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Originally Posted by KenB925
I think it is more dangerous now then it was when I was riding simply because of the smart phone and people being generally checked out.
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Lots of great advice in this thread.
I rode bikes (mostly BMW, and the big ones RT, LT, and GS) for many years and I love it. I hit a deer once, and that really put the fear into me, although I stayed up and didn't crash, I could have died. I did lose a friend a few days after we spent a week riding in the CO mountains, he went up into Montana and hit a car. Totally his fault, but that doesn't help much.
Between my age, knees, wrists, tendonitis, etc. and fear, I gave it up. As Ken mentioned, there is just too much distracted driving now, plus more road rage and more congestion. I rode to work sometimes, and there were times when I really doubted my sanity. It's just too easy to get complacent and lazy about having total awareness of what's going on, and if some fool in a 6000 lb. truck runs you over, you would survive the accident in a car but on a bike we're just going to be scraping you off of the pavement.
Best of luck to you, but really, seriously, I wish you'd just stay in the car.
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