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If it's fake, it's still funny. If it's real, that one lucky sonofabitch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDAKC0Nl6kg

...why my wife won't let me do this? This was supposedly the Tail of the Dragon.

Giant Eagle in New Albany right off of 161 has E85 IIRC.

I thought he was in Giants Stadium?

What's an f-yard?

For real' date=' didn't some other junk blow out of that exhaust once before?

I think your engine is slowly escaping out your exhaust piece by piece![/quote']

Yeah, on that ride down south last year.

Motorcycle Helmet Usage

o Nearly twice as many sports bikers than cruisers on Hawaii’s roadways always wear their helmet.

o About half of the cruisers represented in the survey sometimes wear their helmet.

o Over a third of the bikers who currently wear a helmet at least some of the time reported that in the past they did not wear one at all.

o The primary influence for riders to start wearing a helmet was for safety.

o Nearly all of the riders recognized that helmets reduced head injuries.

o More sports bikers than cruisers agreed that motorcycle helmets increased rider safety.

o Significantly more sports bikers than cruisers agreed that riders should always wear a helmet.

o More cruisers than sports bikers believed that helmets were not cool or sexy.

Interesting.

http://www.state.hi.us/dot/publicaffairs/safecommunities/reports/motorcyclehelmets/motorcycle-integration.pdf

Motorcycle Helmets

o Motorcycle accidents accounted for 3,244 fatalities in the nation.

o Head injuries were the leading cause of death among the motorcycle riders.

o Riders without helmets are 40 percent more likely to sustain a fatal head injury.

o Motorcyclists without helmets are three times more likely than a helmeted rider to suffer a traumatic brain injury as a result of a crash.

I find lulz in this thread because of the helmet law thread.

Really? The previews on TV seemed good. thanks for the heads up. what made it so bad?

Don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back!

Are you high or drunk?

I should have asked more questions!

What gear does it do this in? Is the Service Engine Soon light on? If so, have you had the codes checked? I know the 4L60E transmission pretty well, which is what should be in your 'burban.

Did you not read it? no Check money light.

You owe my mom child support ya deadbeat.

Wow, you admitted to that dude being your daddy? Umm, I would have kept that hush hush.

I feel I have seen almost this same situation with this same bike before. Hmm... lol

I'll probably go Sun or Mon but that isn't set in stone.

Yeah, I usually don't buy much. Guns are usually over priced. I did buy a soft side rifle case last year.

Awesome Thank You!!

You're welcome.

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I'm not necessarily for (or against) mandatory MSF courses.

Even if I were, there is a gaping cavern of differences in requiring someone who has never held a motorcycle endorsement to take a basic weekend skills course and requiring all bikers, regardless of skill level or experience, to wear certain protective gear.

I'm just saying that in preventing fatal accidents, taking the MSF course might go a long way.

But if helmets can save lives, and msf classes can save lives, why should they be regulated differently?

Guns kill people. We need to ban all firearms.

Ride wheelies ya sissy.

I'd like to go ride the mysterious and fabled land of crashings, but I have to work tomorrow night, so its sleep all day for me.

My bike (FZRs in general) don't like wheelies. Beats up the transmission too much.

Need my front tire first.

I'm bored today, so I'm reading through old posts, and I'm sure I'm going to revive something here, but I thought I'd weigh in.

I'm pretty against a helmet law, and against seatbelt laws as well. I wear a helmet every time I ride, but that's because I have to at the moment (endorsement less than a year - I didn't always before, but then got pulled over, which sucked, violating restrictions is a major misdemeanor, same as prostitution and DUI). In the past, I've worn a helmet some of the time, and not others.

I ride a cruiser right now, which I chose for a number of reasons, none of which involved taking risks (beyond the inherent risk of getting on a bike in the first place), so I don't feel terribly unsafe if I ride without a helmet around town, or the long way to work where I hit 55 once for a 1 mile stretch. If I'm on the highway, though, I'll always wear a lid. I'll also wear shorts and a tee shirt on a 100 degree day if I make the 2 mile trip to the store.

While there's some truth to "dress for the crash, not for the ride," there are some days where full gear is just too hot and too uncomfortable to be enjoyable - and that's absolutely a risk, but there are a hell of a lot more risky activities than riding without full gear.

A lot of that is because of the bike I ride, though. I plan on saving my pennies during the off-season for a bike for pure fun, a sport bike. I have no doubt that I'll ride with gear every time, since I know myself well enough to know that I'm going to want to have some fun every time I ride.

The insurance argument seems kind of silly to me. I'm not sure how lower insurance rates would be with helmet law - I pay $100/yr for great insurance. Part of that, again, is partly because of the bike I ride.

I guess the point is, I don't really want to be told that I MUST wear a helmet. I'll choose to wear one a lot of the time, and sometimes I won't, and it's my head that will hit the pavement.

First let me say I too am against helmet laws. But your head hitting the pavement at 35mph can still kill you. Road rash at 35mph is still gonna suck to have scrubbed with some steel wool type stuff. I'd rather sweat and walk away from a crash than bleed after one. A cruiser type bike isn't some magical device that keeps you more safe than a sportbike. Cages don't distinguish between the two types, or any type of 2 wheels for that matter. Yeah sportbikes may tend to run faster speeds, and the risks increase with speed, but there isn't much more of a safety net for a cruiser. Still the same distance to fall, still the same speeds (assuming the legal limit isn't broken), still the same weight of a cage smashing into you, same density of the tree you headbutt. All that being said, I don't care if you wear a lid or not. Not my life, not my choice. I will add that I have ridden without a jacket and lid. Once around the corner to the gas station and a few times on a back road testing and tuning the bike. I had to hear the engine. Plus that road is the one a grew up on. I know it like the back of my hand. But I have always worn gloves.

That part has kind of been taken care of.

In my MSF class, they taught that most fatalities are the result of improper cornering. I hate to say it, but requiring MSF courses might go a long way in reducing fatalities. I've been riding for years, but I learned a lot in my class, and they spend a lot of time on cornering, and proper cornering is actually the most highly weighted part of the skills assessment portion of the class.

I don't understand how you can be against mandatory helmet laws but for mandatory MSF courses?

the thing is, most accidents happen close to home. statistically you are more likely to get into an accident going to pick up a video or a burger or going to the gas station than you are on a 400 mile daytrip.

Most accidents occur near home because you are near home most of the time. How many people make a 400 mile day trip very often? Most people go to work and back home, the store and back home. Most driving happens near home therefor more accident are near home.