by Suff » 07 May 2013, 06:20
I've been riding bikes since I was 15. I guess you could call my riding style aggressive but cautious. So you will see me using the throttle, you will hear my bike revving up to the redline and you will see me doing speeds a lot of people won't do. You will also see me filtering through standing or slow moving traffic.
However, you will not see me racing between traffic at 50mph. You will not see me hammering the bike through the rush hour traffic at 70mph in a 30 limit. You also won't see me with the bike laid hard over at 12omph round a tight corner. Yes I corner fairly hard as slower speeds, but am much more careful at higher speeds. The survival rate is too low when you get it wrong.
Also I LOOK when I'm on a bike, up round over between, I'm always looking. I have another way of riding too. Everyone and I do mean EVERYONE is a complete lunatic who's express purpose is to knock me off the bike and kill me. Even after they have proven that they're not mad they are treated as such at all times. It's the only way to survive on a bike.
Mrs S just looks at the headline figures. She's been on a bike with me before, knows how I ride but still assumes something will go wrong. But then again she worries when I drive a car too as I don't drive the way she wants me to. No faith...
If you look at the stats I don't fit in at all. The largest groups of deaths on the road, today, are people who had 250's when they were 17/18 and didn't ride again until they were in their late 40's/50/s, then went out and bough HUGE bikes with incredible speed and handling. In my late 20's I was running my Uncle's bike workshop and riding a large range of bikes including road legal racing bikes. I'm still here and have continued to ride bikes off and on over the years....
There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those who understand Binary and those who do not.
