On 6/7/11 6:19 PM, Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:13:58 -0500, -MIKE- wrote:
There's a reason emergency room personnel refer to motorcycle riders as,
"organ donors."
Well, I've still got all of mine after 60 years of riding :-).
There was a study quite a while back that had some interesting
conclusions on motorcycle accidents. See:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~john/vfr/hurt.html
For those who don't want to read the whole thing, here's an interesting
excerpt:
"19. Motorcycle riders between the ages of 16 and 24 are significantly
overrepresented in accidents; motorcycle riders between the ages of 30
and 50 are significantly underrepresented. Although the majority of the
accident-involved motorcycle riders are male (96%), the female
motorcycles riders are significantly overrepresented in the accident
data."
No data on 74 year old motorcyclists like me :-).
I have a saying. "There are no fender benders with motorcycles."
Doesn't really matter if every motorcyclist is the safest driver in the
world. If you're driving a car and someone cuts you off, you pull over
and call your insurance agent. If you're driving a motorcycle and
someone cuts you off, you call life flight.
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