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.
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! ☹️😱
@kibcol1049 @NormanDunbar @cascheranno I managed to walk away with broken bones from falls on different motorcycles & quit in 1986.
@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 @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.
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.
Riding puts your life at extraordinary risk, even with a helmet.
@Ultraverified @BenAveling Sliding face down with an open face helmet was discouraged by OR nurses I knew. I destroyed a borrowed Bell Magnum once in ‘69. They were replaced for free then.
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 @beemoh @Ultraverified @BenAveling @cascheranno Road rash came with skateboards made of roller rink trucks & Oak thresholds in early ’60s ;)
Fun fact, but airbags were invented because Americans will not wear seatbelts to save themselves.
@NormanDunbar @stevewfolds @kibcol1049 @beemoh @Ultraverified @cascheranno