...and concluded that you have are in more danger of committing suicide than dieing in a motorcycle accident.

I just thought I'd share that little bit of information.

Interesting.


Good excuse to keep riding, it keeps me from HAVING to commit suicide!

If I didn't ride I might be suicidal, riding is my focus point ex-wife and custody problems, relationship problems, money problems, the loss of my grandmother recently ever since I was 14 getting on a bike makes them dissapear there is no thought in my mind other than riding. I went through a real bad patch and probably was suicidal but I got on my 85 VFR 750 and went from Barstow to San Francisco, down the pacific coast to san diego and down the Baja peninsula and back to barstow. I rode till I was tired found a side road into the woods threw down my sleeping bag and slept got up found a diner ate and rode till I was tired again. I call it high speed meditation

National Geographic does population:death rate studies?

they apparently did one in 2003...they listed a lot of other things you're likely to die of before a motorcycle wreck, too...like a rogue staple...falling to death...stroke/heart attack...a car accident...beinig hit by a train...tiger...

Dude I remember reading NG's from the 80's with that type stuff in it

wtf dude...in the eighties i was looking at them cuz they had boobies but you were reading...

I just happened to see the articles about death in between boobies..................mmmmmm in between boobies *drool*

Liar. He wasn't noticing the boobies until 1999 

ehhhh that's about right I was 13/14 in 99

then how were you reading NG in the 80's?

My dad has every issue back to the early 70's   I used to get bored and jacko......err read em

I can see some 8 year old tucked away in the dark corner of the house practicing his "no honey...I...I only read the articles...honest..." routine.

Have you ever been caught doing you know what in the closet?
























Good hiding place, isn't it?

Quote from: makenzie71 on June 21, 2007, 11:09:25 PM
they apparently did one in 2003...they listed a lot of other things you're likely to die of before a motorcycle wreck, too...like a rogue staple...falling to death...stroke/heart attack...a car accident...beinig hit by a train...tiger...

Don't tell the politicians. They're about to try to convince every soccer-Mom that they and their kids are in mortal danger just  being on the same road with a motorcycle.

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Quote from: spcterry on June 21, 2007, 11:29:28 PM
ehhhh that's about right I was 13/14 in 99

Crap I'm old

98 people died in Missouri last year in motorcycle accidents.  My chances of dieing in a motorcycle accident are unknown but probably greater than 1%.  My chances of committing suicide are 0%.

yeah but it's a statistic and statistics are never based on the real world...they're pointless numbers.  more people committed suicide in 2003 than died in motorcycle wrecks...thus, you're more likely to commit suicide than die in a motorcycle wreck.

The 98 people thing is off, too, cuz at least 20 of them were ouot of State dragon surfers.

Statistics can be skewed very easily... 

Total car deaths VS total motorcycle deaths == Motorcycles are safer!

Until you add in some more math...

Total Car Deaths/Total Car Drivers vs Total Motorcycle Deaths/Total Motorcycle Riders == ?  Motorcycles still safer?

Keep going...

Total Car accidents that resulted in death/Total Car Accidents vs Total Motorcycle accidents that resulted in death/Total Motorcycle Accidents==  ?  Motorcycle accidents more likely to result in death?

Number of auto accidents/Number of Drivers VS Number of motorcycle accidents/Number of riders == ?  Less likely to get into an accident?

I don't know the actual stats, but I'm guessing they're something like that...



But!  If you total the number of people that died from X and divide it by the total number of people, then jumping off a cliff with no parachute is safer than eating McDonalds every day...  Simply because more people die from heart attacks than jumping off of a cliff with no parachute.

Quote from: RVertigo on June 22, 2007, 01:01:13 PM
Statistics can be skewed very easily... 

Total car deaths VS total motorcycle deaths == Motorcycles are safer!

Until you add in some more math...

Total Car Deaths/Total Car Drivers vs Total Motorcycle Deaths/Total Motorcycle Riders == ?  Motorcycles still safer?

Keep going...

Total Car accidents that resulted in death/Total Car Accidents vs Total Motorcycle accidents that resulted in death/Total Motorcycle Accidents==  ?  Motorcycle accidents more likely to result in death?

Number of auto accidents/Number of Drivers VS Number of motorcycle accidents/Number of riders == ?  Less likely to get into an accident?

I don't know the actual stats, but I'm guessing they're something like that...



But!  If you total the number of people that died from X and divide it by the total number of people, then jumping off a cliff with no parachute is safer than eating McDonalds every day...  Simply because more people die from heart attacks than jumping off of a cliff with no parachute.

Or, as Heinlein put it, the death rate is the same everywhere... one to one.

Not like you're going to avoid it....  so, you can die, having done the things you like, OR you can die, having avoided the things you like....