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On 6/8/11 5:37 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
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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.

Harder to "cut off" a bike though. Fit through much smaller spaces, and
are more maneuverable.


Yeah, I've seen those guys "maneuver" there way into a fishtail, lose
it, and end up with road rash for the next 3 months.

ATGATT.


Sorry, I'm not privy to these abbreviations you youngsters are using
these days.

All The Gear All The Time.

Brittany Morrow, who knows a bit about road rash, is the poster girl
http://vimeo.com/22897515.


Gotcha. Rarely do I see any of the dentists and lawyers on Harleys
around here wearing that stuff. I do a lot a young punks on crotch
rockets wearing that stuff, but they are usually the ones causing
accidents by weaving in, out, and around cars at twice speed limit.
When they fly by me, I just wave and say, "See ya at your funeral."

Lot of Harley people are about image. I generally see the ones weaving
in and out wearing t-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops.

Oh yeah, while we're on the topic, if you're going to ride a motorcycle
with that tiny little brake might on the back and cut in front of me,
have the brains of a gnat to at least apply a little bit of brake when
you're downshifting so I freakin know when you decide to go from 50 to
30 in 1.5 seconds.

My "tiny little brake light" is brighter than the ones on my SUV.