One of my pet peeves is when someone comes on this forum and lectures me on the way I should ride. I just turned 60 years old, have ridden since the age of 16, had the last ticket in 1971 while driving a truck and so far have not been in an accident on the street with a bike. That doesn’t mean that a ticket was not deserved or that an accident at some point won’t find me. It means that my style is pretty conservative and that riding is for pleasure as opposed to trying to impress someone else.
I am very appreciative when someone comes to the forum to present an issue for discussion that is relevant. It always causes me to rethink my methodology, technique or style. What annoys me is someone who has just attended a school, read a book or watched a DVD who then comes to the forum like a reformed alcoholic and wants to pontificate about how knowledgeable they are. It gets even worse when you know that the author espouses one thing and then demonstrates a reckless approach while riding such as blasting headlong into oncoming traffic at triple digits having just crossed over a double yellow line to do it. Control of one’s bike or style has very little meaning to me when you break every law in the vehicle code while doing it!
In a former position it was my job to read many resumes and letters of introduction from highly educated, learned and successful people. It was telling to read those documents and see how many times the applicant used the word “I” in them. When reading pieces on the forum it is also very enlightening to see how many times the author uses the word “I” in the contribution … Is the piece really about the subject or is the writer saying ‘look at me’ as a form of self-aggrandizement. There is a quantum difference between intellectual intelligence and emotional intelligence. Intellectual intelligence may get you the job but emotional intelligence will allow you to keep it. Denigrating others on this forum who espouse a differing point of view, creative spelling or the usage of simple verbiage is immature and shows a definite lack of E.Q.
In the military there were junior officers whose home or office had every citation, decoration, award or medal on the wall prominently displayed above the desk or fireplace. We used to call these “love me walls”. Why did they need to display all these items???? Was it because they had really accomplished that much or was it again a way of saying ‘look at me’?
Is it wrong to suggest that the most learned folks on this forum are the ones who don’t have to call attention to themselves but instead offer guidance and assistance in a humble and constructive manner? My belief is that those who find it necessary to lecture or point the spotlight in their direction are looking for an audience to talk down to as a way of calling attention to themselves!
Me thinks this is the best ******* post to hit the forum ...and yes I mean ever.
Me waited to post on this topic because I thought my post might be too inflammatory, but what the hell.
Never have me been around a group of folks with such mediocre riding skillz, (and nothing wrong with that) who are so eager to tell other folks how to ride. Anyone who has been amongst a group of FJR riders has seen these things:
+ A pack of old men who are so wobbly on the bike, you wonder if they're going to hurt themselves and their scared to death pillion --before they get the kickstand up
+ A bunch of guys who want to take their keyboard jockey lectures to the road "ride like I tell you to ride" -as if not bad enough on the internet, they want wait to do it in person.
Often the latter is done under the guise of "Ride your own ride" When I hear that mantra, I know I'm in for some ****-munch to tell me how to ride. It often goes like this:
"Thanks for coming on today's geezerville ride everyone". As a point of safety, let's all "Ride your own ride" .....and before they can get those words out of their mouth they're laying out a shitload of expectation, on what is expected of the day. Usually this person can't ride worth a ****. Usually this person has a track record of stacking it up.
Me realize that motorcycle crashes can create a voyeuristic need in some of us. But for me, Me think I'll listen to the guys who don't crash. Me don't consider crashing a winning proposition, so why listen to proven losers when it comes to the crashing game --when they start on lectures on how to ride. It is these stack-up losers who are most-times leading the lectures.
Rich is a solid rider, I've logged a few miles with him, and I mean a few. Unfortunately it was not intimate, it was with a pack of other guyz and galz ...some of whom could ride and some who couldn't.
So Doc, come up to Reno ...let's go get phreaky on bikes and at the end of the day(s?) I bet we can log some miles, not stack up and have some good fun ....without ever uttering a word to each other on how something should have been done.
And yes, those of us who interview job candidates, we're trained as to how often interviewees use the word "I" ....which is why me replaced it with "me" in much of my rant.
Rock on Doc, .....the best post ever here on they interynet.
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