Ramjet
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Drove through Nashville yesterday, overhead signs say 72 Motorcycle Fatalities. Drove through today and they say 73 Motorcycle Fatalities. Depressing  |
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signart
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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2012, 03:21:34 PM » |
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Saw the same thing thru Knoxville. Statewide totals for the year. One is too many, 73 way too many, lot of year left. Something has to be done. Anyone have ideas?
For starters:
1. Cell phone problem. Everytime I go around a curve on m/c or car, and a oncoming cager is on my side of the road, phone is stuck to the head of driver or worse (texting, dialing). Happens every day.
2. Make m/c awareness part of drivers test fo license.
3. Experience requirements for 2 up riding. Witnessed a just turned 16 yr. girl driving a big Harley w/Dad on back pass my house last Mother's Day. Half mi. down the road, lost control on slight curve, went down a bank end over end, DOA both. No witnesses, no one new the girl was driving but me. Mother's Day will never be the same for the family, much less me.
4. Cell phone problem again, + DUI both rider and assasins with cars.
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Crazyhorse
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2012, 06:19:50 AM » |
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Cell phones I believe are the number one cause of accidents. I work in Nashville and ride to work and back daily (80 miles round trip). The second thing that I see that is causing accidents is a lack of courtesy for other drivers. If you are going to be late because you slow down and let someone into your lane of traffic you should have left home earlier. Just my two cents worth.
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Time Worp
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2012, 06:25:51 AM » |
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The three day safety course (In my opinion) is the leading cause of motorcycle accidents. You wouldn't send your child to a three day course, and give them a license for a car would you? What would make anyone think they can learn how to ride a motorcycle in three days? I have seen many people come out of that course with a license that couldn't pass a DMV road test.
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signart
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2012, 06:47:46 AM » |
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I agree more training & testing for a cycle license, but also much more testing and actual driving tests for car license. Too easy to get a license.
Big fines for following or stopping behind a m/c too close. Big jail time for killing a motorcyclist.
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cookiedough
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2012, 09:19:09 AM » |
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It is getting pretty scary on the roadways more and more. Near daily now see cell phones in use and people not paying attention. Wish on this one the govt., for once, would step in and try to mandate NO cell phone use while driving period if engine is running. If emergency, pull over, stop car, turn key off ignition, and then use cell phone. Only takes 15 seconds or so to do that. In past few weeks I have had twice now two people come at me cross the centerline having to slow down and pull over way to the right side of my lane because for one reason or another the oncoming cars are not paying attention. Witnessed this early spring a head on collision truck and car on hwy. behind my house with truck driver crossing centerline killing driver of car and read just yesterday in nearby county a semi truck crossed centerline and killed instantly guy and gal on motorcycle, not pretty.
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2012, 09:43:30 AM » |
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What I'm seeing more and more are drivers driving like they're drunk. Speeding up, slowing down, weaving back and forth......exhibiting behavour exactly like a sh!tfaced drunken driver. When I get close enough to see the driver, they've got a cell phone in their hand....usually texting or whatever else their doing with it.....and even just simply talking on the damn thing with it glued to their head. Saw a middleaged woman in a mini van the other day driving on a six laned highway with her knee and mad texting with both thumbs. She was no more looking at where she was going or what she was doing than her child in the back seat was.  It's truely an epidemic and these oblivious morons and their cell phones are killing people.....and just like drunk drivers, they need to be dealt with. Kill a biker, go to jail....period. |
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signart
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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2012, 10:14:56 AM » |
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Right lock em up. When they get out never let them drive a car again.
Let them ride motorcycles only.
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Fritz The Cat
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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2012, 10:51:33 AM » |
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Just bought me one of those glow in the dark orange and yellow safety vests. The kind the military make you wear when riding on post. It's mesh and I plan to wear it always when riding. That way I figure only the legally blind drivers will fail to see me.  |
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« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2012, 11:15:53 AM » |
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Just bought me one of those glow in the dark orange and yellow safety vests. The kind the military make you wear when riding on post. It's mesh and I plan to wear it always when riding. That way I figure only the legally blind drivers will fail to see me. Good idea, but unfortunately it won't help in a lot of cases since for say those darn texters wouldn't be looking up anyways to see you at all. Same can be said for air horns but at least unless the stereo in their vehicle is cranked, they may hear you honk since they are NOT looking. |
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BF
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« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2012, 01:58:32 PM » |
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I work on an Air Force Base and wear one of those vests. Got mine from the MSF site. Costs 19 bucks if I remember right.
However.......and trust me on this......they still don't/won't see you. They don't see me with my vest.....five lights on the front of the bike and lights all over the rear (and sides)......and they still don't see me.
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signart
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« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2012, 02:02:48 PM » |
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Maybe should wear one with a big keypad on it.
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Big Ed
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« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2012, 02:36:38 PM » |
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Very sad but true...
I made and placed a decal across the rear window of my van that says...
"Hang Up And Drive" with a skull and crossbones on each side.
Biker's give me the thumbs up.
Teenagers just look at me all puzzled, like they dont have a clue.
Ride safe
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BigAl
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« Reply #13 on: July 12, 2012, 03:40:35 PM » |
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Well I think the number killed in car crashes is much higher,
In Tennessee.
40% of all one vehicle motorcycle accidents is rider error, such as riding drunk.
Beat the odds ride sober , visible and above all ride.
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fudgie
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« Reply #14 on: July 12, 2012, 04:41:06 PM » |
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I work on an Air Force Base and wear one of those vests. Got mine from the MSF site. Costs 19 bucks if I remember right.
However.......and trust me on this......they still don't/won't see you. They don't see me with my vest.....five lights on the front of the bike and lights all over the rear (and sides)......and they still don't see me.
I have a hard time seeing them on riders. If you have no shield or fairing, yes its visable, once you are close to me. With, not till they are even with me do I see the color. |
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« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2012, 04:42:04 PM » |
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TN is a helmet State, there should be no fatalities. |
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Fritz The Cat
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« Reply #16 on: July 12, 2012, 05:15:09 PM » |
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The absolute best aide to visibility is a flashing blue light. Unfortunately, it's against to law to have one on your bike.  |
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BigAl
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« Reply #17 on: July 12, 2012, 05:21:44 PM » |
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TN is a helmet State, there should be no fatalities. Yah right, I wish. |
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