You: eastbound, older touring motorcycle, dress pants, golf shirt, loafers, open-faced helmet, not moving all too fast, giving me the slow down wave.
Me: westbound, sportbike, boots, leathers, gloves, full-face helmet, 1omph above the speed limit.
You perceive me as unsafe because you think I’m going too fast, and I’m on a machine that is marketed by its performance potential.
Read through the descriptions. You tell me who is unsafe.
Marketing has made perception into reality. Just because I ride a performance machine does not mean that I’m exploiting its performance.