An educated decision may lead to a verbal spout. If I learn that my sister burned her hand on the stove burner, and my brother tries to do the same while I say, don't do that. Brother then says "How would you know, you never tried it". So brother burns hands - good for him eh?
By listening to you all here, and talking with people on the road, I made an educated decision not to put a car tire on my bike. I also learned that if you do, you won't necessarily go down in flames. I also learned that I'm spending a whole lot more money on tires - oh well, I can live with that. If I was doing an Iron Butt ride, I learned that a car tire would help, but I don't do Iron Butt rides.
I like to learn and not get burnt.
Flame away!
No flames required.
Actually, what you should have learned is that if you put a car tire on, you have no greater or lesser chance of going down in flames than any other motorcyclist. There is no "won't necessarily" involved. No one has among this group. The people that have crashed on a CT either had an occurrence that was not tire related, or were running so ridiculously a low pressure that any tire would have had a failure. And even that number is tiny, even among the CT riders, never mind motorcyclists in general.
What you haven't said, is why you felt it was not for you. Or what goals you considered when you first started looking into CT use.
I'm not trying to sell you on this. But you keep posting, attempting to defend your choice. We, err, really don't care what your choice is, either way. But you seem to feel a need to share with us that you chose not to run a CT. Not sure why that is?
I'm not god's gift to motorcyclists. I don't suck either. I haven't run into too many people that kept up with me thru the twisties when i was running a CT on the FJR. And I wasn't, ever, trying to stay ahead of them, just riding The Pace and enjoying myself. I have run into a lot of riders that talked trash about the CT, then dropped off the back and were never seen again until the rest stop. They typically started asking different questions after that. I don't think any of they decided to try a CT, but they learned something new that challenged their preconceptions.
Your example is flawed. You're comparing subjective evidence with empirical evidence. Your friend said he burned himself on the stove. I.E. All stoves are hot. That's False. Only stoves with the burners on are hot. If your friend didn't understand that the stove had knobs and could be turned off, having only experienced that one stove, his warning is not completely valid, only valid under the conditions he experienced, which you have not defined.
So tell us what interested you in the CT option, and what specifically turned you away? Enlighten us.
