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By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com
People are stupid…
Who said rider training isn’t helpful or that helmets can’t help save lives? Must have been the 57-year-old man in North Fort Meyers, FL who died Wednesday while taking a test ride on a the bike that he’d just purchased and had delivered to his home by the dealership.
Dana St. John did not have a motorcycle endorsement, and apparently no formal training, when rode he 2007 Yamaha down the driveway, turned around and ran straight into his house. He wasn’t wearing a helmet and suffered serious head trauma. The “News-Press” has more here. Was this a needless death or what?
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Three North Carolina men were arrested last week and charged with stealing motorcycles from a body shop. Early Tuesday morning, Haw River police pulled over a vehicle that was towing a trailer carrying several unsecured motorcycles. The trailer lacked lights or a license plate. What makes the story interesting is that one of the stolen bikes was owned by one of the cops who responded to the scene.
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On the subject of cops, there’s a doughnut-eater and two squids in a neat chase and drift 
video done by the Icon gear folks and now posted on YouTube.
Yes, it’s a more than eight-minute advertisement but the riding’s cool and the premise is humorous, sort of a modern-day “Dukes of Hazzard” with the General Lee replaced by sport bikes.
File this one under the heading of “don’t try this at home” – that is, if you value your life:
