I miss the days of Grand Prix motorcycle racing when they rode 500cc two stroke bikes. Those things were awesome, light and made crazy power.
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Buy a used 500cc Yamaha or Honda. Drive it until you have your first accident. Hope you live and aren't crippled for life. Sell what's left to someone else.
I knew a nurse back in Calgary who lived below me in an apartment. Mary Tyler Moore type building in the 70's. She was working in Foothills Hospital. Her ward was full of "19 to 20 year old, young, good looking guys" who were now paraplegics if they were lucky. some were quadriplegics . All from motorcycle accidents. Not trying to be a bummer or anything, but when I see the sheer balls to the wall way most bikers ride, going up to Squamish, I fear for them. And it's usually spinal injuries.
Unfortunately, shit in Life happens out of your Control !
Case in point... these Boys could have stayed Home in their own Communities .
But, they were chasing their Dreams ! 😉
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Who wants to live Life in a "Rubber Room" ? 🤔
COVID-19 should have spelled that out for Anybody ! 🤪
Just my Nickel's worth .
Mr Q.
Probably a bit of an exaggeration. My ex worked on unit 112 which is head trauma spinal cord injury ward at the foothills for close to 20 years. She never brought home stories of the ward being full of young guys paralyzed from motorcycle accidents. It happened occasionally but certainly not an epidemic of motorcycle accident victims all the time.
Riding got to be a miserable unpaid job fighting for someone else's rights. Didn't have a powerful bike and wouldn't have done me any good. Dreaded drivers stopping so close behind me at signal light changes. Hassle finding a safe place to park. Changes in weather. Blew off friends depending on car rides. Carrying groceries.
I quit for 2 reasons. Bad knee made wheeling a 900lb cruiser around no fun ..and a wet weather ride where the bike got really snakey on me. Enough
I have had bikes for decades. Once you get a few real emergency situations behind you the size of the bike doesn't matter because balance is balance is balance. If you drop a little bike you can pick it up quickly and easily, a big bike takes practice and knowledge. In all my years of riding the biggest danger by far is car drivers in the city/lower mainland. They just don't see you. I have made eye contact with drivers and still they drive like you're not there. So many close calls I sold my bikes and never bought another until I moved to a smaller town where everyone isn't in such a rush to run you over. I could never understand how I could be right beside someone and look right at them and a couple minutes later they change lanes like I wasn't even there. Some say the louder the bike the better because the audible sense adds to the visual and drivers miraculously see/hear you. In my experience it is true as long as you are making noise. If you're at a stop light you're not making enough noise - like when driver's cut the corner short and hit your bike and then act surprised and get out and say things like, "where did you come from?" I was fuckin sitting right here for the last couple minutes fuckhead. You're a noob so be fricken careful, take the lessons and be fricken careful. Get a bike you can comfortably muscle around and get your feet flat on the ground. Until you have a few almost dropped it, almost hit the ditch, almost . . . ride the bike you can instinctually handle. After these experiences, and those dimwitted shithead driver's provide, you can decide if you want a bigger bike.
I was riding home from work one day, I was in the curb lane and stopped at a red light. Perhaps a half block ahead of me I noticed a car was in my lane blocking it I looked over at the car beside and I could tell the old fool driving it was going to race me when the light turned green to try and prevent me from getting ahead of him and cutting into his lane. Forget what kind of car it was, some sort of bigger Detroit model.
The light turned green and the old guy floored it while I took off at a pretty good rate. I could hear his engine pinging like nothing I ever heard before surprised it didn’t throw a rod. I of course beat him easily and pulled into his lane long before I got to the parked car. Some stop light racing to liven things up a bit.
The light turned green and the old guy floored it while I took off at a pretty good rate. I could hear his engine pinging like nothing I ever heard before surprised it didn’t throw a rod. I of course beat him easily and pulled into his lane long before I got to the parked car. Some stop light racing to liven things up a bit.
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I have encountered Morons with the jacked up Diesel trucks that love to roll coal on bikes and leave you in a cloud of soot, these idiots will race you while towing trailers on interstates. When your bike is fully loaded with all your gear and passenger on a road trip a stock engine just doesn’t cut it, since I have upgraded to max power for my model I can rock past all these assholes and get in the clear. A motorcycle course helps teach you how to establish a safety box around your bike, I prefer to always get clear of traffic and ride at a safe speed in your own zone. Let the crotch rockets speed past you and always shoulder check for them before lane changes, those guys can come out of nowhere and are a road hazard.
In Thailand traffic seems bit chaotic for first time visitor lol and super busy on roads in cities but over there they see motorbikes much better. Here lover mainland is a zoo on the road rules are not followed etc one of the worst impatient drivers in the world hands down and now we have no fault icbc insurance just great..
I used to have a BSA with the shifter on the right hand side of the motorcycle, just as God and the Queen intended.
If motorcycles were putting people in wheelchairs at that frequency they’d be outlawed.
