KIWI RIDER MARCH 2018 VOL.1 | Page 61

I know what I know. And I know if you decide to put your life in another person’ s hands and climb onto a motorcycle behind them, then you also need to know what I know drug-fired lunatics with spit-speckled mouths, and people who have threatened to kill me if I killed them on the way home. I know what I know. And I know if you decide to put your life in another person’ s hands and climb onto a motorcycle behind them, then you also need to know what I know. Firstly, and most importantly, you need to understand the rider is far more incentivised not to crash than he would be if he was riding on his own. Pillions are often referred to as“ precious cargo”( among other things), but if there was some way the rider could sacrifice the pillion in order to save himself, then we would have worked that out by now. But there isn’ t. If the ship is going down,

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