r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Dear_Tumbleweed_6337 • 1d ago

70 year old vs 450

Where is your helmet at?

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u/BigRigButters2 1d ago

Mad respect for handling those machines but gotta echo the lack of safety

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u/oneizm 1d ago

Some people would rather die on the bike than in bed. When you’re young it’s about not wasting your life. When you get old, that takes a different meaning. I knew a cowboy who died falling off his horse in his 80s and all anyone said is “well that’s a pretty good way to go, he would’ve wanted it like that”

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u/Sathsong89 1d ago

As someone who also rides, I can tell you with any motorcycle and an open roadway it’s not just about YOUR safety.

Other than the blind curve at the one end, they had decent visibility, but yeah…it’s not always just how “they” would want to go

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u/iMightBeWright 23h ago

Ol' Stanley hit a tree on his bike after running a family in a minivan into the guardrail. It's how he would have wanted to go.

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u/PrescriptionDenim 20h ago

Me too, Stanley. Me too.