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

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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've always fancied a bike - but I'm too scared to have to rely on it for transport on the roads around here.       They seem designed to force cars and bikes and trucks into conflict.

    One thing I will say is many years ago, my brother was in the local Victorian hospital - long wards, 10 beds either side with an annexe on the end.    My brother was in the 3-bed annexe on the end because he was a child.     

    Every bed down the ward on both sides had a 17-year old lad with a destroyed right leg - all in Frankenstein traction assemblies - all had crashed their Fizzies and been horribly injured.. 

    It always put me off bikes - even though when I applied for my provisional, if I had ticked a box, I would have had a full bike licence when I passed my car test.    I didn't tick the box.

    I would have liked to get a bike - just as a toy - my choice would be a Kawasaki VN1500 Drifter - something that is big enough to be respected on the road.

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  • I've always fancied a bike - but I'm too scared to have to rely on it for transport on the roads around here.       They seem designed to force cars and bikes and trucks into conflict.

    One thing I will say is many years ago, my brother was in the local Victorian hospital - long wards, 10 beds either side with an annexe on the end.    My brother was in the 3-bed annexe on the end because he was a child.     

    Every bed down the ward on both sides had a 17-year old lad with a destroyed right leg - all in Frankenstein traction assemblies - all had crashed their Fizzies and been horribly injured.. 

    It always put me off bikes - even though when I applied for my provisional, if I had ticked a box, I would have had a full bike licence when I passed my car test.    I didn't tick the box.

    I would have liked to get a bike - just as a toy - my choice would be a Kawasaki VN1500 Drifter - something that is big enough to be respected on the road.

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  • in reply to Plastic

    That's sad, I am aware that bikes are more risky than cars and there isn't a way around that fact but I'm not an idiot and I'm a responsible person and I wouldn't ride dangerously. I know that things happen that aren't my fault. 

    That is a nice bike I do like those more older looking bikes, that VN1500 would look so good in jet black, I already know what bike I would get once I passed all the test for my first bike, I'd get the KTM 390 Duke, or the 125 duke I'm not sure how much power would be too much for a first bike but those seem like a good place to start