Author Topic: The Best And Worst Things About Biking....... (Read 4685 times)

jbrough7 · « **on:** April 17, 2006, 10:07:57 PM »

Best thing:

- riding up over a knoll at speed, cutting down through the countryside while wafts of pine trees and laurel permeate your helmet and fill your olfactory senses...

Worst thing:

- riding up over a knoll at speed, cutting down through a city street while wafts of fast food and exhaust permeate your helmet and fill your olfactory senses....

Ramblings from a lovely ride today!

Jim

Rotten_Ronnie · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2006, 10:36:59 PM »

From this past Easter Sunday's experience:

Best: A sweeping s curve ahead... and a Tim Horton's cuppa at the end of it. It was COLD!!! :)

Worst: Watching the guy ahead of me gaff and pull out of the junction on his Kawi 636 directly into the path of a family in a green toyota corolla. They both made it ok, thank god.

jbrough7 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 18, 2006, 06:17:23 AM »

I had just put the bike in the garage and jumped in my suv with my family , heading off to visit my old man. Come around a sweeping curve and there were cops and a tow truck, dragging a crotch rocket up from the ravine! No sign of the rider so I presumed the ambulance had already taken him away?

I'm 46, and I've never seen that sight before...made my hands shake on the wheel!

Looked in the paper the next day but saw no mention of the accident or if the rider died. He must have been flying around that curve!

Jim

B6mick · « **Reply #3 on:** April 18, 2006, 08:24:49 AM »

The comraderie of the motorcyclist

And the total disregard by of 90% Joe Public, and Bullshyte feed to us by safetycrats, and do good politicians.

aussiebandit · « **Reply #4 on:** April 18, 2006, 09:04:43 AM »

BEST: The almost Zen like experiance of being at one with the bike and the road, and the raw smell of nature that you just can't get in car.

WORST: Picking bits of the road out of your skin after you became 'one' with it, after trying to dodge a rather large piece of nature that jumped right in front of you.

tacoman · « **Reply #5 on:** April 18, 2006, 02:59:24 PM »

Road rash is the worst. I've only gone down once and it was on loose gravel. Did a nice baseball style slide at about 10 mph wearing just a sweatshirt and jeans. Ouch! Chewed up elbow and had a nice, bright red hip. I got lucky, I rode to a local ski resort and the ski patrol was in for summer practice in first aid. The instructor was tickled, a real victim to demo on for the class. Checked me out for broken bones, etc. then patched me up.

snofrog · « **Reply #6 on:** April 19, 2006, 05:25:15 PM »

BEST;that 75 degree ride home from a hard day at work

WORST;that 29 degree ride into work so i could enjoy the one above

HarleyBandit · « **Reply #7 on:** April 19, 2006, 06:16:04 PM »

Road Rash
Flat tires
Cold and Hard Rain
F%&CK BUG season

Pretty much in that order!

jbrough7 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 19, 2006, 06:26:10 PM »

Just about nailed another frickin' dog today - talk about having your heart in your mouth! Aren't these things ever tied up? I swear this shepherd weighed almost as much as my bandit!!

Jim

Sven · « **Reply #9 on:** April 19, 2006, 06:27:51 PM »

Quote from: "jbrough7"

Just about nailed another frickin' dog today - talk about having your heart in your mouth! Aren't these things ever tied up?

I've already made *my* comments on animals running loose; someone else can pick up the torch.

interfuse · « **Reply #10 on:** April 19, 2006, 11:45:06 PM »

Best thing: driving through gridlocked traffic using the parking lane or shoulder.

Worst thing: catching a bee in your helmet!

KX5000 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 20, 2006, 12:33:37 AM »

My nephew found a doe last night on his Hayabusa, he's OK, the deer is pizza and the eyeabuser is totalled

the best thing: he is OK, just a bruised ass

KX5000 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 20, 2006, 12:39:08 AM »

almost forgot: my favorite thing about riding...I like all of it, getting caught in the rain, bugs in my teeth, getting stung in the ear under my helmet, there have been times when I thought I'd sell my bandit because I don't get to ride it as much as I'd like to, but 5 minutes in the saddle and I know THERE AINT NO WAY I'M EVER SELLING THIS BIKE! of alll the bikes I've ever ridden, none has moved me the way my bandit does.

smooth operator · « **Reply #13 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:00:12 AM »

Best,is riding itself.Looking far ahead,no traffic in sight,looking around the turn ahead of you far as you can and the bike just follows through what your mind and body is doing. And in the right places,taking it to its limits,with a steady roll-on as you come through a turn. Ahhh,gotta love it!
Worst, picking up a buddy and his bike out of a ditch or off the road.Luckly for the couple times that it happened to me there were no serious injuries. And they were able to ride back on the back of my bike instead of a ambulance. Dan

jbrough7 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 20, 2006, 07:02:47 AM »

KX - I know just what you're saying - it's kinda like that sailing bumper sticker - 'the worst day on a bike is still better than the best day in a cage!'

Jim