paddy.shadow
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"For a lot of reasons that are often contradictory, the sight and sound of a man on a motorcycle has an unpleasant effect on the vast majority of Americans who drive cars. At one point a reporter for a major New York paper did a long article on the motorcycle scene and decided in his research that {there is something about the sight of a passing motorcyclist that tempts many automobile drivers to commit murder.}
Nearly everyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The highways are overcrowded with people who drive as if their dole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong ever done to them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their own fear of death, jail and lawsuits . . . which are much less likely if they can find a motorcycle to challenge, instead of another two-thousand-pound car or a concrete abutment. A motorcyclist has to drive as if everybody else on the road is out kill him. A few of them are, and many of those who aren't are just as dangerous--because the only thing that can alter their careless, ingrained driving habits is a threat punishment, either legal or physical, and there is nothing about a motorcycle to threaten anyone in a car. A bike is totally vulnerable; its only defense is maneuverability, and every accident situation is potentially fatal--especially on a freeway, where ther is no room to fall without being run over almost instantly."
"For a lot of reasons that are often contradictory, the sight and sound of a man on a motorcycle has an unpleasant effect on the vast majority of Americans who drive cars. At one point a reporter for a major New York paper did a long article on the motorcycle scene and decided in his research that {there is something about the sight of a passing motorcyclist that tempts many automobile drivers to commit murder.}
Nearly everyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The highways are overcrowded with people who drive as if their dole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong ever done to them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their own fear of death, jail and lawsuits . . . which are much less likely if they can find a motorcycle to challenge, instead of another two-thousand-pound car or a concrete abutment. A motorcyclist has to drive as if everybody else on the road is out kill him. A few of them are, and many of those who aren't are just as dangerous--because the only thing that can alter their careless, ingrained driving habits is a threat punishment, either legal or physical, and there is nothing about a motorcycle to threaten anyone in a car. A bike is totally vulnerable; its only defense is maneuverability, and every accident situation is potentially fatal--especially on a freeway, where ther is no room to fall without being run over almost instantly."
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