Posted by Road Glidin' Don on October 31, 2008, 4:42 pm
> >> Yet it's them EVIL sportbikes that are killing the Marines...
> >
> > Well, a rate of 24-to-1 is pretty hard to ignore...
> Not to belabor the point, Don, but it's the MARINES
> killing the Marines in this case, not the bikes.
Actually, I meant 24-to-1 sportbikes versus all the other kinds being
ridden...
Posted by saddlebag on November 1, 2008, 6:59 am
> > You can't help but notice the spin in this:
> > > Twenty-five Marines have died in motorcycle crashes since last November --
> > > all but one of them involving sport bikes that can reach speeds of well
> > > over 100 mph,
> > ...lines which were no doubt written by someone who then went
> > home, oblivious to all around him, in a cage which could also "reach
> > speeds of well over 100 MPH."
> > Yet it's them EVIL sportbikes that are killing the Marines...
> Well, a rate of 24-to-1 is pretty hard to ignore...
It was 8000 to 1. Article said 200000 marines, 25 dead.
> >
> > Well, a rate of 24-to-1 is pretty hard to ignore...
> Not to belabor the point, Don, but it's the MARINES
> killing the Marines in this case, not the bikes.