Originally Posted by
SquidPuppet
Scary can be sublime. When a bike is fast enough to narrow your field of vision by 80% and render your depth perception useless, you are beginning to touch the other world. It begins to feel like an artificial experience. My heart rate actually begins to go down. Adrenaline is now not only useless, it's dangerous. Yoga zen at 180mph. Very soothing.
I know the feeling, although it wasn't on a motorcycle at suicide speeds. When I rowed crew there was once race where my crew was so in sync the boat just felt like it was gliding through the water, I felt no more pain even though we were in the heat of the race with our coxswain screaming his head off at us, time was slowing down, and the world around me was totally quiet except for the sound of the water. Very sublime and it all came crashing down when we crossed the finish line and my guts came pouring out over the side the boat.