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DON'T get a motorcycle

gnstalodz said:
:laughing

I'm done with this one on one arguing with you. Your ignorant and it was amusing but now you are trying to take to a personal point. ...
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:nchantr

:laughing
 
I was a passenger on a dirt bike before I turned 1, I rode my first moto solo at the age of 5, I haven't stopped since. I rode nearly every weekend in the backroads and woods of Klickitat County Washington. I feel sorry for anyone who wasn't brought up the same way.
 
103 Moto said:
That being said, I think that's not the whole picture of the logic of the OP really... Here's my guess: you think they wouldn't miss you much.
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You might have something there....
 
If your mother/sister/wife/son asked you stop riding, that they worried for your safety constantly, would you stop riding?
 
revnort said:
If your mother/sister/wife/son asked you stop riding, that they worried for your safety constantly, would you stop riding?
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If someone worries constantly then they need to see a doctor about their anxiety issue. A prescription for Xanax might be in order.
 
gnstalodz said:
I did what I thought was best for my sister.

And I completely agree about the freedom we all get from getting on one. But I don't want to risk loosing the ones I love.
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I only got 2 pages into this and could not contain myself until i read the rest.

I think you're leading a rotten life. You have no respect for your loved ones. Even if you believe another person would crash because your brain has "more horsepower" than their brain, it is TUNED WRONG and poisoning you.

I believe you don't love anyone but yourself if you aren't horrified by the idea of keeping them away from something so wonderful until you die and make them grieve for you.

Gixxergirl1000 said:
And if you were my brother, and actually broke my bike trying to force me away from riding... I'd shank you like a prison convict. :|
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SLOW CLAP
 
I kinda understand the op as my sister thinks she is awesome at everything and doesn't need anyone to tell her how to do anything including riding.

Somehow she survived a Ninja 250 and an 883. Blind luck I think.




At any rate, I try to convince everyone I meet that motorcycles are the smartest thing you could ever do.
 
Brown81 said:
I kinda understand the op as my sister thinks she is awesome at everything and doesn't need anyone to tell her how to do anything including riding.

Somehow she survived a Ninja 250 and an 883. Blind luck I think.




At any rate, I try to convince everyone I meet that motorcycles are the smartest thing you could ever do.
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You may understand his concern... but you're ten times the brother he is.

I wish you'd come home... was out riding Redwood up to the Wall a couple weeks back, was thinking about you, Eric and Jim... :nchantr :( :cry
 
Lovedoc said:
............... I totally get the OP, hypocrisy on BARF is nothing weighed against your family. Take care of your kids gnstalodz, best way you can.
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+1

Taking your kids/ loved ones to the er after they wreck on the moto YOU provided, is no joke.


If anyone asks me about riding, I always tell 'em to start off in the dirt, and I'll see them at Carnegie.
 
planegray said:
+1

Taking your kids/ loved ones to the er after they wreck on the moto YOU provided, is no joke.


If anyone asks me about riding, I always tell 'em to start off in the dirt, and I'll see them at Carnegie.
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Dunno... didn't seem to stress my parents out too badly when they were taking me to the ER due to the horse they provided... :laughing
 
I actually though OP was being kind of tongue in cheek in the way those '10 reasons not to do a trackday' type posts are. Despite all the reasoning one way there are clear reasons the other... That seemed to be the intimation with the 'but I ride till I die' bit... But then I read his further posts and saw he was far more serious....

But being a father of some awesome little dudes I have to say the issues he brings up with it all is not so simply brushed aside (though I do certainly take notice when the normally super positive gixxergirl gets heated). I cannot express in words how as a father how deeply the concern for your kids goes. But if the OP really felt that Motos were so dangerous to them then wtf ride and give them the example/inspiration to also want to do the same?Know that if you are going to do something you consider dangerous the best thing you can do is help equip them to be safe at it as well.*

I'm absolutely not trying to pile on rather trying to bring the discussion back to some shit that I do trip on. I love riding and it is crucial in my life to have this outlet. But I cannot ignore the very real risks of it and how that might affect my kids and family. And it's useful to be able to acknowledge that and discuss it. And I am curious how other people weigh these factors and how they act on them.*
 
NTron3000 said:
I actually though OP was being kind of tongue in cheek in the way those '10 reasons not to do a trackday' type posts are. Despite all the reasoning one way there are clear reasons the other... That seemed to be the intimation with the 'but I ride till I die' bit... But then I read his further posts and saw he was far more serious....

But being a father of some awesome little dudes I have to say the issues he brings up with it all is not so simply brushed aside (though I do certainly take notice when the normally super positive gixxergirl gets heated). I cannot express in words how as a father how deeply the concern for your kids goes. But if the OP really felt that Motos were so dangerous to them then wtf ride and give them the example/inspiration to also want to do the same?Know that if you are going to do something you consider dangerous the best thing you can do is help equip them to be safe at it as well.*

I'm absolutely not trying to pile on rather trying to bring the discussion back to some shit that I do trip on. I love riding and it is crucial in my life to have this outlet. But I cannot ignore the very real risks of it and how that might affect my kids and family. And it's useful to be able to acknowledge that and discuss it. And I am curious how other people weigh these factors and how they act on them.*
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10 months old, if he grows up and isn't a goob, ill take him to the dirt no problem. But if he's anything like his aunt or his mother, ill try my hardest to talk him out of it. Ultimately my son will do whatever he wants and I know I can not control him. But I don't know the kind of little man he hi yet, only time will tell.
 
CJ, I'm a little disappointed, bro.

You no longer seem to be that guy I helped wrench in a new steering head bearing at 2am with the bike suspended by ropes from the garage ceiling. Remember that? That's friendship. That's passion for the sport, hobby, or calling of motorcycling. That, and a thousand others, are memories that I wouldn't trade, not for the scars on my skin or the aches in my joints that riding has also brought me. Not for anything.

Don't take that opportunity away from somebody else.
 
cycle61 said:
CJ, I'm a little disappointed, bro.

You no longer seem to be that guy I helped wrench in a new steering head bearing at 2am with the bike suspended by ropes from the garage ceiling. Remember that? That's friendship. That's passion for the sport, hobby, or calling of motorcycling. That, and a thousand others, are memories that I wouldn't trade, not for the scars on my skin or the aches in my joints that riding has also brought me. Not for anything.

Don't take that opportunity away from somebody else.
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haha yea that wasn't a rope, that was an extension cord.

I wouldn't trade it in, and it isn't about me. I guess I'm the only one who knows a person who shouldn't ride... that surprises me.

ps. thanks again for the help on the old RR, that makes me feel old thinking about how long ago it was :laughing
 
gnstalodz said:
I guess I'm the only one who knows a person who shouldn't ride... that surprises me.
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No, we all know people who shouldn't ride.

But you ARE one of the few who are arrogant enough to decide you alone are qualified to be the "judge and jury" to make that choice for others... all the while ignoring those same reasons as they apply to you yourself.

AND, is stupid enough to brag about it to a forum full of motorcyclists.
 
Charles R said:
No, we all know people who shouldn't ride.

But you ARE one of the few who are arrogant enough to decide you alone are qualified to be the "judge and jury" to make that choice for others... all the while ignoring those same reasons as they apply to you yourself.

AND, is stupid enough to brag about it to a forum full of motorcyclists.
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Good to know what you would do in my shoes
 
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