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Jul 30, 2002


Yahoo! News - Motorcycle Deaths Drop After Helmet Law Reinstated

Golly, next thing they're going to say is that Harley's with those stupidly overloud pipes do not avoid more collisions because of the pipes as most Harley guys claim. Which makes sense because you can't hear them coming, you can only hear them going and by that time the accidents already occurred if its going to occur. Ergo, the Harley loud pipe argument as I'd understood is bunkum. I think they just like to make noise, while put putting around on their slow poser sleds. I don't dislike all Harleys or Harley riders (but by the same token, I don't really like very many Harleys either), just the ones that ride around like they're on the fastest and best bikes on the planet when its just not the case. My little SV can smoke damn near any Harley out there (Buell's excepted because they're only Harley's by engine, nothing else) at half the cost and it handles better than any Harley out there, barring none. I've run 17 plenty enough to see that Harleys and corners are only mildly acquainted.

I've been in three accidents over the last 15 years of riding cycles. I had a helmet on in all three and walked away from all three of them with minor injuries. Without the helmet I would be a vegetable or dead. Simple as that and I've seen the scuff marks on the helmet to prove that I bashed into the ground with my head though I didn't feel it.
:: posted by Erik at 11:40 AM | Permalink |
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