A personal example of how full gear can save your ass!

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

AL... good post actually. Very rare for me to read such long stuff. YOu bruoght out allot of good points that even if not applied to Dlit apply to many.

i know a rider that crashed a couple of years ago. Not a real bad crash but enough to take the heat from his pants. Now he rides 50% that he use to and is on the edge of loosing the bug. I keep telling him to just get a cruiser, he really likes mine and the way I have it setup but says he's not set at home to have such a bike. I keep pushing him that way cause I know he'll get the bug back and enjoy riding again.

It's always different strokes for different folks and how they deal with crashes. When I high sided the 9R for a damn deer, it didn't slow me down at all. I was on the hill of more and more risk. Till I just told myself a few times, this is getting stupid. Much like DLIT I wasn't happy till I was over 125. I hung up my leather track suit for good and never looked back. Traded in for chrome and chaps. I like it and I have met more people and been to more places on my bike than ever before. It's great.

perhaps dlit will hang up his track suit in a year for a cruiser or maybe he'll get into hot rod cars. Do what you enjoy and F what people think.

True dat! I'm just playing devil's advocate and trying to cheer/fire him up a little. To be honest, I've considered quitting several times between funerals and crashes but I always come back. Like I said, you ARE going to die, I know that better than most. I plan to die with a smile on my face and lots of stories to tell in hell!

[Captain Morgan]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

True dat! I'm just playing devil's advocate and trying to cheer/fire him up a little. To be honest, I've considered quitting several times between funerals and crashes but I always come back. Like I said, you ARE going to die, I know that better than most. I plan to die with a smile on my face and lots of stories to tell in hell!

Yep. My mom hates that I ride because she's heard so many stories of people getting hurt, killed, maimed, etc. I just tell her that when it's my time, it's my time, and it will happen whether I'm riding a motorcycle or walking down my basement stairs. I might as well enjoy life while I'm here!! One story that really bugs her is that her cousin was riding passenger and some guy fell asleep at the wheel and hit the cousin's bike. Killed the cousin's husband and caused the cousin to lose her leg. Mom's cousin still rides.

[101lifts2]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

.... Like I said, you ARE going to die, I know that better than most....

So you know more than others that we are all going to die. U smart.

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by 101lifts2

So you know more than others that we are all going to die. U smart.

Combat, two run ins with cancer, dead fiance, dead parents, dead siblings, dead friends, dead enemies, etc...yea I know just how tenuous our hold on life is first hand. I've watched people die right in front of me several times. Spitting blood, taking their last breath, saying the last words they'll ever fucking say. Yea I know all about death. What do you know?

[101lifts2]

Originally Posted by Amber Lamps

Combat, two run ins with cancer, dead fiance, dead parents, dead siblings, dead friends, dead enemies, etc...yea I know just how tenuous our hold on life is first hand. I've watched people die right in front of me several times. Spitting blood, taking their last breath, saying the last words they'll ever fucking say. Yea I know all about death. What do you know?

I think I know what comes after death....

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by 101lifts2

I think I know what comes after death....

the cessation of taxes...well, once the estate taxes are paid of course...