Posted on 07/03/2011 11:50:34 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
ONONDAGA, N.Y. (AP) -- Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in upstate New York died after he flipped over the bike's handlebars and hit his head on the pavement.
The accident happened Saturday afternoon in the town of Onondaga, in central New York near Syracuse.
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One wonders if motorcycles were quiet, how many would be sold?
Quite a few actually Honda’s ,Yamaha’s,, Kawasaki’s, BMW, Triumph, Most all are quiet with very few using after market mufflers or straight pipes.
Of course most of them sound like crap with straight pipes, and even many Harleys have stock quiet pipes.
I have had both, Loud pipes and quiet. If you are riding in a group the loud pipes are a great help in letting you know when someone is slowing down, but the noise gets to you after a while. Loud pipes are not near the problem as people with loud pipes keep showing off with them./
As my eldest might remark: He chose to be an organ donor !
(My eldest is an EMT.)
Not germane to this thread: On Friday, 7/1 several older bikers were killed in Mt. Bethel, PA. All veterans they were on a tribute ride for a deceased member. News reports have them colliding head on with a pickup truck. RIP and thank you for your service, gentlemen. >PS
The front brake has up to 75% of a motorcycle's stopping power. That is why manufactures; put the largest and sometimes double brakes on the front wheel. That is why I put in the third fatal mistake this guy made. You know the answer to that one. "He was too good of a rider and just too too cool and macho to take the basic motorcycle riders class." If he had, he would have known this AND practiced proper braking.
As Bugs said, “What a Maroon”.
“Most of the riders I see make a few common mistakes that I know, given the right set of circumstances, are going to get them killed.”
That there is what I call one of “The Basic Truths of the Universe.”
Back in the mid-to-late 70s, Cycle magazine ran an article on steering. They posited the theory that a lot of riders get killed because the instinctively try to “steer” out of immanent danger, thereby driving straight into it. It doesn’t make sense, but the steer right to go left method works on every bike I’ve owned. Darned hard to learn so it is instinctive...
Darwin strikes again; may God comfort the family.
O.K.-I was going to say it’s pretty hard to go over the bars on the back brake. I was always taught to apply the back brake first, then the front. Thanks for the info.
I agree fully with your remark and stated that the stats show wearing a helmet improve your chances.Ive seen too many times though where a friend is creamed by a car whizzing thru an intersection or merging from the next lane and they failed to hear or see it do to the horseblinders cutting off their perephrial.
A high velocity crash is a high velocity crash and nothing can save you.
I agree fully with your remark and stated that the stats show wearing a helmet improve your chances.Ive seen too many times though where a friend is creamed by a car whizzing thru an intersection or merging from the next lane and they failed to hear or see it do to the horseblinders cutting off their perephrial.
A high velocity crash is a high velocity crash and nothing can save you.
I don’t understand how motorcycles get away with making so much obnoxious noise.
If my car were as loud as a motorcycle, I’d get a ticket.
If motorcycles are so dangerous they need to disturb the peace to warn others, then motorcycles are impractical and should be banned.
No, inattentive DRIVERS are dangerous. Should we now ban cars?
If my car were as loud as a motorcycle, I’d get a ticket.
I have wondered about this from the time I got my first drivers license. I know that those who ride bikes think that the noise is necessary (for their protection, you understand), but it makes no sense to me. Noise is noise and no one should be exempted from it.
My neighbor sold his monster truck for a Harley that’s twice as loud. Charming alarm clock in the morning.
Maybe automobile drivers should lean on their horns while they drive, so motorcycle riders can hear them coming (if they can hear anything, with the racket those bikes make).
I rode for about ten years, until a friend of mine died when he struck an elk while riding his hog at highway speed. Sold my Sportster the next day, and haven't bought one since. That was 25 years ago. I admit, though, that there's no more fun way to ride down a highway... a nice, dry, highway without another moving person, animal, or machine within twenty miles of me.
Having ridden, I submit that it must be said that since bikers choose to convey themselves on a machine that affords absolutely zero protection in a crash in which they are going to sustain far worse injuries, they logically must exercise more caution for their safety. Nobody put a gun to our heads and forced us to ride. It's our responsibility to watch out not only for ourselves, but also for the stupid maniac (four-wheeled and two-wheeled) that may not see us.
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