Mandatory ABS is one of 10 motorcycle safety recommendations by NTSB

They are on the market now.

 

Didn't newer Gold wings have a reverse? They sure are heavy. A guy at work kept dropping his so we called it a lead wing!

 

Lead Wing,,,,,,,If he couldn't hold it up , he had no business being on it . I was riding down the road one day , this guy had pulled off the road under a bridge , stopped on a slope with his kickstand on the uphill side of the slope , he was trying to flag people down to help him pick up his bike . Saw another guy 1 time at a stop sign . When he started going , he had to tip toe the bike out into the lane he was turning into till he was pointing straight ahead , then he started riding . Motorcycles help with the natural selection of life .

 

He was a small Italian guy.We called him Mike the bike.he would come to a stop and dump it on it's side.

 

I really hated having to lift my 400lb. DS bike when I dropped it. It would truly suck to have to lift a bike twice that weight.

 

The zero is close to 300 @ 293 lb (133 kg), but with crash bars and being in the dirt it is pretty easy to pick up. Only dropped it once and just used the back lift method. Paint on the crash bars wasn't even scratched And nobody else was around so it never happened. After all the cows know who feeds them!
But that was before I lowered it and had to stop when both feet landed in holes, at that point you just have to land carefully.

 

Goodness, ghrit...you forgot to mention the third learned behaviour....copulation....else where would later generations of sheep would come?......of course, for conservative sheep there is a fourth factor.....getting old and cranky.

 

Urals at play. Three wheels and reverse.

 

I've never had any close calls at all with the card caring AARP riders...
Now the young asshats who think 10,000 rpm is the only way to ride...I've almost taken out a couple in the past.

 

I had a friend make a right right turn and get hit on the rear of his truck by a guy going over a hundred MPH. He watched the guy fly over his truck and die in the road in front of him. A new rider for less than a week. I had a lady pull in front of me, after bouncing off her car I went for a lot of stitches. Of course, she said she didn't see me. Red bike and me wearing an orange helmet. Personal survival has led me to stop riding bikes on the street.
Those Urals are kinda cool,1945 technology courtesy of a BMW plant being raided by the Russians.they do have one or two upgrades.