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- From: klinger@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jorg Klinger)
- Subject: Re: Why I ride
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- References: <1ea37fINNjch@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> <y8LiuB1w165w@vector0.SAC.CA.US> <1992Nov22.043156.26147@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:59:37 GMT
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- In <1992Nov22.043156.26147@serval.net.wsu.edu> bill@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (William E. Johns;S23015) writes:
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- >In article <y8LiuB1w165w@vector0.SAC.CA.US> jon@vector0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused) writes:
- >>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
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- >I disagree.
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- >A race is a competition. A race is an effort to reach a goal first.
- >I spend a reasonable bit of time over DoD nominal and have touched
- >135+ on more than one occasion. I race no one and prefer that such
- >ventures are on solo rides simply becasue I do not like competition
- >on a bike. Yet I like speed. It is simply a marvelous rush to see
- >telephone poles go by like fence posts. It is wonderful to feel the
- >wonderful push of air, even behind the excellent bubble of the FJ.
- >It is energizing to feel the quickened pulse of the bike as it lunges
- >up to those speeds. I love it. And it ain't racing, not even with
- >the euphumistic "self." If it is anything it is meditation, some of the
- >best, most focussed kind of meditation I've ever experienced. I define
- >meditation as a focussed attention. When in triple digits I find that
- >I focus on life. I am aware of everything.
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- >Anyway in _my_ heaven, all the bikes run on goat's milk and the cops
- >are there to sweep the gravel off the roads in the twisties. You're
- >all invited. :-)
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- >Bill
- >________________________________________________________________
- >johnsw@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu prez=BIMC
- >AMA #500924 DoD #00314 WMTC #0002 SR= 3
- >Yamabeemer fjgs1200pdr100 740GLE KotV KotRR KotD #0001 :-)
- >\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
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- Kindred spirit!
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- Jorg Klinger | GSXR1100 | If you only new who
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