11-26-2007, 01:26 AM
asteele2 Wrote:At the risk of being flame-fodder for MM, I've been asking myself if street riding is worth the risks.
It was risky before your accident too. You're number came up, so what? Having an accident doesn't make anything more or less safe. You were willing to accept the risks before, and the level of risk has not changed. If anything, learning from this relatively painless and potentially profitable accident can help you be a safer rider.
If you take the right lessons from this chance encounter with the darkest, vilest, and most malicious side of four-wheeled vehicle operators you can enjoy decades and hundreds of thousands of miles of safe and enjoyable motorcycling. If you take the wrong lessons, you will leave as a statistic and nothing more. You will spend the rest of your life cowering behind a steering wheel, pining for the good times you had on a bike, enduring the wistful and melancholic pang in your heart every time you see a motorcycle on the street.
I know you aren't going to quit riding on the street and every day. So why even bring it up?
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