Feeling down and disheartened?

Been there a few times, never quite been the same since my traffic island incident a few years ago but I kept pushing on

Bike is really just a commuting tool for me now, I rarely go for a ride just for fun anymore and am too nervous with group riding unless i'm at the back, I'm sure i'm not slowing anyone up but I always think I am... When i'm on my own I'm fine so i'm sure its just psychological... maybe i'm just getting too old for tearing around at silly speeds anymore

Next bike could be a harley

Never really though about it that way. I enjoy riding. Every minute of it. Commuting or riding for fun ... still love it. All the worries I have go away when I am on the bike. I love every minute of it. Yes it occured my mind that I could die riding one day ... but as well as that I could be killed by a falling brick or run over by car when I cross a road or get my head kicked in by some drunken yob ... but I don't think that way.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

Does anyone ever feel down and disheartened about biking in general.

No never, its the one thing that really makes me feel alive. If I die on my bike then I've died doing something that I love doing.

I never think about it, I just ride. Lifes to bloody short to sit and worry and think what if all the time.

[G]

Originally Posted by Dave The Rave

Never really though about it that way. I enjoy riding. Every minute of it. Commuting or riding for fun ... still love it. All the worries I have go away when I am on the bike.

Thats exactly it, although I dont forget about it intirely when I'm on the bike it goes away to some extent.

Originally Posted by Dave The Rave

Yes it occured my mind that I could die riding one day ... but as well as that I could be killed by a falling brick or run over by car when I cross a road or get my head kicked in by some drunken yob ... but I don't think that way.

I agree, and i never used to think about anything before getting a bike, but in doing so I just statistically got considerably closer to doing myself an injury or worse. Its the weird patch or never having ever though about it prior to getting the bike, to now thinking about it everytime i pull my helmet on.

I think it has all occured after seeing the biker hit the Jag on the C&F, 2 second later or 2 second earlier and he may have hit the car at a different angle and the outcome may well have been a very different story for him and his family that day.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Some people enjoy an element of risk in their lives and despite huge efforts to stifle this,the desire wont go away.Others like to live in a totally safe environment,and cant understand why people would want to ride bikes,climb mountains,go to sea,join the military,or do anything risky.Horses for courses.Anyone for Russian roulette?

Well for me I love my bike, agree with Fizz its one of the few things that make feel good and lets me know I'm alive....yeah is something happened then at least I would be having good time if were too. Yeah as nike says "Just do it" if I stopped worry about everything that could go wrong, then I would never get on my bike or go to work.

My job some days can be massive adrelin spikes, of high and low, espically when things start to go wrong. If went complete wrong ie, a driver stacks a car I'm in that could be end of me. Though today was a crap day at work for me, but it happenes!

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Some people enjoy an element of risk in their lives and despite huge efforts to stifle this,the desire wont go away.Others like to live in a totally safe environment,and cant understand why people would want to ride bikes,climb mountains,go to sea,join the military,or do anything risky.Horses for courses.Anyone for Russian roulette?

Well for me I love my bike, agree with Fizz its one of the few things that make feel good and lets me know I'm alive....yeah is something happened then at least I would be having good time if were too. Yeah as nike says "Just do it" if I stopped worry about everything that could go wrong, then I would never get on my bike or go to work.

My job some days can be massive adrelin spikes, of high and low, espically when things start to go wrong. If went complete wrong ie, a driver stacks a car I'm in that could be end of me. Though today was a crap day at work for me, but it happenes!

Without wanting to lessen the impact tragic crashes have to those left behind, I think you possibly need to crash more. Yep, that's right. It's kinda like rock climbing, you need to fall off before you have true confidence in the rope and your protection. Crashes come and crashes go, sometimes they're nasty, sometimes they're fine, and sometimes, somebody has to unfortunately have the fatal or near fatal ones. These are actually rare enough that our past-time hasn't been banned yet though. And whilst leaving loved ones behind is horrible, in a fatalistic kind of way, you're not going to be around to know it. After you've been off double digit times you (a) don't make (so many) stupid mistakes and (b) I think you kind of take a more spiritual approach to it, when your number's up it's up. That's not to say you take silly risks, just that you've weighed those risks.

As for licence loss, to be honest, I think that's more likely in a car. Firstly you've got double the number of reg plates to read in a car, that increases your chance, secondly, it's easy in the car to do three figure speeds without really realising it, thirdly (if you're anything like me) in the car you're just in get home as fast as possible without incident mode, wheras on the bike you definitely know when you're going fast and you're generally "on the boil" and paying much more attention to your surroundings - that includes looking out for the Hawaii 5-0 and cameras.

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

No never, its the one thing that really makes me feel alive. If I die on my bike then I've died doing something that I love doing.

I never think about it, I just ride. Lifes to bloody short to sit and worry and think what if all the time.

+1

I have never, ever, not wanted to be out with Pete on the bike. (Well, apart from the time we test rode an SV1000, couldn't wait to get off the bag of nails!)
Cold, rain, whatever, I never get off without a huge smile on my face.

"You can live more in 5 minutes on a motorcycle traveling fast than most people do in a lifetime" Burt Munroe as played by Anthony Hopkins, Worlds Fastest Indian.

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

-Could loose my licence
-Could loose my job

Could lose your ability to spell simple four letter words. Oh, too late