Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. ==================================================================================== 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). < http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Motorcycles/Isle+of+Man/IoM_MarineDr_AMR.jpg.html > 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 http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt