Motorcycles Save Lives

[TaosBrick]

Pretty dang inspiring, in that Brit-oid, tongue in cheek kinda way.

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[staffordworks]

awesome story, good one for anyone who is into 'living'.  my dad was always on me about safety (i was an extreme skier as a kid) and we'd always have this argument about being so safe you aren't living and I'd drop something like "what if you were so careful that you were sitting in your living room, eating organic food, proper distance from the television and you had the dumb luck of living in lockerbie Scotland?"

not to worry, he was just being a good dad, I do the same thing now with my son but I never let myself get so careful I didn't live, neither did he, he lived on the edge, did very dangerous stuff and like Patton died of something right out of left field at 51, good thing he didn't wait to have fun.

I think we are brainwashed to think that living as long as possible is happiness, i can't imagine a greater hell than living another 50 years regretting what I could have done and didn't.

[TaosBrick]

awesome story, good one for anyone who is into 'living'.  my dad was always on me about safety (i was an extreme skier as a kid) and we'd always have this argument about being so safe you aren't living and I'd drop something like "what if you were so careful that you were sitting in your living room, eating organic food, proper distance from the television and you had the dumb luck of living in lockerbie Scotland?"

not to worry, he was just being a good dad, I do the same thing now with my son but I never let myself get so careful I didn't live, neither did he, he lived on the edge, did very dangerous stuff and like Patton died of something right out of left field at 51, good thing he didn't wait to have fun.

I think we are brainwashed to think that living as long as possible is happiness, i can't imagine a greater hell than living another 50 years regretting what I could have done and didn't.

Well said!

[racinrich]

this man knows how to live  :2thumbup:

[wmax351]

My dad had a similar thing while he was working in the ER. A kid, ~3-5 years old, comes in, full trauma mode, after having fallen from a balcony. They run him through a CT scanner. Discover a Wilms Tumor (a fairly rare kidney cancer, that my girlfriend also had as a kid). Otherwise, the kid was pretty much fine. Early stage cancer, remove the kidney, and much milder chemo.

[WayneDW]

I was recently talking to the widow of one of my best friends.  The topic turned to motorcycles and I was surprised to hear from her that Don had wanted to get a motorcycle.  I'm sure we would have ridden together if he had.  But she said that she had asked him not to get one until after their daughter graduated from high school.  She then said, with tears in her eyes, "I guess that didn't happen"!

You see, Don died 10 years ago of a sudden heart attack at age 49.  He never got to see his step daughter graduate and he never got the motorcycle. 
How sad.

[TaosBrick]

A few years back, a motorcycling friend told me the story of how a fellow who was supposedly dying
of some terminal disease or another acquired a Vincent Black Lightning basket case and worked
obsessively to build it and when he was done, found that he felt like living and continued to do so.
This motorcycle then went on to become the inspiration for British guitar/songwriter legend Richard Thompson's immortal "52 Vincent Black Lightning", one of my all time favourite songs to listen to or
play.
  The friend who told me this story passed on the summer before this last, and while I visiting with
him one day before he went, his love of all things awesome on two wheels inspired me to look on
Craigslist for a bike, as I'd not had one in years. Thus I found the K75 that I ride today and became
Acquainted with all you good people.
  Thanks Michael. May you be riding the whip of your choice in the smooth twisties of hearafter's
highway.

Wrote this on my wife's iPhone while droning across the endless slab that is I 80 in Nebraska,
hence the choppy text.

[Lucky Lou]

This is the bike that saved my life, after a Big C diagnosis and major surgery my wife insisted  take on a project to take my mind off my situation, the rebuild took me 18 months about the same time it took me to recover anyway the bike and me are both now in good health.
The "K" rebuild was a doddle compared to this.
http://s278.beta.photobucket.com/user/luckyloudiamond/media/e136bacb.pbw.html?
A very "Lucky" Lou

[Lucky Lou]

Oh and this is what it sounds like....


Lou

[DRxBMW]

A few years back, a motorcycling friend told me the story of how a fellow who was supposedly dying
of some terminal disease or another acquired a Vincent Black Lightning basket case and worked
obsessively to build it and when he was done, found that he felt like living and continued to do so.
This motorcycle then went on to become the inspiration for British guitar/songwriter legend Richard Thompson's immortal "52 Vincent Black Lightning", one of my all time favourite songs to listen to or
play.
 

I rode a Black Shadow one time at an antique MC swap meet, impressive for it's time era.

Never heard of song writer Richard Thompson before. Here's the tune for all you bricKhead's in the same boat.

[BIG D]

 cool shades

All wise words folk's as an old boy once said to me "Eat Drink and be Merry for Tomorrow you may Die"

BIG D