Deux-Wheelers

["Al Powell" <APOWELL@agcom.tamu.edu>]

The recently-absent-from-view-but-never-absent-from-our-hearts  "Barton 
P. Chambers"  said:  [snip]

> Now it may not be exactly the first thing that the rider learns, but an 
> immutable  law of nature is that Scooter riders come in two flavors: those
> that *are* skidding down the road sans benefit of Scooter; and those who
> *will* be.  (Another way of saying this, "Those who *are* healing...")

YKUB (Yer Kindly etc.) has a good point.  As an ex-rider with a 6" 
steel plate in my left leg (and who came less than two hours from 
losing the thing before circulation returned...) I contemplated a 
return to two-wheelers about a year ago.  The next morning on my way 
to work, I looked at (**WARNING: potentially sexist remark follows) 
the co-eds doing their makeup on their way to class, while driving 50 
in a 35 and crossing three lanes of traffic simultaneously, and soon
decided that I really WANTED some sheet metal wrapped around me when 
I'm in traffic.

At this moment, a co-worker of mine (who is the only other person 
I've ever met born on the exact same day as I) - is convalescing with a new 
steel pin in his leg due to a moment's inattention on a Yamaha 
Virago.  He's expected back to work in two months, perhaps later.

Maybe those of Audi-sporting blood do have an affinity for the 
gyroscopically-advantaged mode of transportation, but I'm inclined 
the same way was YKUB.  Sigh.  

This is probably why I love to autocross!  Lotsa fun, makes noise and 
you drive hard, but no body contact with pavement!

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