S. Goss: I don’t need your advice on motorcycles
Motorcycles are the subject. People are the problem.
The trouble with the people of this country is that they try to force their beliefs on others ( “Motorcycles claim too many lives,” Nov. 14). If I want to do something – anything – that’s my choice not yours.
Motorcycles don’t kill, people do. I’m 68 and have been riding motorcycle’s since 1971. The idiot drivers I’ve seen out there are unbelievable. My point is motorcycles don’t kill people, only people do. You cannot drive a motorcycle like a car. When you’re driving a motorcycle you have to drive for everyone else. You have to think that all other drivers can’t see you, and even if they do they are going to pull out in front of you, cut you off and suddenly stop in front of you. You better be 200 percent alert.
You cannot speed on a motorcycle, or you’re going to be in trouble sooner or later.
Just because you’re scared to death of motorcycles doesn’t mean we are. Try minding try your own business, and stay out of ours.
S. Goss, Turlock
This story was originally published November 14, 2014 at 11:10 AM with the headline "S. Goss: I don’t need your advice on motorcycles."