Reid
Well-Known Member
None of that would save you, though, if you get cut off. Getting cut off at 45mph while on his Harley Sportster in 1970 by a car t-boning him from a side street, cost my (recently late) brother a half inch of his right leg for 45 years before he died. Limping.
The faster we go the very much faster bad things result, the inverse square rule, when things go wrong, as you very well know.
It is your body and life. I know that my recent, minor accident was a very lucky break.
I was going too fast, undertaking the cars next to me...
...hell, you wouldn't ever do that, am sure, nor I in the future, either, or have any interest in riding an ebike over 25 mph as a rule. Keeping a bike at bike speeds means vastly increased safety, greatly reduced trauma when we do eventually get crashed...
The gentle, oblique crash above was at a mere 23mph
You do not want the 15 minutes of infamy
It was not the first time in my long life I have felt a deadly impact. Simply amazed I have lived to tell about the latest. The warning is that speed kills. We cannot change physics with bravado. You may have children. I do not. You may have youth that I do not. Do not curtail your only existence. Don't limp to the grave nor rush to the grave. Let death take you only when it must.
Abraham Lincoln's favorite poem
The faster we go the very much faster bad things result, the inverse square rule, when things go wrong, as you very well know.
It is your body and life. I know that my recent, minor accident was a very lucky break.
...hell, you wouldn't ever do that, am sure, nor I in the future, either, or have any interest in riding an ebike over 25 mph as a rule. Keeping a bike at bike speeds means vastly increased safety, greatly reduced trauma when we do eventually get crashed...
The gentle, oblique crash above was at a mere 23mph
You do not want the 15 minutes of infamy
It was not the first time in my long life I have felt a deadly impact. Simply amazed I have lived to tell about the latest. The warning is that speed kills. We cannot change physics with bravado. You may have children. I do not. You may have youth that I do not. Do not curtail your only existence. Don't limp to the grave nor rush to the grave. Let death take you only when it must.
Abraham Lincoln's favorite poem
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