Where I work we’ve had two guys get into bike crashes.
One guy, about 50 years old got broadsided on his Harley by someone who didn’t see him. He says he’ll never get on another motorcycle, ever.
The other guy, 21 yo, left work and goosed his crotch-rocket to 100 mph just around the corner from here and someone pulled out in front of him. He is gone and he left behind a new wife and a 3 month old baby.
Sad.
My wife and I sold our bikes when she found out she was pregnant.
We’ll buy them again when the kids are grown.
Side comment - could this be a solution to the Social Security problem?
My cousin and her husband were very experienced motorcycle riders. One night they topped the hill and slammed into the back of a semi that had stalled in the road. Instant DOA for both.
Several local people here have lost loved ones due to motorcycle wrecks, and about 14 years ago I had the dubious pleasure of pumping a boy’s chest to keep him alive till the ambulance arrived. He went around me at a high rate of speed and slammed into a car making a legal left turn.
What surprises me is so many of the wrecks, except the one above, were not the fault of the motorcyclist.