Roethlisberger's Stupid Comments on Bike Safety

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Jun 13, 2006 | 04:40 PM

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huffhuff

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RE: Roethlisberger's Stupid Comments on Bike Safety

statistically most motorcycle related injuries are "chest" injuries. helmets have the bad influence of making riders think they are bulletproof. navy and air force tests show that a helmet can be a detriment especially when experienceing the pendulum effect of the heavy weight of the helmet breaking your neck. BUT before you jump on me, a helmet "might" save your life.

Jun 13, 2006 | 05:16 PM

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RE: Roethlisberger's Stupid Comments on Bike Safety

Your're right whiff. Health insurance would kick in...if they have any, that is. So many now-a-days have lost that benefit and its too expensive to pay for on their own.

Jun 13, 2006 | 05:33 PM

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RE: Roethlisberger's Stupid Comments on Bike Safety

I share the belief that riding in a group is safer, at least when considering "I never even saw him" accidents, like this one. A group of bikes presents a larger visual clue than does a single bike, which makes drivers think "motorcycles". I've never seen a "didn't see him" close call when riding with 20+ bikes from my local HOG and I'm pretty sure that I wont. We make form a visual target that's bigger than a string of 18 wheelers.

Jun 13, 2006 | 05:49 PM

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RE: Roethlisberger's Stupid Comments on Bike Safety

He only disgraces himself. I don't think its so much a soapbox, but an opportunity for all of us to re-evaluate the way and how we ride. It has made me re-evaluate my style of helmet. I think we all want to be safe and the comments on this or any other thread give us good info., whether we agree or not.

Jun 13, 2006 | 06:25 PM

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The news report that I saw also pointed out that a full 50% of motorcycle riders are woofully underinsured and that crashes resulting in serious head injury often means long-term care whose cost far exceed the ability of the insurance to cover - which means that the general public ends up footing the bill to a tune in excess of one $billion$ per year.

So much for the "Its my choice", "it don't affect anyone but me" argument! Now, flame on.

I see people say things like this about bikers and it bothers me. Sure the public ends up footing the bill for some bikers... but how does it compare to all the fat people eating at McDonalds? Are they all insured against heart attacks, or is the public footing the bill for them? What about the people with no insurance who have 8 or 9 kids? Maybe poor kids shouldn't be allowed to ride sleds or skateboards? And speaking of football, those inner city kids who get hurt playing on the school football team... do their parents have insurance? Maybe only people with special insurance should be allowed to own guns? You know, gunshots ... the public foots the bill for billions of dollars because of guns. When people start griping about how "the public foots the bill" for motorcycling, you better be careful, because it's a slippery slope... the next person affected might be you.

Jun 13, 2006 | 06:42 PM

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RE: Roethlisberger's Stupid Comments on Bike Safety

I agree with Matt115 on the point about how does being in a group make you not get into an accident. I was in a group of 4 riders and got creamed by a young family man in a family sedan just a couple of weeks ago. He just drifted over into our lane. I was riding in the #2 position in our formation and happened to be in his way. All of a sudden, a massive car was on my left side and squeezing over. As soon as I thought, "uh oh, I'm going down," I went down. It happened that quickly.

Jun 13, 2006 | 06:43 PM

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I am still amazed that all the media can say is ....He wasn't wearing a helmet.....

Maybe the laws should be changed to make us all wear kevlar full bodysuits, with air bags and seatbelts on our bikes.

Well it appears it wouldn't have mattered anyway, there is a law in PA that you have to be licensed to ride a motorcycle and he didn't have one of those either.

Link to story

Jun 13, 2006 1:29 pm US/Eastern

Source: Big Ben Did Not Have PA Motorcycle License
Andy Sheehan

(KDKA) PITTSBURGH One day after the motorcycle accident that seriously injured Ben Roethlisberger, there are new questions about whether the Steelers quarterback even had a license to drive a motorcycle.

As accident investigators continue to search for answers, KDKA Investigator Andy Sheehan has learned that police are looking into that issue this afternoon

Sources say that while Roethlisberger had a license to operate a car, he apparently did not possess a Pennsylvania motorcycle license.

I hope he successfully recovers from all of his injuries but he is a disgrace to us law-abiding, safety conscious motorcylclists and everything we represent.

All it takes is a nut-job like this to have the rest of you get on your soap boxes about motorcycle safety and what we should and shouldn't do.

But there was more to the article. He didn't have a motorcycle endorsement on his driver's license, he had a motorcycle permit, but it was expired. Still illegal? Yeah, but not really the same as being unlicensed.