Originally Posted by DryClutch

Ha. Until you get creamed by a Lexus. Ask me how I know. My screen name might give a hint into what I enjoyed in the past for many years. Then the Lexus. My bike looked like it had been hit by a shoulder fired missle. Was a pretty bike too. Then after the freaking Lexus, looking at my kids when they were real young. Yea, the bike(s) had to go. You couldn't pay me enough to ride anywhere near the vicinity of any metropolitan area. Not a single person is paying any attention to anything besides their phone, and it's getting worse as the years tick over. They have zero SA, they cannot see you whatsoever, they could care less, looking down to text is way more important, you are literally invisible, I don't care what sort of hi-viz stuff you think you have on. Yea I get it, we could die just walking down the street to the coffee shop, risk and all. And I miss the bikes, the mechanical symphony that it was, I do. But riding on the street these days, especially commuting on the daily, screw that. That Lexus took one of my 9 lives that day.