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06-09-2009, 11:32 AM | #1 |
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06-11-2009, 12:01 PM | #3 | |
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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! Words of wisdom right there! |
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06-11-2009, 10:01 PM | #4 | |
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06-11-2009, 10:33 PM | #5 | |
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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... |
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06-11-2009, 11:14 PM | #6 |
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My take on why women don't compete well in racing is that we have a stronger biological "self preservation instinct" then men. Women's brains are set up to not take as many dangerous chances due to the fact that we may have children to take car of. Men have more testosterone and will take more chances. Just my outlook on it (i'm a Bio major so I tend to think that way)
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06-11-2009, 11:47 PM | #7 | |
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I honestly don't think it's some noble "nurturing" instinct that keeps them from excelling in racing. Especially when they don't have any children. Besides, everyone keeps going on and on about how fast you are, what did you do? Have a hysterectomy or something? I mean if I have to, I'll accept that they just suck at the skills required to race and leave it at that but I'm not gonna accept that it's because they are too smart or too concerned about kids they don't even have to be great racers. |
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06-12-2009, 12:09 AM | #8 |
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Tigger is ANYONE allowed to have an opinion other than you with out you trying to shoot them down? Its what I think and you dont have to buy it.....I wasn't trying to sell it to you anyway. It MY opinion from MY experience hence me saying "my take on it..."
And if people think I'm fast thats nice of them...somedays I feel fast some I don't. I have about 40,000 miles of experience on twisty roads so its more of "I'm used to them" verses "not having a uterus". Should I come out and say that since you were having a "bad day at the Gap" (your words not mine) that you have a vagina? give me a break.
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06-12-2009, 06:30 AM | #9 | |
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06-12-2009, 09:10 AM | #10 | |
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