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If you have sheep, you wont need to mow the grass and risk a road accident..... oh oh.
That looks like rural NZ. Fairly regular occurrence out here.
How many innocent people have to die or seriously hurt ? Rant over !!!
Let’s face the cold hard truth. Yes motorcycle riders are often killed or injured due to the actions of other motorists. That being said. As a retired LEO I take interest in every motorcycle death that I read about and take the time to read the entire content including any information offered by the officers investigation and you know what the majority of the time the cause of the accident was contributed to.... you guessed it speed and alcohol. Just the difference in traveling the speed limit and just 5 MPH over can be the difference in colliding with a car which turns in front of you or being able to avoid it. When ridding in congested traffic conditions one cannot be to too high of alert, expect the unexpected. The fact is this, although yes sometimes accidents happen, that’s life and sometimes simply out of our hands however the truth is this, when we ride as professional cyclist, obey all the traffic laws and keep out full attention on the road at all times, ridding our motorcycles are as safe as any other mode of transportation. Want proof, look at the thousands of old farts on this forum 👍
Yes, at the risk of being a kill joy, I agree. As a Land Surveyor, I know something about curve geometry and road design.Curves are designed for specific speeds, but it often is not traction and grip that is the limiting factor, it is often sight lines. Now a bike can have better sight lines than a car due to lane position, but only so much. If you are riding public roads at a pace you have serious pucker moments because you come up on the unexpected in a curve, you are by definition outriding safe sight lines. Do it enough and some day your number will come up,ie, the unexpected stalled truck totally blocking your way in that blind curve, only it was not really a blind curve if you were riding in the sight lines. On my morning commute I have a nice double lane in same direction freeway transition ramp with an enjoyable curve. I have ridden it literally thousands of times. The inside lane is safe to about 70mph as the inside radius cuts the sight lines and once in a while there is stopped traffic. The outside lane is safe to about 95mph as the sight lines are much longer. The curve radius I am on while riding is not hugely different, grip is not the limiting factor, if it were grip this would be in excess of a hundred mile per hour curve on the inside lane. It is the sight lines on that inner lane that will get you.
I don’t wish to be a kill joy here as I have no right to throw stones living in a glass house. That being said, every time we ride in excess of the posted speed limits on any road for any reason we take our lives in our hands. Don’t blame the person making the dreaded “left turn” in your path when you are running 10mph over the posted limit or the vehicle in front of you stops suddenly and you are riding up his arse. The posted speed limits by no means is ok to run that speed regardless of conditions such as traffic, weather, or even times of the day. I’m sorry guys but I’ve investigated hundreds of accidents involving motorcycles and cars and I can attest there have been very few which were simply acts of God, 99.9 percent were operator, weather intentional or not, caused the accident. There are opinions and there are facts, I withhold my opinion on this one. Ride safe my friends:)
I've always viewed the practice of mowing grass into the road as bad form when it can be avoided.
Speed Kills? Nah... Speed Thrills!
Motor vehicle "accidents" are very rarely completely accidental.... Cause & effect, whether intentional or not.
Lot of potential girlfriends in that picture.
Very true, and I have to give our local papers credit for never using the word "accident" any more in association with a motor vehicle crash. "Wreck", "Crash", or "Collision" is what they quite properly use, because as Ncdan says, only a tiny percentage of them are "accidents", except in the sense that people didn't intend them to happen. Lack of caring, lack of attention, lack of skill, or results of addiction are the typical causes ....Lannis
Interesting to note...the news media out here always will add the tagline that the rider in a motorcycle accident "was not wearing a helmet". If there is no fatality there's no mention of the rider wearing a helmet. No mention if the rider is licensed and legal.
I have been riding for close to 45 years and wet or damp grass clippings on a damp road or extremely dangerous you go into a slow speed curve with that and they are just as slick as a glazing of ice on the road !