Oh please. Since we don't know what happened, we don't know if he was driving too fast, drunk, or whether the other driver was at fault. As for selfish...NO IT WASN'T. He rode a motorcycle. BIG DEAL. Riding a motorcycle is not selfish. It's just something you do (or don't). As for the person who said riding is inherently unsafe, you don't know what you are talking about. You clearly don't ride. Riding is as safe as YOU want to make it. You can ride and be safe, or ride and be unsafe. What the heck do you folks think when you think of cyclists? Lunatics and Hell's Angels?
Oh please. Since we don't know what happened, we don't know if he was driving too fast, drunk, or whether the other driver was at fault. As for selfish...NO IT WASN'T. He rode a motorcycle. BIG DEAL. Riding a motorcycle is not selfish. It's just something you do (or don't). As for the person who said riding is inherently unsafe, you don't know what you are talking about. You clearly don't ride. Riding is as safe as YOU want to make it. You can ride and be safe, or ride and be unsafe. What the heck do you folks think when you think of cyclists? Lunatics and Hell's Angels?
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Actually, around these parts (Pittsburgh area) it's not safe to drive or ride in anything less than a tank. Even the smartest, most careful driver can be involved in a major accident. Has a lot to do with our krappy roads, goofy terrain and of course, the idiot drivers who have sprung up around here lately. If as has been reported, this accident did occur at 10th & Armstrong Tunnels -- I know that spot -- it's a lousy intersection. And we have had a number of motorcycle accidents around here lately -- kinda comes with the nice weather -- but there have been a rash of them -- some of them fatal. If he comes out of this alive, he will be lucky.
Someone who was paid $9 million upfront to be the leader of a team is extremely selfish to risk this type of injury by riding a motorcycle.
As for it being "inherently unsafe" compare and contrast the list of Ben's injuries with those of the woman with whom he collided. They were both in the same accident. She has no known injuries, and he has his head and knees in shambles.
Why?
Because motorcycles lose when they collide with cars. Therefore, they are unsafe. It may not matter much when the average Joe rides his bike and ends up using his face as a battering ram, but when a highly-paid professional athlete allows himself to be in this situation, it is selfish and foolish and disrespectful.
SD
How safe YOU want to make it is not necessarily up to YOU. As a motorcyclist, you are the knife in the gunfight, you are the bug on the windshield. You have no say in what happens when an 80 year-old in a Lincoln Towne Car forgets to stop for the red light.
The point to be made here is that Big Ben makes a very good living with his body. If his body is broken, he doesn't earn money. It is pure idiocy that athletes would even consider getting on a motorcycle during the length of their relatively short (yet extremely lucrative) careers.
Doesn't matter to me what other people do, but I wear a full face helmet with shield...I hate the bugs in my teeth.