01-10-2018, 12:26 PM
Cormanus Wrote:The ‘gawd, she’s beautiful’ thing is a problem. What if she’s beautiful but loves most of what you hate? What if you continue to be tormented by her beauty but grow to loathe everything else about her?
Wait.
You know Ligia, too? Dang. Small world.
mickey Wrote
on't believe a word I say. Seriously, every time I hop on either of my trusty steeds I'm straight-up 
, yo!
Yeah, yeah. We know.
Anyway, to your other point, yes, I am battling the speed demon. I know I need to slow down. Intellectually, I sort of want to slow down. The stupid teen version of me says I'm not ready yet to slow down, and my right wrist usually concurs.
But I have slowed down, for sure. I am no longer going as fast as I did on the Street Triple R. I haven't even seen 125 mph yet on the XSR. I sit up now and relax on the straights. ~knock on wood~ I haven't crashed in god knows how long. Upwards of fifteen years, I would guess. ~knock on wood~ I stopped doing track days, and long before I stopped I was questioning whether I had any business still being out there?
I mean, come on, I'm looking at things like the Triumph T120 and Honda CB1100, and I even took a sniff at a couple of Moto Guzzi tractors disguised as motorcycles.
I want to arrive at a point whereby I don't need to treat motorcycling as a sport in order to enjoy it. I really do want to get there; so much so, in fact, that I may just force myself into it by swapping to a heavy, relatively under-powered/under-damped retro sled. It's not so much that I have this grand desire to slow down and smell the roses. Nope, it's more that I just don't want to keep tempting fate. If I'm to continue riding, well, I have to be able to continue riding, and with my neck situation one good crash could do me in.
So, yep, I truly do want to slow down and somehow still enjoy the ride. I'm not positive I'll manage it, but that's the goal, anyway.
Wait.
You know Ligia, too? Dang. Small world.
mickey Wrote
on't believe a word I say. Seriously, every time I hop on either of my trusty steeds I'm straight-up , yo! Yeah, yeah. We know.
Anyway, to your other point, yes, I am battling the speed demon. I know I need to slow down. Intellectually, I sort of want to slow down. The stupid teen version of me says I'm not ready yet to slow down, and my right wrist usually concurs.
But I have slowed down, for sure. I am no longer going as fast as I did on the Street Triple R. I haven't even seen 125 mph yet on the XSR. I sit up now and relax on the straights. ~knock on wood~ I haven't crashed in god knows how long. Upwards of fifteen years, I would guess. ~knock on wood~ I stopped doing track days, and long before I stopped I was questioning whether I had any business still being out there?
I mean, come on, I'm looking at things like the Triumph T120 and Honda CB1100, and I even took a sniff at a couple of Moto Guzzi tractors disguised as motorcycles.
I want to arrive at a point whereby I don't need to treat motorcycling as a sport in order to enjoy it. I really do want to get there; so much so, in fact, that I may just force myself into it by swapping to a heavy, relatively under-powered/under-damped retro sled. It's not so much that I have this grand desire to slow down and smell the roses. Nope, it's more that I just don't want to keep tempting fate. If I'm to continue riding, well, I have to be able to continue riding, and with my neck situation one good crash could do me in.
So, yep, I truly do want to slow down and somehow still enjoy the ride. I'm not positive I'll manage it, but that's the goal, anyway.