On: What motorcycles teach about maintenance

[dmckeon]

I expected the writer's footnote regarding organ donation to be anecdotal, but was surprised to find studies confirming a small, but significant basis in fact: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl... https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33334475/ https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/motorcycle-rallies-and-o...

[bityard → dmckeon]

People in the medical field refer to motorcycle riders pejoratively as "organ donors".

Which is fair, given how most riders I see out on the road have zero concern for their own safety, let alone others.

[BluePen7 → bityard]

Even as a rider myself, just seeing how others ride I'd agree.

If you're going to go twice the speed people are expecting a vehicle to go, in a space nobody expected a vehicle to fit, in a vehicle that offers none of the usual protections, your luck may run out sooner than average.

It's frustrating because everyone wanted to cite the statistics at me when I started riding, but I just wished I could get those stats filtered by people who ride in a civilized manner.