Today on my way to work, I decided to take it easy on my way there. As soon as I hit the expressway, a car with 2 guys in it, possibly drunk or maybe just silly as he!!, began shouting and screaming and giving me the thumbs-up. I threw them a peace sign thinking they would go about their business, but then the passenger began flinging his arm forward as if to say "TAKE OFF". At first I was reluctant but when the road cleared up, I decided to give them something to tell their friends. I kicked it from 3rd to 2nd and mashed it. In a matter of seconds they were nothing more than a spot in my mirror. I got it to about 150 (in gears past 2nd of course), and for whatever reason regained the urge to take it easy. I rolled off the throttle, pulled in the clutch, kicked it into 6th, and let the bike slow down to about 75mph and cruised from there.
No more than 3 seconds after my bike slowed to that speed, I went under an overpass where a State Trooper was hiding on the other side.
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Just then I began thinking, "what if I had kept it pinned just to impress these idiots whom I don't even know". I would have gotten a huge fine, possibly went to jail and had my bike taken, or possibly injured myself or worse trying to get away. For what?? For no good reason what-so-ever.
The rest of the ride to work I was saying to myself what idiots they were to encourage a biker to speed. But now that I reflect on it, I was the idiot. Had I gotten a ticket, I would have had to pay for it, not them. Had I ran and gotten hurt in a failed attempt, me and my family would feel the pain, not them and theirs.
Man, I can't even think of a decent way to end this post. Right now I feel like that stick figure I saw on someone's avatar recently. The one where he gets frustrated and starts banging his head on the keyboard ... quite funny actually. It was so idiotic of me to give in to that garbage. Oh well, this is definantly a case of me learning from my mistake.
Okay, I'm done now ... carry on, nothing else to see here folks.
No more than 3 seconds after my bike slowed to that speed, I went under an overpass where a State Trooper was hiding on the other side.
Just then I began thinking, "what if I had kept it pinned just to impress these idiots whom I don't even know". I would have gotten a huge fine, possibly went to jail and had my bike taken, or possibly injured myself or worse trying to get away. For what?? For no good reason what-so-ever.
The rest of the ride to work I was saying to myself what idiots they were to encourage a biker to speed. But now that I reflect on it, I was the idiot. Had I gotten a ticket, I would have had to pay for it, not them. Had I ran and gotten hurt in a failed attempt, me and my family would feel the pain, not them and theirs.
Man, I can't even think of a decent way to end this post. Right now I feel like that stick figure I saw on someone's avatar recently. The one where he gets frustrated and starts banging his head on the keyboard ... quite funny actually. It was so idiotic of me to give in to that garbage. Oh well, this is definantly a case of me learning from my mistake.
Okay, I'm done now ... carry on, nothing else to see here folks.
