Have you ever felt like giving up riding?

[roadracingoldfart]

But I still have to keep my hat on in public,
cos if girls see me, they chase me !

And i bet you look better with a full face helmet on too

[roadracingoldfart]

You are as bad as my bloody nephew!
He thought about it recently & then told the family multitude that he thought 70 years of age was as old as anyone should be allowed to drive until.

Your Nephew sounds like a clever dude matey, 70 is at least 19 years older than me and 5 years younger than Roogazza.

[scumdog]

After reading some of the posts on KB it makes me think of not riding on these roads - forever!

Why risk sharing them with the nin-com-poops that post here???

[SMOKEU]

After reading some of the posts on KB it makes me think of not riding on these roads - forever!

Why risk sharing them with the nin-com-poops that post here???

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

[sootie]

Your Nephew sounds like a clever dude matey, 70 is at least 19 years older than me and 5 years younger than Roogazza.

Hang on a moment; Roogazza said he was 63 ??? Us old guys learnt arithmetic proper in our day - don't give us the Raw Prawn!

[scumdog]

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

The game's safe
The players are not.

[gatch]

I chucked my bike into a wall at the same race meeting as another bloke, who unfortunately didn't survive his crash.

Seeing how distraught it made so many people and how easily it can happen even under the best conditions, really put the shits up me.

My bike has been in the shed for 5 months now. But I'm getting an itch back that, just can't be scratched by anything else...

[lizardb0y]

Did anyone ever suggest that Edmond Hillary should not have climbed Everest becuase he had a responsibility to his family to play it safe? Life is for living.

Well, I think you do have to consider family, but that doesn't need to mean giving up riding. For me it meant going from a sport bike to an Italian tractor

[swbarnett]

Well, I think you do have to consider family, but that doesn't need to mean giving up riding. For me it meant going from a sport bike to an Italian tractor

So, for Hillary, would that mean settling for Mt. Cook instead of Everest?

I'm not saying that we shouldn't consider family but we can't afford to lose who we are in the process. For some that means going to extremes and nothing short of that will suffice.

Not indulging our passions does our families no favours.

[vifferman]

About 9 or so years ago I was taken out by a u-turning car driver while on the way to work. I wasn't badly injured, thanks to wearing good quality gear, but it hurt a lot, and I remember lying on the road thinking, "Man! This sucks!". The crash was the last in a series on my '90 VFR750, including a lowside on a squashed softdrink can, and a kamikaze pedestrian leaping into my path, causing $3800 of damage to the bike and a badly broken leg for the pedestrian (who paid for the bike damages).
After some hard thinking, I decided to quit riding, and actually went shopping for a car, test-driving an Alfa. However, I realised I wasn't quite done with bikes after all, and bought a VTR1000 instead.

It would really suck now to give up riding; it's the easy, quickest, cheapest and least sucky way to commute to work (even in pouring rain!), and now that my SpousalUnit enjoys riding with me, there's no selfishness or guilt attached.

[ontoit]

Every time the licensing fees go up i consider giving up riding. Although if ACC have money to invest in public / private prisons i dont know why they are so high to start with.

Will keep riding as long as i am safely able to.

[Monsterbishi]

Can't say I've ever thought about giving it up, would rather give up driving first.

[cleverchap]

I had not ridden for 3 years, sold my GSXR 600 months ago and thought that was it. Until last Wednesday when I thought "bugger this, i'm having another bike", so I went out and bought a cracking little supermoto and have had end of fun buzzing about on it.

Try going cold turkey for a little while and you may come to an inevitable conclusion. I know I did

[Matariki]

I'm facing that time now. I have my motorcycle that is sitting in garage but I haven't taken it out on the road yet, I've ridden it out around the yard but that's about it since the last year I've owned it.

About a year or so ago I almost lost my life in a motorcycle accident that involved a head on collision with a mobility van that failed to give way. When I found out in hospital after my surgery that I had survived, I was faced with an uphill battle of recovery. In the crash; my left tibia, fibula and ankle were exposed which resulted in my foot and leg being back to front and only the skin was holding my lower leg in place. I lost a lot of blood (approximately 2.5 liters - half of my blood content), and it took the hospital a day or so to supply me with a top up. But unfortunately during that time I had contracted necrotizing fasciitis (due to the lack of white blood cells in my body). It took two operations to remove the necrotizing fasciitis, the first one I had in Masterton, the second I had in Lowerhutt. When I got to Lowerhutt I ended up breaking my ankle for the second time in the ER (still weak from the amount of blood I had lost, and the medication I was on at the time I was walking around on crutches). In total I ended up having 3 surgeries over the period of two weeks to reconstruct my left leg (complete with rods, pins, bolts and a skin graft).

Today I have chronic nerve damage in my left leg. And I'm apprehensive about riding on the road again. But this summer I intend to make it a goal of mine to go for a ride around Greytown once I've got my new motorcycle gear, tidied up the bike and updated a few things on it. I love riding, but next time I'm on the road, I would prefer it to be pain free.

[madandy]

I sold my bike over 4 years ago for family responsibility. Now my son rides his own bike, an Oset 12.5 since the age of 3 and soon to be a pw50 or some such bike.
I'm completely over commuting in cars and track days in them too. I have a 600hp '92 Skyline GT-R for special drives and a track prepped hatchback I drive to work but neither takes me to my special place and in traffic its the daily driver hatch that has me most on edge as I share road space with others.
My leathers still fit and have been stored with love - I can hardly contain my excitement as I scan the used Vtwin market!