[Leica] IMG: 40 Year Old Motorcycle

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

 On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 Don Dory <don.dory at gmail.com>wrote:

>Congratulations on being supremely paranoid and defensive; two wheeled
>riders in any city I have lived in have either had emergency off road
>excursions, had to lay their bike down, or are hospitalized/dead after ten
>years.
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Thanks.  I try to be careful - in 55-1/2 years since I got my driver's
license, I've never gotten a moving violation.
I don't ride as much these days, but I've always only ridden when I'm
feeling 100% aware, and won't go out
without a full-face helmet, leather jacket, pants, gloves, and boots, and I
have a reflective vest. Wearing all that,
most of my riding is on weekends in the spring and fall (I love it when
it's 55F/12C). I usually sit out the summer.
I loved riding through England and the Isle of Man in 1993 - the
temperature was perfect, and  my buddy and I
even survived riding our rental bikes through the heaviest rain we'd
experienced on two wheels (we had to get
from Liverpool to London by noon or pay a late fee).

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My third day of riding (1965) on a Honda 50 step-through, I forgot to use
the front brake, ran up a curb, and
skinned my elbow on a sidewalk.  It convinced me to wear protection.  That
was my only injury in 50K miles.
-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amr3 at uwm.edu
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