[zooplancton]

wow. so i ditched out on a ride this weekend with a newer friend i met about a year ago here. i had to work saturday so i didn't really "ditch out" on the ride - i just had a bad feeling about it. (which kept me from pushing my deadline so i could make the ride that day)

his email to all of us was hinting at quite a spirited ride. "then we'll haul a$$ over to hiway 9, etc." ----- i just got a feeling from frame 1 on this...

so i get home this eve, to find an email that the guy that got all of us together had "taken a dump" (wrecked) that day!
he's ok, but he busted up his foot pretty good. guess he had (quote) "a wide apex".

how did i know?? i totally knew something was going to happen saturday...
i guess this is why i don't ride with people that much.

ride safe.

 

[Goffe]

So, what do you think would have happened if you had gone on the ride?

 

[itchin]

My pappy always told me to listen to your gut, it knows. If ya think it, it prolly is or will be.

I passed this same advice to my daughter since she was a Baby since i could'nt always be there. Told her to listen to that little voice in her head, it tells the truth. That advice has served her well a few times.

 

[kiel]

"The voice" has been there for me through thick and thin. It has saved me countless times and also likes to ridicule me when I do something stupid. Like when I hit a corner too hot and have to grit my teeth and lean it further...right after that that voice starts going off, "that was f'n stupid, what is wrong with you? How retarded would you have felt had you wrecked for no good reason, there was no sweet story to follow, what would you have told your friends? Probably that the corner gave you the stink eye so you decided to tackle it with your face!" The voice knows all, listen to it.

 

[ruscook]

On 2007-01-16 01:01, itchin wrote:
My pappy always told me to listen to your gut, it knows. If ya think it, it prolly is or will be.

I passed this same advice to my daughter since she was a Baby since i could'nt always be there. Told her to listen to that little voice in her head, it tells the truth. That advice has served her well a few times.

:hihi: problem is I gots lots a voices in my head telling me all sorts of things

Russ

 

[Calitriple]

It ("the voice") saved my a$$ a few times when I was in the service. I listen to that [email protected] all the time now. When I'm about to go to work ( I'm a bouncer) and that voice tells me something bad is gonna happen tonight I take extra measures. ALWAYS listen to it. It's better to be wrong and acting paranoid than being wrong and caught off gaurd, hurts more.

 

[Cheapbastard]

hope yer friend is alright Zoo. It sucks to be on a group ride and someone goes down, been there done that many times. :hammer: If you guys want me to keep listen'n to the voice in my head, yer screwed, 'cause it keeps tell'n me to pester you fellers. :-D

 

[zooplancton]

On 2007-01-16 00:43, Goffe wrote:
So, what do you think would have happened if you had gone on the ride?

to be honest, i was spooked about someone running into me, or two bikes colliding.
someone getting all hyped-up and doing a mad pass and hitting another rider that was also going to do a pass... or someone going down in front of the pack taking out the rest.
just felt weird...

hope yer friend is alright Zoo. It sucks to be on a group ride and someone goes down, been there done that many times. If you guys want me to keep listen'n to the voice in my head, yer screwed, 'cause it keeps tell'n me to pester you fellers.

yeah, he's good. hopefully lesson learned.

 

[R100Pilot]

Good on ya, man. That's the same spidey sense that tells ya the arsehole on the sell-phone is about to cut into your lane. Listen to it.

I had a similar feeling at the beginning of my ride Sunday and just made sure to be extra careful and give folks some room. Most of the people I ride with are very good and don't do stupid sh*t, but there are a couple who'll ride right up other people's butts and push just slightly harder than they should. Fortunately, those were the guys who split after the first leg of the day and the rest was just good ridin'.

 

[scratch]

When I ride with groups, I'll tend to hang back and observe behavior for a while if I'm not familiar with everyone and their riding styles and their level of maturity. I'll try to keep clear of anyone who rides erratically or too fast or who's style just doesn't seem quite right. Maybe try to engage them in a conversation during a break to talk about riding technique if they seem open to suggestions.

If I'm leading, I'll have a brief pre-ride meeting to let everyone know what's expected of them from a safe-riding standpoint, then I'll talk with the sweep at breaks to get his impression of how people are actually riding. I've pissed off a few riders for calling them out on what I judged to be obvious & repeated instances of unsafe behavior, but hey that's life. Don't like it; then you don't have to ride with me.

It's all about risk management and staying aware.
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P.S. - The voices-in-your-head thing reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw one time:

"9 out of 10 voices in my head say PULL THE TRIGGER!!!"

Needless to say, I gave that vehicle plenty of room! :lollol:

[ This message was edited by: scratch on 2007-01-16 15:51 ]

 

[HiVel]

There is a place for those of you who hear voices and LISTEN to them-it is called a mental hospital. WOW. I love this Forum!!

 

[zooplancton]

P.S. - The voices-in-your-head thing reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw one time:

"9 out of 10 voices in my head say PULL THE TRIGGER!!!"

Needless to say, I gave that vehicle plenty of room! :lollol:

wondering which way the gun is being pointed in this scenario?
(at themselves? or at others?)

hopefully at themselves.

[ This message was edited by: zooplancton on 2007-01-16 20:51 ]

 

[BillT]

Its good to listen to that voice. IMO, the ideal group size is six to eight riders. More than that, you're baby sitting. Fewer, especially two to four, the testosterone gets flowing, and people start taking risks. Also, I don't like going on a group ride with somebody new behind me - I don't want him doing something stupid and taking me with him.

 

[3forme]

We don't let anyone in our group bring another rider into 'the group' without first riding with them and checking them out. We then hold them responsible for the 'new guy' if he screws up or show's himself to be a squid.
We have other basic rules that we've had to establish because some of the guys in the group would only join us occasionally and they weren't always up on what was cool and what wasn't. We actually printed them up and would give a copy to the new guy to read.

We're not a bunch of 'stuffed shirts', we've just been riding for many years and have seen it all. Most of the guys are pretty dam# fast. We only go fast out of town on the great roads we have here in the NW. I can't remember one 'young gun' over the years that ever ended up showing any of us 'old fuc&s' how to scrub off the ol' 'chichen strips'. (Which none of us have, by the way.) :-D
It's all about 'stayin' alive'. (And havin' fun'). :-D :-D

 

[dragonrider]

That is why I usually ride alone or with only a select few riders that I have ridden with for over twenty years. Too bad for your buddy though. Hope he back on the bike soon.