If You Ride A Motorcycle, You’ll Identify With This Video
#1
It doesn’t matter what country you live in, drivers will always fail to notice motorcycle riders. No matter what tactics you use (high beam in day time, making eye contact with the driver, 300 decibel freight-train air horn, waving an AK-47) you can always plan on at least one car cutting you off per ride. Drivers simply don’t think to look for motorcycles, or can’t mentally process the approach of a motorcycle the same way they process the approach of say, a cement truck. Cell phones and other distractions only make this phenomenon worse.

In America, neither the NHTSA nor state governments do much to promote rider safety and visibility. The American Motorcyclist Association has launched a few campaigns, but they lack any emotional appeal and don’t get the exposure they need. Make people laugh, on the other hand, and maybe they’ll remember to look for motorcycle riders. At least that’s what Devon, UK has done with this of video promoting safe riding in the county.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=masAsJeyI...r_embedded
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#2
That is neat. When riding we have to be always on the lookout. Here is a Picture of my family in our sidecar rig from 1999. We traveled all over the country this way. People did notice us and rarely pulled out in front of us. We got plenty of smiles and waves.


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#3
Wow pretty cool, I dont think Ive ever seen a whole family on a bike! Awesome
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#4
Pretty cool sidecar setup, never seen that before.

My teenage son is getting the urge for a Bike; I'm trying to talk him out of it because of the inattention by drivers. Although yesterday morning, just in front of me, a bike thought he could pull from a stand still in the left center lane on I66 into the left HOV lane that was moving about 50 MPH; a Prius almost took him out for good!
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#5
PHOENIX -- Three people were killed and several others, including a Phoenix Fire captain, were injured in a collision involving a sanitation dump truck, eight motorcycles and five vehicles near 27th Avenue and Carefree Highway Thursday afternoon.

The names of those who died were released by police. They have been identified as 67-year-old Clyde R. Nachand, 52-year-old Stephen Punch and 35-year-old Daniel L. Butler.

Phoenix police Officer Luis Samudio said the truck driver, identified as 46-year-old Michael J. Jakscht, failed to control his speed and collided with eight motorcycles from behind and four other vehicles that were in front of the bikes. Aerial video showed several motorcycles wedged underneath the truck.

Firefighters had to put out a fire in the truck, which reportedly is owned by Blue Sky Sanitation.

In addition to the three fatalities, six victims were transported to local hospitals, including Phoenix Fire Capt. Ernie Lizarraga, who was off-duty. The captain and another motorcyclist were airlifted from the scene.

Among the injured individuals is a 47-year-old woman who is in critical condition. A 35-year-old man, a 39-year-old woman and a man whose age has not been provided are all listed in serious condition. A 48-year-old man was treated and released.

Lizarraga, a 22-year veteran of the department, underwent surgery and is listed in critical condition.

None of the people in the cars or the driver of the dump truck were transported.

According to a 3TV viewer, the motorcyclists are members of Phoenix M.C. Kruzer's from Meetup.com, but that has not been officially confirmed.

Christel Werlau and her husband were in the car in front of the motorcyclists.

"I saw some happy riders behind me," she said. "Next we got hit from the back and flung back and forth and my husband yelled, 'Get out of the car, you're on fire!'"

"I saw the bodies lying underneath burning and, oh my God ... horrible," said Werlau's husband.

"I got out and they all were lying...nobody was moving," Werlau said.

Carefree Highway was shut down in both directions between 27th Avenue and Interstate 17 all afternoon and through the night. It finally reopened early Friday morning.

Phoenix police tell 3TV there was no indication that Jakscht was impaired at the time of the collision. No charges have been filed at this time.

The investigation into the wreck continues and is expected to take quite some time.

*****DRIVER OF DUMP TRUCK HAS RECENTLY BEEN CHARGED AFTER TOXICOLOGY DETERMINE METH AND MARIJUANA IN HIS
SYSTEM! A FOURTH PERSON HAS ALSO DIED.


   

Bikes are dangerous guys, although I ride Im usually heading out of town away from the main city traffic and I always stay far away from cars. These guys were stopped at a light so that really sucks.
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#6
Thats a tragic site, they probably did not know what hit them!
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#7
Video makes sence. Often I have thought I wanted to get a bike but never gone through with it. Bikers put alot of blame on people not seeing them but there are alot of case's where the biker is at fault for driving way to fast or getting up to speed faster then needed.
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#8
Tulsa - A Broken Arrow man was killed early Tuesday morning after a motorcycle accident on Highway 169 near 81st Street.

Witnesses say the cyclist was going faster than 100 miles per hour when he crashed into the back of a semi truck between 81st and 91st Street at about one o'clock Tuesday morning.

Investigators say evidence shows the cyclist was going about 120 miles per hour at the time of the impact. It took the truck driver more than a quarter of a mile to come to a stop. When he did, he stepped out of his rig and found the motorcyclist dead at the back of the truck.

"The truck driver was not hurt," says Captain Matt Kirkland. "He said that the impact was so strong that he thought he was hit from behind by another truck."

The cops were traveling down the highway at around 1 o'clock
in the morning near Tulsa, Oklahoma. They found this on the road.
Another patrol car stopped a truck some miles down the
highway and were struck with the following image.

The Truck Driver said he thought he felt the impact, but it took
him almost 4 miles down the road before he thought he'd better
pull over and check out his rig.


Notice the driver has no shoes on from the impact or from
being drug all that distance. Ouch!


Side view of Motorcycle Driver caught up in the trailer of the semi.


Witnesses and State Police say the Motorcyclist was traveling at 120
mph when he ran into the back of the moving semi-truck.

It pays to have a good quality helmet when riding a motorcycle!

   

   

   

   

   

Whats left of the bike!
   
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#9
Thats pretty gross, guess he won't be doing that again....
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