[Spridgets] Can anyone tell me

[Jim Johnson]

Amen, Mike.  (Sans the loud pipes on my BMWs  ;-)

You're gonna die from something. Everything in life is a calculated risk.
Besides...   more people die every year in car accidents than motorcycle
accidents.  I think we should outlaw cars. Get them off the roadways and
riding motorcycles would be MUCH safer.   ;-)

Or we could just outlaw leaving your house and considerably reduce the
accidental death rate. How far do we carry this after now leaving the
sublime for the rediculous?

Cheers!!
Jim - Who just returned from a 2,200 mile week long odyssey on a completely
restored 1964 R60/2 BMW.  Doin' it the Old Way!

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:48 PM, rrengineer @dslextreme.com <
rrengineer at dslextreme.com> wrote:

> I own a "sui-cycle"  and will continue to ride it until I can longer hold
> it
> up at the traffic light.  I have ridden since 1971 and at 58 years old, I
> still enjoy it as much as I did then.  Today i can afford a much safer
> vehicle than back then.  Granted, you are not as safe as in a car or truck,
> but you are not completely safe in those either.  I wear a helmet.   It is
> not a DOT helmet, but it is made from a carbon fiber/kevlar weave and is
> much safer than the traditional fiberglass helmets some people would rather
> I wear.  I'm not so sure going out in a motorcycle accident isn't
> preferable
> to being blind and deaf from old age and being abused in an old folks home
> like my father was because he had Alzheimer's.  Everyone is so quick to
> jump
> on the band wagon about motorcycles, but how well will you fare in your
> Spridget if an SUV plows into you on the freeway?  Oh, and I have very loud
> pipes too.
> Mike MacLean
> Ride to Live - Live to Ride
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Larry Daniels <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net
> >wrote:
>
> > I have a client who owns a freelance court reporting service.  She said
> > that
> > in their biz they call them sui-cycles.
> >
> > I quit riding two years ago, but in the 24 months before I quit I knew
> > three
> > people who were killed on bikes -- none wearing helmets.  For two of
> them,
> > it wouldn't have made a difference, but one may have survived.  I'm not
> > sure
> > it would have enhanced the quality of the rest of his life much, though.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lee Fox" <lee.fox at sbcglobal.net>
> > To: <spridgets at autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:01 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Can anyone tell me
> >
> >
> > Larry,
> > In Missouri, we refer to these vehicles as "Donor-cycles."
> > Although we do have a helmet law, you can't fix stupid. The Highway
> > Patrol will just let Darwin do the work.