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Tell them, "Don't speak. I don't want you to sound stupid."
When someone crosses the line of showing concerns to overbearing me with their irrational, anxiety-ridden, negative outlook on life, I stop and tell them, "Thanks for the concern, but I'm well informed on the risks of riding a motorcycle and I take responsibility for my own safety." If they can't grasp from this that an informed adult who accepts the consequences for his actions doesn't want to hear their anecdotal evidence of the dangers of motorcycling and be told that you are practically guaranteed to be injured or killed, I would go as far as telling them, "Don't talk to me about motorcycling, because you don't know what you are talking about."
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