B*stard. I'll kill to spend a few weeks in your country.Well, one of the reasons is that road you see in the background, one of many, but its right at my backdoor.....never mind the dinosour (not me), in the background either....you don't see them often!
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I suspect that this interesting question is going to generate ongoing interest and many, many responses.Why do I ride? I think the answer is ongoing and varies as well...
Ansestory from Tasmania? :detective:I suspect that this interesting question is going to generate ongoing interest and many, many responses.
I have appointed myself as moderator of those responses, so please send any others to me - as many as possible - written on the back of a $50/ 50 pound/ 50 Euro note (and any others of similar value) and I'll pick the best answer in due course.
L of S
surf, this is highway 58, northeast of los angeles and ojai. fantastic 100 plus miles of twists and turns with an occasional straight.Why do I ride? I think the answer is ongoing and varies as well...
First of all, it almost always seems like I am in a better mood after then before....
The thrill of man and machine et al...
More fun then a car, and the rides rarely seem long on the bike as opposed to the car...
Keeps us young...
The zen like oneness going through a series of twisties, and knowing you got it right on this time...
I wax poetic, better shut it down for now....
rebobd, is this on the road to Warner Springs?
great answer! i only wish someone had put me on a bike at a young age. i have only been riding a bit less than 4 years. rode dirt bikes as a kid only a few times and rented a bike on a trip through greece in college but it had been 20 plus years since when i decided to get my license and a bike back in 2009. it came pretty naturally to me but i've spent the better part of the last 2 years (since moving to CA), really working on being a better rider through classes, clinics, track days, etc. i enjoy the physics of riding, the zen like feeling you get on a good ride of course, but i also really enjoy working on the skill. to me, if i'm going to ride, i want to skew the odds in my favor as much as possible and that comes with practice, and embracing everything there is about riding, even the stuff that's not so fun or euphoric. my friend who works on my beemer had a great quote, "nothing about the bike should make you uncomfortable, and if it does, then work on that so no matter what you have some control."Hank Wetzmann put me on the handlebars of his Lambretta when I was 10 years old (1961) and took me for a spin around the neighborhood. The bug bit instantly. Got a bike when I was 18 but borrowed all I could from the time I got a license. Parents made the 18 rule, Sigh. That was 43 years ago and I have barely been without two wheels in the interval.
I think I ride for the same reasons I'd sport-parachute, SCUBA dive, race bikes, love to test the limits on my 911, grab snakes, joined the army airborne, engage in still other forms of risk-taking and can usually fall dead asleep in 1-minute or less when nothing's happening and I decide to shut down. Chemical imbalance, I'd say. Probably insufficient MAO. Why? Is there another answer?
Hot wheels in 1967:
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