
Originally Posted by
dangerous
Mate I am in my 40's
covered an excess of 400.000kms here and in OZ on the road
I have owned 1200cc and Turbos
I still cover 15,000km a summer on the road
I race BEARs, F4 and CAMs... last year alone I won the south Is cup and several other trophys
I have coached may riders that are now faster racers and or beter riders than me.
I have rideen over 100 bike rallys and in all this time non stop riding on the road since 1983 I HAVE seen it all...
Now, don't get me wrong here, this is not taking a dig at you D. I realise you've got your heart in the right place and are just rightly concerned about what you observe. But here's some food for thought:
I have met people, from all walks of life, who have their head in the clouds about how they had done this and done that and going on and on and on about how much experience and diversity they had managed to pick up on their way through life. ...and still, they didn't seem to have learned anything at all from it. At the other end of the spectrum you have people who seem to learn the most from every experience they have. All I am saying is that we vary quite tremendously in how quickly we learn stuff and how we choose to apply it - be it motorcycling or anything else really.
There's always going to be idiots out there - and it doesn't necessarily matter at all how much experience they have, because they might choose not to apply it.
Also, just like sensible people behave like idiots at times - idiots can also behave like sensible people at times.
Get a number of sensible individuals together and put them in a group, mix in a bit of bullshit, a warm day and perhaps a beer or two and you may end up with a group of idiots who don't give a fuck about anyone else - it's more likely than you'd think.
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat
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