Posted on 03/30/2014 4:59:13 PM PDT by kingattax
While some of the danger involved in riding motorcycles can be attributed to poor driving skills or intoxication, there are facts that do not lend themselves to interpretation.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) noted that during its last review of data in 2012, motorcycle fatalities increased over 7 percent, while states without helmet laws showed ten times more fatalities than those that mandated helmet use when riding a bike.
About 15 percent of all highway deaths were from motorcyle riders, making motorcycle riders around 30 times more at risk than car and truck drivers — and about 50 percent of bike crashes involved no other vehicles.
Clearly, motorcycle riders’ biggest enemies are themselves. To the end of reducing the number of motorcycle injuries and fatalities, there are bikes that make safety features a priority. Here are seven models that aim to keep riders safe with innovative equipment.
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Today, on our group ride, I was the only one wearing a helmet.
i guess I’m just an old fashioned gal!
Honda Goldwings had airbags...that combined with and airbag jacket would save tons of lives if standardized on all bikes. Yeah...the bike would weight 3 lbs more...so get on the exercise bicycle lol!
My last bike was an 850 Norton.
It was just waiting out in my garage for a chance to kill me...
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Crappy roads
That would go a long way towards fewer bike injuries. But there is no way around the physics of a two wheeled vehicle with no outer body (armor). Still, not much compares to riding a nice bike on a nice road with no damn automobiles around. It’s a great feeling.
Would it really help? I watched a youtube of the ducati airbag.
Motorcycle = Organ donor mobile.
Concept car easy on the eyes … and wallet ($6,800 and gets 87 mpg)
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I know exactly what you mean: I had a 750 P11 and every time I took that thing out on the road, it did everything it could to kill me.
Its most evil trick was to instantly flick around 180 degrees if you leaned into a turn too steeply. Very unsettling to suddenly find yourself facing the cars behind you, usually up on the rear wheel in an involuntary wheelie.
Another time, a sudden gas tank leak sprayed gas all over the cylinders and I was enveloped in a white cloud of gas vapor on the freeway at 70 miles an hour!
That Norton was handsome, tall, and accelerated like nothing else with that gorgeous mellow Brit roar - but I got rid of it before it finished me off!
Here's a motorcycle with an enclosure for added passenger safety, plus the incredible new invention of an additional pair of wheels for lateral stability. I expect these to take the roads by storm.
(Because I live near the socialist utopia of Boulder, which suffers from an overabundance of Smug.)
Those cars should have penis hood ornaments.
I cannot think of how an airbag would help but in a few circumstances. ABS maybe more. There is just too much disparity in mass between a motorcycle and a car or truck.
I shouldn’t even comment, but those bikes are all butt ugly, despite their safety features.
Yeah that Indian Chief is awesome, I made a phone call yesterday and pre-ordered one. It will take awhile to get one in Alaska, no dealers up here yet.
I find myself posting less and less here.
it must have something to do with owning 12 motorcycles maybe?
Mostly I am into Goldwings, sorry to say no Harleys.
Oh geez, is that for real?
All the more reason to pick it up in the lower 48 and ride it home!
I was really admiring the Vintage with the buff color saddle leather, I’ve never seen anything like it, awesome, especially in the traditional Indian Red paint scheme. The care that went into that thing, I’ve been looking at photos. Too bad there aren’t any American cars made with that level of craft and attention to detail.
Anyone who’d set two gallons of gas afire and then sit a-straddle of it ain’t right in his head.
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