride alone.
Life is different. I have a respectable job, I have responsibilities, children. They all get in the way. Some of them take priority.
But I ride when I get the need. As long as it does not affect my kids.
Even if it is a dirtbike ride on the beach in the moonlight.
There is nobody else needed or involved.
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