The article ?To Each His Own? by Bud Miller/Zen Motorcyclist was originally published on the ?RoadRUNNER Motorcycle Touring & Travel? magazine website on 03/15/2016.
?In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day?or to celebrate each special day.?
?Rasheed Ogunlaru
I?ll admit I was at a bit of a loss regarding this column. I had the ?bones? (as I like to refer to the overall theme), but the structure was lost on me. Then, I visited my dentist, and by the time I left his office, I had the rest of the column in place in my mind. Today, for once, I was happy to have visited him.
Sitting in the chair, our usual banter somehow turned to base jumping and paragliding while skiing. My dentist recalled a documentary about an athlete who had lost several friends to these same endeavors. Moments later, I?m shot up with Novocaine, and the ridiculous (and uncomfortable) plastic prop is placed in my mouth. It was then that my dentist and his assistant made the not so obvious, yet all so predictable, leap to discussing the danger of motorcycles. As if on cue, the obligatory statement comes out about how we have responsibilities to our loved ones to give up such dangerous pursuits. I couldn?t respond. And it irritated me how easily non-riders lump our two-wheeled activities into the category of ?dangerous pursuits.? In an age when we are constantly measured against others, the ride for me is a place to measure myself against that thin red line that on...