Hi Martys,
This young women and her family is in Sue's and my thoughts and praryers. Life alone can come at you fast, so fast we most often haven't a clue at all what's around the next bend in the road. Let alone what's going to crash into our behind parts of our day. I guess that's one of the risks we all take while out on a bike in todays traffic. I think also thhat's one of the things that make riding a motorcycle such a thrill and raises our level of excitement, since we all know we don't have eyes in the back of our heads. Even with a couple of mirrors we still have to be very deliberate to look back often or maybe often enough to see what's happening back there. Truth is, for me anyway, I look about a total 220 degrees while riding and only peak in the mirrors or twist a look back very seldom. And still, as I was sitting a traffic light in Daytona Beach South shores in Feb of 2006, I was hit from behind by another bike that wasn't even paying attention to his own forward motion. My wife was picked up by the meatwagon and brought to a Hospital that I hadn't even heard of before let alone how to get there.
But, with all that said, this is all in part at least why I (we) love riding "The Unknown of Motorcycling", is an emotion that is fed by risk. What's so sad is that for so many people the roadway is just a means to an end, for us it's more of the end to the means. Ride with your eyes open friends, ride as noone will do it for you. Because, I think, on a bike is one of those times when we are alone even when we are with a croud.
May the Lord bless her body to respond quickly to what the Doc's are doing for her, may she have a speedy recovery and bring her family to a brand new level of hope in He that is Hope, together and apart.
best wishes
sincerely
chappy & Sue
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