Motorcycle fatalities with/out helmets?

[Jaylegger]

passengers, riding in buckets and on implements,
Off my soapbox now.

You mean like this, Yee freakin Haw, live free or kill you grand children tryin. Photos from a guy selling some gear on Kijiji.

 

[The Haymaker]

As per loud pipes, I'm in favor of loud pipes, but not open pipes. And those stinking rice burners that rev like chain saws really piss me off.


Marc

Well, seeing how you brought it up, I much prefer to hear the scream of a 4cylinder bike than a loud Harley. For that noise, I'd save a TON of money by buying a VW Bug, removing the exhaust, and spending an extra ten-spot on oil to dump in the driveway for dust control because the car would leak less than the Harley.

 

[scesnick]

I did not read every post here but I would think it is a total "no brainer" that helmets save lives.
I race GNCC's, (3 hour races through the woods on dirt bikes) I have wadded it up a number of times in fast rocky sections and slammed my head on the rocks. Who in their right mind would ride without a helmet? i know I wouldn't. I'm sure I would have been dead long ago. I once cracked my helmet in half on a tree during a race! knocked me out cold but a quick check from the EMT crew and i was just fine..
Trust me if you think you are a good enough rider that you will never be in a wreck anyway, You are wrong.

 

[turbo36]

I have wadded it up a number of times in fast rocky sections and slammed my head on the rocks. I once cracked my helmet in half on a tree during a race! knocked me out cold but a quick check from the EMT crew and i was just fine..
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Been there, done that! Kinda sucks to go buy a new helmet after a bad crash but at least I wasn't buying a pine box! :laughing: Them cracked helmets look pretty good up there on the trophy self.

 

[turbo36]

You mean like this, Yee freakin Haw, live free or kill you grand children tryin. Photos from a guy selling some gear on Kijiji.

Pretty much just good clean fun till you lose a limb or two. "Where's my dang banjo?"

 

[greasemonkeyok]

Saw on the news yesterday that a fella up in Washington on a two-lane road riding his cycle was given a ticket for going 92 mph - - -

OVER the 60 mph speed limit. Yes, he was going 152 mph - $400+ ticket.

http://www.komonews.com/news/91089859.html

 

[SensibleNick]

Been there, done that! Kinda sucks to go buy a new helmet after a bad crash but at least I wasn't buying a pine box! :laughing: Them cracked helmets look pretty good up there on the trophy self.

When I started racing mountainbikes downhill, only the Pros used to wear helmets - and the rules then switched to make it mandatory.

As students, we couldn't really afford bike helmets, but Giro brought out a crash replacement policy: Smash your helmet and they'd replace it for half price. I stumped up the cash (my girlfriend at the time was insisting it was a good idea) and forked out for a comfy "peanut" helmet. That afternoon the club went out to practice, and I grumbled all the way on the ride to the DH course... once at the course we started running practice runs, and I fudged a big double. I missed the landing spot by a few inches, and the front tyre hit a wet tree-root. The wheel spat out from underneath me and I thudded into the ground with the grace of hippo.

I saw stars for a bit... and felt damned groggy, but the bike was ok.

My brand-spanking new helmet however was worse for wear. It had become 3 pieces, and had a golf-ball sized sharp stone lodged in it. If that helmet hadn't been on my head, the stone would have hit my just above the right temple, and I may not have been able to sit up and whine about breaking a brand new helmet.

I haven't questioned it since then.

If someone can't see the benefits of a helmet, let them be: There's probably nothing worth protecting up there anyway

 

[turbo36]

When I started racing mountainbikes downhill, only the Pros used to wear helmets - and the rules then switched to make it mandatory.

As students, we couldn't really afford bike helmets, but Giro brought out a crash replacement policy: Smash your helmet and they'd replace it for half price. I stumped up the cash (my girlfriend at the time was insisting it was a good idea) and forked out for a comfy "peanut" helmet. That afternoon the club went out to practice, and I grumbled all the way on the ride to the DH course... once at the course we started running practice runs, and I fudged a big double. I missed the landing spot by a few inches, and the front tyre hit a wet tree-root. The wheel spat out from underneath me and I thudded into the ground with the grace of hippo.

I saw stars for a bit... and felt damned groggy, but the bike was ok.

My brand-spanking new helmet however was worse for wear. It had become 3 pieces, and had a golf-ball sized sharp stone lodged in it. If that helmet hadn't been on my head, the stone would have hit my just above the right temple, and I may not have been able to sit up and whine about breaking a brand new helmet.

I haven't questioned it since then.

If someone can't see the benefits of a helmet, let them be: There's probably nothing worth protecting up there anyway

I don't do any pure downhill racing but since a lot of the mountain bike courses around here are in ski areas I get a fair amount of climbing followed by the white knuckle ride back down.

While climbing I'm fond of saying "remember gravity is only your friend when going downhill". :laughing:

 

[Dargo]

Saw on the news yesterday that a fella up in Washington on a two-lane road riding his cycle was given a ticket for going 92 mph - - -

OVER the 60 mph speed limit. Yes, he was going 152 mph - $400+ ticket.

Trooper clocks motorcycle at 152 mph on two-lane highway | KOMO News - Breaking News, Sports, Traffic and Weather - Seattle, Washington | News

It wasn't a V65 Magna then. Yeah, I may be a brick or two shy of a full load, but the Honda shop guaranteed me that a V65 Magna would run 150 mph. Took it on a test drive. On a 2 mile flat run, laid down on the seat with my left arm behind my back, it would only go 148.

Yeah, that's the same model bike I bought a couple of years later and had my worst crash on. It developed it's now well known "head shake" (speed wobble, tank slapper - whatever you want to call it) at well over 100 mph. I managed to get off into the grassy median before going down, but it wasn't fun. I've posted that ugly story on here somewhere before. Now I just have a Narley Ferguson. I clean up the puddle of oil it leaves, add new oil, crank on it for 5 minutes, cuss a bunch, and then go have a relaxing ride.

 

[MossRoad]

It wasn't a V65 Magna then. Yeah, I may be a brick or two shy of a full load, but the Honda shop guaranteed me that a V65 Magna would run 150 mph. Took it on a test drive. On a 2 mile flat run, laid down on the seat with my left arm behind my back, it would only go 148.

Yeah, that's the same model bike I bought a couple of years later and had my worst crash on. It developed it's now well known "head shake" (speed wobble, tank slapper - whatever you want to call it) at well over 100 mph. I managed to get off into the grassy median before going down, but it wasn't fun. I've posted that ugly story on here somewhere before. Now I just have a Narley Ferguson. I clean up the puddle of oil it leaves, add new oil, crank on it for 5 minutes, cuss a bunch, and then go have a relaxing ride.

Oh, I hate that! I had a new front tire put on my RD400 and then took it out to "test" it. All was well until I hit 70... the handle bars start whapping back and forth violently and I thought I was gonna die! I squeezed the clutch and moved to the back of the seat. As soon as it got under 70, it stopped wobbling. Then, like the doofus I was, I decided to see if it would do it again. :laughing: It did! I lived. I took it back to the shop and told them what it was doing. The guy says "The tire isn't balanced. That'll cause that." I asked why they didn't balance it. He says "You didn't ask me to balance it." :confused2:

Good grief. I never went back to that shop again.