Hello
Many prolly don’t remember me as I have been gone from here since 2014. On that day my brother was run off the road by a dirtbag gangster biker of some sort. He ran my brother into on coming traffic causing him to clip an oncoming car and he was killed as I watched.
The man was never caught and at the time and I walked away from a lifetime of riding motorcycles since I was a 5 year old brat.
I swore off riding and sold everything motorcycle.
I guess I needed time to regroup and try to recover from the trauma. A lot of battles went trough my head as time passed about should I ever ride again. Slowly after time I was able to start watching racing on the tube again and slowly I began to consider riding again.
At this point a friend gave me a Honda nsx250 to play on for awhile on the trails by my house. I took him up on it and it lead to me buying a klx250. By now I had sold my busa and gixxer and began to regret it.
What I wondered about was could I ever do this again with same confidence as before. After some seat time on the little 250 I started to feel i might be able to ride again and I went out and got a 2021 z900. I felt like a newbie all over again. I took my time and work on remembering the basics that seemed to fade away while I swore it off. There are lots of great roads here where I could practice and almost always never see another sole on the whole road.
So that’s what I did all summer, I would practice on roads near my house that usually have 0 traffic on them. After I started getting more comfortable on these rides I would always go back to regretting the sale of my bikes. Oh well at the time seemed the right thing to do as my family would kring at the idea to ride again.
I finally came to the conclusion that riding has always been in my life and I won’t get better until I indulge that desire. I’m now glad I did return to the motorcycle world as I now have that feeling again after a fun ride. It’s part of my life, it’s a drug, it’s a lifestyle, it makes me happy again and I think my brother would be ok with it.
And two bikes lead to 3 when I picked up on 07 sv650 and set about to remake it into a canyon carver. It seems I tinker around with my bikes almost everyday and that is therapy to me. I’m sorry I just walked away and never talked to anyone again (Raybusa) if your still out there. I never dreamed that any of this would ever happen but it did and I think I have come full circle now.
Rob
www.hayabusa.org
