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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Haha, well I didn't say bikers wouldn't carry - I did confine my comments of why "savvy" bikers know implying they probably wouldn't and surmised what I would be worried about if I were a biker thinking of carrying and as I did say, bikers can be risk-takers, some do carry. But from what I read, long-time bikers who've ridden longer than some others have lived have had enough really bad tumbles to know that hard objects carried on the body reek havoc on flesh, muscle and bone in a crash with all the high-speed bumping, bouncing and rolling over and over for yards and yards that ensues. I did get the impression that these days many do carry a gun hidden away somewhere on the bike itself but that it's not readily accessible during the ride for fear it will bounce out and be lost during a bumpy ride or wipeout.
And they have their own terms for crashes and names for certain kinds of bruises, bone breaks. One thing I thought was morbidly funny on a couple sites was that the biker's say EMT's/police call motorcycles "donor cycles". |
Oh I totally get what you were saying. You pointed out something I never considered so I was trying to think in those bikers boots so to speak. If that makes sense.
But the problem was that no matter how hard I try to be in their boots, I can't. Like you, me, and many others, we wouldn't purposely go breaking laws for the sake of our own entertainment. Further more, put others in harms way.
I also saw similar comments in reference to "donor cycles". It's.. pretty sad that these type of bikers would earn nicknames as such...