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sportrider
makes you nervous? today as I was driving home from work, I came up on this older dude riding a Harley (it could've been any other bike, and still have been the same.) down the freeway at about 65MPH. as the freeway made a lazy right hander (I've gone through here many times in excess of 100MPH) I watched as he enter the "corner"(I use that loosely) he started off toward the inside of the turn, I watched him counterbalance the bike, he was completely straight arming it his body perfectly stiff and erect as the bike started to lean into the curve. I began to get nervous as I saw him drift across his lane and just as the freeway was straightening out he actually was on the dummy dots bike still leaned over. he looked scared as he looked over to the car he was about to drift into. as soon as he recovered and centered himself in the lane again, he changed lanes over to the slow lane and slowed down to under 55 MPH directly in front of a semi. I was thinking to my self OMG this guy is going to kill himself. as the semi slowed I moved over to basically use my truck as a shield for this dude to keep him from getting rear ended. after we merged onto the expressway I passed him, and looked over to see him really thinking how cool he was as he took a hand off the bars and put it on his hip. it amazes me how some people have survived for so long. I wonder if he was one of those have a midlife crisis and go by a bike dudes,(not that there's anything wrong with that)that refused to start with something that they could handle and insisted on buying a 750+lb motorcycle because of their pride. man, I hope the expressway doesn't get him, there has been three fatalities on it this week already.
