Alright, y'all... thought you would all get a kick out my stupidity... try not to hold it against me and I expect all the wise ass comments afterward as well...so pop the popcorn
Went to visit my bro yesterday at the grocery store where he works. All his freinds came out to check out the bike and yea they loved it...
We went off to one of his freinds houses in his car... With a little bit of pure preassure from my bro, I was smoking some weed with him and his buddies. When we get back to Albertson's his freinds are wanting to see me take off on the Busa. (It was a parking lot, no where to go naturally) I had a little bit of room to hit it a little to give them a taste of the exhaust and such.
so....
I take the bike to the edge of the parking lot, turn it around, and start to speed up. As I gradually take a turn and hit the throttle a little, (it was dark out) I didn't see the nice lite patch of gravel in the turn. (I was probably traveling around 20MPH) Since I hit the throttle a bit in the turn the back wheel violently spun out from under me... I had the bike going sideways. Luckily, I kept my cool (maybe because I was high, otherwise I probably would have paniced, not advertising, I probably would have noticed the gravel if I wasn't DUI, so don't get any ideas) I simply rolled off the throttle and DIDN'T hit the brakes. The bike flipped back forward almost as fast as it went sideways. As soon as I gained control of the bike, I parked it...
I haven't rode it since and I think I am going to give it a few days rest to regain my composure. I didn't panic when it happened, but I sure did think about it a lot today. I had my full gear on and I don't think I would have done myself a lot of damage being as slow as I was going, but on the otherhand, I think the bike would have suffered greatly for sure...
Not that I should be giving anyone lessons here given my own stupidy of being DUI and driving, but the lesson I pulled out of that one was... In a bad situation, try not to panic and see the situation through as best you can... Although everything happened faster then I ever imagined, I still had plenty of time to react and if that failed, I had time to drop it as best I could to avoid injury.
Cloud9
Went to visit my bro yesterday at the grocery store where he works. All his freinds came out to check out the bike and yea they loved it...
We went off to one of his freinds houses in his car... With a little bit of pure preassure from my bro, I was smoking some weed with him and his buddies. When we get back to Albertson's his freinds are wanting to see me take off on the Busa. (It was a parking lot, no where to go naturally) I had a little bit of room to hit it a little to give them a taste of the exhaust and such.
so....
I take the bike to the edge of the parking lot, turn it around, and start to speed up. As I gradually take a turn and hit the throttle a little, (it was dark out) I didn't see the nice lite patch of gravel in the turn. (I was probably traveling around 20MPH) Since I hit the throttle a bit in the turn the back wheel violently spun out from under me... I had the bike going sideways. Luckily, I kept my cool (maybe because I was high, otherwise I probably would have paniced, not advertising, I probably would have noticed the gravel if I wasn't DUI, so don't get any ideas) I simply rolled off the throttle and DIDN'T hit the brakes. The bike flipped back forward almost as fast as it went sideways. As soon as I gained control of the bike, I parked it...
I haven't rode it since and I think I am going to give it a few days rest to regain my composure. I didn't panic when it happened, but I sure did think about it a lot today. I had my full gear on and I don't think I would have done myself a lot of damage being as slow as I was going, but on the otherhand, I think the bike would have suffered greatly for sure...
Not that I should be giving anyone lessons here given my own stupidy of being DUI and driving, but the lesson I pulled out of that one was... In a bad situation, try not to panic and see the situation through as best you can... Although everything happened faster then I ever imagined, I still had plenty of time to react and if that failed, I had time to drop it as best I could to avoid injury.
Cloud9
It's important that we as men Grow up, but the key is to not grow old. You see them everywhere, young 30 something men all screwed down by there wives, and Kids, and work, and bills, and career prospects, and the mortgage, and on and on.... They look miserable, sitting in their cars in traffic, so angry that someone wants to get in front of them, so unable to control their own lives and destiny's that the road is where they attempt to exercise some control. The succsessful college grad who is slowly realizing that money really isn't everything, that social status is a lie, and the trappings of status will in the end pin you to the ground. Stranded, stuck in his position by the trophy wife who he doesn't like anymore, and the 2.5 kids he avoids by working late at a job he hates. Poor bastards cannot quit, are not in control of their lives, and are certainly not having any fun...
but it's at these times that you have to tell him no. There needs to be a defining line between Good fun, exciting fun, dangerous fun, and deadly fun. The first three are all good but you have to shut down your inner child and look around a little when they start suggesting the "deadly fun"....
