SacramentoMike
Not Safe For Work
This is Hans working out his issues in the way he does, out here on the FJR Forum. I'm more of an inside-of-the-head guy on my decision making, but If it works for you, buddy, more power to ya.
Just keep in mind, Hans isn't trying to talk anybody else into anything, just laying out his thoughts, maybe to help clarify them in his own mind. But we all have different input for our decisions and we all go through our own process. I've been riding almost 50 years. A looong time. And I really looked forward to the day I'd get my own first motorcycle for a long time before that.
So my own chart, if I made one, would be much taller in the yellow (risk appetite) section, and the red section would be a lower percentage of the total. I guess I'm more tolerant of the risk than Hans--JB--is. I know he came into motorcycling much later in his life than I--or many of us--did. Maybe I'm more used to risk--or adrenaline, maybe I need it more in my makeup. Doesn't matter. I'm ok with the risk, not that my risk is less (although some of those right-side passes in your city commuting, Hans, uh, I wouldn't have made).
Anyhow, I'll keep riding. Hans' reasons for getting away from it are good ones, for him, and he's doing the right thing. For him. More time for whatever else will fill his time. Like painting. But Hans, just so you know, painting itself is not without its own risks. The list of artists who have committed suicide is pretty long, and includes some pretty well-known names, like Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh. And that's just suicide. Many others have starved, poked themselves in the eye with their brushes, or fallen off their stool while leaning to see around the easel at their subject. So be careful, Hans, in your painting and whatever else you do in your life, and the rest of you, be careful on your damn dangerous motorcycles. And don't pass on the right.
Actual photograph of an artist dangerously leaning off his stool.
Just keep in mind, Hans isn't trying to talk anybody else into anything, just laying out his thoughts, maybe to help clarify them in his own mind. But we all have different input for our decisions and we all go through our own process. I've been riding almost 50 years. A looong time. And I really looked forward to the day I'd get my own first motorcycle for a long time before that.
So my own chart, if I made one, would be much taller in the yellow (risk appetite) section, and the red section would be a lower percentage of the total. I guess I'm more tolerant of the risk than Hans--JB--is. I know he came into motorcycling much later in his life than I--or many of us--did. Maybe I'm more used to risk--or adrenaline, maybe I need it more in my makeup. Doesn't matter. I'm ok with the risk, not that my risk is less (although some of those right-side passes in your city commuting, Hans, uh, I wouldn't have made).
Anyhow, I'll keep riding. Hans' reasons for getting away from it are good ones, for him, and he's doing the right thing. For him. More time for whatever else will fill his time. Like painting. But Hans, just so you know, painting itself is not without its own risks. The list of artists who have committed suicide is pretty long, and includes some pretty well-known names, like Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh. And that's just suicide. Many others have starved, poked themselves in the eye with their brushes, or fallen off their stool while leaning to see around the easel at their subject. So be careful, Hans, in your painting and whatever else you do in your life, and the rest of you, be careful on your damn dangerous motorcycles. And don't pass on the right.
Actual photograph of an artist dangerously leaning off his stool.
