Last year a van tried to pass on double yellow and killed a family man just going for a ride past the lake and state park. They left the scene... Sad...
What's more sad than these unfortunate deaths are the number of people getting killed in the inner cities. No answers, no moralizing.... but it's been the hardest aspect of living on the east coast for me.
Richmond very rarely goes a week without a murder, and it seems like there's at least one gunshot victim every 2-3 days.
Knowing the numbers in DC and Philly are even higher, just makes me sad. We found it disturbing, that the National Zoo has it's own police station.....
A motorcycle fatality won't even get mentioned on the news, unless the chase was on camera.
Richmond CA has become a lot quieter in recent years, as has Oakland and parts of San Francisco. What the media protrays is that these areas have gotten safer. But for who? The people that are displacing the generations that have been there. These areas are not getting any better for the people that have been there. Their schools are not improving. Theyre being forced to live aomewhere else or nowhere. The people moving in are opening coffee shops and brewerys. This is the bay area. Where money is choking the culture out of existence. A union electrician who makes 65 dollars an hour can not afford to buy a house. Where 105,000 income is below the poverty line.
i have just read the article and a few things jumped out at me. why would you not want to wear a helmet or protective gear. Is looking cool more important than being alive ? i am sure you never really get the full story and i understand that bikes aren't always to blame, but 3 of the 5 reported crashes were, no helmet, alcohol and overtaking a turning tractor.
do you guys in the states ride all year or do you have seasonal licences, i ask because a bigger percentage of the people involved seem to me middle aged guys. In the UK bikes either get ridden or buried until the sun comes out ?
I ride all year round in sunny Southern California. I don't even know what a provisional liscense is. But there are plenty of deaths on motorcycles. That is a given.
I read the article about the Idaho deaths. All sounded like they could have easily been prevented by the rider
One, guy passing a slowing truck/trailer on a double yellow. Truck turns left.
Two, guy passing on the right (on the shoulder, it seemed) and hit an oncoming car turning left.
Three and Four, riders crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a car.
I forgot #5, but seriously, you do the things above, you're putting yourself at increased risk.
Also, wear a helmet and don't drink.
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