Awareness - Louis Savard
February, soon it’ll be Spring. With this marvelous season comes warm weather, nice flowers, shorter skirts and comforting sun. For myself however, it also means a new motorcycle season. Motorcycles bring a sense of freedom, of peace. Whenever I’m on my motorcycle, my mind is solely on the current moment, the “here and now”, for two main reasons–to appreciate the moment in itself but also as a means of protection. No one can deny the fact that a motorcyclist is less protected on his motorbike than the automobile driver behind the wheel of his car, surrounded by a metal cage (for motorcyclists, drivers are often referred to ‘cagers’ for that reason). The motorcyclist thus has to be more conscious of what is happening around him, and not just in front of him. (more…)

