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Six motorcyclists died in Washington State last weekend across five separate accidents
(hexbear.net)
Look I'm as much "fuck cars" as the next guy but riding a motorcycle on a highway is unironically suicidal. I personally know a guy who got in a bad crash on one but miraculously survived; he had a year long recovery period but will have various pain and dysfunction in his body for the rest of his life. I also know some people who did pathology rotations (state medical examiner office, autopsy basically) and the big three categories of bodies coming in were drug overdoses, suicides, and motorcycle crashes.
One of the facebook comments links to a seventh person who died a few days before these on June 18th: https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/motorcyclist-killed-sr-530-crash.amp
Motorcycles are how you get Americans to support non-car-oriented infrastructure. If we get rid of the cars, riding a motorcycle will be safer!
Fuck motorcycles purely from the standpoint that motorcycle culture is a hodgepodge of reactionary and antisocial behavior. Fuck motorcycles in that we place pedestrians on top of the transportation hierarchy, I guess wheelchair users and babies in strollers get preference over people walking, and trains I guess get preference over people, but I’m not here to argue about the specifics of the hierarchy. I’m here to say that motorcycles are motor vehicles and should be regulated out of existence like cars should be. Nobody should be going so fast on a bike that crashing means death. We should regulate regular bikes like do cars, cars like we do planes, planes like space craft, space craft double what we currently do now. We need to bump the seriousness we take of all transport up by one, except maybe trains and that’s only because whatever harm expanding train infrastructure as fast as possible which will lead to negating safety measures is better off for society in the long run. IDK the only bikers I like wear spandex.