Letters to the Editor
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No Name Rock Climber
I have a friend who broke his neck falling off a ten foot ladder. He worked in construction all his life and one day just slipped.
Do you “safely” rock clime over ten feet????
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Is Motorcycle Racing Dangerous?
I'm a motorcycle enthusiast at heart and to tell you the truth. I'm sick and tired of all the clueless, ignorant, closeminded fools that actually believe that if you don't ride motorcycles you'll live for ever. I know people that have been rinding well in to there 60's and I'm sure there other's that are older that still ride. I've also know friends to die young due to various health problems, crime, & work related incidents. Just because you never riddin one doesn't gareentee you gonna live a long and healthy life. Fact!
As dangerous as motorcycles are the most dangerous aspect of the motorcycle is not the motorcycle it's the people they share the street with. That's right a bike is a inanimate object it can't kill or injure anyone on it's own. Ther not gonna stab you in your sleep and they can't push you down a flight of stairs. They'll never become a threat until someone, anyone comes into contact with one. Inattentive drivers, not looking where there going, talking on cell phones, playing with radios, watching there LCD's, drunk's, checking there blackberry's, having convocations with others within there protected cage. Why? There allowed, there's far fewer cars hitting buses {much heavier, capable of doing more damage to themseles} & police cars {authority to remove driving privileges and hand out hefty fines} As for bikes they will always lose, so the concentration could afford to be laxed.
To get back to my original question "Is Motorcycle Racing Dangerous?" racing is done on a closed course {general public does not have accues to} which means everybody on the track is fully focused on what there doing and the people in there immeadiate surroundings, no drunk drivers, no inexpericed kids, or road rage operaters in a environment specifically designed for what there doing. No curbs, mailboxes, lamp polls, brick walls, oncoming traffic, potholes, bulidings. blind corners and at a pace only the racers are gonna be comfortable with. Lets not forget the trained EMT's that there just for that vary event.
Now I ask you what's more dangerous the street are a closed track?
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Somethings never change
One would think that age brings wisdom and maturity. As far as relationships are concerned, apparently not. Why can't these two be adults about it?
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Road vs. Racing safety
I think it should be pointed out that it's a hell of a lot safer to race a motorbike than it is to ride on the road.
Everyone is heading in the same direction, there's no SUVs and there's medical support on hand.
I also find it hard to see the problem with arranging a wedding around the other things that are going on in your life.
Oh well. Just cements my view that non-racers should stick to their own if they can't respect their partner's calling.
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Life lived with a passion....
does NOT have to involve running with an anti-Semitic and misogynistic crew like the prize hunka-hunka described in the article. If the author had any stones she'd tell Senor Cervantes-Quoter to find better-behaved running buddies, or run alone.
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makes me ashamed to be a woman
Let me just pile on with those saying she is a selfish b****. If it weren't for the fact that she enthusiastically accepted his help with her children and now they are bonded with him, I would tell her to divorce him immediately...so he could find someone worthy of him.
Lady, you think you are so intelligent and independent but you really showed your ass. Big time. And intentionally, in public, where your husband and his friends will certain read it. His friends will say, "See, dude, told you." Your husband's heart will break.
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oh my gosh, she IS unattractive, just like she wrote
Got to hand it to her there. She was honest. Dude, you could have done so much better. www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=6&pid=501546 - 25k -
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Knee-Jerk reaction
The phrase "concentration camp" brings the same pain to different people. American Indians, Japanese Americans, Jews all feel it. Your baggage caused it to come up as anti-Jew. We have all seen relationships that the phrase could be attached to without any nations ugly past getting in the way.
Oh, and "axle grease"? Is this guy racing Conestoga Wagons?
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Congratulations
I'm glad you both did marry each other.
I don't have any advice, just wanted to share a similar story. My husband loves his motorcycle although he doesn't race - he rides it on the streets, which can be more dangerous in some ways. We agreed on buying his bike and that he would ride it, with good sense and excellent safety gear, and appropriate insurance.
Then my daughter was born and then she died and I experienced bitter, twisting fear of losing my husband as well. I wanted to ban the bike so badly and still do. But in talking about it together - and I can't remember who realized it first - we realized that the terrible thing about losing our daughter was that she never got to live. And although there certainly are less risky ways to live (but also many more risky ways), the way to respect the gift of life for us is to leave space to follow passions.
So my husband rides his bike still. But, I have noticed, he rides a little less and is a bit more careful about riding when he's a little tired, or when it might rain. And I sometimes pace around our home when he's out on his bike and live in fear, but it is not as gripping as it was those first few months.
It's all a balance. Best of luck in yours.
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two together make a whole
I have now been riding motorcycles for over 10 years and have been racing for 2 seasons. I have seen many many relationships of my motorcycling friends come and go over those years. The ones that always go are the ones where the woman said its the motorcycles or me. Why is it that so many people get into relationships and then take away what makes someone who they are? The best relationships are the ones where each person is allowed to be strong independently as well as together. Should your husband make you give up your writing? Is that not central to who you are? Why are you allowed to change him so drastically? Did you not see his wholeness or only the parts you approved of? Do you want the situation turned on you?
Regarding motorcycles and relationships-the world is littered by the spouses who demand giving up bikes. My advice to all of those spouses who want to continue to have a happy relationship through the age when people begin to regret the decisions that have been made for them is learn of what you speak before you have a power trip to destroy your partner's passions. You can demand them to approach it with humility and knowledge-statistics show that the educated smart motorcyclist will be riding for a very very long time-there are many classes out there. You can demand they wear the right gear. You must accept that track time and even racing makes motorcyclists better riders and it is the safest place to ride without the oblivious cell phone car world. And lastly you must accept that life is for the living, not the people who sit scared in their homes. Then think about what you asking for and what your real reason is. My guess is that its not about the bikes.