
Originally Posted by
sunhuntin
i think, brett, most here have gone past the offer good advice and hold off the pisstaking stage. seems almost every week mark fucks up somewhere, and then comes and cries foul. in this case, it would appear he fucked up trying to do the right thing, which sucks, but there must be a reason why ALL witnesses wish him ill?
mom... how young is young? ive been riding since i was about 20... started learning at 18 [buggered off overseas and continued the education from the pillion seat] im now 22, and have travelled as far north as paeroa, and as far south as invercargill. some 20,000k if not more.
in those k's, ive been hit once, which was not my fault [she ran a stop sign] and have gone off the road once, which was a combo of my fault, and the guy in front of me's fault for overtaking on a corner.
i learned from both. the first: approach intersections with caution, and the second: dont ride with that guy!
somehow ive managed to go all that distance without a single ticket or raised brow from a cop. it aint hard.
I hear where you are coming from, and appreciate several points that you have made in your post. Let me comment on just a few things:
1 - Have you met Mark? He is one A.D.D. dude, heaps of energy, always keen to chat and overall a pretty friendly bloke. Now I know you didn't attack his personality, so please don't see this as a rebuke in that regard, merely that those of us who have met him, know there is more to him than a KB log in name. And yes, as I have said, he has a lot to learn, and I as much as others have heard this and that from him and given him a go when he has done something stupid. But a rebuke and 'haha told you so' are two different things.
2- You have clocked up some good kms on your bike, genuinely, well done. Also appreciate, in my riding experience I have now done 30-40000kms and am on the verge of having my vehicle piloting card removed if I get one more reasonable size fine. There are also MANY MANY others on here who have lost licences for excessive speed, demerits etc. Let those of us be the last to throw stones.
I ride pretty fast when I am in the mood, however I do NOT cross the centerline dangerously, ride within 80% of my ability on the road or ride as a menace to other cars or bikes. Thus I defend the position that clocking up speeding fines equates to 'bad' or dangerous riding. But riding for me wouldn't be much fun without the odd little blat, stoppie or wheelie...the key being that the time and the place is everything, and if I get stung, well that is on me. I suspect many sportsbike riders are very similar and some more extreme, and that Mark is one of these. He still needs to learn the time and place bit however!
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