Epic Helmet Law Protestor is Epic

[Trip]

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/ny-motorc...143217859.html

ONONDAGA, N.Y. (AP) — Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in upstate New York died after he flipped over the bike's handlebars and hit his head on the pavement.

The accident happened Saturday afternoon in the town of Onondaga, in central New York near Syracuse.

State troopers tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse that 55-year-old Philip A. Contos of Parish, N.Y., was driving a 1983 Harley Davidson with a group of bikers who were protesting helmet laws by not wearing helmets.

Troopers say Contos hit his brakes and the motorcycle fishtailed. The bike spun out of control, and Contos toppled over the handlebars. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Troopers say Contos would have likely survived if he had been wearing a helmet.

this is just simply hilarious

[derf]

Originally Posted by Trip

Troopers say Contos would have likely survived if he had been wearing a helmet.

And even the writer gets a zing in

[Mikey]

He probably would have also survived if he knew how to stop by doing something other than stomping his rear brake.

I guess "riding skill" wasn't part of his mid-life crisis.

[KSGregman]

Originally Posted by Mikey

He probably would have also survived if he knew how to stop by doing something other than stomping his rear brake.

I've never understood the typical Harley riders aversion to using the front brake. I've nevah cared enough to ask one about it eithah.

Anyone have any insight into what that irrational little phobia is about?

[tommymac]

Originally Posted by KSGregman

I've never understood the typical Harley riders aversion to using the front brake. I've nevah cared enough to ask one about it eithah.

Anyone have any insight into what that irrational little phobia is about?

Few years back I was on a ride and lost a caliper bolt on my front brakes. A few peope stopped to help/see whats going on. One hardley rider said jsut dont use the front brakes. Scared my friends because I told him to go away before I killed him LOL

[azoomm]

Originally Posted by KSGregman

I've never understood the typical Harley riders aversion to using the front brake. I've nevah cared enough to ask one about it eithah.

Anyone have any insight into what that irrational little phobia is about?

Going over the bars.

No lie. That's the fear. They are afraid they will get on the front brake and go over the bars.

I had someone at the track - we are introducing a new class that will have street bikes [cruisers, standards, tour, etc.] using the track as a training surface. Think MSF outside the parking lot. I was testing out a curriculum one day, this woman was taking the class on her bagger [big ass HUGE harley]. I came to learn she wasn't EVER using the front brake. EVER. As in, Never EVER. She was told by her brain surgeon riding buddies that it was dangerous to use the front brake.

She has been riding for 10 years without ever using the front brake. I told her that if she could do a stoppie and go over the bars on her bagger she would defy the laws of physics and should win Stunt Wars.

I was shocked.

[derf]

Originally Posted by azoomm

She has been riding for 10 years without ever using the front brake. I told her that if she could do a stoppie and go over the bars on her bagger she would defy the laws of physics and should win Stunt Wars.

I was shocked.

I've met my fair share of folks that were taught that it is bad to use the front brake.

The best logic I have heard was that the rear wheel could lock up and skid, but you can recover from that, if the front wheel locks up you will wash out the front and there is no way to recover from that

[tallywacker]

Survival of the fittest

[azoomm]

Irony at its best.

[Avatard]

..But sadly, it reflects bad on all of us. Some of us like to ride without a bucket on their head, and can handle applying their brakes.