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The suicide clutch, especially on a chopper with no front brake, also made stopping at a red light on a hill especially precarious. The suicide clutch is sometimes incorrectly called a suicide shifter. The suicide clutch is a foot-operated clutch that is mounted on the left side of the motorcycle's forward foot controls. [9]
No Rider Date Place Series Race Type 1 Julian Crossley 11 August 1955 1955 Ulster Grand Prix: 350cc Norton 2 Derek Ennett 9 August 1956 Budore 1956 Ulster Grand Prix
Death Age Nationality Notability Make-model Displacement (cc) Location Details Source "Indian Larry" Desmedt: August 30, 2004: 55 American Motorcycle builder and stuntman Concord, North Carolina: Butch Laswell: March 10, 1996: 37 American Motorcycle stunt rider: Honda CR500 Mesquite, Nevada: Joi Harris: August 14, 2017: 40 American
Since about 2004 over 4,000 people have died every year up to 2014 in motorcycle accidents, and in 2007 and 2008 deaths exceeded 5,000 per year. [5] At the same time occupant deaths of other types of vehicles have decreased in the 21st century, so motorcycle accident deaths have become an increased share of all deaths and noted for being 26 ...
A crawling critter caused a couple to quickly brake on a road in Death Valley National Park, ... Tarantula causes motorcycle crash in California's Death Valley. Alex Arger. October 30, 2023 at 4: ...
Eight Grand Prix motorcycle racing champions have died while racing or practicing in Grand Prix motorcycle racing: Dario Ambrosini in 1951, Leslie Graham in 1953, Rupert Hollaus in 1954, Tom Phillis in 1962, Bill Ivy in 1969, Jarno Saarinen in 1973, Daijiro Kato in 2003, and Marco Simoncelli in 2011. Hollaus is often credited as the only rider ...
Leo Garcia of the Garcia Family Thrill Riders designed and built the very first (horizontal) Triple Splitting Globe of Death in 2006. This Globe is the only one of its kind that hydraulically lifts 5 feet off the ground and splits/separates into three sections while the Garcia Thrill Riders race their motorcycles in the center piece with a 4-foot gap underneath them.
Motorcycle rider deaths were nearly 30 times more than drivers of other vehicles; Motorcycle riders aged below 40 are 36 times more likely to be killed than other vehicle operators of the same age. Motorcycle riders aged 40 years and over are around 20 times more likely to be killed than other drivers of that same age. [10]