Bikes in the Fast Lane: Video: Watch An Interesting Motorcycle PSA From C-Dot plus 2 more

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• Video: Watch An Interesting Motorcycle PSA From C-Dot
• Spain: Government Kills Biker, Then Balks At Paying Damages
• France: Crowd Sourcing To Highlight Road Dangers

Video: Watch An Interesting Motorcycle PSA From C-Dot Posted: 09 May 2013 09:00 AM PDT #Video #Safety #Motorcycle - The Colorado Department of Transportation released an interesting PSA for motorcycle riders. Instead of showing blood & gore, they show blood & gore, but in this case it's not real blood & gore. They are very up-front about it. In fact, you see them apply the blood & gore on the "victim". It's an interesting and novel way of showing what happens when you don't ride your motorcycle with the appropriate safety gear. There are also a few words from some specialists (using echoes, not to my taste) and some real and ugly crash scenes involving motorcycles........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Spain: Government Kills Biker, Then Balks At Paying Damages Posted: 09 May 2013 05:00 AM PDT #Spain #Court #Compensation - You know that government rarely have the best interest of its citizens in mind. Usually the contrary, as long as they can get rich and/or more powerful, and when they do get caught doing something they shouldn't, or should, they pretend that it wasn't their fault. It's what has been going wrong in the world lately, and you can see that citizens are revolting against it. Enough is enough. The latest abuse/mis-actions can be seen in Spain. Back in 2007, a Spanish motorcycle rider lost control of his motorcycle because of the potholes in the motorway. The road is that bad that when hitting one of the holes it means the biker can easily get ejected from his bike, which is what happened. This was not a city road, but a motorway, so speeds are higher, and you have less time to react. More bad luck for the unfortunate motorcyclist, he hit the guardrail which was one of the old, and very unsafe, rails, killing the biker on the spot:.......... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

France: Crowd Sourcing To Highlight Road Dangers Posted: 08 May 2013 11:00 PM PDT #Safety #Facebook - Two organization that have as main goal to reduce road fatalities have launched a crowd-sourcing page within Facebook for French road users. The idea is for the road users, car and motorcycles, to highlight danger points on a map of France. The two organizations are Association Prevention Routiere and Assureurs Prevention (insurers group), and the map is called MotoMap. Using Google Maps, you locate a danger zone you are familiar with, highlight it, tell the rest of the world what the problem is and save the point. You can specify the category of problem area; infrastructure, motorcycle specific, dangerous curves, etc........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

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