jay0:
do you not think about your family and friends chas and the effect it would have on them if the worst were to happen?
What I fear most is dying in front of the telly.
What you just said there IS the worst that can happen… becoming a doll dosser and drinking yourself in oblivion.
I don’t understand how people think like that. Seems a much better way to go being scraped up and hosed down the drains then eh? not to mention your poor wife/kids/family having to identify your body while its smashed to pieces.
If people want to ride like idiots go on the track, it’s simply not worth the risk on the roads. I like speed and anything fast as much as the next guy, my ibiza is currently at 335bhp. Time and a place to open them up.
Middlehertz:
What you just said there IS the worst that can happen… becoming a doll dosser and drinking yourself in oblivion.
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.” Leo Buscaglia.
There’s one or two on here who are not worthy of discussion. There is no basis on which to begin a discussion, They are nothing because they do nothing.
They think that we hate them because hate is one of the few emotions that they understand.
maga:
If people want to ride like idiots go on the track, it’s simply not worth the risk on the roads. I like speed and anything fast as much as the next guy, my ibiza is currently at 335bhp. Time and a place to open them up.
Will your relatives feel any better that your death occurred on the track rather than the open road?
I agree with the above comments, there is a time and place to open sports vehicles up but not on public highway in dangerous situations, involving potential victims and yourself.
However I do take risk as I am a keen skydiver Something that I recommend people do before they die as you can’t explain the feeling until you have done this. Was on my bucket list for 21 years, ever since I did one, i got the bug and do it regularly.
maga:
If people want to ride like idiots go on the track, it’s simply not worth the risk on the roads. I like speed and anything fast as much as the next guy, my ibiza is currently at 335bhp. Time and a place to open them up.
Will your relatives feel any better that your death occurred on the track rather than the open road?
Chances are I won’t die on the track, I hear tyre walls and sand traps are softer and have more give than most street furniture. Last time I looked the roads don’t have paramedics on standby either.
Fall off on the road or crash on the road you’re gona feel it, even at 30 mph. Do the same on the track, chances are you’ll have scratched your bike and damaged your ego its really not hard to get your head around.
Middlehertz:
What you just said there IS the worst that can happen… becoming a doll dosser and drinking yourself in oblivion.
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.” Leo Buscaglia.
There’s one or two on here who are not worthy of discussion. There is no basis on which to begin a discussion, They are nothing because they do nothing.
They think that we hate them because hate is one of the few emotions that they understand.
We don’t hate them, we pity them.
You are such a pompous fool. All you’re talking about is riding a motorbike like an idiot, you’re not the Dali Lama
Chas:
My bike makes 125hp & weighs 215kg, it’s tuned for acceleration rather than top speed. 0-60mph is approx 3secs & from a standing start I can travel 1/4ml in 10.8 seconds.
Top Gear have proven that a 1 litre sports bike can out accelerate an F1 car up to the point that the cars aerodynamics create grip.
Unless you have experienced this level of performance you will never understand. There is nothing on the road that will out accelerate me up to 60mph & you’d need to spend over £100k for a car that would beat me from 60 - 100mph.
Sometimes, I will use that performance to do things that you will think of as dangerous, to me I’m just pointing it somewhere & using this performance to it’s maximum.
Sometimes I’m just doing it to show off . . . 'Cos I can.
Who do you think your showing off to?
I don’t give a monkey’s, I don’t drive owt small that if hit a bike would bother, the fact may well be if you took your speed to the track others would make you look daft
every year many bikers race round our area and every year some crash, often at fault, but never to blame!
Middlehertz:
What you just said there IS the worst that can happen… becoming a doll dosser and drinking yourself in oblivion.
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.” Leo Buscaglia.
There’s one or two on here who are not worthy of discussion. There is no basis on which to begin a discussion, They are nothing because they do nothing.
They think that we hate them because hate is one of the few emotions that they understand.
We don’t hate them, we pity them.
You are such a pompous fool. All you’re talking about is riding a motorbike like an idiot, you’re not the Dali Lama
Chas we get it, you’re super man, no need to labour it.
carryfast-yeti:
so you’re prepared to risk your LGV license just so you can ‘show off’?
It’s a contradiction, but yes I am.
One of my bike mates is also into mountaineering, We can’t understand how he can put himself in so much danger, just to climb a cliff face.
When he’s 180ft up the wall with nothing more than 1/2" of rope & a crampon separating life from death, then you have to think he’s selfish & not thinking right at all.
One of my favourite bits of philosophy just about sums it up :
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.” Leo Buscaglia.
These days, as I get older & wiser, it seems that it’s only when I’m out on the bike that I become ‘alive’.
I pity the slobs, dying in front of the telly whilst drinking Lager from a can.
so what happens to the other poor sods you injure in the accident when you eventually self destruct?
or are they just ‘collataral damage’ in your quest for self gratification?
You may be lucky and end up dead. But then you may be unlucky like someone I know of. He came off his bike in 1967. He broke his back just below the point where the nerves for the arms branch out. Arms and above OK below all buggered. He has been in a wheel chair since. When you meet him you hear the sound off his ■■■■ dripping into the bottle strapped to his wheel chair. Also since the accident every other day a nurse has to come in to see him and dig his bowels out! As I say you may be lucky and end up dead, but a lot do not!
not to mention your poor wife/kids/family having to identify your body while its smashed to pieces.
Something that I recommend people do before they die as you can’t explain the feeling until you have done this. Was on my bucket list for 21 years, ever since I did one, i got the bug and do it regularly.