Marine motorcycle deaths top their Iraq combat fatalities

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by Letum

DigitalT: People get killed on bikes. They are not "killing themselves" on bikes.

I'll grant you that not all folks killed on bikes are killing themselves. Just like anything else, it's the idiots that stand out in the crowd. I can agree with many of the reasons that you mentioned for motorcyclists getting killed. I can certainly relate to them since I rode (daily, to work and back) for 20 years in a metropolitan area and spent most of my riding time dodging the idiots.

However, I can also tell you that plenty motorcycle riders are, indeed, killing themselves. I see it every time I get out of the house and watch the brain-dead bozo that cuts in front of my wife and I with 3 or 4 feet to spare at 70 miles an hour and slams on the brakes and waves his buddies over in front of him into the HOV lane and then flips us off because she blows the horn at him. I saw it for years on the road when some clown doing 120 mph tries to squeeze between 2 tractor-trailers because they don't want to wait and going 70 wasn't fast enough.

But this type of stupidity isn't anything limited to motorcyclists. It is practiced day in and day out by "drivers" of all types. Even train drivers