And about five-years after you got your endorsement, I got mine, some 3-weeks after I got my driver's license. By that time I had been riding for 2-years, mostly on the street. Colorado, and especially Jefferson County, where I grew up, was a much smaller and freer place back then. The Jeffco Sheriff deputies generally looked the other way at underage motorcycle riding, as long as you didn't do anything stupid....
(BTW, the Jeffco Sheriff's office used Moto Guzzis in the '70s, most with well over 100,000 miles on them!)
I've never been hit on a motorcycle. In fact, I've only had one real accident on a bike, back when I was still in high school. I was eastbound on Colfax one afternoon, when a Dodge Dart turned left in front of me. I managed to just miss him/her, but lost control of the bike, and we went down. I was mostly unharmed, but my '67 Honda Super Hawk (CB77) didn't fare so well. It took a few weeks before I could scrounge all the parts needed to get her back on the road. The Dart never stopped.
I know I've been very fortunate over the past 40-years, and no amount of alert and careful riding will keep one from encounters with the worst and inattentive of drivers out there. Hopefully, God willing, I will have many more years of riding before I get too old to kick over the old Beeser....
Please continue to get better, Nate.
Mark in Centennial, CO
On November 24, 2017 at 8:47 AM "vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes]" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Mark ;
I got my M1 endorsement in 1972.....
Lotta miles since then.
-Nate
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