Not All Chokes
Are Created Equal
As a friend told me, three things happen immediately after you mentally freeze, choke, and wreck your motorcycle:
- You take a quick inventory and make sure all body parts are intact
- You surreptitiously glance around to see if anyone was watching, and
- You start thinking of excuses you’ll give for why you wrecked
The first time he wrecked a motorcycle, there were no excuses. What happened? “I had only been riding for a couple months,†he told me, “and I choked. I freaked out. I froze. I – shoot, pick any embarrassing verb and it applies. I was going way too fast up a twisty mountain road and came on a hairpin turn, mentally froze, hit the brazes but did nothing else, and ran off the road into the side of the mountain. ... READ NOW >
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