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7 New Motorcycles With Innovative Safety Features
wallSt CheatSheet ^ | MARCH 30, 2014 | ERIC SCHAAL

Posted on 03/30/2014 4:59:13 PM PDT by kingattax

While some of the danger involved in riding motorcycles can be attributed to poor driving skills or intoxication, there are facts that do not lend themselves to interpretation.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) noted that during its last review of data in 2012, motorcycle fatalities increased over 7 percent, while states without helmet laws showed ten times more fatalities than those that mandated helmet use when riding a bike.

About 15 percent of all highway deaths were from motorcyle riders, making motorcycle riders around 30 times more at risk than car and truck drivers — and about 50 percent of bike crashes involved no other vehicles.

Clearly, motorcycle riders’ biggest enemies are themselves. To the end of reducing the number of motorcycle injuries and fatalities, there are bikes that make safety features a priority. Here are seven models that aim to keep riders safe with innovative equipment.


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To: kingattax

Today, on our group ride, I was the only one wearing a helmet.

i guess I’m just an old fashioned gal!


21 posted on 03/30/2014 5:24:02 PM PDT by left that other site
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To: kingattax
Wow. That thing in the post is hideous.
22 posted on 03/30/2014 5:24:11 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Honda Goldwings had airbags...that combined with and airbag jacket would save tons of lives if standardized on all bikes. Yeah...the bike would weight 3 lbs more...so get on the exercise bicycle lol!


23 posted on 03/30/2014 5:24:16 PM PDT by gwgn02
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

My last bike was an 850 Norton.
It was just waiting out in my garage for a chance to kill me...

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24 posted on 03/30/2014 5:29:31 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: kingattax

Get rid of:

Stupid bike riders on crotch rockets
Idiot car drivers
Crappy roads

That would go a long way towards fewer bike injuries. But there is no way around the physics of a two wheeled vehicle with no outer body (armor). Still, not much compares to riding a nice bike on a nice road with no damn automobiles around. It’s a great feeling.


25 posted on 03/30/2014 5:30:05 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: gwgn02

Would it really help? I watched a youtube of the ducati airbag.


26 posted on 03/30/2014 5:31:00 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: kingattax

Motorcycle = Organ donor mobile.


27 posted on 03/30/2014 5:32:30 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: staytrue; GeronL

Concept car easy on the eyes … and wallet ($6,800 and gets 87 mpg)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3054407/posts


28 posted on 03/30/2014 5:36:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: ansel12
It’s one of those that you have to click on 7 pages, one at a time.

There is a View All button.

29 posted on 03/30/2014 5:44:13 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I know exactly what you mean: I had a 750 P11 and every time I took that thing out on the road, it did everything it could to kill me.

Its most evil trick was to instantly flick around 180 degrees if you leaned into a turn too steeply. Very unsettling to suddenly find yourself facing the cars behind you, usually up on the rear wheel in an involuntary wheelie.

Another time, a sudden gas tank leak sprayed gas all over the cylinders and I was enveloped in a white cloud of gas vapor on the freeway at 70 miles an hour!

That Norton was handsome, tall, and accelerated like nothing else with that gorgeous mellow Brit roar - but I got rid of it before it finished me off!


30 posted on 03/30/2014 5:46:40 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: kingattax

Here's a motorcycle with an enclosure for added passenger safety, plus the incredible new invention of an additional pair of wheels for lateral stability. I expect these to take the roads by storm.

(Because I live near the socialist utopia of Boulder, which suffers from an overabundance of Smug.)

31 posted on 03/30/2014 5:48:38 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: coloradan

Those cars should have penis hood ornaments.


33 posted on 03/30/2014 5:51:37 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: gwgn02

I cannot think of how an airbag would help but in a few circumstances. ABS maybe more. There is just too much disparity in mass between a motorcycle and a car or truck.


34 posted on 03/30/2014 5:55:12 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: kingattax

I shouldn’t even comment, but those bikes are all butt ugly, despite their safety features.


35 posted on 03/30/2014 5:57:08 PM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yeah that Indian Chief is awesome, I made a phone call yesterday and pre-ordered one. It will take awhile to get one in Alaska, no dealers up here yet.

I find myself posting less and less here.
it must have something to do with owning 12 motorcycles maybe?

Mostly I am into Goldwings, sorry to say no Harleys.


36 posted on 03/30/2014 5:58:24 PM PDT by Spartan302
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To: Hatteras

Oh geez, is that for real?


37 posted on 03/30/2014 5:58:52 PM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Spartan302
It will take awhile to get one in Alaska, no dealers up here yet.

All the more reason to pick it up in the lower 48 and ride it home!

38 posted on 03/30/2014 6:05:58 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Spartan302

I was really admiring the Vintage with the buff color saddle leather, I’ve never seen anything like it, awesome, especially in the traditional Indian Red paint scheme. The care that went into that thing, I’ve been looking at photos. Too bad there aren’t any American cars made with that level of craft and attention to detail.


39 posted on 03/30/2014 6:12:51 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: kingattax

Anyone who’d set two gallons of gas afire and then sit a-straddle of it ain’t right in his head.


40 posted on 03/30/2014 6:19:14 PM PDT by Edward Teach
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