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Grey Thumper wrote:Your friend sounds really cool. Considering he's been riding for two decades, it's good he didn't have a "know it all" attitude and was willing (and even grateful) to get advice and a fresh perspective from someone less experienced. His open-mindedness and willingness to learn something new quite likely, as he said, saved his life.

My BF and I have known him since before he started riding, so he does tend to listen to us. Not always, but most of the time I think I'll keep him around. He has some pretty good flashes of wisdom periodically as well. We all worked together as stagehands/riggers for a lot of years-lots of building trust and learning from each other to stay safe. It's translated to riding well.

And he had to teach me the finer points of parking the big bike, 'cause common sense happened to elude me in that department.