She did it!
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I firmly believe that it's a bad thing when a post is made with good intentions and sometimes, somewhere along the line, that a few wrong words are said to spoil the initial meaning or intention of the post. I'm a man, at least the last time that I looked, and I wasn't born with a mechanical ability. I can so simple things, but that is all. I think that it is great when a woman learns to ride a bike, any bike, and is out having a good time, because that is what it is all about. I realize that being able to wrench on your own ride is important, but having fun is also important to me. Any woman that wants to ride a bike and enjoy what the rest of us enjoy, I would be happy to ride with, even if she out rode me, I wouldn't care. Enjoy the ride
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JB, that's awesome about your wife. Tell her congrats from Texas!! And I say good job to you also because I've been the one standing in that parking lot watching and it takes a lot of patience and understanding to be there.
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plenty of midlife crisis guys who've never ridden since they were teenage dirtbikers and had their cars dealer serviced their whole life think they can jump on a Road King or a custom chopper and not have problems. That's bull**** too.
As I was growing up, I knew not one girl, NOT ONE, who was interested in motors, motorcycles, cars et, but almost all of my male friends were and spent all of their money buying mini-bikes, dirt bikes, hot rod cars and street bikes. This I believe helps keep us alive on our bikes.
Again: women have their strengths and men have their strengths both have weaknesses. GENERALLY SPEAKING, men take to motorcycles much better than women.
I'll say it again: Getting the wife a Harley for her first bike IS NUTS. A MC safety course in no way prepares her for the rigors of riding a big bike on the road. There are uncountable dangers that lurk around every turn. Last week there was a log in the road. I changed lanes to get around a car and almost ran into a piece of truck tire at 70mph. I ran into a swarm of bees last Spring and 70 hit me and my bike in a split second. My bike lost traction on a wet road stripe and the back end almost spun out. The list goes on and on....
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ORIGINAL: dragsta
I agree....
As I was growing up, I knew not one girl, NOT ONE, who was interested in motors, motorcycles, cars et, but almost all of my male friends were and spent all of their money buying mini-bikes, dirt bikes, hot rod cars and street bikes.
I agree....
As I was growing up, I knew not one girl, NOT ONE, who was interested in motors, motorcycles, cars et, but almost all of my male friends were and spent all of their money buying mini-bikes, dirt bikes, hot rod cars and street bikes.
Again: women have their strengths and men have their strengths both have weaknesses. GENERALLY SPEAKING, men take to motorcycles much better than women.
I'll say it again: Getting the wife a Harley for her first bike IS NUTS. A MC safety course in no way prepares her for the rigors of riding a big bike on the road. There are uncountable dangers that lurk around every turn. Last week there was a log in the road. I changed lanes to get around a car and almost ran into a piece of truck tire at 70mph. I ran into a swarm of bees last Spring and 70 hit me and my bike in a split second. My bike lost traction on a wet road stripe and the back end almost spun out. The list goes on and on....
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A MC safety course in no way prepares her for the rigors of riding a big bike on the road.
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That doesn't mean that there weren't plenty of women out there.
Saying that it's "societal" that men take to bikes more than women is politically correct crapoloa. Can't ANYBODY admit that there are REAL differences between men and women. Good God....
My wife was a Sergeant in the Marine Corps.
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"Plenty" doesn't mean diddly. I'm talking about percentages.
"Plenty" doesn't mean diddly. I'm talking about percentages.
Saying that it's "societal" that men take to bikes more than women is politically correct crapoloa. Can't ANYBODY admit that there are REAL differences between men and women. Good God....
Your wife is the exception of which I ALREAD SPOKE.
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!
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12 Stones,
I am in total agreement with you here.
I grew up in a ranching community were women did equal work with men, including working on windmills, and all kinds of machinery, riding horses that would buck, kick, bite and anything else onery. They also branded, and worked cattle, and casturated all those LITTLE BULLS that just weren't good enough for breeding stock.
One of my grandmothers could trap, shoot, ride, and do anything else a man could do. She was also a nurse, and raised 5 kids while outworking most men.
One of my Grandmothers was a widow that raised 3 kids by being the washer woman in a mining and cattle town.
I worked with women while on the police department that carried their weight very well, and faced "uncountable, lurking dangers" every day. To think that women are not just as capable as men is absurd, and as far as I'm concerned, a personal insult to the women who ride.
I guess I feel the way I do because I had positive, capable women influencing my raising. Maybe if I had been raised by women and men that believed in "barefoot and pregnant" I would have a different outlook.
I look at the list of rigors that Dragsta has had to endure while riding, and I just wonder what there is in that list that a woman would be incapable or handling.
I think I'm done with this before I say how I really feel. Hopefully some others will chime in.
Regards,
Bill
I am in total agreement with you here.
I grew up in a ranching community were women did equal work with men, including working on windmills, and all kinds of machinery, riding horses that would buck, kick, bite and anything else onery. They also branded, and worked cattle, and casturated all those LITTLE BULLS that just weren't good enough for breeding stock.
One of my grandmothers could trap, shoot, ride, and do anything else a man could do. She was also a nurse, and raised 5 kids while outworking most men.
One of my Grandmothers was a widow that raised 3 kids by being the washer woman in a mining and cattle town.
I worked with women while on the police department that carried their weight very well, and faced "uncountable, lurking dangers" every day. To think that women are not just as capable as men is absurd, and as far as I'm concerned, a personal insult to the women who ride.
I guess I feel the way I do because I had positive, capable women influencing my raising. Maybe if I had been raised by women and men that believed in "barefoot and pregnant" I would have a different outlook.
I look at the list of rigors that Dragsta has had to endure while riding, and I just wonder what there is in that list that a woman would be incapable or handling.
I think I'm done with this before I say how I really feel. Hopefully some others will chime in.
Regards,
Bill
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Hopefully some others will chime in.