In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:17:54 GMT
Yeebers <yeeb.DeleteThis@yeeb.yeeb> wrote:
> In that one instance it was not safe otherwise Dad wouldn't have gotten
> hurt. Whether there's ever going to be an instance where doing that is
> safe or not, I am not going to say but I have doubts.
So the helmetless might not be safe, the sitting on the tank clearly
was.
(We don't know what the rider's injury was. Is there any reason to
assume it was a head injury and not a broken leg?)
let us get one thing very straight here. Motorcycling is dangerous.
All protective kit (and sitting on the saddle not the tank) can do is
make consequences of going rubber side up less in some circumstances.
Your helmet will not protect you in all cases, neither with leathers.
Neither will riding in the government approved position[1]. Or at the
government approved speed on a government approved bike come to that.
There's also this matter of statistics. Over the years, a certain
number of people get hurt riding bikes. Some of them didn't wear
helmets/leathers/boots. Alas it is rather hard to find what injuries
people had and match that to riding gear, and to circumstances of crash.
And of course it's a population, it tells you nothing about what might
happen to a single individual when they get on their bike in the
morning.
Ride your bike how you want to, wearing what you want to, but
acknowledge that you can still get very badly hurt. And that someone
who rides a bike you think is a deathtrap, wearing nothing but a
smile, can do that for years and still be quite unhurt while someone
else in full gear and a nice new bike with ABS and crashbars can end
up joining the choir invisible.
If the fun ain't worth the possible consequences, buy a car. If it
is, keep riding.
Zebee
[1] sit up and beg....
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