JackFlash

I would be sad if I scuffed a helmet that nice. .

I'll be using that road a lot this season. .

I don't even know what to say. If there was something I could do to be helpful, I would. Best of luck until things get straightened out and all. Wish I had more to offer. .

I hope more good deals like this start coming out of the woodwork. My little 500 isn't going to keep me satisfied for much longer. I just need a more upright seating position with a seat height that won't give me a nose bleed. .

It would be fun to ride up there as a group. Anyone interested in riding up from Columbus or the surrounding area? .

August 3rd in Columbus for me. Five seats available that day. It's a Sunday morning at 8 AM. There will be little traffic that early. Somebody else sign up for that day so we have a couple of OR members there. .

I would become numb and callused, and half crazy. I would view life as something disposable and hope to avoid the reaper for as long as I cared to live. With the help of mind altering substances, I may be able to live with the tragedies I encountered daily and hopefully could still sleep through half of the night. Hats off to everyone who deals with the passing of life on a continuing basis. :bow: .

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I like the slow group. I don't want to test my skills on a group ride and chance ruining the enjoyment of others in the event I get in over my head and end up bending metal and bones. After I've put in some track time and gained faster abilities, I would be eager to up the pace and the excitement. .

And for some reason you stay in that line of work, to offer medical assistance to those in need. There must be a sense of satisfaction in it for you, to be one that the injured can depend on to get them the help that they need. I couldn't do what you do. It would haunt me have to deal with the things you've seen and had to do in your line of work. You deal with relatives and loved ones of those in medical need, mostly at the time of the immediate need. Three years down the road, how many of those present at the time of death wish they had not been present, at the side of their loved one, in their final moments? How many would speak up and say they wish they were out playing golf instead of being there? And why is it that we always rush to the side of those about to expire, knowing there is absolutely nothing we can do, when we could just let it happen and simply attend the funeral instead? .

I can doctor myself to an extent. It's hard to stop the bleeding on this arm if that arm wants to hang limp and I can't seem to get to my first aid kit. .

Sorry. Quotes unquoted themselves the first time.

I'm with you on that. I also would stop if I felt I could do something or if I was early on the scene. I wouldn't leave someone to rot in the ditch. .

I understand your view. But, I'm not wishing for them to have to suffer through my death without it being their choice. The chances are great that many loved ones would prefer to be by your side as you expire, in hopes of offering some sort of comfort in your last moments. Is that also selfish on their part, to wish to be there when you go? .

Just try and stop the bleeding until someone with more medical ability shows up to assist. Then, get your ass out of there if you think it's in your best interest. I would rather ride with you another day than for you to have cost yourself a big fine by sticking around on my account. My mistakes are my own. No sense in you being lynched for something I did. .

I also think relying on others to do the right thingfor a fallen rider is a big assumption. What ifeveryone assumes someone else handled it? Try and stop my bleeding and once a more medically qualified person assists, hit the road and get out of there, if you feel it's in your best interest. I would rather ride with you on the road another day than to have to visit you locked up or have you cost yourself a big fine. .

Consequences of my actions is one thing. Consequences of your actions is another. I'm not answering for your mistakes. That's on you. .

And this is part of the problem. Two bikes riding together over the speed limit can always be said to have been racing. How do you defend yourself from that when three witnesses (family members in the same vehicle) claim you were racing, even though you were only going 10 MPH over the limit, while trying to beat a rapidly decaying green traffic light? .

Just make sure someone dialed up for help before you bail on me. Then you are more than welcome to disappear. "Second bike? No, I was riding alone." .

We don't know that they were buddies. Perhaps they were total strangers. As for the other rider crashing his bike while I was simply trying to keep up, I'm not going to volunteer to be held accountable for his actions I had no part of. We all ride fast. But let us all be accountable for ourselves without our buddies having to pay for our own bad judgement. .

I'm going to guess that these two were not close buds. It's possible they met on the street and were simply out having some fun. I've ridden with new "friends" I met on the road that day. Close buds would likely stick around unless the crowd, with a mob mentality and a negative view of motorcycles, were mumbling loudly, with several members giving you the stink eye and using words like, "jail" and "hooligans". If you had a reason to fear problems with the police, I would prefer you bailed out and saved yourself while you still could, once someone else showed up to help. I would cover for you, if I lived, and say I didn't know anything about you. .

I may die alone, but except in my sleep, I would prefer to die in the company of someone I care about.

So, if this trick works.... Hmmm.... Don't give me ideas. I was sitting on a nice new Ninja 1000, yesterday. Joking, of course. Actually, I'm not kind of guy. It's been a long, cold winter. Nerves are on edge. .

...exiting on Interstate 76 eastbound toward Wadsworth A new guy from Wadsworth just joined OR two days ago. http://ohioriders.net/index.php?/topic/104161-hello-from-wadsworth/#entry1379640 Could it be? .

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