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This is one of the most embarrassing examples of self-serving fictional rationalization I have ever seen.
I'm sorry if I embarrassed you.
Let me state that I was an Instructor, then Senior Instructor, then Program Manager responsible for training, testing and licensing both instructors and students. I and am proud to say that in the many hundreds of students I've instructed, not one ever got hurt. I also produced a training video that has been in use for nearly 20 years.
You like to ride fast: I can understand that. I like going fast myself. However, I do not suffer from a psychosis that convinces me that I am doing this in order to be safer.
This would be a lot more interesting if you could come up with something other than insults. Try attacking my premise rather than my personality. I respectfully suggest you resolve your own psychoses before attempting to play psychologist on a motorcycle forum.
You want to make us believe you do it because it is safer? That is a ridiculous load of god-awful-bogus self-serving bullshit.
Now you bring God and more insults into it. One would think you haven't any argument at all.
Your argument is that you are at your most dangerous when you are riding at what is generally considered to be a safe speed, and you can only ride safely at a speed that means you are going far faster than every other driver on the road expects you to be going.
I decide what is a safe speed based on conditions and what equipment I'm using, not some arbitrary speed that conformists like yourself deem to be safe. As far as I'm concerned I should not be bound by the same speed laws as the average driver.
If you truly are at your most dangerous when riding slowly, that is: the speed that is imposed upon you when traffic is heavy enough to prevent you from speeding, then you are one of the most dangerous riders I've ever heard of, and you should stay the hell off the road.
I'm most safe when not around other traffic. If they are not there they can't hurt me. I use speed to separate myself from the great unwashed masses. I really don't think that this concept can be contested. If slowing down creates the separation, that can works as well. But getting bored in traffic is as much a distraction as using a cell phone while driving IMO. Again
If they are not there, they can't hurt me. This concept is unassailable IMO. But please have at it.
There is a place designed for people to explore their ability to take motor-driven machines to their limits: it is called the track. I have never heard any talented racer refer to your philosophy of road riding as anything other than both suicidal, and homicidal. The people who know how to REALLY go fast know that our transportation arteries are not the place do do that.
I spoke nothing about taking it to the limit. You're just making this stuff up. I was speaking about focus, space cushion, equipment preparation, as in knowing the condition and stability of your machine. Using the best technology that warns me when some foolish cop has created a dangerous traffic situation so he can collect revenue seems a good investment. As far as my philosophy, that has served me well for the last 40 bikes and years riding is concerned: I have the inalienable right to use whatever it takes to stay safe and preserve my life when riding. Survival comes first.
I have track time and have qualified for a race license in Calgary at Race city. I was sponsored by Walt Healy Motorsports. But that has nothing to do with this subject. Your comments about racers, in fact, are not even germaine to this matter. This is about riding on the road, which is far more dangerous than the controlled conditions of a race track. As far as you understanding enough about my personal philosophy of road riding, for you to state how some racer would comment, that is ridiculous, as I have not made a treatise here on this very complicated subject. You're just blowing out your ass here. You're nailed.
