Everybody should be required to ride a motorcycle for six months before getting a license for a car. It's incredible how much of a better driver it makes you. Now when I drive my car, I see motorcycles (I wouldn't claim I see them all, since the one you don't see is the one that gets you), I look around a lot more, and in general I'm more aware of the road than back when I didn't ride my Vespa.
j On 10/7/05, keith_w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P. J. Alling wrote: > > > You really got to be more careful. > > He's been riding professionally for a long time. I think he knows traffic > better than most of us! > > > Get a Bell for crisakes, it will > > help protect you from the speeding cars... > > No, it really won't. I hope you said that tongue in cheek, but without a > smiley or other indication, I assume you might have been serious. > > As a long time motorcycle rider (since 1950) I can assure you, on two wheels > you become almost invisible on the road. > It's an old joke among long term riders, that when involved in a car/bike > accident, and the car driver is asked [rather stupidly in my humble opinion] > "How could you possibly hit him! He was right in front of you." > "I didn't see him." > "How many little children have you run over? They are *much* smaller than a > motorcycle and rider." > > Facts are, bikes *are* practically invisible to the rest of the motoring > public, and a cyclist has to be at 110% attention at all times. As Frank is an > excellent example of, even then you stand a very much higher incidence of > having a traffic accident than a motorcar. > > Mend quickly, Frank. You have my empathy! I've been *so* close, so many > times... I can see the whole picture. It IS dangerous out there. > > > Be well, keith > > > frank theriault wrote: > > > >> well, today started with a bang! > >> > [...] > > -- Juan Buhler http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog at http://photoblog.jbuhler.com
