All too true. I used to ride a little GPX250 back in the 90s, had a decade off, and started this one on the ST. I'm now 20 years older than I was when I first got on the saddle.
Perhaps the most significant change to my recent driving habbits have been the addition of kids (it seemed my wife wasn't so important back in 1990
). Now, having "grown up" I continually ask myself two questions....
- What good can come of it?
- Is it worth it?
Our ability to ride the bike for longer between "incidents" is, in my opinion,
always down to the decisions we take on a ride - whether directly with our own behaviour (speeding, lane splitting, fatigued, etc.) or in response to the environment around us.... not by the behaviour of others.
Unfortunately, we have to accept that a) there will always be others who have bad driving skills & habbits, b) our skills typically match theirs (we're not perfect either), and c) we will never win an argument in an accident.
Most workplaces these day are filled with all sorts of HSE standards, policies, and procedures... all resulting from a risk-benefit analysis. We need to do the same on the bike (apply the same thinking - not carry the manuals
).
R.
