Tips for older riders from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation

AP/Yahoo ^ | Fri Jan 21, 2:00 PM ET

[martin_fierro]

Tips for older riders from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation

Fri Jan 21, 2:00 PM ET

By The Associated Press

Tips for older riders from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation:

• Get eyes checked. Vision clarity and peripheral vision both diminish with age.

• Keep a greater following distance. Reacting to a hazard may take twice as long for a rider in middle age (40 to 54), and three or four times longer after 55.

• Avoid complicated and congested roads and intersections. "Input overload" makes it difficult to process information accurately.

• Pay special attention to blind spots. Traffic research shows that older drivers do not check blind spots as well as younger drivers.

• Choose a motorcycle with large dials and easy-to-read symbols.

• Keep fit. Riding a motorcycle can be physically demanding, and without training, people begin losing muscle mass starting around age 30.

[martin_fierro]

Another tip:

IF YOU'VE SHRUNK DUE TO AGING SO THAT YOU CAN'T SEE OVER THE HANDLEBARS, GIVE UP RIDING!

thankyouverymuch

[martin_fierro]

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[martin_fierro]

Boy, those "motorcycle safety activists" never give up, do they.

[tacticalogic]

On the plus side, you can take your teeth out to clean the bugs out of 'me.

[SFC Chromey]

Now that's worth a chuckle or two!

[Melas]

IF YOU'VE SHRUNK DUE TO AGING SO THAT YOU CAN'T SEE OVER THE HANDLEBARS, GIVE UP RIDING!

Hell man, I was only 5'1" to begin with.

[Beaker]

IF YOU'VE SHRUNK DUE TO AGING SO THAT YOU CAN'T SEE OVER THE HANDLEBARS, GIVE UP RIDING!
You can always see over the handlebars. ;-) it's short legs that are my problem!

[Beaker]

Hell man, I was only 5'1" to begin with
You're taller than I am!

[JoeSixPack1]

On the plus side, you can take your teeth out to clean the bugs out of 'em.

There ya go!! :-)

[uglybiker]

The vibrations also help keep ya 'regular'.

[AdamSelene235]

OTOH, the Social Security Solvency Committee insists that nothing less than 100 horsepower at the rear wheel will make you feel young again.

[JoeSixPack1]

The vibrations also help keep ya 'regular'.

LOL!! It also helps shake kidney stone's loose!

[pt17]

Another tip from a 50 year (no accidents:-) rider:

Ride with the assumption that no one can see you.

This tip is null and void if you're too old to see those who can't see you.

[snopercod]

ROFL!

[wizr]

Bein' 'in the wind' keeps granny "cool" eh? Nothin' seems to blow her dress up.

[wizr]

I new a guy in the service that was so short, every time he came to a stop he had to slide over to touch the ground. Now, that's determination.

[BraveMan]

• Replace your current speedometer with a "Joan Claybrook" 85mph version.

[codyjacksmom]

This is the perfect thread for you!! ;)

[tacticalogic]

If you ride a Harley, you can claim the Depends in the saddlebags are for the bike.

[JoeSixPack1]

Hey, I resemble that remark! :-)