I'm Out
OP: don't listen to what the everyone else says! Do what you feel is right, nobody on here will support your family if you get injured or killed, no one will pay your bills if your out of work cause you got hit. You can always change your mind in a few years and buy another one.
I'm typing this from bed recovering from a accident where a 17 yo girl blew a stop sign and hit me on my bike. I for one am planning to go back out riding when I recover but to each their own.
I'm typing this from bed recovering from a accident where a 17 yo girl blew a stop sign and hit me on my bike. I for one am planning to go back out riding when I recover but to each their own.
Cruiser
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 172
Likes: 1
From: Kansas City
There are so many reasons why I don't need a bike, but each time my head decides to get rid of one, my heart drags me back again and it costs me extra cash. I guess I learned that while I can get bikes out of my garage, I can't get them out of my blood.
Like others, I ride defensively and I've modified my riding habits to minimize the risk but savor the experience. For me, this means:
1. I don't ride when drinking
2. I don't ride during rush hour
3. I don't ride when I'm really tired
4. I try to avoid roads near shopping centers, high schools and other places with lots of distracted and inexperienced drivers
Weekend mornings and late summer evenings are a great time to ride. While the danger of riding is real, so is the joy!
Best of luck with your decision.
Like others, I ride defensively and I've modified my riding habits to minimize the risk but savor the experience. For me, this means:
1. I don't ride when drinking
2. I don't ride during rush hour
3. I don't ride when I'm really tired
4. I try to avoid roads near shopping centers, high schools and other places with lots of distracted and inexperienced drivers
Weekend mornings and late summer evenings are a great time to ride. While the danger of riding is real, so is the joy!
Best of luck with your decision.
Road Master
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 829
Likes: 12
From: Central Texas
Don't quit riding, then "they" win. **** em, ride on....
I have plenty of life ins and a standing agreement with my wife that if I get
killed by an idiot, use as much of the ins as needed to make the perps life and anyone they support pay for/with the rest of their lives.
Dear Lord I hate stupid, irresponsible, neglegent, SELFISH, LAZY, ignorant, entitled, azzhats who drive two ton texting machines.
I will look on from another place and cheer on the lawyers...for a change.
I have plenty of life ins and a standing agreement with my wife that if I get
killed by an idiot, use as much of the ins as needed to make the perps life and anyone they support pay for/with the rest of their lives.
Dear Lord I hate stupid, irresponsible, neglegent, SELFISH, LAZY, ignorant, entitled, azzhats who drive two ton texting machines.
I will look on from another place and cheer on the lawyers...for a change.
Road Warrior
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,257
Likes: 2
From: Gastonia, NC
2011 w/9000 miles? Probably in the 14,500 range will get it moving. Glad you're ok and hate to see you quit. My number one rule when riding is 'SPACE'. I like a lot of that around me. I'll admit though, this texting/cell phone thing is putting a scare into me as well.
Tourer
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 354
Likes: 8
From: Pittsburgh , Pa.
Those female drivers under 20 are the worst threat that you have. If they are not texting, or dialing the phone,talking on the phone,riding like their hooked to you,then they are left turning in front of you which just happened to a local Harley rider and his wife just two miles from my house. The guy was killed and his wife was seriously injured.
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Cruiser
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 242
Likes: 0
From: Culpeper, VA
UPDATE Not long after I wrote this yesterday I was on a two lane highway and a young girl was coming toward me in a large black SUV and I saw her vehicle drifting across into my lane. I swerved to the right side of the road as she whizzed past me . I could see her face. She was looking down for probably the four seconds that it took her to pass me. She never looked up at least until she was passed me so I doubt she even knew that I was ever there. You see this crap almost every day.