Not too sure how to approach this - Don't have anyone to ask

Hey everyone haven't been active on here just because of all the drama hope everyone has calmed down now.

I want to just say this to somebody but I don't really have anyone to ask so I thought I'd make a post on here.

I've always loved motorbikes and as I'm getting older I find myself wanting one more and more, but the issue is my entire family are so anti motorbike it's ridiculous. I've tried to bring it up in the past in a jokey kind of way but they all just say the same thing "if you get one of those death traps I will smash it up myself" blah blah blah.

I'm still living at home I have a car but it's quite expensive and now that I'm not doing 140 mile journeys all the time since I split with my ex the cost of the car is getting kind of unnecessary and I would rather not pay for it. I could do my CBT and get all the tests done and I'll be able to get a nice bike that won't cost me £340 a month like how my car is currently.

I just don't know how to bring this up with my mum mainly because it will just turn into an argument and all she'll go on about is the fact that my step dad had a friend that died on a bike a couple years ago. But if I say yeah well I wont ride like a d!ick like he did, (because that's what got him killed he was doing motorway speeds in urban area and broadsided a car).

It's also a bit deeper than the fact I "just want a bike" I have lived my life trying to do the things that I think everyone will approve of and not always doing what I want to do. And seeing bikes just seems so freeing a stress relieving being in the open air like that. 

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  • i had a motorbike when i was younger, virago 535, pretty damn sweet bike.... got rid of it due to the fact i dont go anywhere anyway so it was pointless having it and paying insurance which was like 1k per year, just waste of money for me.

    im a idiot, if im safe on a bike im sure anyone will be lol although i did have a few minor things, one time the back end skidded out around a corner probably due to lots of loose stones on the road or perhaps oil. kept control with my body strength stabilising it though. another time i got myself on a slope position facing downwards and wanted to reverse, ofcourse bikes dont have reverse so you have to push back with feet, and ofcourse its a heavy bike so even on a slight slope i couldnt push it back and infront was another parked bike, so it just kept edging forward lol until one onlooker finally decided to give me a hand and pull me back. so slopes are a pain and you need to watch were you park as you wont be able to reverse it up a tiny slope unless your arnold Schwarzenegger lol

  • Haha yeah I have thought about that sometimes I've seen videos of people doing what you described I know that I wouldn't be immune to something like that happening but I'm pretty good keeping my self safe and "covering all my angles" so to speak I would just be extra careful in those situations 

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  • Haha yeah I have thought about that sometimes I've seen videos of people doing what you described I know that I wouldn't be immune to something like that happening but I'm pretty good keeping my self safe and "covering all my angles" so to speak I would just be extra careful in those situations 

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