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Re: To ride or not to ride anymore? (OT)


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Posted by Mark - IN. on June 19, 2012 at 16:24:01 from (24.15.153.90):

In Reply to: To ride or not to ride anymore? (OT) posted by dej(jed) on June 19, 2012 at 05:53:54:

I don't know. I guess, to each, his or her own. I have a number of scooters, my favorite is the shovelhead, although the cast iron jugs hate this heat. They don't like it when it gets above 60 degrees, love it down around or below zero. Just the same though, riding is more risky than it used to be, and I have to admit that I see about half of the drivers with cell phones glued to their ears, and a good amount of them texting while driving. Just two more excuses to crash or be crashed into. I have spots on my scooters and I see fellas riding with their spots on all of the time, but I don't. Knowing that the fella I'm coming up to is going to pull out in front of me, I reach down and turn my spots on when I can see him, or her looking at me, until I pass them and turn them back off. My theory is that they may not be looking at me, but rather right through me. I flip on the spots as a change, wake up call, figuring that if they do pull out in front of me after waking them up, and take me down again, this time if I do get back up, I'm going to strangle them. Decades back I got taken out by a lady that was looking right at, through me, and as soon as I got up to her, she hung a left in front of me, then stopped because she couldn't get into the oncoming lane because of traffic. I went down, scooter slid into the side of her. She was looking right at, through me. I swear we had eye contact. She told the cops she never saw me. She did, her brain didn't.

I sometimes ride my '08 full dresser that weighs a ton. If I broadside someone in a car on that one, as light and cheap as they make cars today, I may live, but after flipping on the spots to get their attention and not, they will die, after they get their texter cell phone shoved up their...

Be safe at whatever you do, best you can anyway.

Mark


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