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If you ride a motorcyle on the street I hope the thrill of it is worth this

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Markle
Hospital Bob
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Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

First Saturday night.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20120709/NEWS01/307080033/Motorcyclist-dies-crash-while-going-wrong-way-Chase-Street-offramp-110?odyssey=obinsite

and now again tonight.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20120707/NEWS01/120707005/Breaking-Part-110-closed-due-serious-wreck?odyssey=obinsite

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It's the same wreck.
You smoke and will die a slow and agonizing death from cancer.
More people die from cigarettes than bike wrecks.
The bike rider just had a fast splat.

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Lurch wrote:It's the same wreck.
You smoke and will die a slow and agonizing death from cancer.
More people die from cigarettes than bike wrecks.
The bike rider just had a fast splat.
Okay first about it being the same story. I make no excuses for that. I just had a moment of stupidity. lol
I was looking at a story on PNJ and it had a link to another story which carried the banner "breaking news". So I assumed that story was another wreck.

As for your thoughts about riding motorcycles I realize there's no way I'm ever going to convince someone who rides motorcyles on the street to stop doing it. I've tried many times and it has never worked. I don't know what I was thinking by trying again. So I'll just wish you luck and leave it at that.

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I've been hit a few times but I just can't give it up.
The cellphone/texters are really pissing me off and I let them know it.
Having a hot babe on the back holding on tight makes it worth the gamble.

Markle

Markle

Living a cautious, careful life doesn't make you live longer, it only SEEMS that way.

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Markle wrote:Living a cautious, careful life doesn't make you live longer, it only SEEMS that way.
Maybe true. But living the life of someone made a quadraplegic by a motorcycle wreck might seem even longer.

And yes I know you can get injured in a car too. But I'd rather take my chances being surrounded by seatbelts and air bags than just by air.

Markle

Markle

ButtMan wrote:
Markle wrote:Living a cautious, careful life doesn't make you live longer, it only SEEMS that way.
Maybe true. But living the life of someone made a quadraplegic by a motorcycle wreck might seem even longer.

And yes I know you can get injured in a car too. But I'd rather take my chances being surrounded by seat-belts and air bags than just by air.

Enjoy your seat belts and air bags.

That's exactly the same reason some people are suited to the risk of opening and running a growing business. Most people can not stand the uncertainty, they don't have total confidence in themselves. Getting up each morning knowing they are unemployed and HAVE to go our and EARN their living, makes shimmering bowls of jello from some.

That's fine, relax in that comfortable, hourly job, 40 hours a week and off on weekends. Just don't come along and tell ME that since I've made these risks, worked incredible hours, skipped vacations that it's NOT FAIR and that I should pay you more and I should give more of what I earn to people I do not even know.

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Markle wrote:

Enjoy your seat belts and air bags.

That's exactly the same reason some people are suited to the risk of opening and running a growing business. Most people can not stand the uncertainty, they don't have total confidence in themselves. Getting up each morning knowing they are unemployed and HAVE to go our and EARN their living, makes shimmering bowls of jello from some.

That's fine, relax in that comfortable, hourly job, 40 hours a week and off on weekends. Just don't come along and tell ME that since I've made these risks, worked incredible hours, skipped vacations that it's NOT FAIR and that I should pay you more and I should give more of what I earn to people I do not even know.

I don't know what a nice comfortable, hourly job, 40 hours a week and off on weekends even means, markle. My occupation was a lot more risky and uncertain than selling real estate. I was Indiana Jones without the physical danger. Every day I had to find "the lost arks". I got out on the back country roads searching for those lost arks in barns and warehouses. And if I didn't find them I didn't have an income.
But I did have a seatbelt and later on an airbag while doing it. lol

So I'm not sure you can turn this into an argument about capitalism vs socialism or liberalism vs conservatism, markel. I know this will come as a shock to you but not everything in life is determined by what political party you get brainwashed into. lol

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ButtMan wrote:
Markle wrote:

Enjoy your seat belts and air bags.

That's exactly the same reason some people are suited to the risk of opening and running a growing business. Most people can not stand the uncertainty, they don't have total confidence in themselves. Getting up each morning knowing they are unemployed and HAVE to go our and EARN their living, makes shimmering bowls of jello from some.

That's fine, relax in that comfortable, hourly job, 40 hours a week and off on weekends. Just don't come along and tell ME that since I've made these risks, worked incredible hours, skipped vacations that it's NOT FAIR and that I should pay you more and I should give more of what I earn to people I do not even know.

I don't know what a nice comfortable, hourly job, 40 hours a week and off on weekends even means, markle. My occupation was a lot more risky and uncertain than selling real estate. I was Indiana Jones without the physical danger. Every day I had to find "the lost arks". I got out on the back country roads searching for those lost arks in barns and warehouses. And if I didn't find them I didn't have an income.
But I did have a seatbelt and later on an airbag while doing it. lol

So I'm not sure you can turn this into an argument about capitalism vs socialism or liberalism vs conservatism, markel. I know this will come as a shock to you but not everything in life is determined by what political party you get brainwashed into. lol
Be careful in those old barns, you might get bit by a snake.

Slicef18

Slicef18

Markle wrote:Living a cautious, careful life doesn't make you live longer, it only SEEMS that way.

I'm guessing being in prison gives the same perception. A ill tempered ugly woman would do the same.

Slicef18

Slicef18

Lurch wrote:I've been hit a few times but I just can't give it up.
The cellphone/texters are really pissing me off and I let them know it.
Having a hot babe on the back holding on tight makes it worth the gamble.

I do understand the joy and feeling of freedom one enjoys while riding the highways and countryside. It's just that if one is married and has children, the risk isn't to the rider only. I rode or many years at a time when there were about half as many other vehicles, drugs were rare and cell phones didn't exist.

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Lurch wrote: Be careful in those old barns, you might get bit by a snake.
Oh there were not only snakes but all sorts of other critters to contend with.
But the critters weren't the worst of it. Try going into a building where the roof has partly collapsed from termites and all that's still holding it up is the old jukebox it's resting on and that jukebox has to get on my truck. lol

Slicef18

Slicef18

ButtMan wrote:
Lurch wrote: Be careful in those old barns, you might get bit by a snake.
Oh there were not only snakes but all sorts of other critters to contend with.
But the critters weren't the worst of it. Try going into a building where the roof has partly collapsed from termites and all that's still holding it up is the old jukebox it's resting on and that jukebox has to get on my truck. lol

It still sounds like a good bit of "heart of the boy" fun. Plus that anticipation of, "what will I find next."

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Slicef18 wrote:

It still sounds like a good bit of "heart of the boy" fun. Plus that anticipation of, "what will I find next."
That describes exactly what it was in the beginning. But like with most all other hobbies turned occupations, over time it got to be more about paying the mortgage payment and putting food on the table.

Slicef18

Slicef18

ButtMan wrote:
Slicef18 wrote:

It still sounds like a good bit of "heart of the boy" fun. Plus that anticipation of, "what will I find next."
That describes exactly what it was in the beginning. But like with most all other hobbies turned occupations, over time it got to be more about paying the mortgage payment and putting food on the table.

I understand exactly. I enjoyed photography and won several awards under local, national and international judging. One of our sons asked me why I didn't go professional. I told him it was because I enjoyed photography too much to make it a job.

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Slicef18 wrote:

I understand exactly. I enjoyed photography and won several awards under local, national and international judging. One of our sons asked me why I didn't go professional. I told him it was because I enjoyed photography too much to make it a job.
That is so very true for some of my colleagues. They started off as hobbyists like me too but once it became a daily grind they lost the same enthusiasm they had for it in the beginning.
I guess I'm a little fortunate because I maintained my fondness for the objects themselves even into retirement.

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Slicef18 wrote:I enjoyed photography and won several awards under local, national and international judging... I enjoyed photography too much to make it a job.

We have a "Photo" section, Slicer. Can you please post some low-res pics of your stuff??

Pretty please?

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As far as motorcycles are concerned, I posted somewhere here in the last week why I quit riding road bikes. No need to repeat myself in detail.

In a nutshell, I got spoiled riding in the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Florida just ain't the same.

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Believe me it is worth the thrill to ride a motorcycle on these streets as well as any other streets nationwide. I would not trade my experiences for anything in this world.

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Ghost_Rider1 wrote:Believe me it is worth the thrill to ride a motorcycle on these streets as well as any other streets nationwide. I would not trade my experiences for anything in this world.

Have you ridden in the mountains, Ghost_Rider?

There's nothing like shooting sparks off your pegs at 60 MPH in a switchback curve that has a sign telling people to slow to 25! What a rush!

Sal

Sal

Ghost_Rider1 wrote:Believe me it is worth the thrill to ride a motorcycle on these streets as well as any other streets nationwide. I would not trade my experiences for anything in this world.

Worth what exactly? I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, and I've got nothing against motorcycles, but I think your perspective about what it was worth would be completely different sitting in a nursing home taking your meals through a straw. Just sayin'.

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salinsky wrote: ...but I think your perspective about what it was worth would be completely different sitting in a nursing home taking your meals through a straw. Just sayin'.[/size][/font]

When I rode, I wore tall lace-up boots, heavy pants, a thick leather jacket, and a good helmet. I felt more comfortable, knowing that I had at least, SOME protection.

I don't understand the apparent death wish that people seem to have when riding without a helmet. I have friends that ride that way and I wish them well, but I worry about them.

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I always wear a helmet, It saved my life at least 4x's. People die from all kind of reasons and when I go I go, but I'll have fun while I'm here..
I'm sure some people thought a movie was safe too.



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Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

I have some good friends who live a couple blocks from me. Their son was killed on his motorcycle two blocks in the other direction from me.
He left a wife and son and my two friends (his parents) have never gotten over it.

The car which broadsided him was pulling out from a business and the street has trees lining it which makes it difficult for a motorist to see what's coming down the street when he's pulling out of the parking area.
If the victim had been in a car it would have been a lot easier to be seen than a motorcyle and there's a real good chance the wreck would not have happened.
That's the problem with motorcycles. It's just a lot harder for a motorist to see them. And motorcycle riders can preach all day every day about how people SHOULD be more observant and of course they will be right when they preach that. But the reality is that all the preaching in the world aint never gonna make that so. And wishing and hoping that people will be better drivers aint gonna make that so either.



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Yomama wrote:
Have you ridden in the mountains, Ghost_Rider?

There's nothing like shooting sparks off your pegs at 60 MPH in a switchback curve that has a sign telling people to slow to 25! What a rush!


Not yet but my wife and I are planning a trip to the Smokey Mountains in the fall to watch the turning of the leaves and we will be taking the bike with us.

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