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Rider airbags starting to appear. It’s about time.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Here a stunt man takes one for the team, the Dainese team; developers of the Dainese D-Air Racing vest. It’s really looking promising! Tie this to Yamaha’s crotch airbag and scooter wrecks start looking more like a ride on the bouncy castle.

New campaign makes a strong case for wearing a helmet

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

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Found out about this campaign from the “Asia Injury Prevention Foundation” through Motoblogger.it (see title link). It address these three logical statements:1) I won’t wear a helmet, it makes me look stupid.2) I don’t like wearing a helmet, it ruins my hair.3) I never wear a helmet, they don’t look cool. The only helmet I […]

Federal agency unveils action plan for motorcycle safety

Thursday, November 8, 2007

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(Secretary of Transportation, Mary Peters, is b b b bad to the bone) The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has unveiled a new motorcycle safety initiative built on an “action plan” designed to guide the federal agency’s policy over the coming years. The federal plan, unveiled November 2, was accompanied by a television public-service […]

Impact Jackts save their first life!

Monday, October 15, 2007

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(photo from AMADirectLink.com‘s 2006 Indi Dealer Expo coverage) Eddie H. alerted us to this exciting bit of news. Impact Jackets (who’s website is having some issues at this moment) have come through for Joseph McPhatter. The news coverage goes like this: BALTIMORE — While motorists who have been in car crashes often attribute the help […]

Scooters and heels (for educational purposes only)

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

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Scoot_Kitty77, friend and frequent reader of TheScoop has submitted a little article I’d like to post because I’ve got friends at Modern Buddy too. It goes like this [oh, and I'm gonna start interjecting within square brackets now since some people like to use parenthesis when they write]: My buddies over at Modern Buddy have […]