if you don't go into riding a motorcycle in traffic with the same
mindset you'd take into a Special Op in a Hot Zone, it's likely not
going to be safe and/or fun for long. i have to be prepared to expect
that people are likely to not see me and accept that, or there's no
point in suiting up to
Earnest, can't see your (helmeted) head, it's lost in the clouds
I'm with you on the lights, in college I used to ride a bicycle at night
often, front and rear generator-powered lights really didn't cut it, when
the flashing LED lights came out, I mounted one on the back of the bike and
after a few decades of motorcycling, i'd say that a lot of the bike
folks are wrong.
you're much more likely to be taken out on a motorcycle by someone
who doesn't see you and turns in front of you than by anyone who would
have been within hearing distance of anything humanly bearable,
Many years back, probably about the early 1990s, we were travelling
along in my 1986 Suburban when I started to hear an odd noise. I
initially thought my motor was pinging. The truck sometimes had an issue
with that and I would buy a better grade of fuel the next time to add to
the remaining
Was he riding easy?
--R
On 9/10/14 3:11 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote:
Many years back, probably about the early 1990s, we were travelling
along in my 1986 Suburban when I started to hear an odd noise. I
initially thought my motor was pinging. The truck sometimes had an
issue with
I stopped riding a few years ago because I felt like I had a bullseye on my
back no matter what efforts I took to be as visible as possible. These included
reflective stripes on my gear and a pulsing headlight.
I still felt like people were either anion at me or being so flipping
inattentive I
