In article , Harold & Susan Vordos wrote:
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Whenever any of my young helpers through the years has asked me about
riding
motorcycles, I take them out to the loading dock, get them to look down at
the asphalt parking lot, and tell them to see whether they like riding a
bike, they must duct tape their hands behind their back and dive off
face-first onto the asphalt. If they like it, they are biker material. RJ

some nice humor here, more appreciated by us older generation, imho.

Excellent advice as far as I'm concerned. I spent a few days in the hospital
back in '64 after being run off the road by a car. Long story, but I met
the asphalt with my head and shoulder. Luckily, I had a gut feeling about
wearing a helmet, which was almost unheard of at that point in time. It
kept me from far more serious injury, perhaps death. Lots of road rash. I
got back on what used to be a beautiful '63 TR6 Triumph a few times after I
had recovered, then I sold it. Harold

yes, scarey, spooky, whatever you want to call it, i would react the same.
i did partially seperate a shoulder, but nothing really life threatening.

the one fatal incident that i was close to was a friend of a co-worker
who forgot his lunch and was doing a u-turn on his Vespa (sans helmet)
when he hit his front break (likely an oncoming car) and slammed the
cycle down on the birm of the pavement.

he hit is head and was killed instantly. speed? under 10mph for sure.
this is something like the way i hurt my shoulder. you don't touch
that front break unless the forks are absolutely straight. --Loren