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Posted by Anonymous on September 21, 2008, 11:57 pm
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>> I've been riding for several years now and have never told the rest
>> of the family as they are all very anti-motorcycle type. None of them
>> have ever ridden a motorcycle but they can cite with utmost certanity
>> how dangerous they are and how difficult they are to ride. I live a
>> few hundred miles away from the closest relative and they rarely come
>> to visit us as the wife and I live in a rather small place. No big
>> deal, we always enjoy going to vist them.........in the car. This year
>> tho the sisters planned a family reunion and Jane and I decided to
>> ride the bike rather than take the car. The reunion was being held at
>> one of the lakes in central Florida. At really pretty area that my
>> brothers and I had spent time at when we were a lot younger, pre
>> Disney days. About 25 people including in-laws and kids. It's not
>> quite as remote now but still a nice place. On purpose Jane and I
>> arrived a bit late on our almost new Honda Shadow. Total silence When
>> I turned of the engine. .I said "Hi everyone, when do we eat." For
>> the next 5 hours or so I got the usual family lecture from my mom and
>> two sisters (all nurses) about how I was going to die if I continued
>> riding the motorcycle, worse yet how I was going to be responsible for
>> the death of my wife. This time i had come prepared tho with my own
>> set of statistics and I told them how I had taken the MSF basic and
>> the ERC classes and not only was I a better and safer motorcycle rider
>> but a better car driver, etc, etc, etc. By the end of the day I think
>> that they had come to veiw motorcycle riding (at least how I ride) a
>> little bit differently and a more that a few of the husbands were
>> asking questions about the bike. My brother. Paul, even asked to ride
>> it around the park, "when you get you motorcycle endorsement" I told
>> him. Jane and I left in the evening, rode back over to Daytona Beach
>> then up A!A along the ocean, at night, to Jacksonville on an
>> absolutely beautiful warm summer night....why we ride!
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>> Dr Phil
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> Cool beans. My family doesn't have any other riders but they know I love
> it and they accept it, risks and all.
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> My wife doesn't ride with me anymore but she also understands my passion
> for riding, I wish she did but accept that it's her decision.
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My wife no doesn't ride with me either, and I'm
damn glad.
"slow down", "speed up", "turn here", "are you
paying attention", "I'm hot", "I'm cold", "look!
there's a garage sale". etc., etc., etc.
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