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Originally Posted by Kerry_129
 Lately, I've become the 'old conservative guy' cautioning her too keep it relatively slow on the street, and save the desire to really push herself for the track. After a decade or so of increasingly insane riding, I've spent the last few years fighting a self-preservation battle with myself to try and find a good compromise - a 'pace', if you will. Riding with Kathy (especially 2-up) has helped me find that 'comfort zone' and always reminds me that coming back home in one piece is far more important than pushing that next corner just a little faster.
I totally agree with Trip on our typical male retard-level tendencies. I think we also tend to measure ourselves & one another by how 'fast' we are (or think we are) vs. how in control we are. Perhaps that's a difference between how women tend to approach riding - when they don't feel quite in control, they generally have enough sense/self-preservation instinct to slow-the-fook-down, whereas men are more likely to take the do-it-or-die-trying approach |
Nah, I don't buy it... I'll tell you why. Almost every time, including the most recent WSS round in Utah, a female gets a chance to run with the big dogs, either she fails miserably, is sadly mediocre or crashes. I've seen it several times. Hayes' girlfriend is no exception, seriously, so much ado was being made about her 21st place finish at Daytona. I mean whoopie doo, she finished behind a number of 16 year old kids on super sport bikes (like Tyler Odom) and was lapped. It's obvious that they are making a huge deal of this only because she is a woman and in a way THAT should almost be taken as an insult in itself. It's Crazykel's, "she's fast for a woman" scenario imo.
Now I don't claim to have the answer, my only guess is that girls don't "typically" grow up racing machines like we do. Little boys turn EVERYTHING into a race. From matchbox cars, to bicycles, to motorcycles. We are always competing in that way. Hell, I've raced sticks in the gutter after it's rained...
Maybe Trip is right and they don't make "spacial calculations" as fast as we do but I don't like that idea either. It's like the choices are, they're too smart to risk getting hurt- per Kerry or they're too stupid to do the math- per Trip.
I still in all sincere honesty believe that women should clean-up in motorcycle racing and I'll never understand why they don't...