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"I´ve seen a definite increase in men in their 40s and 50s getting back into motorcycling. They haven´t ridden in 20 or 30 years, so their skills are rusty. Motorcycles have changed, and they´re getting bigger motorcycles. And they´re getting on without a refresher course," said Cathy Rimm, program director for Motorcycle Rider Education of Maine.
Hardly even see any youngsters on bikes here in Florida. They're all guys with gray hair! 90% of them aren't wearing helmets either
Organ Donor
(not sarcasm)
"Motorcycle safety activists" my arse.
Any person who wants to ride motorcycles ought first to log 30,000 miles on a very small one -- 200 cc or less. That's my advice. Then, work up slowly from there.
1) Write a headline about baby Boomer deaths
2) Find someone born in 1966 who can be the focus of the story
...also part of the increase is the choice of bike. H-D bikes really have not changed much in the last 20 years, whereas the sport bike makers have ALL increased the level of USEFUL technology in their bikes every year.
The sport bikes most buy today will out accellerate, outbrake, out-turn, out perform factory racing machine of 10 years ago.
All of that when used properly will help keep you alive on the street. Remeber with motorbikes it is 90% AVOIDANCE of a collision, 10% survivability after the fact!
Once again, the feds confuse cause and effect. Big honkin' Harleys have become a status symbol. Big honkin' Harleys are very expensive. A lot of older folks with disposable income who want to be part of the new Harley craze are the only ones who can afford the big honkin' Harleys. And they go and buy the big honkin' Harleys but lack the experience to safely ride such a big honkin' Harley. So they buy it the first time they get into trouble.
PEOPLE THAT RIDE MOTORCYCLES ARE INSANE!
Thank you. That is all.
Remember a young couple, stopped by our place on his Harley about 15 years ago. They left after a short visit.
About 20 minutes later heard all kinds of sirens. We were on our way to cruise down to the beach, so we left. About a mile down the highway, all kinds of emergency vehicles. It was the couple.
A car made a left in front of them, they were doing about 45mph, traveling straight down the highway. He never had time to break, hitting the left turner on the front passenger door, both flew straight up about 25 feet, came down on their heads, on the other side of the intersection. She died instantly, he lived about an hour or so and died in the local hospital of massive head and other injuries.
I gave up riding in the streets long ago, after numerous Harleys, and other assorted bikes, and about 8, very close calls and going down a few times.
I still ride bikes.....Dirt bikes, away from intersections and cars, trucks, concrete etc.....
Real men drive fire engines.
That's one way to deal with the coming Social Security crisis. Remember kids, always wear your motorcycle helmet. You're still gonna die, but you can still (usually) have an open-casket funeral.
NHTSA knows nothing about motorcycle safety. Their incompetence is legendary.
The people who have the highest number of fatalities and accidents has been in the same group for decades. Its the people who have had their motorcycle for less than six months and have never taken a safety/rider class. Also many of those accidents relate to people without motorcycle license. (don't need one to BUY a motorcycle.)
This also does not consider the fact that 80% (NHTSA's own numbers) are the fault of the automobile not the rider. This article is written with the assumption of motorcycle is at fault.
The incompetence of this article does not consider the fact that older people can affort a Harley after all those years.
These articles are to counter the recent trend of rejecting mandatory helmet laws. IOW the rejection of the nanny state.
...Oh yeah. Since when is 39 a baby boomer?
What's the downside? (I was born in 1950.)
Death is cheaper for the system than long term medical care.
No one knows exactly why baby boomers are dying at a faster clip…
RIP amongst 'em, my friend Joel Kernodle, a friend of this board.
You've got to be able to react to the most adverse situation without having your heartrate and adrenalin go nutz.
20 years ago, they said that if you were going to die on a motorcycle, (statistically speaking,) it would be in the first six months of riding. Looks like nothings changed, except that a lot of older guys are getting bikes.