Posted on 03/12/2006 1:06:35 PM PST by martin_fierro
Bike Week Deaths Worst In Event's History
18 Deaths Most in 65 years
(CBS4 News) DAYTONA BEACH Bike Week in Daytona beach ends today, and this year’s event will go down in history as the deadliest gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts in the event’s 65 year history.
18 motorcyclists have died in the past nine days, three more than the previous deadliest Bike Week in 2000. The Florida Highway Patrol says three bikers died in separate accidents Saturday, and four died on Friday.
Tens of thousands of bikers flock to Daytona each spring for the event, which celebrates motorcycles and bike culture. The FHP is blaming sunnie skies and good weather for the increase in deaths.
Can you just picture Murtha riding into town, with a skull rag??
HA HA HA,
what a picture that would make,
of course he would be shedding a tear
However MOST of the deaths are due to drivers of four wheeled vehicles either running over bikers from behind or pulling out into traffic into oncming bikers. Not many of the deaths are the fault of the bikers.
Do you know this for sure? Otherwise I'd bet on a combination of: newbie riders, partying, stunting, and lack of helmets.
Flashback to Spring Break 1987 in Daytona where I got on the back of a guys bike I had never met before and rode down the strip and the beach in the dead of night, no helmet, no nothing. I'd brain my girls if they ever did that but damn it was fun then.
"Better dead than crippled for life."
Depends on the degree of crippledness. I was mowed down the week after Bike Week in 1977 and spent 2 years rehabilitating. I still have a little limp, but I can do most anything so I prefer to be alive.
Now if you're talking para- or quadra- we're in agreement.
Though not as deadly as SOME Muslim observances.
We're in agreement.
LOL! I live in St. A, and while it's sad that anybody died, I'm sure most of them died happy, doing something they liked. And for the rest of the Bike Week crowd, the weather was great, the music was fine, and the pubs were hopping.
I'm with you Star*!
Those are the bad Arabs??
Bikers shouldn't expect to be seen by other vehicles, ever. Nobody should ride unless they understand that.
It's analogous to the first rule of gun safety: "The gun is always loaded" except it's "Bikers are always invisible."
On a bike, your eyes are your only protection.
We have the Americade annually here in eastern upstate NY. There are always at least a couple of fatalities.
Well, that was an assortment of fatal dumassedness.
Starting off with your typical newbie boomer screwup.
It's analogous to the first rule of gun safety: "The gun is always loaded" except it's "Bikers are always invisible."
I was once asked by a cousin if I rode "defensively," as if the drivers couldn't see me. I said "No!" "I ride as if the other drivers are trying to hit me! Defensively doesn't cut it!"
Mark
LOL! There you go.
I was wondering too. Glad you explained it!
Many bike deaths are the result of an underskilled yahoo with underpowered mind, having enough money to buy a overpowered bike.
Semper Fi
local paper and news has been detailing them. Local friend is member of CMA. Yea, allot of the causes are bikers getting run over from behind or having trucks/cars pull out in front of them and t boning.
"That wreck happened in Brevard County"
See that? This is what I dont get; Brevard doesnt even host it and they count biker deaths for bikers who arent here for bike week.
I agree. I have had two major accidents on a bike. Neither was my fault. Other driver (supposedly) didnt see me both times.
But some of the accidents during this bikeweek were not the fault of bikers not being defensive drivers. Some were, some werent. The news does push it to blame bikers; they want to paint bikers n a negative light with hopes of putting BCR in a better light than it is. IMO.
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