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[Keats]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/barry-strang-motorcycle-dies-three-miles_n_3610465.html?1374072506&icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl22|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D345029


an absolute terrible story

[05Train]

There's too many stories like this. 


Damn shame.

[Twolanerider]

That's a devastating story.  Of course from our perspective can't help but wonder what happened.  Suppose it's possible or even likely the gent had been wanting a bike that long but never actually ridden?  Then finally scored a bike and with little or no familiarity hit the highway?

[Cvostu]

that is so sad...what more can anyone say?

[Buy early]

Truly tragic!

[Ironhorse]

Sad,....very sad.

Just the other day I got an email from a guy who wanted lessons ASAP, this weekend. He said he took the classroom and need range instruction. My first thought is that he wants to rent a bike and ride to Sturgis with his buddies. I'm thinking he failed the riding portion of the MSF, cant get in a follow up class soon enough, and wants me to teach him. I think he was going about it all wrong, as if he expects to learn how to safely fly a plane in one lesson.

I told him I was out of town.

[D-N-D]

Yes Very Sad.

[mjb765]

Terrible story...very sad....

[TinSpinner]

Tragic end for that fellow. I lost a buddy several years ago who had just picked up a new bike and met a similar fate a few miles from the dealership. He was an experienced rider but on a new and unfamiliar bike. We suppose he was fiddling with the controls and took his eyes off the road too long. I imagine something like this happened to the guy in the story. Sounds like he looked at the tractor trailer and drove right into it, damn shame.

[charles05663]

This reminds me of what happened to me when I got my first motorcycle and I was not familiar with counter-streering. 

I was negotiating a sweeping left hand turn and was not making the turn.  I jammed the handlebars to the left and went into the guardrail on the right.  I got caught between the where the asphalt ended and the guardrail doing 50 mph with a 100' drop-off on the other side of the guardrail.  I prayed and the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ was with me and next thing I know I was in the center of the lane.  I had scrapes on my Heritage saddlebag to remind me that it really happened.

The first thing when I got home was to call and get into a training course to learn to ride.  I was pretty excited to get into the course because they fill up quick.  When I told my wife, her response was "great, I guess I am spending our first wedding anniversary alone!"  About 5 years latter I told her what happened.

 

[SG Racer]

Very sad.

[2k]

I told him I was out of town.
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Very sad story
How many would put concern for others in front of their pocketbook? Your gut feeling could be wrong 4 out of 5 times, but the 1 time it was right you very well saved someones life, or maybe an entire family in a Minivan. You de man Ironhorse!!!!!

[GregKhougaz]

Ironhorse is out of town.      

[North Georgia Hawg]

Sad,....very sad.

Just the other day I got an email from a guy who wanted lessons ASAP, this weekend. He said he took the classroom and need range instruction. My first thought is that he wants to rent a bike and ride to Sturgis with his buddies. I'm thinking he failed the riding portion of the MSF, cant get in a follow up class soon enough, and wants me to teach him. I think he was going about it all wrong, as if he expects to learn how to safely fly a plane in one lesson.

I told him I was out of town.

I told him I was out of town.

Very sad story
How many would put concern for others in front of their pocketbook? Your gut feeling could be wrong 4 out of 5 times, but the 1 time it was right you very well saved someones life, or maybe an entire family in a Minivan. You de man Ironhorse!!!!!

I was thinking the same thing, 2K. What Ironhorse did may indeed have saved that guy's life, and the lives of others. No one should be on a bike - much less take a long, tiring ride to Sturgis in the heat of August - without having the appropriate riding experience.

Kudos to you, Ironhorse!  

[woode]

I was thinking the same thing, 2K. What Ironhorse did may indeed have saved that guy's life, and the lives of others. No one should be on a bike - much less take a long, tiring ride to Sturgis in the heat of August - without having the appropriate riding experience.

Of course, an alternate scenario is that he goes anyway - without any expert guidance - and fares much worse.  All things equal, some training is better than none.