It's extra coverage. Unfortunately we as taxpayers will still be picking up the tab.

It does not solve the issue, but its a step in the right direction.

We do pay for smokers and drinkers, too, but usually not due to specific incidents like crashes.

Motorcycle Ban
 

Several years ago I was on the road linking Gatlinburg, TN to Cherokee, NC. I was parked in the Chimney Tops parking area and hiking the trail up. I was well up the trail.

I did not get the quiet that I sought. I could not find the peace that I sought. I could definitely hear the gunning of engines....

What other species "destroys" the natural environment quite like humans?

Use the word "humane" as an adjective and I will think poorly of the subject of discussion.

While I have your attention, when using the phrase "biking", leave that to those who are doing the pedaling.

One more thing: if electric, vehicles are the successor to the cacophonous machines that "pollute" our environment, bring them on.

I apologize, I just checked and my motorcycle insurance is $70 per year. They must have given me a discount, because I would have sworn it was $75. This also includes roadside assistance. It's through Progressive.

By the way, they never asked me if I wear a helmet (I do) and they do not charge me either way, I don't think.

Harley Davidson are junk cycles anyway, overpriced, leak oil, and obnoxiously loud.
You are not buying a motorcycle, your buying into a guilt that many are stupid enough to follow.
Dirty jeans, smelly leathers, beer belly's, and tats all over your body.

So adding electric bike will just add the their junk pile.

Obviously someone has not kept up with the times. HD does not leak oil and hasn't for over two decades. They are only loud if one modifies the exhaust pipes, which is also true of any other gas fueled motorcycle. Junk? You see more HD's on the road around here than any other brand, and I do not believe that Villagers or most other Americans think that HD is junk. Buying American is not a bad thing. Over priced? Apparently not, since they seem to sell very well. If they were over priced, would they be able to stay in business?
As for "Dirty jeans, smelly leathers, beer belly's, and tats all over your body." Most of those "bikers" you see on TV are just actors getting paid to put makeup on and act rowdy. A very small group of bike riders are as you described. The great majority are either hard working or retired.

Well said.
:bigbow::bigbow:

Wow.
Nine pages of crybabies.

Crybabies?

I called them risk averse old biddies, but I like your description better! They are always saying all the bicyclists and motorcyclists will get run over and killed. Oh, I am so afraid. Then I read the paper and it is golf carters and automobile drivers getting hurt or killed. Pay attention people to your own failings and risks. Leave other people alone. When did you all get so old?

Good point. It’s weird being the same age as old people.

Yes, good point. I used to wonder about all the old folks living here, until someone suggested that I take a good look in the mirror. It's no longer fun going to a carnival and entering the crazy mirror display or having someone guess my weight. Candy apples, cotton candy, hotdogs and fried Twinkies no longer have the same appeal.