i'm F. and this is the english translation of my 1st motorcycling blog. i'm not a native english speaker so bare with me :)
i live in bucharest, romania and i want to ride a motorcycle.
i am disabled by birth, having no cubitus bone in my left arm, i have some fused fingers and the hand is overall 20 cm shorter than the right arm. the strenght of my left arm and the grip of my left hand are quite limited.
i came to find out that riding a motorcycle as a disabled person isn't as easy in romania. it's not about the disability itself. it's about many other obstacles, be they financial, legal and others made up by ignorant people who find themselves in an uncommon situation and prefer putting you off rather tahn thinking for themselves.
this year i started what i hope to be a long journey. somebody told me it's a syndrome common to men around 30 yo (uh-huh... not there yet!). i really think it's a syndrome common to all people who wanted to ride for a long time, but up until 30 they didn't get enough time and resources to do that. it's not about consumerism, it's not about showing off, it's just hobby/passion/pleasure. i'm sorry i did not start the blog at the time when i started this personal project, because i had to remember too much stuff, and eventually some of the important bits will be looked over
I started by studying what does it mean to be a rider in the first place. it would have been a lot easier if i had many biker friends. but as i didn't (i only have 2 biker friends: one of them is not much of a biker yet, and the other one hasn't had a bike for about a year) i had to find out most of the info by myself. i started learning about types of bikes, engines, mechanics, braking, riding techniques, traffic survival. it was either a warning from a horrific picture of an accident, either a morale boost from a blog with cool rally raid pictures.
but with each thing i learned, one thing became clearer: this year i was to ride!
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