I wrote of how it doesn\u2019t suck to be riding around Italy in the spring and summer on a decent bike. That alone would be wonderful but there are two factors that make it that much more enjoyable. One of those factors is that one of the consequences of the 2019 cancer was that my body at the time seemed like I was never going to be able to ride again and I sold my bike to a friend for a song. So I had just kind of put the idea of riding for the rest of my life out of my mind. Now to be riding it\u2019s one of those things that I didn\u2019t realize that I was missing it until I was doing it again. And oh, how I missed it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other thing that is a bonus is the kind of riding that one can do here. There are plenty of reasons to like riding a motorcycle and one reason for me is the freedom to avoid traffic when it is slowed, or stopped. Another reason that I\u2019ve always like to ride is that I enjoy taking risks. I am defiantly not a \u201csafe\u201d rider. Here in Italy it is common for a motorcycle rider to pass a car on a two lane road with oncoming traffic even though the oncoming car is only going to give them the space of one motorcycle between cars. This occurs not just when traffic is crawling but when it\u2019s going along at speed limit. The cops don\u2019t seem to care and the other day I saw someone do this right in front of some cops. This is my kind of riding! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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