Need a MAID?

The European MAIDS document (Motorcycle Accidents In Depth Study) is pretty interesting. "MAIDS is the most comprehensive in-depth dat...

Who Wears What on Their Head?

I know, stereotyping people is politically incorrect and the people who most hate political correctness seem to scream the loudest for it w...

Motorcycle Accident Statistics

There are some articles that need repeating. If you haven't seen the Motorcycle Accident Statistics article on webBikeWorld, you should...

My Picture of Over-40 Riders

For a year, I subscribed to Motorcycle Consumer News . I like the concept of this magazine and I really wanted to like it, but I mostly was ...

Fat Bikers and the Law

While looking for a picture to link to in a different column, I stumbled upon this website, Biker Law Blog , and this topic: Does Being Over...

A New Traffic Violation

On our trip north, my grandson had a lot of time to observe traffic and he came up with a new traffic offence category; DWBAD . Like DWI an...

Why Not?

All Rights Reserved © 2008 Thomas W. Day "I have attention deficit disorder. Can I ride a motorcycle?" Sure, why not. "Will I...

NHTSA Crash Data for 2008

NHTSA has published two interesting bits of 2008 data: the Motorcycle Helmet Use and Head and Facial Injuries analysis and the 2008 Motorcyc...

Multitasking Motorcycles

I have often been accused of being incapable of "really enjoying" a ride. I admit I'm not one of those folks who are primary m...