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To: Responsibility1st
That's no misprint. Commonly referred to as a sport bike or "crotch rocket," an aerodynamic motorcycle like the one Porter was operating is capable of speeds of around 200 mph.

yet us cage drivers are obligated to wear our seatbelts

are these things in a risk pool of their own ?

36 posted on 06/06/2005 8:59:39 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: Revelation 911
are these things in a risk pool of their own ?

No but the people that drive them are. Especially if they're young.

41 posted on 06/06/2005 9:12:41 AM PDT by zipper ("The fear of God makes heroes, the fear of man makes cowards."-- Sgt Alvin C. York)
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To: Revelation 911
are these things in a risk pool of their own ?

Yeah, and it's really not unusual for the insurance on a squid bike to be more costly than the payment. Deservedly so I might add. Then again, I'm probably biased in my dislike for them.

85 posted on 06/06/2005 12:11:53 PM PDT by Melas (Lives in state of disbelief)
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To: Revelation 911

My wife used to work in a tissue-typing lab for organ transplants. They called these bikes 'donorcycles'...


111 posted on 06/07/2005 5:17:41 AM PDT by LearnsFromMistakes (We know the right things to do, why don't we just do them?)
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