06-16-2016, 09:30 PM
Loved the video 
I am rarely asked that question about risk or being brave and don't bother to try and explain why I ride, but it comes up once in a great while. I'm polite about it and usually just say I try to be careful, etc., etc.
For a small province (947 thousand) we have a huge per capita volume of motorcycles here and on fine weekends (and daily) the streets and roads are alive with motorcycles.
When I returned to motorcycles in 1992 after a 34 year layoff, I thought about the risk constantly. I wasn't really afraid, just not comfortable being so exposed.
It took me the greater part of that summer to calm down and just let my instincts and the things I learned in the MSF course to be my guide.
Now, almost 24 years later I ride very comfortably, but am not complacent about it. My "sensors" are always on and have become second nature and instinctive for surviving in traffic.
That said, we don't have the great volumes of traffic here like in the big cities like Montreal, Atlanta, LA, Sydney, Melbourne, etc., but we have our share of stupid drivers to watch out for.
Risky? Of course it is, but at age 78+ there will be no watching "I love Lucy" for me
I am rarely asked that question about risk or being brave and don't bother to try and explain why I ride, but it comes up once in a great while. I'm polite about it and usually just say I try to be careful, etc., etc.
For a small province (947 thousand) we have a huge per capita volume of motorcycles here and on fine weekends (and daily) the streets and roads are alive with motorcycles.
When I returned to motorcycles in 1992 after a 34 year layoff, I thought about the risk constantly. I wasn't really afraid, just not comfortable being so exposed.
It took me the greater part of that summer to calm down and just let my instincts and the things I learned in the MSF course to be my guide.
Now, almost 24 years later I ride very comfortably, but am not complacent about it. My "sensors" are always on and have become second nature and instinctive for surviving in traffic.
That said, we don't have the great volumes of traffic here like in the big cities like Montreal, Atlanta, LA, Sydney, Melbourne, etc., but we have our share of stupid drivers to watch out for.
Risky? Of course it is, but at age 78+ there will be no watching "I love Lucy" for me