http://ironsoap.org/2006/08/21/journal/ah-my-hip/ A critically engaging exercise in pointless tedium. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:06:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://ironsoap.org/2006/08/21/journal/ah-my-hip/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Brandie Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:57:02 +0000 http://ironsoap.org/2006/08/21/journal/ah-my-hip/#comment-55 I'm glad you weren't seriously hurt. I do the opposite; I apply the clutch and forget the brake. This would be why David keeps me on a little 50cc (or maybe it's a 80cc). A Harley at this point of my inexperience would be suicidal. I’m glad you weren’t seriously hurt. I do the opposite; I apply the clutch and forget the brake. This would be why David keeps me on a little 50cc (or maybe it’s a 80cc). A Harley at this point of my inexperience would be suicidal.

]]> http://ironsoap.org/2006/08/21/journal/ah-my-hip/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Don (a.k.a. Dad) Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:54:57 +0000 http://ironsoap.org/2006/08/21/journal/ah-my-hip/#comment-53 Yeah...I once contemplated a motorcycle when you boys were little--even so far as asking about helmets and stuff. Then I got word that a guy I knew died on one--going around a corner. Not running into anything or racing. Just going around a corner. Loose gravel, bike went out from under him, broken neck, funeral. He was wearing a helmet, too. The way I saw it, granted a person can get killed in a car: crazy drivers, bad weather, drunks; but not just by going around a corner! I had ridden one of my college buddy's bikes a few times short distances just for fun. Never really got the hang of shifting: one down, three up or whatever. I figured I'd learn it if I got one but after my ac- quaintance died I decided I'd stick to cars. P.S. Hope you're healing okay! Yeah…I once contemplated a motorcycle when you boys were little–even so far as asking about helmets and stuff.
Then I got word that a guy I knew died on one–going around a corner. Not running into anything or racing. Just
going around a corner. Loose gravel, bike went out from under him, broken neck, funeral. He was wearing a helmet,
too. The way I saw it, granted a person can get killed in a car: crazy drivers, bad weather, drunks; but not just by
going around a corner! I had ridden one of my college buddy’s bikes a few times short distances just for fun. Never
really got the hang of shifting: one down, three up or whatever. I figured I’d learn it if I got one but after my ac-
quaintance died I decided I’d stick to cars. P.S. Hope you’re healing okay!

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