Big Ben to miss the season for Pitt?

[NY_TIM]

No Helmet.. What a numnut......

[kath]

Damn you Ben! Hope he's OK so all the Pitt fans can get together and bitch slap him good!

[Mike AI]

Anyone who rides a motorcycle is a numb nut and asking to get injured. Unless they are riding on some country road that has no traffic.

The drivers today are getting worse and worse, and when a car runs into a motorcycle - well we all know what happens.

That is why I will drive an SUV even if gas hit $8 a gallon.

[JR]

Originally Posted by Mike AI

Anyone who rides a motorcycle is a numb nut and asking to get injured. Unless they are riding on some country road that has no traffic.

The drivers today are getting worse and worse, and when a car runs into a motorcycle - well we all know what happens.

That is why I will drive an SUV even if gas hit $8 a gallon.

ahem!!!... well, being someone that has always had a sport bike or two laying around, i would go as far to say that motorcycles themselves are not inherently dangerous anymore than a gun in a closet is dangerous. it requires an ignorant dipshit to make it dangerous. it takes someone who doesn't possess the skills, the knowledge, the general sense of awareness and the respect you have to have when you ride around others.

most fatalities by far (over 80% in washington state for example) are young kids on liter class sportbikes (1000cc), with no motorcycle license and without proper gear (leather boots, leather gloves with knuckle protection, pants, helmet, jacket (pants and jacket with armor)... usually they are doing wheelies down residential streets at 60-100mph or something stupid on the freeway and going down and getting plowed over by 5-10 cars before anyone realizes, running into the car that pulls out in front of them because they decided to ratchet through the gears on a side street and hit a car at 100mph, or whatever and are almost ALWAYS riding well beyond their own ability.

when you remove the obvious idiots from the equation, i doubt that stats for fatalities or injuries on motorcycles would really stand out at all.

[Mike AI]

Originally Posted by JR

ahem!!!... well, being someone that has always had a sport bike or two laying around, i would go as far to say that motorcycles themselves are not inherently dangerous anymore than a gun in a closet is dangerous. it requires an ignorant dipshit to make it dangerous. it takes someone who doesn't possess the skills, the knowledge, the general sense of awareness and the respect you have to have when you ride around others.

most fatalities by far (over 80% in washington state for example) are young kids on liter class sportbikes (1000cc), with no motorcycle license and without proper gear (leather boots, leather gloves with knuckle protection, pants, helmet, jacket (pants and jacket with armor)... usually they are doing wheelies down residential streets at 60-100mph or something stupid on the freeway and going down and getting plowed over by 5-10 cars before anyone realizes, running into the car that pulls out in front of them because they decided to ratchet through the gears on a side street and hit a car at 100mph, or whatever and are almost ALWAYS riding well beyond their own ability.

when you remove the obvious idiots from the equation, i doubt that stats for fatalities or injuries on motorcycles would really stand out at all.

No kidding - but because there are dangerous drives out there, it is a fact of life, it makes motorcycles dangerous.

[JR]

Originally Posted by Mike AI

No kidding - but because there are dangerous drives out there, it is a fact of life, it makes motorcycles dangerous.

life is dangerous.

i am not afraid of dying... i am afraid of not living.

[Mike AI]

Originally Posted by JR

life is dangerous.

i am not afraid of dying... i am afraid of not living.

We all have our weaknesses. I prefer to risk my life eating foi gras and a nice wine.

[Seth]

Originally Posted by NY_TIM

No Helmet.. What a numnut......

You'd think - after Cowher already got on his ass for it - there'd be a rider in his contract forbidding him from going without a helmet...why risk that kinda $$?

[JR]

i thought this was going to be a gay thread about ben affleck and brad pitt.


i need to get out more.

[NY_TIM]

Originally Posted by Seth

You'd think - after Cowher already got on his ass for it - there'd be a rider in his contract forbidding him from going without a helmet...why risk that kinda $$?

YUP YUP.. Also did you see last year Terry Bradshaw did an interview telling Ben to stop riding and it was dangerous and not worth it..