Strange Riding Season....

[PDXFJR]

I don't post on a regular basis, but always read whats the latest "going on's" in the FJR world. I don't know what it is, but this year it seems I have heard of so many crashes on and off the site. Not only involving FJR's but other riders. It seems like every weekend I hear of a motorcycle accident. Last night, 26 (that number is correct) bikes were involved in a serious accident south of Wilsonville on I-5. Granted it was the "BrotherSpeed" MC club, that is known to ride paired up side by side, fast and close together. But once again, its more news of bikes hitting the ground.

My good friend totalled his Triumph Sprint this summer, a customer of mine put his VFR in the gravel on Clackamas River Hwy...it just doesn't seem to be getting better or slowing down.

I almost got ran over by a SUV on I-205 yesterday morning.....

I wish everyone that has been down and hurt this summer a quick and easy recovery. Prayers go out to each one!!

What's the deal guys??? Opinions?? Just more bikes on the road??

Ray

 

[happyPuppy]

I agree it really seems bad this year, and in the PNW we have had great weather all season. it is strange things too. Most of the time it is T-Bones and that sort of thing , but this year it is Deer strikes, tires sliding out, Tyler etc. Here is the most recent study that came my way, it is last years data , but just finished and released for OR too.

OR - Crash report summary for 2008 is on OregonLive site, but they moved it or the server it is on is down.

https://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting...ryBook_web.pdf

My take do not drink and ride...Ever. 35.6% of riders that were in fatal accidents had booze in their body. Overall fatal accidents are down for the state.

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

I did a study showing mud involved in a high percentage of crashes.

 

[user 6393]

I did a study showing mud involved in a high percentage of MY crashes.

there.....................fixed

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

I did a study showing mud involved in a high percentage of MY crashes.

there.....................fixed

:slow_en: :finger: :drinks:

 

[Old Michael]

In this month's Rider, Salvadori notes in his column that -

"To Oregon's great credit, the state has the lowest motorcycle death rate in the country, about half of the national average, based as a percentile of the total motorcycle registrations. That certainly deserves a cheer...."

I'd guess the low speed limits and fanatical enforcement efforts should get some credit.

Or perhaps because there are so many KLR's, and they can't get out of their own way ......or something?

Off to mass. I'm hearing confessions this morning.

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

In this month's Rider, Salvadori notes in his column that -
"To Oregon's great credit, the state has the lowest motorcycle death rate in the country, about half of the national average, based as a percentile of the total motorcycle registrations. That certainly deserves a cheer...."

I'd guess the low speed limits and fantatical enforcement efforts should get some credit.

Or perhaps because there are so many KLR's, and they can't get out of their own way ......or something?

Off to mass. I'm hearing confessions this morning.

If you are a priest, I'm a frickin' Saint.

As for the low OR death rate: we are just smarter than ......... oh say .............. Californicators

Or maybe we just learn from the errors of our ways and stop [SIZE=14pt]REPEATEDLY[/SIZE] menacing the populace with speed-demon antics!

OM, KLR's may be slow but they aren't cop magnets like yellow helmets -- AND women love those big piston vibes. :brunette:

Michael, don't ya just love Clement?

 

[beemerdons]

In this month's Rider, Salvadori notes in his column that -
"To Oregon's great credit, the state has the lowest motorcycle death rate in the country, about half of the national average, based as a percentile of the total motorcycle registrations. That certainly deserves a cheer...."

I'd guess the low speed limits and fantatical enforcement efforts should get some credit.

Or perhaps because there are so many KLR's, and they can't get out of their own way ......or something?

Off to mass. I'm hearing confessions this morning.

If you are a priest, I'm a frickin' Saint.

As for the low OR death rate: we are just smarter than ......... oh say .............. Californicators

Or maybe we just learn from the errors of our ways and stop [SIZE=14pt]REPEATEDLY[/SIZE] menacing the populace with speed-demon antics!

OM, KLR's may be slow but they aren't cop magnets like yellow helmets -- AND women love those big piston vibes. :brunette:

Michael, don't ya just love Clement?

Father Michael O'Keeffe! Does have a rather melodious and embellishing ring to it, in an Oglaigh na hEireann sort of way!!!

For many years I lived at 7505 Curbaril Avenue in Atascadero at the end of the road on The Creek. At the far end of Curbaril, North of Highway 101, lived Clement Salvadori and his wife Sue. I was always on my motorcycles and I'd often visit with Clement in the relatively small town of Atascadero. He's just as amazing a motorcyclist in person as he is in prose!

I own every motorcycle book he has published, buying them from https://www.WhiteHorseGear.com and I collect every article he puts into print. His travel books on Baja California, Mexico and California, Estados Unidos are still the very best!!!

https://www.beachs-mca.com/articles/clement...neadventure.htm Here's a nice Alps M/C riding article from Clement.

 

[k7lvo]

In this month's Rider, Salvadori notes in his column that -
"To Oregon's great credit, the state has the lowest motorcycle death rate in the country, about half of the national average, based as a percentile of the total motorcycle registrations. That certainly deserves a cheer...."

I'd guess the low speed limits and fanatical enforcement efforts should get some credit.

Oh, you just got unlucky - mostly. Although, I'm livin' proof that it happens to the best of us! <_<

Or perhaps because there are so many KLR's, and they can't get out of their own way ......or something?
Off to mass. I'm hearing confessions this morning.

You'll go to hell for eavesdropping at confessionals...

 

[ShinyPartsUp]

For many years I lived at 7505 Curbaril Avenue in Atascadero at the end of the road on The Creek. At the far end of Curbaril, North of Highway 101, lived Clement Salvadori and his wife Sue. I was always on my motorcycles and I'd often visit with Clement in the relatively small town of Atascadero. He's just as amazing a motorcyclist in person as he is in prose!
I own every motorcycle book he has published, buying them from https://www.WhiteHorseGear.com and I collect every article he puts into print. His travel books on Baja California, Mexico and California, Estados Unidos are still the very best!!!

https://www.beachs-mca.com/articles/clement...neadventure.htm Here's a nice Alps M/C riding article from Clement.

You name dropper! But when we have time I want to hear some stories.

A small tidbit: Before I bought my first bike in 1981. I read a Clement Salvadori article on his ride across America on Route 20 from Boston to Portland, OR. It fascinated me as I lived a couple miles from route 20 in Waltham, Mass. The article was written in a way that I wanted to follow that route. I never knew route 20 went across the USA. Portland sounded exotic and foreign in my Eastern snobbery. I bought a bike. I've ridden either end of Rte. 20. Some day I hope to ride the whole length. It has been almost 30 years and every time I read Clement (as all of us who have followed his ride reports know him) I think of that first article that shaped my life in important ways. Route 20 may be boring in reality, but it is on my bucket list, and has been for nearly 30 years. If I ever meet him at a bike show or rally or something, I'm going to thank him.

 

[Old Michael]

You know Michael, you'd look good in a beret.

I have on my desk Motorcycle Journeys Through California & Baja, (Second Edition) by Hombre Salvadori,

and on my to-do list (when they stop killing touristas etc.) is to have Beemerdons escort me on a ride to

San Jose del Cabo - on PAVED roads!

It'll be a couple of years before I have the time and $, but I understand that late Oct.

is a good time of the year.

Hey, we should discuss this at SWFOG.

....Hang on. Shiney won't be there.

 

[beemerdons]

Shiny, I also full well remember that article of Clem's on Route 20 and I have only ridden 200 miles of the western part of it.

Well amigo, let's put it on our mutual bucket list and start planning. How about on my 65th birthday, four years from 10/28?

 

[Old Michael]

Don't you fellows ever sleep? Post #11 edited.

 

[beemerdons]

Don't you fellows ever sleep? Post #11 edited.

Well, I think Shiny just got off work and being older than dirt I usually have to get up and piss about 3-4 times a damn night.

Late October is perfect for riding the length of the Baja California peninsula. However, SkooterG and I rode it the week of Thanksgiving 2004 and we hit great weather on that trip. The current situation in Mexico does distress me, does not stop me from riding there as I'm going again on October 9 and will go again on 11/7/10; but it is not like the good old days were!

 

[Bustanut joker]

Don't you fellows ever sleep? Post #11 edited.

Well, I think Shiny just got off work and being older than dirt I usually have to get up and piss about 3-4 times a damn night.

Late October is perfect for riding the length of the Baja California peninsula, but it is not like the good old days were!

Cool pic Don. Where were yous guys goin?



:jester:

 

[Zorlac]

"low speed limits and fanatical enforcement efforts"

I dunno, deadly crashes seem like a more viable alternative to me.

 

[beemerdons]

Don't you fellows ever sleep? Post #11 edited.

Well, I think Shiny just got off work and being older than dirt I usually have to get up and piss about 3-4 times a damn night.

Late October is perfect for riding the length of the Baja California peninsula, but it is not like the good old days were!

Cool pic Don. Where were yous guys goin?



:jester:

We were heading to Puerto Penasco to swim at the beach, that's SkooterG in his Mom's lap and I have my hands on the reins. Did you notice that his ears were even sticking out when he was two years old? That's HotRodZilla right of SkootyG!

 

[beemerdons]

For many years I lived at 7505 Curbaril Avenue in Atascadero at the end of the road on The Creek. At the far end of Curbaril, North of Highway 101, lived Clement Salvadori and his wife Sue. I was always on my motorcycles and I'd often visit with Clement in the relatively small town of Atascadero. He's just as amazing a motorcyclist in person as he is in prose!
I own every motorcycle book he has published, buying them from https://www.WhiteHorseGear.com and I collect every article he puts into print. His travel books on Baja California, Mexico and California, Estados Unidos are still the very best!!!

https://www.beachs-mca.com/articles/clement...neadventure.htm Here's a nice Alps M/C riding article from Clement.

You name dropper! But when we have time I want to hear some stories.

A small tidbit: Before I bought my first bike in 1981. I read a Clement Salvadori article on his ride across America on Route 20 from Boston to Portland, OR. It fascinated me as I lived a couple miles from route 20 in Waltham, Mass. The article was written in a way that I wanted to follow that route. I never knew route 20 went across the USA. Portland sounded exotic and foreign in my Eastern snobbery. I bought a bike. I've ridden either end of Rte. 20. Some day I hope to ride the whole length. It has been almost 30 years and every time I read Clement (as all of us who have followed his ride reports know him) I think of that first article that shaped my life in important ways. Route 20 may be boring in reality, but it is on my bucket list, and has been for nearly 30 years. If I ever meet him at a bike show or rally or something, I'm going to thank him.

https://www.edelweissbike.com/OUT/RIDE.pdf Just got my Edelweiss '10 Tour Catalog and here's a beautiful ride with Clem!

Clement Salvadori of Rider Magazine is my favorite moto-journalist and he's leading a Museum & Castles Tour: July of 2010.

 

[Kasey]

A small tidbit: Before I bought my first bike in 1981. I read a Clement Salvadori article on his ride across America on Route 20 from Boston to Portland, OR. It fascinated me as I lived a couple miles from route 20 in Waltham, Mass. The article was written in a way that I wanted to follow that route. I never knew route 20 went across the USA. Portland sounded exotic and foreign in my Eastern snobbery. I bought a bike. I've ridden either end of Rte. 20. Some day I hope to ride the whole length. It has been almost 30 years and every time I read Clement (as all of us who have followed his ride reports know him) I think of that first article that shaped my life in important ways. Route 20 may be boring in reality, but it is on my bucket list, and has been for nearly 30 years. If I ever meet him at a bike show or rally or something, I'm going to thank him.

Back in 2000 I had the opportunity to ride US 20 from Newport Ore. to Boston Mass. with two friends. We very much enjoyed the the ride as the hwy went though a myraid of small towns; offering vignettes of places we'd like to return to someday. No it's not boring if you take the time to really see the countryside and once in awhile stop to investigate an interesting place.

From Boston we rode through the Maritimes , looped around NFLD and returned to BC via the Trans Canada Hwy. - it was a fabulous six week ride.

Kasey