"..probably ignore all that and go for the full-face helmet and Kevlar body-armor"
Yup, have noted, over past several years, continuing increase in the (usually NPR commuter road reports) "motorcycle down.." phrase in the mix.
Could be merely the predictable outcome of the (daily) worsening civility-on-all-levels and the withering of any possible sense of empathy amidst the masses. Were I riding these days, I'd stick to the swervery on Hwy 1, out on a recreational spree. And stay far away from Commute-time Road-Rage and other descriptors.
Lucky moi, I may have experienced American motorcycling, almost totally within the pre-Murican Era of saner neuropathology. It was enough. I don't even pine for the Fjords.
'Course if someone came by on a pristine Shadow, with a "wanna take it for a spin?" What could one Say?
Could be merely the predictable outcome of the (daily) worsening civility-on-all-levels and the withering of any possible sense of empathy amidst the masses. Were I riding these days, I'd stick to the swervery on Hwy 1, out on a recreational spree. And stay far away from Commute-time Road-Rage and other descriptors.
Lucky moi, I may have experienced American motorcycling, almost totally within the pre-Murican Era of saner neuropathology. It was enough. I don't even pine for the Fjords.
'Course if someone came by on a pristine Shadow, with a "wanna take it for a spin?" What could one Say?