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Re: [ST] Riding Skills



  Very well phrased, Steve.  My job in sales doesn't typically permit me to
ride on a daily basis- I am usually carrying a trunkload of literature and
samples, traveling to/ from airports with sales managers, and making
presentations where the only leather is on the furniture.  I occasionally
can make a few calls on a "casual Friday" using the bike, but I know most of
my accounts wouldn't want me showing up at their offices in riding gear. I'd
like to spend a lot more time on two wheels, but work and parenting (soccer,
lacrosse and basketball with one son, horse shows and barn time with the
other) preclude that.  So the only quality seat time I get is typically
on.....the weekends!  But I don't believe many of us fit the disparaging
"WW" description- we get out when we can, and go where we can.  The guys who
"put on" 40 miles on a Saturday cruising to the chrome shop might, but
that's a different scenario completely.

Denis Liakos
- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Lawler" <slawler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ST] Riding Skills


> In a previous email, Masiak, Richard stated:
> > We, on the other hand, are the weekend warriors.
>
> Excuse me? Speak for yourself. Apparently you are one of those people
> that see the motorcycle as a form of recreation not as a form of
> transportation. This, in itself, is one of the problems with how the
> American public views motorcyclists. In the Michigan no-fault insurance
> code, motorcycles are not considered motor vehicles.* Based on what I
> have seen, the US needs to adopt the European view of the motorcycle: a
> sensible form of transportation. But alas, the American public is loath
> to give up their SUV's as their form of transportation.
>
> There are hoards of riders out there that are "weekend warriors." There
> are the riders that ride 10-20 miles, hang out at a restaurant, take
> another short ride, hang out, lather, rinse, repeat. Oh, skip the rinse
> part. These people won't ride if it's drizzling. You know, it messes up
> the chrome. If they average more than 100 miles a month then I am
> amazed. They are also referred to as "posers." My brother-in-law is one.
>
> There are the "weekend warriors" that ride all weekend and only on the
> weekend. From 200 to 2000 miles in two days. Rain or shine. Cold or hot.
> I wouldn't call these people "weekend warriors." Some feel that it is
> far easier to take mass transit than to ride. Some work in a job where
> they feel that they can't ride to work. Other than the need to carrier
> passengers, materials, or equipment, I would be surprised to that find
> out that anyone has been told they would be fired for riding to work. If
> you have been, consider talking to a lawyer.
>
> Then there are the "weekend worriers." The wife of the guy that rides to
> the bar on Saturday afternoon and weaves home on Sunday morning. The
> mother of the squid that street races on a Saturday night and on Monday,
> at work, says "Dude, check out this road rash!" The daughter of the guy
> that goes out and buys some chrome beast for his first bike. The lover
> of the inept fecking retard that should never have gotten a bike in the
>  first place.
>
> For me, the bike is a form of transportation. On it, I primarily commute
> into New York City. Five days a week, Monday through Friday. Rain or
> shine. Hot or cold. The only thing that will stop me is ice or snow on
> the roads. I barely ride when I am not working. During the summer we go
> on hiatus so I hardly ride. You would laugh if you saw my mileage book.
> During July I only rode one day. July 11, to Home Depot, to pick up
> something small. And yes, that was a Sunday.
>
> Ride when you want, where you want but don't say that we are all
> "weekend warriors."
>
>
> * -
http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/triumphmotorcycleclub2/message/27263
>
> -- 
> Steve Lawler
> Verona, NJ, USA, Earth
>
> 2001 Sprint ST "Blue Devil"
>
> "As soon as you're born you start dying. So you might as well have a
> good time."
>             -- Cake, "Sheep Go To Heaven"
>
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