Living in the Red Zone
I love riding motorcycles, especially on a smooth, winding canyon road in the middle of a nature-scented summer evening. On a motorcycle, on the odometer that measures the engine’s RPMs, there is a red zone. When you rev the throttle, and the needle for the RPMs increases to the line where the black meets the red, you are said to be red-lining the bike. The black zone is safe. The red zone is not. That’s not to say that anything will definitely happen i the red zone, but it might. As...