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Re: The time has come
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:06 am
by Zombie Master
Major Softie wrote:Zombie Master wrote:
All I see are fines that indiscriminately punish unsafe drivers, and skilled and safe motorcyclists.
Laws never discriminate between lawbreakers - they could not possibly do so. They discriminate only between conduct.
Those who enforce those laws should be human beings capable of discriminating between those who need to be punished and those that don't. I want a perfect world, one in which those with the skills and talent get to use those skills and talents to pursue happiness. Let the ill equipped pay for their folly, so they don't cause society a huge bill.
Re: The time has come
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:28 am
by Major Softie
Zombie Master wrote:I want a perfect world...
Good luck with that; especially since your perfect world is only one of the billions of perfect worlds imagined by each of us.
Re: The time has come
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 4:28 am
by Rob
In a perfect world there would be closed-course tracks on which to get your kicks.
Oh wait -
Re: The time has come
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 4:31 am
by Rob
One of my fabulous-wealthy fantasies was to have a plot of wooded land about the size of Ed's, with my own track laid out in it.
And electric fence to keep the critters at bay while I am out.
Re: The time has come
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 4:41 am
by Zombie Master
Rob wrote:In a perfect world there would be closed-course tracks on which to get your kicks.
Oh wait -
IMO motorcycles are for exploring and going places. Closed course is just going around in circles. I earned a racing license at one point, but I found being locked in to a course tantamount to a hamster on a running wheel, going round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round, and round. Sure you can go faster with less risk, but it's just not the real thing. I'll take my chances riding in the real world. That's the kind of riding the Airhead is all about, with it's center stand, tool kit mit air pump, and tire irons.
Re: The time has come
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 7:04 am
by bbelk
Rob wrote:One of my fabulous-wealthy fantasies was to have a plot of wooded land about the size of Ed's, with my own track laid out in it.
And electric fence to keep the critters at bay while I am out.
Steal two hundred gazillion dollars, enough to buy myself an island and build a real honest-to-God train on it for noone but me.
Guy Forsyth