thoughts on this website?

[Gixxergirl1000]

I'll be honest when I'm going less than 5 miles I'm a jean and jacket and sneaker or boot and helmetrider. When I know I'm going for a "ride" full A* suit. I love that thing.

At the same time I dont have as many threats as you "bay" riders have though de to all the idiot drivers.

Most accidents occur close to home...

"Home Sweet Home" -- Not really when it comes to road accidents. Homes are no longer the haven that we consider them to be because accidents tend to occur when a driver is nearing his or her own home. People are a lot safer when they are quite far away from their homes. This has been proved by a survey conducted by Progressive Insurance. The survey revealed that majority of car crashes occur in the vicinity of one's home. People tend to crash up their car in the roads that surround their homes.
As a part of the survey, Progressive Insurance solicited information from 11,000 of its auto insurance policyholders. These were people who had reported accidents in 2001. They were asked questions like how far from home they were when the accident occurred. A whopping seventy-seven percent of the respondents reported that they were within 15 miles of their homes.

Just something to consider...

 

[Kfxrider90]

Most accidents occur close to home...



Just something to consider...

true

 

[DataDan]

Crashes are more likely to occur close to home because we often ride close to home. If 77% of riding is within 15 miles of home, then you'd expect 77% of crashes to be within the same radius, assuming the likelihood of crashing is the same everywhere. Based on the same assumption, if you took a 300-mile trip, you'd be 9 times more likely to crash outsidei the 15mi radius than inside it.

I would feel better about the safety of those who exhibit religious fervor about protective gear if they proselytized at least as enthusiastically about riding attitude, judgment, and skills.

 

[Gixxergirl1000]

Crashes are more likely to occur close to home because we often ride close to home. If 77% of riding is within 15 miles of home, then you'd expect 77% of crashes to be within the same radius, assuming the likelihood of crashing is the same everywhere. Based on the same assumption, if you took a 300-mile trip, you'd be 9 times more likely to crash outsidei the 15mi radius than inside it.

I would feel better about the safety of those who exhibit religious fervor about protective gear if they proselytized at least as enthusiastically about riding attitude, judgment, and skills.

If you're talking about Brittany, she wasn't a rider... she was a passenger, and it was her selection of gear (well, the lack thereof) that resulted in such horrific injuries. Makes sense that her focus would be gear.

 

[Gnarly Cranium]

They have a very good graphic designer on board, this stuff is excellent.

It does bug me though, that some of their material features people in jeans and 3/4 helmets lecturing on the importance of full gear.

 

[Starshooter10]

FANTASIC idea!

but needs more content and a stronger push toward gear!

*note* im adding your banner!*

mad props!

:clap

 

[jjslye]

Sometimes I tuck myself in with material like 'why we wear gear' and the like.
Damn sobering to see shit that could easily have been lessened or avoided.
The only gear I skimp on is legs sometimes....jeans or the double panel carharts...
Designing some exoskeletal gear for strapping on over clothes...
Nice site, decent images web-design etc... The only thing thats a bit cloying is that she was an ill-prepared passenger...did she take up riding with gear later?

 

[Carlo]

I don't get out enough. Another interesting year-old thread.

My take? If the asshole that she had been riding with hadn't gone who-knows-how-fast, (undoubtedly, at least 150 mph) such that she was pulled off the bike by air pressure, gear wouldn't have been an issue.

Maybe the world would have had one fewer valuable lesson, but I bet she'd trade that for all her skin back.

Which, I think is the point that Dan was making last April about less proselytising about gear and more about attitude. Gear is important, but attitude is what keeps people alive.

 

[Neema12]

I showed my gf the website and she thinks it's a great resource for women riders. I have seen it before and always thought it was a great idea

 

[PorradaVFR]

Most accidents occur close to home...

That's precisely why I moved.

 

[geeforce]

Sobering. I like it.

 

[two wheel tramp]

I posted a link to the website on my Facebook page and tweeted the link, too. I'm grateful to my friend who literally commanded me to get a full face helmet and jacket, at the least, before I ever rode my motorcycle. I've ridden in just jeans once. As a squid I feel better if I'm ATGATT. I've lost enough skin to the pavement on my bicycle.

By the way the 1Rider section of this website is really one of the best parts.

 

[trevor.young]

Need to work on graphics a bit