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• Zinderin

  • 6 posts
  Posted in the topic Not to forget the reason for the holiday in the forum Off Topic

  August 24, 2019 4:45 AM PDT

  
  Absolutely, I'm a Navy brat, my dad was career Navy ... it is a huge sacrafice to serve, THANK YOU!

• Zinderin

  • 6 posts
  Posted in the topic Hand Signals while riding? in the forum Biker Chat

  August 24, 2019 4:42 AM PDT

  
  I point to the lane I am changing to just as an added precaution ... someone who is not directly behind me will see me do that while they may not have noticed my turn signal. 
  
  I too point to hazards in the road for the drivers behind me ... but that's fortunatley not that often.

   

   

• Zinderin

  • 6 posts
  Posted in the topic 1500 vulcan in the forum Metric

  August 24, 2019 4:37 AM PDT

  
  I personally trust my Mechanic ... if you pick up a used bike, the very first thing you should do is take it to a mechanic you trust (never trust the person/dealer you bought it from) and pay they to completely check out the bike.
  
  I bought a Kawasaki 750 Trip from a dealer once ... to it my mechanic, the frame right behind the tree was cracked.  As in, eventurally my entire front end would have separated from the rest of the bike.   I bought my Road King from the original owner with only 15K on it and supposedly had ALWAYS BEEN GARAGED ... took it to the mechanic, he found several things wrong.  Not to meantion it was clear when you got under the tins it had not always been garaged.
  
  Fortunately it didn't cost me a fortune to fix them but there were problems that would eventually could have resulted in a breakdown and tow.

   

  This post was edited by Zinderin at August 24, 2019 4:37 AM PDT
• Zinderin

  • 6 posts
  Posted in the topic Hobbies - Other Than Motorcycles in the forum Off Topic

  August 24, 2019 4:29 AM PDT

  Woodworking and Guns.  I don't hunt anymore, just target practice.

• Zinderin

  • 6 posts
  Posted in the topic Helmets Pros and Cons in the forum Biker Chat

  August 24, 2019 4:26 AM PDT

   

  I've ridden all my life, and used to take every opportunity to lose the helmet.  That was when I was young and felt immortal.
  
  I'm 64 now ... and don't get crazy like I used to.  Still, I refuse to ride without one.  If its really hot, I'll go with a half-helm, otherwise full-face helm all the way.
  
  My father died as a result of a motor-cycle accident in 1979.  Some young girls cut him off trying to beat him into the left-hand turn lane.  They clipped the front of his bike and sent him head on into a 4x4 pickup.  Now, my dad was only doing 30-35 MPH according to witness, and so was the truck ... but of course that means, it was like him hitting that truck at 60-70 MPH ... he went over the hood, into the outside lane of oncoming traffic, was hit by another car and drug like 60 feet beneath it. 
  
  A horrible crash.  Not his fault (even according to the witnesses), he was a safe experienced rider ... 49 years old.  He didn't die at the scene he died in the hospital later that night.  He had internal injuries and they had operated on him and stabilized him.  But they didn't sedate him sufficiently (today they would put you in a coma) and he kept wracking his body from the pain.  He tore the stitches internally, and before they could realize it, get him back into the operating room, and fix it, his bloos pressure bottomed out and they could never get it back up.
  
  Now I don't tell that story for sympathy, that was 40+ years ago, and I'm fine with it.  He loved riding as muchf as I do, and had he survived he'd of gone right back to riding.  No, I tell the story because the one thing the doctor said when I walked into the hospital carrying my helmet ... he tapped on my helmet and said, "He going to be fine, but he'd certainly be dead if it weren't for his."  His helmet was destroy ... I mean destroyed.  His head wasn't.
  
  I have a wife, a son, and a grandbaby ... its enough of a risk that I ride.  And while neither my wife, son, or daughter-in-law like that I ride, they don't say a word, they understand it makes me happy.
  
  But I don't want them having to care for a drooling mental case just because I blew a tire and went down at 40 miles an hour and drug my skull across rough pavement.  I owe THEM that much.
  
  This is just my opinion ... of course everyone has to decide for themselves.  I just personally don't believe their is a more serious decision you can make as a rider.