stocking up

[arewethereyet]

Helmets work if you plan on crashing at very low speeds and hit your head.

If you get hit by a vehicle such as a car or anything larger - odds are the body trauma is going to be so severe the helmet is a moot point.

Simple fact - motorcycles are dangerous as fuck in comparison to other vehicles. The ONLY way to make one really safer - is to leave it in the garage.

Anyone who argues that there is a " safer way to ride" hasn' t been hit by a pickup truck......

That’s more or less why I gave up riding. The three crashes I was involved in over 20+ years didn’t do it, it was seeing my mates get killed or injured for life.

One of the hardest things I ever did was selling my Electra Glide.

Boru

Husband used to have a Sportster...for one reason and that was to go fast. I think I rode a total of two miles on it.

He didn't wear a helmet unless he went somewhere it was required and then he wore a half helmet. He wore goggles at most.

I knew he was going to drive it like a dumb ass so I was happier he didn't wear a helmet because if/when he wrecked it would probably kill him the way he rode. After we moved here he was a bit afraid to ride it with traffic being as it is in Dallas so he bought a bigger bike...one for more sane riding. But too many close calls made his sell it.

I know a lot of people who got majorly screwed up due to mototcylcle accidents and a helmet would not made it much better.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

That’s more or less why I gave up riding. The three crashes I was involved in over 20+ years didn’t do it, it was seeing my mates get killed or injured for life.

One of the hardest things I ever did was selling my Electra Glide.

Boru

I had three majors too over 35 years of riding. Hit by a Volvo wagon - centerpunching a whitetail deer and hit by a Chevy 3/4 ton.... Last one cost me 18 months in a wheelchair. Rode for 10 years after the last one and decided I heal too slow now to be able to take another hit. Put on a whitload of mile ls over the year - even riding in the winter on snow covered roads. Had a bunch of fun.

I would never recommend anyone to ride.

I have seen many die - and it' s rarely their fault.

One of the people that hit me had a ‘Look Out For Motorcycles’ sticker on his car. I guess he thought ‘look out for’ meant ‘aim at’.

Boru

[onlinebiker]

Back to the original subject -


Does wine in a box age well?

[Brian37]

That’s more or less why I gave up riding. The three crashes I was involved in over 20+ years didn’t do it, it was seeing my mates get killed or injured for life.

One of the hardest things I ever did was selling my Electra Glide.

Boru

Husband used to have a Sportster...for one reason and that was to go fast.  I think I rode a total of two miles on it.  

He didn't wear a helmet unless he went somewhere it was required and then he wore a half helmet.  He wore goggles at most.

I knew he was going to drive it like a dumb ass so I was happier he didn't wear a helmet because if/when he wrecked it would probably kill him the way he rode.  After we moved here he was a bit afraid to ride it with traffic being as it is in Dallas so he bought a bigger bike...one for more sane riding.  But too many close calls made his sell it.

I know a lot of people who got majorly screwed up due to mototcylcle accidents and a helmet would not made it much better.

I used to love motorcycles myself. But I could never handle a big bike because I was short and skinny and had no coordination or upper body strength. I did long ago own a Honda Rebel 250. It was ok for slower roads like suburban and city, but I once tried to take it out on the DC beltway. 18 wheelers would pass me and it felt damned near like I was going to be sucked up under them. But even on the slow roads of the suburbs, I can't tell you how many times people would tailgate me and cut me off. 

I ended up selling my bike to a neighbor because I had parked it while at work in the parking lot of the 7-11 I worked at, and it had a slight incline from the front of the store, to the main street, possibly to divert water to the sewer to prevent the parking lot from flooding. I was looking out the window, and a dump truck driver, I guess forgot to put the vehicle in park, it rolled back and nocked over my bike. It severely fucked up my bike, especially the lights and handlebars. It was at that moment, I said to myself, "No more". I got the insurance check fixed it, and sold it. 

If maybe you had the population of 1900 and the same amount of population, maybe there would be less of a risk. But my experience over the years I had two wheeled transportation, too many people don't give a fuck you are there.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Back to the original subject -


Does wine in a box age well?

Depends on when you open it. Wine - boxed or bottles - kinda sorta goes off a few days after it's opened.

Boru

[arewethereyet]

How can you tell when wine goes bad? It all tastes like crap to me.

[*Deidre*]

I’m in a hurricane zone so water, toilet paper, battery operated air cleaners/conditioners, and some canned goods that I can actually imagine eating if the power went out for a few days.

[onlinebiker]

How can you tell when wine goes bad?  It all tastes like crap to me.

It goes to vinegar...

[The Grand Nudger]

Boxed wine should keep longer than bottled wine once opened, but can’t be aged at all due to the semi porous nature of the packaging.

For precisely this reason, the wines that go into the boxes are not, themselves, optimized for aging, but for immediate consumption.

[AtheistQuest]

Anyone else stocking up on stuff?

I'm stocking up on dried blueberries specifically.