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[MIKEYTEE]

this sort will always be around - just keep clear of them on the open road 

The problem is.     
THEY DON'T WARE SIGNS!

Mike
 

[North Georgia Hawg]

Hopefully, I'll drop dead after having sex before I need the drool bucket...

+1 !!!

[Onewheat]

I don't know who made the comparison of using bothhands and feet on a bike as being similar to playing the drums, but...  you are SO far off.  I can ride a bike and have been (off road and on) for about 40 years and I think it came fairly naturally to me.  That being said, if you break out the Xbox and throw in Rock Band, drumming is not in the same ballpark.  I do well with the sticks, but you throw a pedal in the equation and it shows how lacking rhythm or uncoordinated that I really am.  I can't do it.  Drumming is a completely different skill set than motorcyclists.      That is one skill I'm afraid I will never posses.

[AXIL]

 

[Midnight Rider]

I don't know who made the comparison of using bothhands and feet on a bike as being similar to playing the drums, but...  you are SO far off.  I can ride a bike and have been (off road and on) for about 40 years and I think it came fairly naturally to me.  That being said, if you break out the Xbox and throw in Rock Band, drumming is not in the same ballpark.  I do well with the sticks, but you throw a pedal in the equation and it shows how lacking rhythm or uncoordinated that I really am.  I can't do it.  Drumming is a completely different skill set than motorcyclists.      That is one skill I'm afraid I will never posses.

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noun, plural -gies. 
1. a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump.
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b. a form resulting from such a process.
5. Logic . a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basis of the known similarity between the things in other respects

[North Georgia Hawg]

As a drummer, I will say that riding a motorcycle and playing the drums do seem to require very similar brain patterns. The fact the one person has a sense of rhythm, while another does not, is really immaterial. As drummers, we are taught to develop the skill of "coordinated independence" - that is, the skill of moving one's limbs in an independent, but coordinated, manner controlled of course by the brain. The term was coined by a man named Vic Firth, in his landmark drum method book of the same name. That book was my drumming bible growing up, and I do think it helped me a great deal in learning to ride a motorcycle. I am fortunate that both sets of skills came rather easily to me.

I realize that these skills may not come easily at all to some... but I do believe that the FIRST hurdle to overcome is the very powerful unconscious psychological barrier attitude of "I can't do that". Once one decides that one CAN do something, actually learning to DO it becomes far easier.

My private teacher once told me that famous old showbiz quote: "You know how you get to play at Carnegie Hall?  PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!"

[Eagle Eye]

My private teacher once told me that famous old showbiz quote: "You know how you get to play at Carnegie Hall?  PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!"

X2 Hawg!