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ColI start the day trying to be a good person, but then someone pulls out in front of me, doing 10 mph below the speed limit. So I'll try again tomorrow.
D2@kibcol1049 omg same — three times in the few miles to get groceries. Three. Times. Zero on the way back, so I killed no one.
@cascheranno Well done, have a gold star on me. 😂
NormanDunbar@cascheranno @kibcol1049 In my fairly recent youth, I rode motorbikes for around 20 years. In those days, a Volvo was your enemy as they drove like idiots, didn't look, stop, wait etc.
These days, Volvo are fine, but German car drivers seem to have taken over the idiocy. A friend of ours always shouts "Don't block the road when you crash!" As they fly past in all the wrong places!
@stevewfolds@stevewfolds @NormanDunbar @cascheranno 30 years of scraping bodies up after traffic collisions have led me to the conclusion you always come off worse on 2 wheels! ☹️😱
Mrinappropriate@kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @cascheranno I managed to walk away with broken bones from falls on different motorcycles & quit in 1986.
Olson@kibcol1049 @stevewfolds @NormanDunbar @cascheranno I walked away from my motorcycle when I moved from the city to the country where I had horses. Literally parked the bike and left it. (Sold the bike 20 years later.)
@stevewfolds
I was lucky or skilled. Maybe both. I never had an accident on my bikes.
I started with a TL125 in 1977, a 250 Super Dream, CX500, a CBR600 which got nicked along with the lock and alarm, and a VFR750, which I traded in for a wife in 1997!
@NormanDunbar @stevewfolds @cascheranno You were careful that helps, but if cars collide, they have safety features and are designed to absorb impacts. Sadly not so with bikes. ☹️
@kibcol1049
I was always very aware of that fact.
@kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @cascheranno
I loved going fast on/in everything and learned how fragile we are when decelerating quickly.
Much gratitude to the engineer at Volvo who invented 3-point seatbelts and the company for not patenting it.
I loved going fast on/in everything and learned how fragile we are when decelerating quickly.
Much gratitude to the engineer at Volvo who invented 3-point seatbelts and the company for not patenting it.
@stevewfolds
Very true, can you imagine a big company doing something like that these days?
@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 @cascheranno Absolutely not.
The 3-point belts reduced auto injuries ~50%.
The 3-point belts reduced auto injuries ~50%.
Ben AvelingI asked a motorcyclist friend : do you know know any motorcyclists who haven't had at least one near death incident.
Long pause.
No.
Ultra Verified 🇺🇦@BenAveling @stevewfolds @kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @cascheranno
Can't ask the dead ones.
I guess you can ask....
@Ultraverified
@Ultraverified
I work with people who ride. Fatalism is part of the package.
I know people who have died, as well. I think the surviving spouses and kids know my response is not meant in a humorous or disrespectful way.
It's just the truth.
@Ultraverified @BenAveling Met a
Police chief who died being hit by a deer, no helmet*. Had a neighbor with a TBI from a deer jumping on him as well, no helmet and 3 girls in grade school.
beemoh@Ultraverified @BenAveling @stevewfolds @kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @cascheranno I mean, you *can*, but they tend not to give useful answers.
D. G. Marshall@beemoh @Ultraverified @BenAveling @stevewfolds @kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @cascheranno
That's only because necromancy is illegal.
@beemoh @Ultraverified @BenAveling @stevewfolds @NormanDunbar @cascheranno The best people to ask are the families robbed of their child, sibling, parent or friend. Either completely or with a massive life change. I've broken that shocking news to quite a few. It's never easy. Often, those also involved but in a car, etc, walked away with hardly a scratch. 😟
@kibcol1049 @beemoh @Ultraverified @BenAveling @NormanDunbar @cascheranno Friends were bitching about cuts on their faces when the airbags went off in their Subaru. I didn’t try to explain the alternatives.
@stevewfolds
They were lucky. Some people get their hands "degloved" when their airbags go off!
I never had "gravel rash" on my bikes, due to not falling off, but I've seen it in others, thoroughly unrecommended!
@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 @cascheranno I’ve fallen off of most everything, especially w/wheels. Most fun was low powered vehicles sliding at low speeds on slippery surfaces.
@NormanDunbar @kibcol1049 @cascheranno Takes the same basic skills to go 30 mph on a dirt road with no shocks in a $500 pickup truck as is does to drive on a racetrack. You have to be aware of the weight on each tire.
@kibcol1049
Agreed. I was taught defensive driving plus, I worked in a bike shop (Honda) and taught many a customer how to ride. As far as I'm aware, at least while I still worked on bikes, I never lost a customer!
Was it me or was everyone just lucky? Who knows.