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Rider Training Funds Still Threatened
What Mary Peters started, others seek to continue. I’ve given considerable coverage to the proposal by U.S. Sec. of Transportation Mary Peters that funds earmarked for motorcycle rider training be...
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Know State Motorcycle Laws When You Travel
We were coming down from the Black Hills and had been in Nebraska for about an hour when we stopped at a table along the road. There was another guy there, in a car, and we struck up a conversation...
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From the Government and Here to Help–Right!
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) sent out a release the other day that will make you just shake your head. They tell about a recent meeting with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration...
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Rider Training Program Threatened
Are you aware that when you renew your plates on your motorcycle(s) each year in Colorado you pay $4 that goes into a fund to help defray the cost of rider training courses? Also, anyone renewing their...
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Free App Provides State Helmet Law Info And More
You can get a free app that will tell you the helmet laws in every state. I guess if you always wear your helmet it doesn’t matter what the helmet laws are in different states. But if you sometimes...
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Motorcycle Bills Dying on Both Sides of Us
Can you tell these folks aren't in Nebraska? If you live in Colorado there’s a good chance you occasionally ride in Utah and Nebraska, east and west of us. This current legislative session they’ve both...
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New Colorado Helmet Law Threatening
A bill to bring back a universal Colorado helmet law appears to be in the offing. The legislative update at our ABATE of Colorado D-10 meeting on Sunday brought news of a bill possibly in the offing...
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Bias And Jumping To Conclusions
I was at my ABATE District 10 meeting on Sunday and the topic arose of the Michigan legislator who sponsored the repeal of that state’s helmet law and who just this past week was killed riding his...
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How Effective Are Helmets Really?
Not a panacea. Some motorcyclists who die in crashes do so while wearing helmets, while others do so without helmets. This led Bruce Downs to the question, how many of those fatally injured actually...
View ArticleAnother NTSB Overreach
There was a wise crack going around some time ago about a particularly grisly motorcyclist death where people were saying, “Thank goodness he was wearing a helmet.” That’s pretty much where this latest...
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