Motorcycle Accidents

• Bike Week 2009 wrapping up.

  Jeffrey Meldon | March 08, 2009 10:54 AM | 14 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  Daytona Beach Bike Week 2009 is wrapping up the festivities today and regrettably there have been 7 reported deaths this past 10 days. Fortunately this number is down considerably from 2006 when...

• Are loud pipes protecting motorcycle riders?

  Jeffrey Meldon | February 28, 2009 12:35 PM | 8 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  According to many riders in Daytona Beach for Bike Week, this week, they wouldn’t be caught dead on the road without their loud, modified, unbaffled straight pipes. They feel that it provides...

• Teen Motocross Death In North Florida

  Eddie Farah | September 20, 2008 10:30 PM | 6 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Students at Bartram Trail High School are mourning a senior who was killed this week in a motocross track accident in Flagler County, Florida. Bennet “Ben” Gordon Geiger Jr. was just 17 years old....

• UNF Student Hit And Killed By Two Hit-And-Run Drivers

  Eddie Farah | September 03, 2009 11:27 PM | 5 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  He was a 23-year-old graduate student at the University of North Florida. Yasser Hamdy, from Egypt, was killed in a double hit-and-run early Thursday morning. Hamdy and two friends were riding...

• How much stress can a Suzuki GSX-R1000 motorcycle frame take? (Part II)

  Armand Rossetti | February 17, 2009 5:14 PM | 3 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  According to Total Motorcycle Website, the entire 2006 Suzuki GSX-R1000 (gixer) motorcycle weighs only 365 lbs.; that's only twice the weight of the average gixer rider. When Suzuki introduced the...

• Repeal Of The Motorcycle Helmet Law - Now The Head Hits The Road

  Bob Carroll | October 05, 2005 11:17 PM | 3 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  A report by the National Highway Traffic Administration entitled Evaluation of the Repeal of the All-Rider Motorcycle Helmet Law in Florida shows what happens when unprotected heads hit the road. The report "reviews the crash reports after the repeal of the mandatory motorcycle helmet law [and] it indicates that motorcycle fatalities have increased 81% when comparing 2001-2003 fatalities...

• Antilock Brakes On Motorcycles Might Save Lives In Florida

  Eddie Farah | October 23, 2008 2:32 PM | 2 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that antilock brakes on motorcycles could save lives. Antilock brakes are installed in cars and trucks. Typically they are found on touring bikes...

• Florida Makes Slight Move Toward Motorcycle Safety

  Eddie Farah | June 27, 2008 10:04 PM | 2 CommentsJacksonville, FL

  Motorcycle Training Just Got Tougher In Florida By Eddie Farah on June 27, 2008 Those who plan to obtain a motorcycle licence in Florida have until July 1 to do so without further training....

• Terry Bradshaw Was Right About Riding The Motorcycle, Ben

  Bob Carroll | June 12, 2006 5:21 PM | 2 CommentsTampa Bay, FL

  If you are Ben Roethlisberger, who quarterbacked the Steelers to a Super Bowl win, you might like to ride a motorcycle. You might even like to ride it without a helmet. But, the man who quarterbacked the Steelers to four Super Bowl wins, Terry Bradshaw, said Ben should wait until he retires. After a motorcycle crash this week that took Ben to surgery, Terry is looking pretty smart. Why does...

• Motorcycle riders need to protect themselves NOW more than EVER!

  Jeffrey Meldon | February 07, 2009 4:40 PM | 1 CommentGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL

  There has been a recent news buzz regarding the Insurance Research Counsel’s (IRC) release of findings last month of a nationwide study that showed that 23%, (nearly one in four), of motor...