What car do you regret selling??

[Dave]

The car I regret selling is my 16v MK2 Golf GTi in Oak Green with factory fitted recaros. I had every conceivable issue with it, and once I had completed the work was just fed up and sold it.

Last year (7 years after I sold it) I saw it at a car show and the owner hadn't spent a penny on it

I suppose time will tell if I regret selling the M5, I do get occasional moments of regret but I'm happy to have moved onto the next chapter and experience.

You might be wise enough at 46 but he’s 16 in 3 years. When my 2 are 17 I’ve no problem giving them the keys to the cars but I’d be in fear of letting them on a bike. Purely as I reckon if I ever bought a bike I’d probably be dead by now.

I actively struggle with this. I've never crashed a car but I've had three pretty bad bike accidents, none of them my fault but I could have definitely taken steps to avoid them. The final one in 2013 where I swore I would never get on another bike.

2014 I went to Thailand, rented a bike and did 500km of the Hae Hong Son Loop, to finally satisfy that I could satisfy that I was happy to not ride bikes and can could get my kicks from cars.

I had one of the best days biking I've had to this day. There is simply nothing like it.

I decided that I would buy another bike but that I would get a ROSPA Gold, which I did, and that I would buy as modern a bike as I could get with all the modern safety nets. The final caveat was absolutely no sports bikes, naked or sports touring only (there is no skill in straight line speed)

While I wouldn't actively encourage anyone to climb on a bike and go, I would encourage anyone thinking about it to try it, under instruction, do the IBT up to and including a Grade 2 and then do one of the ROSPA accreditation's.

When I started doing the ROSPA training
I realised how bad a rider I was, it really does give you the tools to mitigate a huge amount of risk.

If you take the appropriate steps you'll become involved in a community where you'll make life long friends and if you tour in a group you'll encounter a sense of comradery that makes all the risks worth while.

Modern tech means you can have up to 8 people attached to the same com link guiding each other through traffic or simply have stupid chats and laughs.

I've done 40k km now since I made the decision to go back to it, I've had a few slips, but nothing that would have killed me if that if things had gone worse.

Yes it is dangerous, but with the right training you can do a lot to reduce that risk. It's not something I think I can stop doing.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro