Freedom, I’m sure.

“Riding a motorcycle is about as much fun as you can legally have as an adult, but there’s no getting around the fact that they’re incredibly dangerous. Even if you do everything correctly, you can still end up in the hospital courtesy of other drivers.” A no truer statement has ever been made. I am no longer a rider.…

That happened to me when I first moved to the bay area. It was a 5.0 quake and I just assumed a bigger one was coming. It never did. I moved back to the safe (?) northeast six months later.

This reinforces my general distrust of the police. I’m a white college educated male that is probably the least likely demographic to die from a police gunshot, but holy crap this scares me.

Re: the kidney, why, oh, why?

I have to do the Open MRI or I can’t stand it. Even then my wife has to hold my hand through the scan. Getting dropped into a dump truck and compacted is the stuff of nightmares.

I can say from personal experience that, on a motorcycle, a speed higher than advisable can be a scary thing. I don’t ride anymore, but when I did I was on the highway, riding my Sportster 12oo at a rate of speed higher than advisable when I experienced a “death wobble”. The handlebars were moving side to side and all…

I don’t know why, but there are always cars crashing into buildings here in Greater Boston. In fact, there is a Chinese restaurant in the town where I work that has had cars crash into it on three separate occasions.

That would be this, A 1978 Mazda RX-7:

As a former rider who quit, not because of four accidents (yes, accidents; none were my fault), but because as time went on and I tried to ride even more carefully, other drivers seemed to get worse and worse at sharing the roads with motorcycles. When I rode, I always rode defensively and this guy was driving…

I’m not from Jersey, but recently passed through Mahwah, so I find that amusing. Kudos.

A punk kid on a dirt bike does not a “biker” make. If that had been a real “biker”, they wouldn’t have stomped out the woman’s rear window unless she had done something to provoke them. And if she had done something to provoke them and she shoved them, it wouldn’t have end the same way. Just saying.

Yes! I just bought one and it’s wicked fast. It has launch control.