Well it was either that or leave it mewing pitifully while it tried to pull itself off the road with a broken back and it's intestines hanging out of it's arsehole.
No, only animal I've actually hit was a cat, which I had to pull over and go back to stomp it out of it's misery.
I've had to swerve to avoid roos jumping out of the bushes beside the road at dusk and dawn on many occasions though.
There's a few of my friends and family members that have...
Yeah, I've had a few really put the effort in to try and kill me. Including a car full of teenage girls who pulled out of a lane of traffic turning right without looking and knocked me into the gutter (managed to stay on the bike), a guy who (presumably) didn't realise lane splitting is legal...
There's certainly substantial risk, and everyone I know that rides has crashed at least once (especially when they are young, stupid and inexperienced).
I felt the same way before hopping on a bike, but the experience changed my risk/reward evaluation considerably. Not that everyone loves it...
I sometimes go riding with one of my mates and his dad (in his 70s) who owns a bunch of classic beemers (and old Jap bikes as well).
They had a reputation as bikes for old fuddy duddies, until they started making serious sports bikes in the 2000s.
That's a legitimate classic, but there's a lot...
Yeah, Goldwings are basically a couch with a (big) motor. Never ridden one, although I've seen them hustled through the local hills at a surprising clip given the sheer size and weight.
BMW are their main competition (K1600). 6 cylinders and almost 400kg isn't really the sort of minimalism I'm...
Can't say I asked my folks for their opinion, although my dad had bikes before he got married (when he sold his guns and bike) and I've an aunt on my mum's side that still rides in her 60s. They crammed all 5 of us on a scooter in Thailand when we were kids (no helmets either), so chances are...
Yeah, the nostalgia I have for the cars we hankered after and bought for around $5K as teenagers isn't worth $100K+ to me. Not least of all because I have a bike collection which I'm more into.
I switched to bikes when I was at Uni.
A friend left his Suzuki RGV250 in the garage for a couple of...
I'm not conflating anything, they literally rank individuals by their wealth (since it's their most popular product, they now have categories for the charts ranging from the original outright wealth to the wealthiest sports stars and even social media/tik tok celebrities) and promote the...
By historical definition "right-wing" is the support for hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable. Including the hierarchy of wealth. Forbes both documents and supports that hierarchy as their most well known and consumed reporting. Without redefining terms that's right-wing...
For that particular chart they have a few breakdowns of various lengths on how they arrived at their views over on their website. They aren't claiming that it's a global, unbiased, empirical metric.
Hardly. Your image is the result of "up to" 60 American analysts evaluating American media on your American political scale. That is not a global evaluation nor an objective measurement (they don't even claim as much). The political scale is relative to both the viewer and more broadly the...
Measured? Via what? The idea that the Stars and Stripes is the height of objective, centrist and factual reporting would literally be a joke in the rest of the world.
Likewise the idea that a publication as blatantly pro-corporate interests as Forbes is "centre-left" is laughable.
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