Nice work Mad and good to see you healing up and back in the saddle again.
Motorbikes can be great therapy.
I know this for a fact.
One of the greatest things I have seen is years ago we were on a motorbike tour (I was on a Honda VFR800) through back country roads and towns in NSW Australia with a guy who at that time was considering buying one of the newly released Ducati Diavel's.
By chance there was a Diavel and Repsol Honda CBR 1000 parked outside a small cafe so we stopped to have a chat with the owners.
The Diavel owner was chatty about his new bike purchase but the Honda owner was quite a bit older, pretty quite, withdrawn and seemed to have a fair old nervous twitch.
After a while the Diavel owner said they had to make a move and it was then that I saw the Honda owner get up and walk to his bike with one of the worst shakes all over his body that I had ever seen.
I looked at the Diavel owner and asked what was happening.
He replied that his old friend had a serious case of Parkinson's disease that was worsening.
I said "And he's going to get on and ride a CBR 1000???"
The Diavel owner said "Go have a chat with him" which I reluctantly did.
The old chap explained that his shaking was always with him and unfortunately getting worse day by day.
However the moment he jumped onto his motorbike, the shaking stopped and he could ride as if he was completely normal without any sign of his worsening disease.
And getting onto and riding his motorbike was the only time this happened for him!
So I watched him mount the bike, miraculously instantly stop shaking, and ride away at quite a speed.
Who knows why this is so?
The human brain is a very complex and little understood operating system.
I only know it was one of the happiest and most amazing things I had seen because this gentleman afflicted with a horrible disease had found one thing that made him feel normal just for a little while...
* Last updated by: yannih on 5/9/2022 @ 4:23 AM *
2012 Metalic Spark Black Kawasaki ZX-14R.
Yoshimura carbon R-77 slip ons,Custom dyno ECU flash,Striker rearsets,Hyperpro RSC steering damper,HM Plus quickshifter,ASV C5 levers,Hel SS transparent red front/rear brake and clutch lines,Kawasaki/MRA vented spoiler screen,Carbon heel guards,R&G radiator guard,Powerbronze carbon rear hugger,ZX-10 front fender with fender extender,Yoshimura frame sliders,M-Factory rear stand stoppers,Escort Redline radar detector,Techspec tank grips and tank protector,Versys 1000 fender eliminator,Kaoko cruise control,Moto red oil cap,Oxford heated grips,Red magnetic oil drain plug,Red and black Bagster Spider rear seat bag (for touring only).
