Comments on: Motorcycling Is Not Fun and Games http://bolty.net/2008/09/16/motorcycling-is-not-fun-and-games/ a blog about riding motorcycles Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Duke http://bolty.net/2008/09/16/motorcycling-is-not-fun-and-games/comment-page-1/#comment-1566 Duke Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:37:03 +0000 http://bolty.net/?p=80#comment-1566 Don't sweat it, Gal. She was a bit off kilter to begin with, I'm afraid. You wouldn't believe how many PMs I get along those same lines, and they generally end the same way. :( Better to be mad and alive than supported and dead, I think. ;) Don’t sweat it, Gal. She was a bit off kilter to begin with, I’m afraid. You wouldn’t believe how many PMs I get along those same lines, and they generally end the same way. :(

Better to be mad and alive than supported and dead, I think. ;)

]]> By: irondad http://bolty.net/2008/09/16/motorcycling-is-not-fun-and-games/comment-page-1/#comment-306 irondad Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:39:28 +0000 http://bolty.net/?p=80#comment-306 So you stepped into it with both feet huh? Way to go, Grasshopper. Like you say, motorcycles are fun but too serious to be taken lightly. Did this woman want her ego stroked or good advice? You gave the advice. Now it's up to her how she receives it and what she does with it. Kind of like a professional instructor, huh? For what it's worth, in the Hurt study, 90% of the accident-involved riders were self taught. She should have waited for the class. I don't know her husband's credentials. The class would have taken her along the right steps in the right order. It's too easy for someone to go to step 6 from step 2. If steps 3,4, and 5 aren't properly cemented, things can crumble easily when things happen unexpectedly. For example, she's shifting from 2nd to 3rd to 2nd. Fine. How's the clutch and throttle control? Did she practice good, smooth, clutch releases? Did she practice applying the brakes such that smooth application is now a good habit? Third gear takes her up fast enough to hurt herself if she doesn't have the other steps down. Anyway, sorry. As you know, it's dangerous to give me an opening because my passion for motorcycle training explodes through it! So you stepped into it with both feet huh? Way to go, Grasshopper. Like you say, motorcycles are fun but too serious to be taken lightly. Did this woman want her ego stroked or good advice? You gave the advice. Now it’s up to her how she receives it and what she does with it. Kind of like a professional instructor, huh?

For what it’s worth, in the Hurt study, 90% of the accident-involved riders were self taught.

She should have waited for the class. I don’t know her husband’s credentials. The class would have taken her along the right steps in the right order. It’s too easy for someone to go to step 6 from step 2. If steps 3,4, and 5 aren’t properly cemented, things can crumble easily when things happen unexpectedly.

For example, she’s shifting from 2nd to 3rd to 2nd. Fine. How’s the clutch and throttle control? Did she practice good, smooth, clutch releases? Did she practice applying the brakes such that smooth application is now a good habit? Third gear takes her up fast enough to hurt herself if she doesn’t have the other steps down.

Anyway, sorry. As you know, it’s dangerous to give me an opening because my passion for motorcycle training explodes through it!

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