To the immediate point of wearing or not wearing a helmet: If someone is STUPID enough to want to ride without a helmet, I say give them the freedom to do so…just don’t come crying to the medical healthcare system to PAY for their own deliberate recklessness…and increase the rates I pay.

Do you think everyone should have to pay for everyone else’s reckless behavior, and any consequences thereof?

The point was that, in my 30 some-odd years of driving, it has been the motorcyclists who are the ones being unsafe and reckless on the road.

They speed. They weave in and out of traffic without proper signaling. When single, they ride lanes illegally quite often (i.e., failing to ride on the left side of a lane).

So, why should I be responsible for “looking twice” when it is, by their very nature (as well as deliberate inclination), the actions of the motorcyclist that usually ends up causing an accident?

If you want a sticker that might actually DO something to prevent motorcyclist accidents and deaths, put a sticker on top of the gasoline tank of every motorcycle that lists the freaking rules of the road for motorcyclists to be reminded of…because it is YOU folks who fail to adhere to them with any significant percentage of participation by your drivers.

Top spin return back to you, Sir…

I worked in the emergency medicine field for 10 years and know for a fact that helmets work therefore, although I think freedom of choice should rule the day. I totally understand and respect the helmet law’s intent.

You honestly hope for a motorcyclist’s fatality during an accident? Are you serious? Is this really your stance?

As for the ignorant statement about the “Motorcyles are everywhere”. Calling a bumper sticker reminding people to be aware stupid is ignorant and unresponsible. The last I checked we are still in a free society and the right to place such a bumper sticker on a vehicle falls under the first amendment.
Mr. Simon, seeing how you work in the field of politics, advertise your website which advertises Political campaign advisory , AND post such an openly anti constitutional statement such as this only degrades your argument against said issue.

With people like you in politics, it’s no wonder we’re in such a state of degradation in America.

You’re volley sir…

Lawton

Because with any luck the head injuries will be fatal and we won’t have to worry about paying for anything when a motorcyclist comes roaring down the road at TWICE the speed limit and rams into an unmovable object.

2. The most common ‘excuses’ for colliding with a 2 wheel vehicle is “I didn’t see them” and “I not paying attention, on phone, etc”. Forgive those who are actually organized as a citizen organization (motorcyclists) versus others (zombie unionists) to remind people to PAY ATTENTION while they are driving, PERIOD. If that ‘offends’ you, then you obviously still listen to “talk radio’ for your opinion forming.

3. The “Look Twice” campaign is the ONLY ongoing safety campaign ABATE has ever been regularly involved with (besides adopt-a-highway). Yeah it took a genius! (actually, theystole the idea from another state chapter, LOL). That way, when the 2%er’s (who do not claim to represent the majority of motorcycle owners) meet at their bars for their meetings, they can drink up, comforted that they have ‘done their part’ for motorcycle safety.

4. Helmet laws suck. If you think helmets are ‘all that’ regarding safety, pass a law forcing people in cars to wear the damn things. Leave your straw dog ‘I have to pay for their head injury’ BS aside as well, once you research the minuscule cost of motorcycle related injuries to passenger vehicle non-insured injury costs.

5. I love how Bill has hijacked this thread, ONE MORE TIME
(ducking under desk)

With all the look twice, save a life, lines I was waiting for something about prenatal murder, genetically modified organisms, or vaccines.

Like a Tibetan monastery, perhaps?…

Look Twice, Save a Life. Semis Are Everywhere

Look Twice, Save a Life. Evil Alien Robots Are Everywhere

Look Twice, Save a Un-Life. Zombies Are Everywhere

“Thinly?” I thought it was pretty “in-your-face.” Callaway is a place for peaceful tranquility. You can’t get peace when you are subjected to the loud roar of a motorcycle.

And…by the way, those “Look Twice, Save a Life. Motorcyclists Are Everywhere.” bumper stickers are stupid. If YOU are on a motorcycle, YOU better look out where you’re going. You don’t have any more right to the road (or to your life) than I or any other person using it at the time.

Unless that has changed, I hope they rot.

I’m finally getting back here, and you’re attempting to drive me off again.