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- From: jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Why I ride
- Message-ID: <y8LiuB1w165w@vector0.SAC.CA.US>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 18:03:09 PST
- References: <1ea37fINNjch@im4u.cs.utexas.edu>
- Organization: Vector Zero
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- osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes:
-
- > Why I Ride
- >
- > To live a life without
- > experiencing the thrill of hurtling at 150+ mph on a motorcycle,
-
- The above is not riding. It's racing. Just like going 35 mph
- on a Sunday up and down streets is cruising. I'd say there's a
- difference: obviously a racer's going to wear some protective
- clothing while the harley [or wannabe] guy only wears a
- 1/2 bowling ball helmet. I don't race and I don't cruise, but I
- do think I *ride*.
-
- I will add this though: I've recently thought about writing
- a will. I'm 19 years old. I think there's something to be said
- about the existentialist DoDer. Are you ready to die the instant
- you leave your driveway? Going down the freeway at 65+, pretty
- much anything happens and you are dead. After you're a corpse
- you don't care who's fault it was.
- Hey, it's morbid, but it's reality.
-
-
- Ob-death-sidenote: It rained today. Something about all those cagers
- looking at you as if you're suicidal, then try to take a right turn
- at 35 mph. They think you're crazy, but don't think of their own
- tire traction at 60 mph down a residential.
-
- --Jon
-
- jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US Life is like a kiwi.
- '90 Radian 600
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