Feb 12, 2015

Motorcycles Are Deadly? Crap.






  1. "One smart country putting the blame where it belongs and the whole house of cards will come down."

    Mm. So a country is "smart" if it intends to force Honda and Glock, under sanction of law, to acknowledge that the motorcycle wrecked itself...or that the pistol pulled its own trigger.

    That's my takeaway from the quoted text. If the intended meaning was different, I'm listening.

  2. It is amazing how personal responsibility is overlooked. Where are the stats showing how many people in automobiles hit or otherwise cause the motorcycle accident?

  3. The stats are available in the article's references. Unlike our odd system, Cambodia's system puts a whole lot of crash blame on motorcyclists. In my experience, that's more often true than not, too.

    Liability laws are weirdly avoided by the motorcycle industry because they cobbled together a fake attempt at "education" called the MSF and its acknowledged disconnect between actual highway safety and training. Of course, real training, appropriate licensing, and serious enforcement of laws regarding unlicensed riders would cut into sales, so we can't have that. Gun manufacturers bribe government into pretending that gun ownership and manufacturers are 1) protected by the 2nd Amendment and 2) somehow different, liability-wise, than every other product manufactured on the planet (except pharmaceuticals, another disgustingly corrupt industry). Personal responsibility extends to the people who make the toys, too.

  4. adventure motorcycle tours in Thailand the farm roads and national parks routes that tease the throttle and ignite the fun.

