{"id":6801,"date":"2008-04-17T09:25:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T09:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/motorcycle-fears.html"},"modified":"2008-04-17T09:25:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T09:25:22","slug":"motorcycle-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/personal\/motorcycle-fears.html","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamie Siminoff has an interesting post<\/a> today on his blog where he discusses the dangers of motorcycles and compares the purchase of a motorcycle to investing in a company.<\/p>\n

I was a huge motorcycle fan and was ready to buy a Honda hurricane\/CBR 1000 when I graduated college. Before I had a chance to do this, a person I knew in the gym hit a stone wall at 70 MPH on his motorcycle and died. The night before his accident we were at the same party and I will never forget the last moment I saw him.<\/p>\n

It is not that we were that close but this experience was one of the first times my youth and inexperience intersected with the reality of human mortality.<\/p>\n

Since that time, I have decided that a sports car with air bags and anti-lock brakes is the closest I want to get to the experience of being on a two-wheeled machine.<\/p>\n

I have had the chance to borrow a friend’s bike from time to time and while riding, I find myself thinking more about the potential for an accident than anything else. The last time I rode, I realized as soon as I got off the bike that my forearms ached from holding on so tight.<\/p>\n

When I rode in college I just remember the pure enjoyment – with little to no fear.<\/p>\n

I suppose I am just past the point where I can enjoy these machines anymore.<\/p>\n

Still, I have a deep craving to ride a Ducati at some point. If I ever do, I would probably want to do it when there are few other cars on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamie Siminoff has an interesting post today on his blog where he discusses the dangers of motorcycles and compares the purchase of a motorcycle to investing in a company. I was a huge motorcycle fan and was ready to buy a Honda hurricane\/CBR 1000 when I graduated college. Before I had a chance to do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}