Allow me to take the high road...

 

And name calling is mature? Seems to me you have a history of picking fights in the forum. High Road? NOT

 

thrasher as i said at first i was never fully comfortable riding with the kid... i didnt say i was going to cut off all contact with him.. superior riding skills?? shoortbuss is right. we dont need you bringing your bull**** over here... why endanger my **** when i dont have to... sorry i am not as badass as you man.. sorry

 

I ride alone. Too many close calls with others not on the ball for me to want to risk it. I especially avoid those "one hand on the hip" riders on these mountian roads! My wife watched one on a Gixxer run right up the **** of a Jeep stopped waiting to turn left. The whole time she followed him he was looking everywhere except where he was going, one hand on hip, looking cool until he hit that Jeep. Turns out he had a revoked license as well! It's not just cars we got to look out for.

 

That is sort of the point of posting in a forum... to see if there are ideas and thoughts that are not the same as your own. If all threads were one idea and a bunch of +1's it wouldn"t be interesting.
Follow your gut... What I was trying to get at was you have some skills that he needs to bone up on. You stop riding with him and the opportunity to watch someone read the road and anticipate situations is gone.
That was what superior meant...Actually it was a compliment.

 

Spin spin spin mighty spinster. If you actually knew cbrsix and how he rode, nobody would have questioned the sarcasm in your use of "superior." Now you sound like a speechwriter for Bill Clinton. If you wanna see what this forum is capable of as far as mature debating goes, read this thread (https://cbrforum.com/m_659865/tm.htm).

This forum and all members who postedin this thread have no problem with dissenting opinions, but some of us have a big problem with posts that have a more than subtle hint of attitude that ends in a sarcastic jab...at least by people we don't know very well. I don't care what you intended by your use of the word...The tone of your post was perceived in a negative way by at least 2 members, which should send the message to you that there must be something to it. If you truly didn't mean it to be that way, take a writing class and learn how to become a more effective writer.

Now that this thread has been effectively jacked by me, I offer my apologies to the author. Back on the topic, strip away the attitude, and thrasher actually has a point. I see both sides of it...some of us are more forgiving than others when it comes to irresponsible riding. I personally distance myself from people who are unsafe. I'll teach somebody who wants advice on riding, but I'm not going to preach to somebody who didn't ask for it unless they directly put me in danger. I will tell somebody to their face that I won't ride with them until they learn to ride better though, as opposed to brushing them off. My best advice would be to tell the man straight up that you do not agree with his riding style. Ur call.

 

Okay then. Lets define superior riding skills.
Looking down the road.
Identifying the hazards.
Predicting what might happen.
Deciding what to do.
Excecuting your plan.
Making it home in one piece.
Can we agree on this?