Motorcycle Truths

To argue that motorcycles are more lethal and accident prone then the auto transmission scooters is just an absurd logic conceived by those who had never rode a motorcycle or were just plain retarded and too lazy and try learning to ride. I don’t understand that how could, such an absolute sense of irrationality and callousness may even originate? I mean how could a machine on which you control 4 different mechanical engagement to manoeuvre is more dangerous then something which is driven by only two of them. In a motorcycle you control and command over 4 different mechanics: the clutch, brakes, accelerator and the gear shift. While in a scooter there is only an accelerator and a brake. Now unless someone’s reasoning ability is hindered since his birth or someone whose mind is obscured by illogical and daft conclusions I don’t need to explain which of the either two would make a person more conscious and alert on road while driving. Because obviously, controlling four different mechanics will require more focus and care then controlling two. I had driven both of them over a long duration of time especially the scooter a lot in my high school days. But ever since my dad got me my first Bullet I’d have to admit it knocked more sense and maturity in me than ever before. I take no shame in confessing myself to be an absolute asshole back then. I was careless and used to drive on roads like a lunatic and even though I was running only a puny engine of 110cc I felt like I am riding some goddamn Ninja or a Ducati. This is the exact thought that runs through most of those teenagers and rascals who run on a scooter and believe that if the roads favours them anymore they could literally take-off. And it isn’t just a matter of sexes. I have noticed the women riders to be more disobeying the traffic rule and driving more foolishly than their male counterparts thinking they could get away with it being the women and by the grace of our so generous and feministic Traffic cops they always do. Well, you can’t put the cops to be that faults always. Many a times they just tends to avoid trouble and  insults and a threat to their meagre jobs because you never know when any girl or any lady could throw a tantrum if stopped by any of the cop and could even accuse the poor fellow of assaulting sexually and emotionally. So they let them go most of the time.

There is a reason why I consider the girls riding an Enfield to be an image of a perfect woman in every sense because, as much ruggedness and compassion it tends to develop into a man, it develops the same amount of consciousness and wisdom in a woman.  It’s an eccentric and at the same time, a splendid combination of these mixed emotions which may be contradicting in nature but creates a great human out of anyone who walks down that road. In my opinion there isn’t anything that makes more sense than riding a motorcycle which makes you to concentrate more at the road and also to contemplate your inner self more than before in a completely new aspect. It literally changes the way you perceive your life and the life of all those people and the whole world to which you connect yourself with while on a motorcycle. I don’t know about anyone else but ever since I started riding a bike it had made me kind of sane and less contemptuous. It gave me a mature and responsible outlook which I had never before observed in me and even though I may still like to monkey around and act childish it is just only at the crust and a veil I am maintaining to conceal my true identity but deep down to the very core I know that I am a changed man. 

Regarding the topic of number of accidents that involves motorcycles I believe one needs to revise their perception regarding the cause of such tragedies. It had to be borne in mind that in most of these cases we come across always involve a car or a truck/bus along with a motorcycle. Now unless you carry the genes of a politicians or had been mind-fucked by some religious preachers I don’t need to explain and elaborate on the matter that who could be at  fault “most” of the time. Moreover I am also against the idea of commuter and sub-class motorcycles. Personally I think anything below 350cc should be put to immediate ban as these sub-class bikes are what littering the roads like pests and insects and put the lives of their and others at risk.  Moreover I believe in some sense the restrictions to sell classic motorcycles to the mass must be strictly imposed and selling policy similar to Rolls-Royce must be set up but instead of considering the social status and money as a selling factor it should be based on psychological test criteria and that whether any individual who wishes to buy one is deemed worthy  to have enough passion, respect and etiquettes to get one and just not some low-intellect and low-class bastard who take pride in howling on the roads and running like a wild boar on the loose.

Riding a motorcycle is an art and it’s not easy to come by. You need patience, dedication and above all a passion and respect for these marvellous creations. That’s the beauty reflected best in the British motorcycles. Be it Enfield’s, Norton, Triumphs, BSA, Velocette or the Rolls-Royce of motorcycles the Brough Superior you never think of them as mere machines but it appears like they are biological and sentinel beings and a soul resides through every one of them. I sometimes feel like that with my own life as if she got a mind of her own and she would run according to her own mood and interest. She demands pampering like a child and care like if you will look after a lady.  I couldn’t contemplate of anything else that can come so close to the Brits in terms of making soulful machines that only grows over you decades after decades and yet never dies.