Friday, July 17, 2009

Drinking & Riding

It's been quite a while I wrote something here on my blog. I've been really busy with my work and with my personal life that I don't really have time to write something here. This is what I feel today and I want to share with you all. Especially with my fellow riders.

The bikers say "If you drink, don't drive but you can ride".


It's been a few months that I've start riding a bike and it has been more than one time that I drink and ride my bike. Every time I drink and ride I tend to speed my bike. For the very first time I notice that I was riding more than 120 km/h and I realized that I was speeding.

I went for a biking trip to Malacca with another rider and I rode more than 150 km/h on the Malaysia highway and I felt that I was very lucky after that trip. The day after I got back from Malaysia, my bike broke down in the CBD area and I realized that I was very luck that it didn't happen during my biking trip. My front wheel hub came out and I was able to stop my bike as I was riding less than 40 km/h.

Today, I went out with my friends and I know that there is no road block along my way back home so I decided to drink with my friends. I didn't drink much, only 3 glasses of beer but on my way back I rode like a maniac, cutting through lanes, going through gaps, going through speeding cars. It feels good but it is not safe. I know alcohol make me daring.

Coz of god blessing, I was back home safe and sound but how long the GOD can take me back home? In Burmese saying "အသက္ကို ဥာဏ္ ေစာင့္၏". It means something like "your consideration keep you alive".

So to my fellow riders, think before you do and think before you ride. Happy riding . . .

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