Category: Motorcycle Safety

Skip Wearing Your Motorcycle Helmet and Save Eight Lives

Think of it this way: wearing  your helmet might save your life, but going without one might make you a hero. A recent study found that while states like Florida which repealed mandatory helmet laws did see a corresponding spike in fatalities, that state also saw a major increase in...

Should Anti-Helmet Law Lobby Groups Seek to Silence the Helmet Law Critics Entirely

While traveling on American roads has become safer today than at any point in the past five decades,  one group has been left behind: motorcyclists. Some 4,500 die every year in crashes, and that hit home hard here in Michigan in the last couple of weeks. It should be noted...

Beyond Disturbing Photo of A Motorcyclist Texting While Riding

Given the fact that you’re currently reading this on the Interweb, it’s a pretty safe bet you’ll also come across some other pictures and stories today sure to make you shake your head in wide wonder at the outright stupidity and lunatic behavior that various members of our species are...

Crash In Wisconsin Leaves Muskegon Motorcycle Gang And Family Members to Pick Up the Pieces

They were doing something they all loved, something that brought them together across the spaces that divided them in day-to-day life, sharing the joy of an experience which is difficult – if not impossible – to explain to those who’ve never had the pleasure; they were all out for a...

The Florence Nightingale of Speed Freaks Nabbed Doing 193 MPH On His Motorcycle

His dedication to easing the suffering of others was admirable, but his ability to evade the coppers could certainly have used a little work. The Powers That Be are saying  a 28-year-old rider in upstate New York has been charged with steering his motorcycle at nearly 200 mph down the...