re: Another bad donorcycle crash...

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You gotta be nuts to ride a bike these days.

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Just sold my BMW 1200RS, top end 165. Never been down, rode from Florida to CA, twice, up the CA coast. Florida to DC numerous times for Rolling Thunder. Many times to the Smokey Mountains.

What I never did was ride in the city, Any City. You are asking to get hurt if you ride regularly in any city.

We are in Niceville this week. The other day a motorcycle exiting the toll lanes coming off the Mid-Bay Bridge headed north tried to jump across the lanes to get to the first exit. Lost control and wound up on the southbound side after crashing through the steel wire guard rail. Dead at the scene. Sad.

ER personnel refer to them as donorcycles. Those people see and deal with the results of motorcycle accidents all too often.

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Just sold my BMW 1200RS, top end 165. Never been down, rode from Florida to CA, twice, up the CA coast. Florida to DC numerous times for Rolling Thunder. Many times to the Smokey Mountains.

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If you haven’t already you should read or listen to Neil Peart’s books. Start with Ghostrider than Roadshow, Landscape with Drums. He’s the drummer for Rush and he rides the BMW 1200RS all over the world. Great books.

I rode dirt bikes from age 5 to 30 and road bikes (big Honda’s) until age 30 then got married , had kids and moved on. Watched a guy on a Suzuki GS700 eat the Front of a Ford pickup at 100mph and die in my parents front yard circa 1983. I heard the people coming up the street screaming my name thinking it was me. I pushed my bike out the back, got on it and rode. I knew if I didn’t I would never get back on it.

I’ll get another to tour on and it will be your big BMW. But I understand the problems these days and it’s a combination of things. More traffic, cell phones and distracted drivers, faster bike. But I also see a majority of people riding that have very limited riding experience and just don’t understand the way to ride.

I watched my father in law and a dozen of his friends with too much money in their pocket and too much time on their hands buy brand new Harley’s a decade ago when they were really hot and the majority of them laid them down and fortunately have quit.