I had the pleasure of pumping a teen’s chest to keep him alive after he flew around me and t-boned the car in front making a LEGAL left turn.
You don’t pay too much attention to the wrecks listed in the paper till something like this happens. After this I noticed lots of deaths by motorcycle in the paper.
I’ve had too many family members injured or killed by motorcycles.
When the mid-life-crisis hit the plant I worked at many of the men bought Harleys. They tried to get me to do so but I refused. Even back during the EASY RIDER days I had no desire for a motorcycle.
The only dead people I’ve encountered in the wild have been due to motorcycle accidents. Four. One in particular was horrifying, he’d been basically rolled into a ball under a truck and somehow was not just alive but conscious for about twenty minutes prior to dying.
I love the look of Harleys and especially love the newer Indians, but won’t even consider riding one on a public road because of this. I had dirt bikes for years prior to getting my driver’s license.