For me it has been a source of better concentration on the road to the consternation of a past girl friend and yet my wife is appreciative of it, because she, like me, has ridden bikes and bicycles all of her life and has an enhanced awareness of all traffic around her. I have a niece, on the other hand, who, by contrast, had something like 7 accidents in one year; I made the mistake of giving her a car, which she wrecked three times in one month, the last wreck being fatal for the car. Not her, mind you, just the car. Since it was in my name, I took the 2,000 the insurance company gave me and did not assist her again, due to her bad-mouthing me to her mom who bad-mouthed me to my dad in my presence. I set them both straight: she was paying for her insurance under my name, another favor granted her because hers, independent of me, would have been over $2,500 a half-year; with me, it was around $1,400. She was not paying for the car, and any addidional I asked her to dish out - around $350.00 - was for front end parts and tires and various other parts to make the car roadworthy. I didn't charge for the labor. We neither of us have had an accident in the last four years; I had one in '03, someone ran a red light around four seconds after it turned. And, I had one in '01, rear ended by a drunk driver who disappeared. Wrapped the rear end of a Pontiac Firebird around the rear wheels. Then, because of that I had to use my bicycle and was rear ended one evening the end of the next month and left on the side of the road (out in the country) for dead. I have avoided accidents in cars with poor brakes from people pulling out in front of me, and in Houston I avoided an accident as the driver of a fully loaded 15-passenger van, when some fool took up my stopping space in front of me in traffic that was stopping. I jammed on the brakes, fully expecting the flack from some of the passengers, but the guy riding shotgun set them straight about what happened. Any one else would have wrecked, and we would have been a few hours late getting back to Lafayette from that job. I attribute my skills in a car to my experiences on bicycles and motorcycles. And I have always owned Hondas, although I would love to experience the Moto Guzzi and BMW ride.
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, September 22, 2010 4:55:45 PM Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] My own little brush with sudden demise... I think that was very well put joey, might have to steal some of it... -----Original Message----- Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:25:06 pm To: [email protected] From: "Joey Kelley" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] My own little brush with sudden demise... Based on what I have seen a lot of guys on bikes do - they seem to think that if they ride faster than everyone else, they are safer. Meaning, they trust their own abilities to dodge / weave over others ability to avoid them. Considering some of the stuff I've seen 4 wheel cage drivers do to us on two wheels, I don't entirely disagree with that point of view. I feel that I am a safer operator of a vehicle when I am on two wheels - I pay more attention - I tend to be a lot more cautious - and I have a better idea of what my bike is doing. Some people (I daresay most of us on here) use this hightened awareness to be even safer - others it seems simply use this hightened awareness to ride faster / harder and dumber. Just a couple thoughts. -Joey (Definately jealous of those south of I-10 - it was 40 degrees up here this morning!) On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Kyle Munz <[email protected]> wrote: > Whenever I start to get bored and think I'm riding too safe, or too slow. I > look down at my feet. Then I let my eyes focus on the pavement going by at > 70mph just a few inches from my feet. That assures me that I'm doing just > fine and don't need anymore excitement. > > -Kyle > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:11 PM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Smartass.... HD..... All three of the bikes were all non helment wearing >> HD riders... The last 2 actualy passed (i was on the highway while they were >> on the ramp) me im guessing just so they wouldent be stuck behind a honda... >> Is it realy that boring to ride safely??? >> -----Original Message----- >> Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:56:39 pm >> To: [email protected] >> From: "Kurt Nolte" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] My own little brush with sudden demise... >> >> You beat me to it! >> >> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM, David Cummings >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Husqvarna? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from th -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
