Another thing that always irritated me about wingers in the GWRRA is all the "training" they harp on about. It's like not a damned one of them know how to ride a friggin' motorcycle! They won't get on a trike without taking the GWRRA approved "trike" course. I was approached by one guy at a GWRRA picknick/rally at Lake Texana about taking a GWRRA riders course. I laughed at him, told him I'd been riding 35 years, I've raced CRRC since 1975, dirt tracked, raced 250cc GP with a pro license in AMA and at Daytona on the banking, ridden sidecar rigs, dirt bikes, GP road racers and open class superbikes, and street bikes of all descriptions from choppers to touring bikes. I don't need no stinkin' GWRRAer to teach me how to ride a motorcycle, ROFLMAO! He didn't think too much of my attitude, don't think.
I listened to a couple of guys talking, one wanted a trike but says, "oh, I won't ride it until I can take the GWRRA trike course".
I get enough of that sort of crap from NHTSA and Ralph Nader. I don't need no GWRRA giving me safety speeches, too!
Jesus, ain't no wonder they all need training wheels! ****, they probably haven't taken the GWRRA safety riders course for two wheelers yet!
Haven't earned their two wheeled badge for their little vest.
To further re-enforce this opinion, after camping the night at Texana, wife and I got up and packed our camping gear and rode into Edna to a restaurant there for breakfast. In town, there were several wings on the side of the road, one wing with a trailer was laid over. We rode to the restaurant and when we got there, few minutes later they show up. Guy and his wife were on the wing that was down. I asked him what'd happened. He says he didn't know. They were riding along and he started to brake and there was dirt on the road and he lost the front.
Christ, with braking skills like that, he'd better stay off 125 GP bikes!
It's no wonder Honda designs those linked, antidive, computer controlled anti lock brakes for Wings. ****, most of the riders on those things don't know how to use REAL brakes! I guess if I were that danged unskilled on one, I'd want training wheels, too!