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- From: mick@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Ravi Narayan)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Why I ride
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:25:57 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes:
- >
- >From my perspective, the worst
- >possible thing that can happen to you is to realize, on your
- >deathbed, that you havn't done anything. To live a life without
- >experiencing the thrill of hurtling at 150+ mph on a motorcycle,
- >or falling from the sky on a parachute, or going weightless on
- >a tabletop with your motocrosser, or flying with eagles on a glider,
- >or a perfect loop in an airplane, or diving a coral reef, or
- >fighting a hard, rightous fight and knowing you tried your best, or
- >travelling the world, or riding a storm in your sailboat, or
- >seeing a while breeching is something I just can't do.
-
- really nice post! for a little different point of view though, you
- should read w. somerset maugham's "of human bondage".
-
- peace,
-
- - ravi
-
- obsticker: to thosde who sent me sase's and money: i have ordered the
- stickers and will mail them out as soon as they come in.
-
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- end and flames at the other. (C). | 89 SuzukiGS500E - Phaedra ;)
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