A buddy of mine had a Norton 750 Commando in the late 60s. While ascending Dry Hill road, up to the former DEW 3-domed radar site (now a NYS prison), he got tangled up in some wire at a construction area at, he said, about 80 MPH. The mishap left him without a lot of skin on the left side of his body, his leg in particular. When recovered to a state that was the new normal, he stuck with his AMC AMX. I guess its 390 kept him happy/thrilled...but with some actual protection.
YouTube has stacks of videos and compilations of mishaps, accidents, close calls, etc. Some are very sobering displays of driver error and its results. Others demonstrate just how invisible a bike is to other motorists.
Risky business, for sure. Nonetheless, I ride, too.
I have a question, though, inspired by those videos. When did it become a "thing" to use the throttle instead of the horn?!
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