DataDan
Mama says he's bona fide
Welcome to the BARF 1Rider Forum.
Our purpose here, which the name suggests, is to make sure that one rider--you--makes it home safely from your next ride. We’re going to work toward that goal with mutual self-help, everyone contributing to get us all home.
Budman launched this safety initiative (then called the BARF Safety Patrol) in spring 2008 after a horrific string of motorcycle deaths in the Bay Area: 25 in the months of March and April, many more than in the same months in previous years. And that deadly season followed a deadly year: 95 deaths in 2007 compared to 69 in 2006. But forget about the numbers. The message is simply this: motorcycling in the Bay Area has become much more dangerous in a very short time. The overload of RIP threads and the loss of BARFers and friends of BARFers is what inspired the creation of this forum.
If these deaths occurred in random, stuff-happens kinds of incidents, an effort to reduce them wouldn’t be very promising. But most were preventable with just common sense and basic riding skills. And that’s where 1Rider comes in.
While the general focus here will be on safer motorcycling, one specific focus will be on attitudes.
Our purpose here, which the name suggests, is to make sure that one rider--you--makes it home safely from your next ride. We’re going to work toward that goal with mutual self-help, everyone contributing to get us all home.
Budman launched this safety initiative (then called the BARF Safety Patrol) in spring 2008 after a horrific string of motorcycle deaths in the Bay Area: 25 in the months of March and April, many more than in the same months in previous years. And that deadly season followed a deadly year: 95 deaths in 2007 compared to 69 in 2006. But forget about the numbers. The message is simply this: motorcycling in the Bay Area has become much more dangerous in a very short time. The overload of RIP threads and the loss of BARFers and friends of BARFers is what inspired the creation of this forum.
If these deaths occurred in random, stuff-happens kinds of incidents, an effort to reduce them wouldn’t be very promising. But most were preventable with just common sense and basic riding skills. And that’s where 1Rider comes in.
While the general focus here will be on safer motorcycling, one specific focus will be on attitudes.
- We want riders to accept 100% of the responsibility for their safety.
- We want riders to acknowledge their mistakes, to learn from them, and use them to become better motorcyclists.
- And we want riders to see two very different aspects of motorcycling: one, the opportunity for good, clean high-performance fun when the situation allows it; and the other, a need for self-control and total commitment to safety when the situation demands it.
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