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Most unfortunate. I can't quite make out what model of bike it is.
Either way, this is probably a good time to point folks to the homepage for the motorcycle safety foundation:
http://www.msf-usa.org/
If you want to learn how to ride or improve your skills, the best thing you can do is take one of their rider courses. Comes with a nice insurance discount too.
Ride safely, folks. Wear your gear. It's too early in the season for stories like this.
New rider, new bike, night riding, head on, on a curve.
He was looking at the headlights of the approaching car = Boom!
Bike riding 101 ~ look at the part of the road you want your bike to go ~ the bike follows your eyes.
Also ~ keep your eyes parallel with the horizon while turning.
Thirty years ago I bought my first bike, a Honda MT-250 Elsinore, a really torquey enduro bike. After I laid my money down I asked the salesman if they had someone who could show me how to ride it. After a couple laps behind the Honda shop I rode it home. Lucky I didn't wind up in the ditch or worse. Sometimes when we're young we do REALLY dumb things.
Aside from having to straddling 2 gyroscopes, dual exploding chambers under my crotch, a molotove cocktail case at my belly, bugs in my teeth, knees in the wind, hair all mussed up, havin to pay attention all the time and even shift gears, on top of that use turn signals while watching speed indicator dials, vibrating mirrors, road trash, 16 year olds trying to run you down and everyone from Nuns to Goths telling you to buy a muffler, get a hair cut, take a shave, change clothes, get gloves with fingers, trousers with a crotch, wear your helmet, liner, boots, chaps, jacket, gloves, goggles, sign your organ doner card, learn not to spit in the wind or try to muscle a mini-van, stay sober on the poker run, eat $10 worth of ribs to break even, drink but never ever get drunk, pay thousands of dollars for chrome do-dads that worked fine painted, go as fast as you can for a few minutes and consider it just a warm up and lastly dodge slow moving birds,,,
motorcycling is extremely relaxing.
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