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Looking at some quick data dumps, here's my real concerns (some depending on where you live)
A) Gramps having no business behind a wheel - physically, mentally, medically or pharmaceutically impared
B) Under 21 - Not enough driver and too much vehicle
C) Distracted driving
D) ******* soccer mom and her really big, shiny new SUV that she sees as her empowered bull dozer (This is a rising segment)
E) Get this - the angry Prius driver - in certain areas they lead the road rage charges - honorable mention a.the rice rocketeer in a Civic or the young money in a BMW
F) Fuquads moving here from new countires who do not have a civilized driving environment or they grew up in a non-driving culture and just because you passed a test, makes you a driver in the US and a major rising statistic.
All the above are rising - DWI has been static
A) Gramps having no business behind a wheel - physically, mentally, medically or pharmaceutically impared
B) Under 21 - Not enough driver and too much vehicle
C) Distracted driving
D) ******* soccer mom and her really big, shiny new SUV that she sees as her empowered bull dozer (This is a rising segment)
E) Get this - the angry Prius driver - in certain areas they lead the road rage charges - honorable mention a.the rice rocketeer in a Civic or the young money in a BMW
F) Fuquads moving here from new countires who do not have a civilized driving environment or they grew up in a non-driving culture and just because you passed a test, makes you a driver in the US and a major rising statistic.
All the above are rising - DWI has been static
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Well... I'd rather die a traumatic event at 99 - like losing control of my helicopter because I was growling out my 25 yr old girlfriend upside down on my lap while she was giving me a BJ... than fading away in a care home.
Don't let fear of dying stop you living, for sure... But it's better to ride at 25 and survive with a helmet than have your 25 year old dying wish be "F**k, i wish I'd worn the helme...."
A balance between safety and risk, and that balance is not 100% safe nor 100% risk.
Don't let fear of dying stop you living, for sure... But it's better to ride at 25 and survive with a helmet than have your 25 year old dying wish be "F**k, i wish I'd worn the helme...."
A balance between safety and risk, and that balance is not 100% safe nor 100% risk.
Last edited by OzHD; Aug 17, 2018 at 08:02 AM.
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Not before you "arrive" - death just AFTER sex... But then... no... because there's the next hour's sex to get to too... and the hour after that... Damn... when IS a good time to die?
Oh... it's just come to me... you want to "Die Hard"...
Oh... it's just come to me... you want to "Die Hard"...
Last edited by OzHD; Aug 17, 2018 at 08:13 AM. Reason: typo
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The vast majority also lack experience while doing said stupid stuff.
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Yes ..with my helmet on!
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Well, when I took MSF they had some (supposedly valid) statistics that drinking and riding hugely increased your probability of being in a serious traffic accident. They also presented California statistics showing that a wildly disproportionate number of serious or fatal accidents to motorcyclists occurred when the motorcyclist had been drinking. I believe these statistics -- I find them to be plausible -- and I will not drink anything if I am going to be riding. Not even one beer.
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Did a research paper years & years ago on the effectiveness of helmet laws. All the numbers I dug up indicated that states without lid laws had a slightly higher percentage of motorcycle fatalities, but that in lid law states, a higher percentage of fatalities were attributed to thoracic trauma, while in lidless states, more were attributed to head trauma.
My take away? If you crash hard enough, a lid won't save your life, but might allow your family the open casket funeral option. Don't ride like a jackass & don't ride fitshaced.
I wear a lid whether I have to or not. My choice, my reasons. Everybody else can go do whatever the hell they want.
My take away? If you crash hard enough, a lid won't save your life, but might allow your family the open casket funeral option. Don't ride like a jackass & don't ride fitshaced.
I wear a lid whether I have to or not. My choice, my reasons. Everybody else can go do whatever the hell they want.