Is it OK to cry?

[backMARKr]

Read this in an article about HD's marketing to women strategy through what they call "garage parties".....

this was in the last few lines where the group is practicing lifting a dropped bike:

One by one, each woman gives the lifting a go, and most manage to raise the Sportster until it leans again on its side stand. When the last woman succeeds, the group breaks out into applause.

"Are there any questions?" Greene asks.

"Is it OK to cry?" one woman pipes up.

All I could think was.....I sure felt like crying EVERYTIME the bike ended up on the ground this year

[tlc]

I sure hope the answer is "YES, you can cry".  Isn't that why we wear dark shields.

[spyderchick]

Before Rog would let Rhiannon or I loose on the streets, we had to be able to pick up our bikes. Good lesson, no crying involved. ;)

[TheHiriser]

I sure hope the answer is "YES, you can cry".  Isn't that why we wear dark shields.

I agree.

Just don't take your helmet off, throw it, your gloves, anything else you have and act like you just had your favorite toy taken away by someone (even though in most cases you probably just did and you did it by wrecking it).   

[Kuala76]

There have been many riders who have done just that    I wonder what they think when they look back and realize they not only muffed up the bike, but muffed up the helmet by throwing it! Not to mention the guy that threw his bike down on the track after picking it up!!

[wolf44]

The two times I crashed this year I took off my helmet and got ready to chuck it....stopped...looked at the helmet and noticed no scuffs...set the helmet down, took off gloves and threw them at the ground, then proceeded to pout like a small child.......no crying though

[funsizeracing]

There is no cying in roadracing!

Although I think in Topeka I did jump up and down in a cirlce before picking my bike up.

[plasticweld]

There is no cying in roadracing!

I just crashed at Summit this past weekend and got hurt, while I know my body will heal in time, somebody "Me" will have to put the bike back together. While not prone to out burts of emotion I come close when the bike is hurt.  I just have to suck it and remember

There is no cying in roadracing!

[Super Dave]

There is no cying in roadracing!

I dunno.  There weren't many dry eyes at Mid-Ohio when Dale Quarterley beat everyone in the Superbike race years ago. 

[funsizeracing]

I dunno.  There weren't many dry eyes at Mid-Ohio when Dale Quarterley beat everyone in the Superbike race years ago. 

I should rephrase.  There's no crying from crashing. 

[wolf44]

Is there crying when the dog no longer likes peanut butter

[GSXR RACER MIKE]

Although I think in Topeka I did jump up and down in a cirlce before picking my bike up.

Aaron Yates style!!!! LOL

[chaplain220]

Just the thought of havin a Harley in my garage is enough to make me cry...or throw up in my mouth ::).  Yup, sittin on the tire wall at Summit turn 10, starin at the smear of plastic n parts culminating in the pile that was my bike...can definitely bring a tear to the eye.  Tellin my wife I need to tap the kids college fund again to repair my addiction...Lots of cryin n poutin till I get my toy fixed.  Hope all yoots guys heal up quick after the Summit turn 4 crash.

[funsizeracing]

JHope all yoots guys heal up quick after the Summit turn 4 crash.

What's a "yoot"?

[funsizeracing]

Is there crying when the dog no longer likes peanut butter

[Ducmarc]

as in two yoots. keeping your cool shows discipline. we can't have the spectators think your uncool.my wife is the one that can't keep her cool. especially when she gets the bill

[weggieman]

last lap. thru the kink into last corner, Blackhawk Farms, MW SB. 1st and second place get tied up behind back marker, i dive to inside, make the pass on all three and lose the front end mid corner..........i didn't cry but i threw one of my gloves damn near 1/3 of the front straight....... or so it seemed at the time.

[TheHiriser]

It's one thing to get mad and upset.  Throwing gloves or helmet really no biggie to most corner workers, actually quite comical sometimes. 

It's another thing to create more work for everyone else though.  I've seen a couple times when racers have smashed their windscreen with their fist for whatever reason.  Someone has to pick that crap up.

[Kuala76]

It's one thing to get mad and upset.  Throwing gloves or helmet really no biggie to most corner workers, actually quite comical sometimes. 

Confessions of a corner worker... yes I have giggled when you have thrown your gloves... especially when you throw them two different ways and have to then go look for them 

[Speedballer347]

Confessions of a corner worker... yes I have giggled when you have thrown your gloves... especially when you throw them two different ways and have to then go look for them 

I have seen lotsa guys do that, and truly never understood it. 
Everytime I have crashed, I was either delighted that I was uninjured, or the times I have broken bones (several) I was happy that it was not a severe or permanent injury.
The position I lose in a race from crashing, or the damage to the motorcycle, mean nothing to me.....If I am unhurt, I am greatful. 
You could set my bike on fire, I honestly could give 2-poops, as long as I am OK.

[spyderchick]

Even when I was hurt after crashing, the first thing out of my mouth was always: "How's the bike?"

[TheHiriser]

Even when I was hurt after crashing, the first thing out of my mouth was always: "How's the bike?"

I've seen people getting boarded up, ready to be transported via flashy box and their only concern is exactly that.  "How is my bike"?

[spyderchick]

Sick, aren't we? 

[backMARKr]

I've seen people getting boarded up, ready to be transported via flashy box and their only concern is exactly that.  "How is my bike"?

Sick, aren't we? 

I have to admit, after this last crash, instead of my first thought being "how is the bike"...it was ....oh shit did I break my collarbone again!?!?......


THEN I ran over to see how the bike was...


I agree...its a sickness!

[unter_kid]

My personal favorite are the times when you're so anxious to get to your bike and get going again that you try to run to it....not realizing that you're not quite done sliding yet.  I've found this is a very good way to destroy tendons in your knee