h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Noticed that you're new this week like me, Your personal space looks very full so you've obviously been busy.
I ride a motorcycle too, but have never raced. My style of riding is more of cruising and I do a fair bit of touring. My current bike is a Motoguzzi V50, whick is ideal for me as I'm quite short, do all my own repairs (simple to work on), and am doing a lot of commuting in town at the moment.
Souds like you do/have done a lot of stuff. If you're losing your motivation then maybe you should try choosing a few things (or just one) that are really important to you, and put the rest on the backburner for now.
Here's my suggestion: Get a motorbike and ride it as often as possible.
Cheers, Jakell

I'm short too, ride a CBR 600 everyday as it's my only form of transport, and I DID a lot of stuff. Now all I do is study, my last 4 nights have been 7am, 8am,6am andit's 11:45am now and I've been up all night finishing something that has to be handed in by 5pm - but it's done . It's an hour ride each way to deliver it to uni, but first I have to have a shower. I've been sitting in this chair without a shower for 2 days only stopping for food and I stink . I'm getting drunk tonight. My name's Mick. Where are you from Jakell?

I'm from Sheffield, in the North of England. Famous for steel but all that is gone now.
An hour-each-way seems like a long commute to me, but that's probably because in England places are a lot closer together.I notice that you are not keen on cities, so you probably choose to live out of town. I assume you ride faily quickly (from your racing, and your choice of bike), so an hour could be quite a distance. For some car drivers, in heavy traffic, an hour could be ten miles or less.

How come you are studying microbiology if your passion is physics, this could be something to do with your lack of motivation. I studied physics at university but left after a year as I was starting to find science a bit dry. I tried psychology but the emphasis was on the scientific aspect and I got fed up with that too ( I was smoking a lot of hash at the time, which I find makes it hard to stick with things you are not interested in).
Cheers, Jakell.

I couldn't disagree more. If I still had the money to smoke hash night and day I would force more of an interest in what I'm doing - not that it's boring, I make it boring. Don't do physics 'cause - well story's a bit long, will tell you if you really wanna know. But I love and miss it . Yes, an hour is a fair way (it's two and a half hours each way by public transport, so forget that), but since all the nose-pickers (car drivers) come to a dead stop in the morning - what the hell can I do! I'm against lane splitting but what is the alternative? You're right, it's only 45 km - but if I'm in the lab late, say 10pm, I can get home in 30 minutes (around 32:18 is my best time - not that I time on public roads), The only reason I say 1 hour is because I split (nearly) lanes all the way, in a car it would take 1:30, 1:45 easily. Hope this didn't bore yoy too much, but I'm pretty smashed. Rock.

I find that hash is a very individualistic drug (compared to say alchohol) so if you say it can help you get more out of something then you're probably right. Personally though, it always makes me go for the thing I groove more on, it certainly helped me with playing and learning music, but not with my university education.

I love the term nosepickers for car drivers, I've never heard it in the UK, it's certainly something you couldn't do on a bike. I've never heard the term lanesplitting here, we call it filtering. I don't have a problem with doing it, although some of the nosepickers do.

I would like to hear why you don't do physics

Jakell.