[quote]harrypotter wrote:
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
[quote]harrypotter wrote:
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
[quote]harrypotter wrote:
So you think flesh and bone beats metal and concrete/tarmac?
Hop on over to the gore websites and see exactly what happens when these things collide at speed. You wont be having an open casket ceremony.
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That’s the point, it’s an irrational belief and I know it. I’m not stupid, I know what would happen if I did have an accident, I’ve seen plenty of that stuff and I’m definitely aware of my own mortality. I guess I just think that it won’t happen in the first place.
I am a ‘the glass is half full kind of person’, so maybe it’s just optimism out of control.[/quote]
Are you kind of guy to ride motorcycles for the buzz with a disregard or ignorance for those who love you and rely on you?
My dad and my neighbour have known 5 guys who lived for bikes, 4 of them were killed in accidents and one quit due to motorcycles being dangerous and just not worth the risk.
I think you’re the kind of guy who thinks he lives on the edge but is just one turn from being hit by a car.[/quote]
Firstly it’s a bicycle not a motorbike and I’m exactly the opposite of the guy you’re describing, I don’t live my life on the edge at all and wouldn’t claim to or want to. If you read my first post you’d see I said I’m not an adrenaline junkie at all and I DON’T take risks. I ride my bike very carefully. I am not reckless in the slightest.
I just have this strange idea that I’ll be alright, it doesn’t mean I test it out.
No weirder I think than all the hundreds of thousands of talent less people who delude themselves in to believing that they could win the X factor or American Idol.[/quote]
I know its a bicycle you were using, the fact remains that you loved doing 40mph on it and were hesitant to tell your other half because she hates the fact you’d do such a thing.
You loved the glory it gave but didnt tell others because it would shit on your parade.
I did bikes for years as a kid and into my teens, yes its great fun getting speed but like everything, you push it in the wrong way and you’re not going to see it happen.
Watch youtube to see how quickly you can face plant at normal speeds, I’d be interested to see a 40mph face plant.
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LOL at “glory”.
Tour de france cyclists can hit 65mph on downhills apparently. I didn’t expect my 42 mph to raise any eyebrows.
You seem quite bitter. Have your parents taken your bike away until you can be trusted?