10-09-13, 02:31 PM
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1. At anything over 20mph, a bee/fly in the face/neck/any exposed body part will feel like you’ve just been shot with a rubber bullet.
Animals have been put on this planet for the specific purpose of performing Kamikaze missions on passing motorcyclists. In rural areas, deer will wait in the roadside undergrowth, listening for the approach of a bike. At the very last second, when it’s far too late for you to take evasive action, they’ll fling themselves into your path, or maybe just leap straight for your head.
2. Forget the TV weatherman, you’re going to develop a better ability to read weather radar maps, cloud formations and wind patterns than anyone with an actual fookin degree.
3. Before you had a motorcycle, you always tried to find the quickest and most direct way to get around. Now that you have a bike, you’ll be willing to go 100 miles out of your way to visit the same place after telling the wife your popping out for a quick ride and returning hours later to receive a bollocking :'(
4. Utility companies go around placing large, slick metal plates in the road, precisely where motorcyclists need to ride or, where to put their foot down. In the dry, fine. But, in the rain? A wet manhole (no s******ing, please) becomes a skating rink. Put a foot on one and your boot instantly slips, meaning you’ll drop your bike. Hit one while turning and you’ll be laying on the ground.
Road markings are as slippery as manhole covers in the wet.
And then there are tar snakes: cracks in the road filled with liquid tar - see above!
5. You Become A Better Car Driver.
6. Waving Etiquette applies - Do cruiser riders count?
7. Your bike's not going to melt in the rain :lol
1. At anything over 20mph, a bee/fly in the face/neck/any exposed body part will feel like you’ve just been shot with a rubber bullet.
Animals have been put on this planet for the specific purpose of performing Kamikaze missions on passing motorcyclists. In rural areas, deer will wait in the roadside undergrowth, listening for the approach of a bike. At the very last second, when it’s far too late for you to take evasive action, they’ll fling themselves into your path, or maybe just leap straight for your head.
2. Forget the TV weatherman, you’re going to develop a better ability to read weather radar maps, cloud formations and wind patterns than anyone with an actual fookin degree.
3. Before you had a motorcycle, you always tried to find the quickest and most direct way to get around. Now that you have a bike, you’ll be willing to go 100 miles out of your way to visit the same place after telling the wife your popping out for a quick ride and returning hours later to receive a bollocking :'(
4. Utility companies go around placing large, slick metal plates in the road, precisely where motorcyclists need to ride or, where to put their foot down. In the dry, fine. But, in the rain? A wet manhole (no s******ing, please) becomes a skating rink. Put a foot on one and your boot instantly slips, meaning you’ll drop your bike. Hit one while turning and you’ll be laying on the ground.
Road markings are as slippery as manhole covers in the wet.
And then there are tar snakes: cracks in the road filled with liquid tar - see above!
5. You Become A Better Car Driver.
6. Waving Etiquette applies - Do cruiser riders count?
7. Your bike's not going to melt in the rain :lol
Those are my principles...if you don't like them I have others.