RE: push your bike, risk a beating

From: Michael S. Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 15:53:44 MDT

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    [quote from: Harvey on 2003-07-04 at 14:59:51]
    Spike writes:

    > ...I wish someone could explain to me
    > why it is that riding a motorcycle causes all
    > women in view to appear more attractive, by a good
    > half a standard deviation.

    It's because motorcycle riders like to imagine that objects in mirror are
    closer than they appear....

    With motorcycles, the mirrors make body protrusions appear bigger than they
    really are...

    Furthermore, to answer Spike, everybody likes bikers, even those who refuse
    to admit it. Part of the whole 'riding' thing that explains why so many
    girls/women love to ride horses...

    The motorcycle is a romantic icon of American culture, a symbol of the free
    wheeling individual, the iconoclastic easy rider, the lone horseman.

    It all goes back to the ancient days, when the guy on the horse was likely the
    King, while everybody else just had shit all over themselves.

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