A troubling Christmas - metal/mental related

Nothing much to add except that this might be useful. They can at least call for help if they get hurt:

What about motocross helmets and body armor?

My folks didn't allow unsupervised trail riding until I was 14-15.

Good luck.

One a couple of years ago in Laughlin, NV, a mc hit a SUV so hard in a t bone, the SUV was toppled on its side. Needless to say, the driver ............. I've never seen a bike or a motorcycle win a direct contact incident.

Steve

You can bundle them up like sumo wrestlers, but if they are just not mentally ready for it, it's all for naught. These two are the types who have to take EVERYTHING to the breaking point, just to find out where that is, no matter if they end up destroying it. Except for their educational or art stuff, they go through toys like bacon goes through a goose.

Steve

Sure there is , like the time the yuppiebitch intentionally distracted me by coming over into my lane . Paid too much attention to her , didn't realize there was a car stopped in my lane . I almost stopped in time . Toll for that one was a busted windshield and a very small ding on my front fender . OTOH , when the drunk turned left about 30 feet in front of me , I punched his right front wheel at ~45 MPH . That one cost me a broken nose , jaw , hand , several stitches in my lip ... and a really sweet 1976 Harley FLH , all original including the hand shift/foot clutch . My current ride is a 1990 FLHTCU ... which I've ridden around 35,000 miles in just under 4 years .

Then the *only* toys they need are the educational and art stuff.

We are likeminded on all points. Hope you can come up with something that gives you some peace.

For me there was. I was doing 35mph on a drizzly day on the way to my bowling league (age 16) when a lady in a Cadillac pulled out in front of me and stopped. I hit the brakes and felt it going over, so I dropped it and rode it into her back door. My helmet bent the door panel and frame, breaking the window, which was up. I was a bit rattled, but I wore a fairly thick jacket which kept my 3" road-rash on my forearm pretty small and shallow. My Kawasaki street 90 survived with repairs.

Another guy I knew had been warned never to hit 5th gear on his Kaw Ninja with a WOT. He did and when it flipped, the front half of his head was shaved off at a 45 degree angle. No helmet, but it wouldn't have helped him anyway.

Most of the guys I knew who rode got hurt on their own, but those who were killed were usually from someone not paying attention on the road. People pulling out in front of them, changing lane into them, etc.

It's scary enough in a car, with steel all around you, nowadays.

-- Remember, in an emergency, dial 1911.

I can only try to control what happens at MY house. They will be here for a week starting this afternoon, as their parents have to work this New Year's Eve, doing a 24 hour shift.

Funny, but when they are here, they aren't the whiny brats they are at home. I wonder why that is. Now, to work on their manners when it comes to getting into other people's stuff. One step at a time.

They love to go with Papa. Go to Ace, go to the dump, go to NAPA. Having to stay home makes a pretty good impression on them. They are boys, and I hope they don't get into as much stuff as I did, but I just want them to come out the other end without any permanent damage, or prison bitch material. We've already got one relative who may be out in about 15 years............. and he managed to get into AdSeg, he was adjusting so well to prison life ............

Steve

Define smart.

Life is not safe. Some might measure a lifetime by how much they enjoyed it, however long or short it might have been.

Hey - I never said it didn't suck. I'm 57, 5 kids - 3 of them competent adults, the other two - their mother hopes against hope for them, but shes pissing into the wind. Raising one of their kids too - totally Feral, no chance there. Stuffed from birth. So, mate - antidepressants help, so does an acceptance of whatever f*ck up comes along. Its going to happen anyway. They will grow up, or not. Nothing you can do about it. Welcome to the human race - this sorta crap has been going on for a fair while now....

Andrew VK3BFA.

Hey - I never said it didn't suck. I'm 57, 5 kids - 3 of them competent adults, the other two - their mother hopes against hope for them, but shes pissing into the wind. Raising one of their kids too - totally Feral, no chance there. Stuffed from birth. So, mate - antidepressants help, so does an acceptance of whatever f*ck up comes along. Its going to happen anyway. They will grow up, or not. Nothing you can do about it. Welcome to the human race - this sorta crap has been going on for a fair while now....

Andrew VK3BFA.

Tell me. Is it tough being a genius, or what?

Dunno. Never tried being a genius, dont think I am up to it. .Machining to tolerance is hard enuff. (seems like bloody Zen sometimes - if the spirit is with you etc etc, it can be done. Otherwise, forget it. Same goes for welding...)

Steve - at 62, surely you have figured out a few things by now about how the WORLD and LIFE work.....or at least had a stab at it. It will always be an uneasy acceptance, fer sure. Contradictions all over the bloody place. No thinking person could imagine it runs on sane, rational lines. Your present method just seems to cause you grief, of the type of bashing your head into a wall. Sorry. really am, hope you can get to a better place..

Andrew VK3BFA.

Depends on your definition of "genius." If it's 140+ then yes, it's a bitch. All my life, my Mom and Dad said, "You have such great potential," the unsaid part being, "Why are you such a disappointment?"

Yeah, it's hard to be a genius, especially when the idiots are making government policy.

Thanks, Rich

Dunno. Never tried being a genius, dont think I am up to it. .Machining to tolerance is hard enuff. (seems like bloody Zen sometimes - if the spirit is with you etc etc, it can be done. Otherwise, forget it. Same goes for welding...)

Steve - at 62, surely you have figured out a few things by now about how the WORLD and LIFE work.....or at least had a stab at it. It will always be an uneasy acceptance, fer sure. Contradictions all over the bloody place. No thinking person could imagine it runs on sane, rational lines. Your present method just seems to cause you grief, of the type of bashing your head into a wall. Sorry. really am, hope you can get to a better place..

Andrew VK3BFA.

I'm working on it. And limiting talking to some people helps, too.

Steve

You don't have to destroy the thing, just a little tinkering with the governor might slow it down a bit and increase the margin of safety. Might even be done by just bending the linkage wires between governor and carb.

Jon

Thanks, but I do not have access to the bike. They were unsafe with a very slow electric ATV, and I do not expect any more for this one. The machine is not the problem.

Steve