Word: bike
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...actor, a 1978 Oscar nominee (The Buddy Holly Story), had just got his Harley-Davidson out of a repair shop in Culver City, Calif., and was heading down busy Washington Boulevard, when he failed to negotiate a right turn. He skidded and was thrown from his bike, his head slamming against a sidewalk. After nearly two hours of brain surgery, he was given a guardedly optimistic prognosis...
Busey's accident prompted California legislators to reintroduce a bill requiring all motorcycle riders to wear helmets. Twelve years ago, 47 states had such laws (though not California). Most were passed in response to federal rules cutting U.S. highway funds to states without such provisions. But bike lobbies persuaded Congress in 1976 to erase the financial sanction, and more than half the states revoked or weakened their helmet laws. Over the next three years, motorcycle fatalities leaped more than 40%, according to federal figures...
...motorcyclist should be able to feel the wind through his hair if that's what he wants," says Wayne Thomas of the California Motorcyclists Association. But the price of such freedom can be high not only for the individual cyclist but for society at large. A study of 105 bike-accident victims hospitalized in Seattle during 1985 found that of the $2.7 million they incurred in medical bills, 63% was paid for out of public funds. Says John Cook of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: "This is a social issue. When you have a seriously brain-injured person...
...example, Guo says that prior to the trip, he had absolutely no experience riding a bicycle. "I had only ridden a three-speed bike in Singapore when I was young, and I had to learn from scratch," he says. Guo became involved with Bike-Aid when he was asked to develop an ODN package to educate the riders about the issues. "After writing the package and thinking so much about what it meant, I decided I had to go on the ride to see how the knowledge was actually used," he says...
Kahrl, who will bike the Seattle route next summer as a leader, says that no particular physical training is required for the trips, and on his trip, "only one person out of 16 was a cyclist...