SCHWARZENEGGER STITCHED UP AFTER VEHICLE MISHAP [DRUDGE]

The Drudge Report ^ | January 8, 2006 | Drudge

[randomnumber]

"I'm laughing my ass off at your donor status.

Why thank you. I've had "organ donor" on my drivers license long before it became fashionable, but no one ever laughed at it. Makes me feel better about the whole thing.

In the meantime, you might want to figure out more ways to keep yourself safe from all the fun things in life.

Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

I hope you live long past 100, and can entertain the others in the home with your exciting second place finish in the international Lego contest.

[BraveMan]

The interesting thing about the whole "organ donor" canard is in actuality it rarely, if ever, applies to motorcyclists who die while motorcycling. If the motorcyclist (or indeed anyone, for that matter) dies of head injuries, the organs are usually rejected because the heart isn't pumping, keeping the organs viable. If head injuries aren't the cause of the motorcyclist's death, usually the organs are too pummeled from the blunt force trauma received to be of any use anyway, and thus are rejected.

As for our friend "laughing his ass off at our donor status", all I can say is if s/he indeed lost as many friends and/or acquaintances to motorcycle accidents as s/he portends and is still laughing about it, then s/he is too much of a narcissist and a sociopath for me to concern myself with his/her opinion on anything.

[randomnumber]

I'm not always on my motorcycle.

If someone can use my organs, great, if not, use it for students to learn/practice on. Maybe the practice will help a future doctor save a life.

You're right about not wasting time about discussing this, but I'm generally tired of people telling me of the risks of riding a motorcycle. I know the risks, and am willing to accept them.

I'm tired of the Global Warming warnings too, but that's another subject. :~)

[Melas]

In cruising position or upright position, your back absorbs every road bump you encounter. It feels more comfortable but ultimately has more detrimental effects than one who is in a crouched position supporting the weight with his arms.

Not exactly. A cruiser will have softer suspension that a racer would consider downright sloppy. While the suspension on a sport bike is designed to bite into a corner at ludicrous speeds (for the street), the suspension on a cruiser is designed to soak up all those little bumps for all day comfort. It's anethma to the sport crowd, because small bump compliance comes at the cost of performance.

When I'm not riding my motorcycle, I ride bicycles, primarily mountain bikes, but I train for endurance on road bikes as well. So...I'm used to carrying a lot of weight on my hands. I still wouldn't want to ride coast to coast on a sport bike. The ergos just aren't there for long distance comfort.

One of the most important features you can add to any bike (except sport bikes) for any kind of touring are highway pegs. Any ride over a couple hundred miles will be easier on your body if you can move between multiple positions on the bike. It's staying in one position that kills you no matter how much you think you like it. A touring bike with running boards and highway pegs is ideal because there are multiple options available.

For touring comfort, sport bikes just don't have it. A cruiser can be set up for it, and touring bikes have it in spades. The deal breaker is that comfort is going to cost in you in performance. You can't have both. Even a sport tourer gives up a lot of sporting performance to achieve that goal.

[StarfireIV]

Thanks. I was actually in Beijing these last two weeks meeting the in-laws. That city is loaded with bicycles, trikes, and some interesting "heavy cruiser-exque" 125cc machines. The traffic is at best chaotic, but even with the cars, buses, bicycles, and m/cs cutting each other off at every available opportunity, the drivers WERE VERY MUCH AWARE of the presence of the smaller vehicles.
I was told that hitting ANYTHING including another car with your own car would be a rather painful affair for the offending driver even in a country awash in cell phones and personal music devices. People also leaned on the horns quite a bit. Try that with an American car driver and you risk getting followed home or suffer as an aquaintence of mine from the East Coast did. A college employee was followed home and beaten senseless by a bunch of college students. They almost made an organ donor out of him.

[SFC Chromey]

You obviously do NOT travel in the circles I travel in. I have raced motorcycles and know many amatuer and professional racers, including International Moto GP stars.

We have all crashed at one time or another, as the phrase says, "If you aren't crashing you aren't trying"

On the track that phrase means find the limits of the machine and push them further than the next guy can.

On the road, it is the lack of skill of the car drivers that create problems for the motorcyclists. People like you that deliberately drive half-@ssed, don't check blind spots, etc.

I have crashed my bikes over the years plenty of times when I was racing, finding those limits and pushing that little extra that sometimes bites back.
(BTW-major injury free)

However on the street I have travelled over 100k miles in the last 15 years collision free.

That is NO THANKS TO DRIVERS LIKE YOU! I make sure people like you are so far back in my rear view mirror, that you are NOT a hazard to me.

Keep driving with your blinders on, we will adjust for your poor driving skills as we always do.

[SFC Chromey]

honda gullwing

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I think its GoldWing :)

[SFC Chromey]

So you wanna be a big macho motorcycle rider -- but start crying the minute someone laughs at your self-destructive bent.

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Another wanna be govt employee to tell everyone what they CAN NOT DO!

Go to DU for your drivel.

[SFC Chromey]

I'm laughing my ass off at your donor status.

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Probably cuz your smoking and drinking as much as Ted Kennedy and need all the livers, lungs and hearts you can find to stay alive.