It must be sad to spent your
life afraid.
I know what you mean about cars and trucks
around you on your motorcycle.
I quit riding my HD in the city after my
neighbor was rear-ended on his cycle
while riding next to me. But
life goes on. I ride when and where I feel safe.
Why don't you and your wife purchase some
larger vehicles and stop being fearful
of everything around you ?
Tom S
Mike
Sorry that you may have misread my missive. I never
said or meant to imply that those who owned these vehicles were riff
raff. However for me when I am riding a motorcycle down a
Calyfornua freeway at 70 miles per hour, and one of these scows is on my tail
about 10 feet behind me, and passing me on both sides atr 90, all I can
think is, can this tailgating or speeding vehicle with the handling
characteristics of a stagecoach really stop as fast as I can if I should ever
need to slow quickly. It often appears that the larger the vehicle,
the more aggressive and invulnerable the driver seems and we all see
it everyday.
When I drive my B, I never fail to maintain at
least a car length behind any vehicle I am following for each 10 mph of
speed. Seems that most of our Caly drivers have not a clue about the laws
of physics and all to often it is someone driving one of these vehicles who
are reckless and intimidating, so yes I suppose I(and probably
millions of others) are somewhat jaded and afraid of them(and hate them), and
have a somewhat negative opinion. Oh yes, did I mention that I lost a
brother to a drunken driver who broadsided him. This driver was driving an
SUV. If it had been a mere car(that had real bumpers of the
height mandated by the FEDs for automobiles--which again SUV's get a pass on),
he probably would have walked away. As it was, this SUV just crawled right
up over the protective side impact bars in the passenger door(where my brother
was sitting) and right into the automobile. Yes, I know being drunk was
the crime, driving the SUV was not, but my brother died nevertheless and he
could/would still be alive if struck by a drunk in an automobile.
Ask yourself just how comfortable you are with your
family members out on the roads in their small Hondas, Chevy's, and Audi's
with all these huge vehicles. It scares me everyday to see my wife go off
to work with some 34 roundtrip miles of freeway to drive, and
she is driving her small car and I know what danger she is exposed
to.
Some would say that I am just being paranoid.
However another wag once said that: "Paranoia is merely an enlightened sense of
awareness".
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