Motorcycle Riders facts
While investigating facts about Motorcycle Riders Warehouse and Motorcycle Riders Course, I found out little known, but curios details like:
On older shaft-driven motorcycles (opposed to more common chains or belts) riders would occasionally experience unwanted motion in the rear of the motorcycle, where the bike would rise and fall on the suspension. This condition is colloquially known as "shaft jacking".
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They make airbag vests for motorcycle riders
Why motorcycle riders wave at each other?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what motorcycle riders think. Here are 10 of the best facts about Motorcycle Riders Association and Motorcycle Riders Foundation I managed to collect.
why do motorcycle riders wave at each other?
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The deadly Isle of Man TT motorcycle race where there has been a rider killed every year since 2001 and 245 since the race began in 1911
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US states with a universal helmet law save 8X more riders’ lives on average per 100k motorcycle registrations each year, compared to states without a helmet law, and 3X more than states with partial helmet law.
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Thieves stole three motorcycles used in Easy Rider and likely chopped them up not realizing their real value
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The designers and builders of the Captain America motorcycle in Easy Rider were actually Clifford "Soney" Vaughs & Ben Hardy and not Peter Fonda as Fonda claimed in an interview
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British police don't close roads when escorting royalty or political figures and instead use a very clever process with motorcycle riders to keep the car moving through city centres. Bet New York wished Trump used this technique.
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A motorcycle stunt rider named Corey Scott died 19 years ago from breaking his own neck.
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Ghost Rider, a self-driving motorcycle designed by Anthony Levandowski in 2004
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In 1916 Augusta and Adeline Van Buren became the first women to motorcycle across the USA when they set out to prove that women could ride as well as men, and therefore be dispatch riders in WWI
