Another adventure on my motorcycle!

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Being involved in MSF training I'm always amazed at the amount of misinformation students show up with. Helmets cause broken necks. Don't use the front brake or you'll go over the bars. Sometimes ya gotta lay er down. Loud pipes save lives, so I am personally exempt from taking any responsibility for my own safety.

It's as if in some crowds learning stopped back in the 1950s.

I ride 25,000-40,000 miles a year and am pretty good at picking out the inattentive riders, what we call sloth riders. Absolutely no situational awareness, no scanning for threats, no head checks before lane changes. It's worse in the springtime when all the chrome comes back out from winter hibernation.

Treat them all like deer: clueless and unpredictable.

Thank you... and I didn't mean to preach.(You left out one saying though... "Live fast, die young, andleave a beautiful corpse. ) I like to think that, like CDL drivers, most bikers are alert and responsible riders... yet I've had 3 very near misses in the past year that would have happened had I not been watching out. Every spring since since I went online 12 years ago I've posted that reminder; "look twice..."

Ironically the only thing keeping me off two wheels is my slow reflexes...