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Tips for older riders from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation
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| Fri Jan 21, 2:00 PM ET
Posted on 01/21/2005 2:55:01 PM PST by martin_fierro
Tips for older riders from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation
Fri Jan 21, 2:00 PM ET
By The Associated Press
Tips for older riders from the Motorcycle Safety Foundation:
- Get eyes checked. Vision clarity and peripheral vision both diminish with age.
- Keep a greater following distance. Reacting to a hazard may take twice as long for a rider in middle age (40 to 54), and three or four times longer after 55.
- Avoid complicated and congested roads and intersections. "Input overload" makes it difficult to process information accurately.
- Pay special attention to blind spots. Traffic research shows that older drivers do not check blind spots as well as younger drivers.
- Choose a motorcycle with large dials and easy-to-read symbols.
- Keep fit. Riding a motorcycle can be physically demanding, and without training, people begin losing muscle mass starting around age 30.
TOPICS: Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: classicbikes; highsiders; motorcycles; oldschool; oldtimers; upontwowheels
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To: codyjacksmom
I am all the above, don't mess with me!!! :-)
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posted on
01/21/2005 7:41:43 PM PST
by
JoeSixPack1
(Joooo need people like me, so ju can point jur finga an say, dare goes da badguy)
To: martin_fierro
Reacting to a hazard may take twice as long for a rider in middle age (40 to 54)...
What a crock! Everyone knows that middle age starts at 65. It does, you know, it really does. It does, godammit.
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posted on
01/21/2005 8:05:09 PM PST
by
BikerNYC
To: martin_fierro
My Uncle rode a Harley until the day he died at age 84 - in a motorcycle accident. A truck pulled out in front of him. It was in no way his fault.
He drove his Harley regularly between Miami, Florida and Chicago, Illinois.
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:13:45 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
01/21/2005 11:14:13 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: martin_fierro
Thanks for sharing this info...I'll keep in mind when & if I get older.
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posted on
01/22/2005 5:11:49 AM PST
by
harpu
To: martin_fierro
Hey, I'm lookin' forward to the day I can pull up to the Ironhorse Cafe and order a "Senior Beer."
To: Graybeard58
Now thats just not right!!!!!!!!
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posted on
01/22/2005 6:41:44 AM PST
by
Gone_Postal
(government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take it away)
To: martin_fierro
What a load of pure bullsh!t!!
Everyone over 40 that was part of this survey must has been highly medicated on Valium or something similar.
Ageism at it's finest ~ the reason there are more baby boomers killed while riding bikes, is, there are more baby boomers riding bikes.
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posted on
01/22/2005 9:57:13 AM PST
by
blackie
To: Graybeard58
Wow ~ look at the jaws on that!!
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posted on
01/22/2005 10:04:17 AM PST
by
blackie
To: martin_fierro
Choose a motorcycle with large dials and easy-to-read symbols. Okay.
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posted on
01/23/2005 1:00:42 PM PST
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: martin_fierro
Boy, those "motorcycle safety activists" never give up, do they. I haven't seen much post-mortem activity from most of 'em...unlike a couple of scooter drivers I can think of.
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posted on
01/23/2005 1:05:33 PM PST
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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