(02-22-2018 04:32 PM)The ferret Wrote: I think young men, motorcycles, and speeding sort of go hand in hand.....to see how fast the vehicle he is driving will go?
Not only young riders will have anecdotes to tell from the past. May they be 'funny' in the way, everything is well that ends well, or not.
Here are two:
I once came into a little village with my Kawa LTD Twin 750 and did not slow down that much, when a policeman jumped out on the street and stopped me. He told me, he could not find out how fast I was, because he hadn't finished installing his mobile radar system. But I should drive more adaquate further on. So far, so good.
Years later being on the Autobahn with a Guzzi California I accelerated more and more neglecting speed signs always going down, a bad mistake, but the Guzzi ran somehow good, which it didn't on other rides. Suddendly a black car passed by, stopped me and 2 policemen in civil showed me a video sequence, I'm not longing to see. The end of that story was a resting period without my driving license.
Sometimes one needs such a break for reflection....
The holes in the net in Germany has over the years become smaller and smaller, years have gone by with a lot of lessons learned, of course not all of them, and I'm paying much more attention to traffic signs as I did in times, when everything seems to flow by itself without any restrictions and punishment....
Nevertheless motorbikes always have an inherent temptation of finding out how fast they will go or accelerate, which sometimes means the same. My bikes are differnt in topspeed but they all offer the possibilty to often break the rules in a lot of situations. I keep myself back these days. The one who is without a sin throw the first stone....or set himself apart.
Wisedrum