Post by rockynv on Jul 7, 2016 0:39:20 GMT -5
It really does not matter what you ride, if you hit sand or leaves, coming around a corner have a deer jump out in front of you or find a flock of buzzards in the road - because if you go down without gear you are going to sustain much more substantial injuries. We have lost too may dear friends on this and others riders forums to deny this is the case. New riders should not be encouraged by the vocal few to believe that gear does not make a difference in survivabilty or severity of injury in a crash.
When I looked at the carnage this past week locally it was a cruser rider loosing control and killed running into a tree on the median while wearing minimal gear and a scooter rider killed by a red light runner while no sport bikes were involved.
A sport biker a while ago was hit by a motorhome while he was doing the posted on the interstate however his gear saved him from the inattentive motorhome driver who went from the entrance ramp straight to the center lane and knocked him off his new bike at 70 mph. Thankfully no one ran over him and he walked away and was able to continue on with his day and start shopping for a replacement bike.
A scooter rider on another board went down at below 20 mph but was not wearing anything more than a half helmet and street clothes. He woke up in the ER a few weeks later and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on his years of rehab and will never walk right again even though he also was just knocked off the bike without getting run over. Having his jaw wired and the other facial injuries that a full helmet would have 100% prevented were the hardest injuries for him to deal with.
Most hard core sport bike riders I know are talking about not riding their sport bikes on the streets any more and saving them from track days because of militant road rage against sport bike riders. They ride cruisers or scooters on the streets and would not dream of getting on even a scooter and riding off without their gear on.
New riders please do not listen to the very vocal anti-gear crowd and you will increase your chances of walking away from most slides and simple accidents that others without gear will need hospitalization and lengthy recovery times for along with painful facial reconstruction. Studies are interesting trivia however real world experience shows that time and again more of our member who wear their safety gear walk away from accidents than those that do not wear their gear.
I do statistical analysis for a living and too many tell us the story that they want to tell using the data and are not really interested in doing the detective work to see what the data really shows. Many of the anti-gear articles are just spin doctoring of data that also shows or weights more heavily to the opposite of what they are presenting making the anti-gear conclusions invalid.
All bikes can be great fun and if they keep you able to ride that's wonderful and nobody is stupid or less intelligent if they like one style or make of bike over another. Lets just keep it safe so we are all more likely to be able to ride another day.
When I looked at the carnage this past week locally it was a cruser rider loosing control and killed running into a tree on the median while wearing minimal gear and a scooter rider killed by a red light runner while no sport bikes were involved.
A sport biker a while ago was hit by a motorhome while he was doing the posted on the interstate however his gear saved him from the inattentive motorhome driver who went from the entrance ramp straight to the center lane and knocked him off his new bike at 70 mph. Thankfully no one ran over him and he walked away and was able to continue on with his day and start shopping for a replacement bike.
A scooter rider on another board went down at below 20 mph but was not wearing anything more than a half helmet and street clothes. He woke up in the ER a few weeks later and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on his years of rehab and will never walk right again even though he also was just knocked off the bike without getting run over. Having his jaw wired and the other facial injuries that a full helmet would have 100% prevented were the hardest injuries for him to deal with.
Most hard core sport bike riders I know are talking about not riding their sport bikes on the streets any more and saving them from track days because of militant road rage against sport bike riders. They ride cruisers or scooters on the streets and would not dream of getting on even a scooter and riding off without their gear on.
New riders please do not listen to the very vocal anti-gear crowd and you will increase your chances of walking away from most slides and simple accidents that others without gear will need hospitalization and lengthy recovery times for along with painful facial reconstruction. Studies are interesting trivia however real world experience shows that time and again more of our member who wear their safety gear walk away from accidents than those that do not wear their gear.
I do statistical analysis for a living and too many tell us the story that they want to tell using the data and are not really interested in doing the detective work to see what the data really shows. Many of the anti-gear articles are just spin doctoring of data that also shows or weights more heavily to the opposite of what they are presenting making the anti-gear conclusions invalid.
All bikes can be great fun and if they keep you able to ride that's wonderful and nobody is stupid or less intelligent if they like one style or make of bike over another. Lets just keep it safe so we are all more likely to be able to ride another day.
My two cents...there's no such thing as a perfect bike, but every ride can be nearly perfect.