adventurelounger
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Not sure if you all saw this article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. I had to hide it from my wife:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/uneasy-rider-boomer-deaths-in-motorcycle-crashes-jump-1419210199
If you can't read it at the WSJ, it was mostly excerpted here:
http://www.aimag.com/2014/12/uneasy-rider-boomer-deaths-in-motorcycle-crashes-rise/
Here's the gist: "Though the overall U.S. motorcycle toll appears to have leveled off in recent years, deaths have risen among older riders as more of them hit the road. Those 55- to 64-years-old accounted for 16.3% of motorcycle crash deaths in 2013, the latest year for which that breakdown is available. That was down from 17.2% in 2012 but up from 9.3% a decade earlier and less than 3% in the early 1990s..."
I'm technically the last year of Gen-X myself...But still sobering!
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/uneasy-rider-boomer-deaths-in-motorcycle-crashes-jump-1419210199
If you can't read it at the WSJ, it was mostly excerpted here:
http://www.aimag.com/2014/12/uneasy-rider-boomer-deaths-in-motorcycle-crashes-rise/
Here's the gist: "Though the overall U.S. motorcycle toll appears to have leveled off in recent years, deaths have risen among older riders as more of them hit the road. Those 55- to 64-years-old accounted for 16.3% of motorcycle crash deaths in 2013, the latest year for which that breakdown is available. That was down from 17.2% in 2012 but up from 9.3% a decade earlier and less than 3% in the early 1990s..."
I'm technically the last year of Gen-X myself...But still sobering!
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