Motorcycle Fatalities on the Rise

There has been a lot of press in the last few months about the increase in motorcycle crashes and fatalities. Kinda makes you wonder why..... let's see if we can find out.

A Lady recently told me to be very careful, because there's been a lot of crashes and deaths lately and most (over half) were on bikes. I told her that I agreed, I had heard the tragic news myself. I had no choice but to reply with this. "Yes, they should take all of those hospital expenses, and funeral expenses and send them to Congress to be paid". When she asked why, I simply said " the reason is because there's a lot of folks buying and riding that have no business on a motorcycle, they are riding out of desperation to save money because of outrageous fuel prices" Yes, there is an economic side to increased riders on the road.

Unfortunately, most of these deaths are riders with 2 years or less experience. Does that mean that those with more experience are imune? Nope, it just means that things happen fast on the road and you'd better be able to react fast ( mostly with the throttle), Motorcycling is a great fuel saver, it is one of the best things in life I can think of for relieving stress, but with that, we need to pay attention. The cagers (cars) have no mercy or sense, they can text, dial the phone, read the Wall Street Journal, apply make-up, drink a soda, and kill people all at the same time, and in the end when there is a bike laying on the side of the road dead or dying, there is always the popular apology " ooops, my bad".

I saw a helmet sticker one time that read " 15 miles and 15,000 dollars don't make you a biker"
To my fellow scooter trash out there is say " keep your mind on the road, how many of these incidents could have been avoided if YOU were paying attention", "ride like your life depended on it"

To the cagers out there who think that what they are doing and where they are going is infinitely more important than anyone else, I say this " Pay attention, some of these riders aren't real nice when they get cut off, and some get real mean when you cause them to drop their ride"

Have fun on the road