disgusting and taught me to avoid links of such nature. horrifying

-Berg

 

While I fully support your right to your own opinion, can I just say that for me, the only thing inappropriate in hobby risk management is failure to learn from the mistakes of others. Unfortunately, unless you've thoroughly understood the dangers of any hobby activity in normal civilian life - you really are not prepared to manage the risks. And a big part of understanding includes knowing the unpleasant facts & gotchas.

I truly appreciate your best friend's sacrifice for our Country!! But I believe these are 2 vastly different comparisons. One is we're participating in a voluntary hobby. And it can kill you very easily. We owe it to ourselves to arm ourselves with facts, info & experience - even if it means learning from the mistakes of others.

Your buddy & all military folks and workers & journalists, etc., are there doing a heroic service for their fellow countrymen. If they happen to get captured & the enemy executes them, there's no "educational value" to anyone to watch a video of it. It cannot be prevented or learned from. It's a senseless tragedy perpetrated by criminals in Iraq. Personally I believe out of pure respect for a fallen soldierand/or peace worker / civilian worker, etc., I would never want to watch their death at the hands of criminals.

Again, to me this is very unlike a fellow bike rider themselves making some serious mistakes & losing his/her life, and we can all observe & learn from to prevent repeating it.

In summary: a military hero / peace worker / civilian aid worker, dies at the hands of thugs, against their will. That's a tragedy I don't believe in watching out of respect for the dead soldier / worker. The other is a fellow voluntary hobbiest who either makes some mistake or is the victim of another motorists mistake. Seeing the results and learning from them to avoid repeating it is not pleasant, but it is legitimate in my opinion.

 

Being that I work in a level one trauma center emergency department, I don't need any stinkin' links to see the horrors of motorcycle crashes...I get to see first hand people die, families cry after being notified that their 19 year old son didn't make it and victims have their lives changed forever from paralysis...sometimes I stare at my bike in the parking lot after a rough shift and wonder if I really want to climb on that machine...but I always do!

 

disgusting.

some times **** just happends. but i've seen some **** happen to people that are on a vehicle in 4 wheels. theres a definate risk in motorcycling but the only thing you can do is just minimize your risks. anything can happen regardless of how safe you try to be. ride safe.

 

When it's in your blood...... I found it easier to quite smoking cigarettes after 10 yrs than to go a few days in the winter w/ out being on my girl. Even after all the horror stories from a friend who's a nurse on ICU ward in a local hospital. Watching all these crash vids that I buy or download off the web. All the accidents that I see first hand. All the accidents that I've been in.
GOD WILLING I CAN/WILL NEVER STOP RIDING!!!!!!

 

....jesus christ...

 

thanks for the link, it is a wake up call (at least to me)...i just started riding. Iwear gear, but i dont use the pants, i do ride with jeans most of the time... any other alternative to leather or racing pants? I usually ride with helmet, gloves and jacket... and boots with my military uniform...

 

and before someone says something smart, my avatar is in my garage when i was letting oil go through the bike... i dont hit the road like that (they wont let you get on base anyways...)

 

makes me think of the idiot on the HD I saw on my way home today. I was following a line of cars on the hwy in my car BTW and I see this HD come flying up from behind and gets right on my bumper and stays there until me and the line of cars pass a semi going WAY below the posted speed in which he decides he has waited long enough and darts to the right lane and stands on the HD (I know I know mut his lack of mufflers made it very clear he was on it at least most if not all the way)

so he speeds up and then realizes there are more semi trucks crawling in the right lane and then lets off and down shifts creating these big pops and bangs which seemed to go on for ever as he jerks behind me cutting off a car that had caught up to the line of cars (hold on it gets better as he performs that same stunt a couple more times)

now keep in mind I drive over 45mi each way a day on the hwy so this is going on and every now and then a car in front turns off the hwy and as a result I get behind one of the front cars (pickup to be specific) driving below the posted speed keeping the line of cars backed up now

as I sit there a little upset that this driver never bothered to move to the right lane I see he is towing a large trailer with ramps (like a car trailer but, bigger) he has all this metal poorly straped to the bed and the top layer looked like metal roofing panels of some sort which had nothing keeping them from falling off other than one strap from the sides going over the top!!!

now as I gave this idiot even more room so I could hope to react if it did let go I keep watching the trailer drift to the left and into the gravel sholder and then the driver would jerk the truck to the right and the trailer would almost hop in the right lane and then hop back and forth in the left lane until it was stable and then it would start all over just like watching the clock tic away.

well now this HD guy has just got to get around everyone and now! so he does his usual stunt gets in the right lane and right away he sees that there is a car hauler semi in the right lane and the lead truck in the left lane is almost even with the back of the semi. now I am watching this HD guy while I have my foot over my brake pedal just waiting to see if this guy was going to go for it. so anyway we are getting closer and closer by the second and the HD guy keeps creeping up and you can tell he is really thinking if he can make it. at the last possiable second they guy guns it and leans real hard to the left and I don't see him for a second.... I thought I was going to see that guy all over the road but, for some unknown reason he made it. BTW no gear or helmet at ALL!!! and that truck with the trailer, no way he could have stopped had he tried or even had a few car lenghts and what if the semi just let off the gas??? wow this guy was a real idiot

 

JJZ06 - no offense, but dude, this is the 600RR forum and we should be talking about 600RR stuff. Besides, tonight at about 11pm I hop on my bike and do a 20 mile semi-twisty stretch home. I avoid the wood and other debrit that drops out of contractor's trucks, the rocks that slide down the cliffs and into the road, I avoid the white painted arrows that take up 3/4 of the lane that are usually placed mid way into a turn, and deal with the aholes that talegate me when it is foggy out and visibility sucks. The last thing I need to see is gorry sh*t that might happen to me if I f*ck up and lose consentration on looking and avoiding the stuff mensioned above.