What could I have done different?

[che mike]

There are two types of accidents on motorbikes, Your Fault and Their Fault.

When its Their Fault,  its a tragedy.   Some one doing something that they love gets killed by some one's stupidity. 

When its Your Fault, its still a tragedy, because its absolutely preventable.  Popping wheelies are fun sure, doing stoppies are fun sure,  but the FUN to Danger ratio should clue you in to not do such stupid things.  Who the F*** does wheelies on crowded streets, jesus.

If your going to do it do it on the dead in side of a residential street, or in a controled invornment.

Its people like this guy that makes our insurance rates go up, and gives sport bikes a bad name,  but its SOOOOO PREVENTABLE DAMNIT

This reminds me of the ladder in the MSF book.  At first, my friend and I kinda laughed at the idea of the risk ladder, but it's really true.  You have to make your own decisions about how much risk you're willing to take, and know that there's always someone willing to take more risks than you.  It is tragic , however, when those risks result in needless deaths.  But there's nothing that anyone can really do to prevent those people from taking risks, unless we go around stealing keys, and that's not really an option.
You did all you could, and it's a lot more than many people would have done under the same circumstances.

i dislike the MSF risk ladder. the way i interpreted it, it talked about how much risk people were willing to tolerate and then they didn't talk about what the risks were in motorcycling. i thought they should've gone into the hurt report a little, and talk about crash statistics. sure, it may scare some potential motorcyclists away but that may be a good thing.

i think people who do wheelies on the street don't necessarily have a higer risk tolerance, they just have a skewed concept of how much risk they are taking.