From: Datesfat Chicks on
"BryanUT" <nestle12(a)comcast.net> wrote in message
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>
> Cruise: ride around town, bar hopping, a leisurely ride returning home
> or where you started
> Tour: a multi-day ride, go someplace 2 days away or more, return
>
> Everything else is just a ride. Perhaps fast, flaunting the law.

Speaking of bar hopping ...

I have from time to time operated a motorcycle when I wasn't fully sober.

I almost wonder if, for certain types of accidents, it isn't better to be
drunk. The other day I was out at the casino drinking and gambling, hopped
on the bike, realized I was impaired, and stopped at the local Denny's for
some food to help sober me up.

I still wasn't sober after the food.

I took the back roads home. I was just humming along enjoying the scenery
and suddenly Bambi ran across the road right-to-left and cleared me by maybe
10 feet. I didn't react to it because I was looking at something to my left
and when I snapped my eyes back I had Bambi (crossing from right to left) in
the crosshairs ... by the time I was ready to react he or she was already
clear of me. It wasn't a large deer ... maybe 100 lbs.

I slowed down by 10 MPH or so and continued humming along back home.

Anyway, two thoughts occurred to me:

a)Being intoxicated, I was a lot more relaxed about nearly hitting the deer
than I would have been sober. It didn't stress me at all. I just laughed.

b)I might be better off physiologically being drunk for that kind of
accident. (I know people tend to get injured less in falls when they are
drunk because they are relaxed.)

DF

From: S'mee on
On Aug 3, 5:55 am, "Vito" <v...(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> BryanUT wrote:
> >> I haven't ridden for over a week ....
>
> >> It has been damn hot, plus we have a new dress code and I don't to
> >> get my new pants and shirt dirty.
>
> Chaps & mesh jacket?

spangled thong and pasties?
From: sean_q on
Datesfat Chicks wrote:

> Speaking of bar hopping ...
>
> I have from time to time operated a motorcycle when I wasn't fully sober.
>
> I almost wonder if, for certain types of accidents, it isn't better to
> be drunk.

....[strong drink] provokes the desire, but it
takes away the performance: therefore, much drink
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on,
and it takes him off; it persuades him,
and disheartens him; makes him stand to,
and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him
in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.
--_MacBeth_, Act II Scene III

This can be taken to mean that in a smashup a drunken rider
may suffer less injury than a sober one, but also that
the liquor caused the crash in the 1st place.

SQ
From: Datesfat Chicks on
"sean_q" <no.spam(a)no.spam> wrote in message
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> Datesfat Chicks wrote:
>
>> Speaking of bar hopping ...
>>
>> I have from time to time operated a motorcycle when I wasn't fully sober.
>>
>> I almost wonder if, for certain types of accidents, it isn't better to be
>> drunk.
>
> ...[strong drink] provokes the desire, but it
> takes away the performance: therefore, much drink
> may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
> it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on,
> and it takes him off; it persuades him,
> and disheartens him; makes him stand to,
> and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him
> in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.
> --_MacBeth_, Act II Scene III
>
> This can be taken to mean that in a smashup a drunken rider
> may suffer less injury than a sober one, but also that
> the liquor caused the crash in the 1st place.

Sounds reasonable to me.

Sounds about right.

DF

From: ? on
On Aug 3, 12:14 pm, dusty <bythebay...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> Boozing and driving is "crazy". What's the word for boozing and
> riding? Anyone invent one yet? :)

Suicide?

BTW, are you Michael Raeder?