Members had taken care to hide their faces, either with motorcycle helmets nicknamed "blackheads"—or with surgical masks, clearly in a bid to intimidate the opposition.
To cover a service area of approximately 10 km and a half million residents, these mail carriers use either motorcycles or bicycles to deliver mail from 0900 to 1700 hr daily on preassigned delivery routes.
There will be nothing easy for boxer Paul Williams, either, after a motorcycle crash has left him paralyzed.
Phoenix-based Elio Motors has built a vehicle that isn't exactly a car, but really isn't a motorcycle either.
"This is a taxi stand, our bicycle can be parked there also, either bicycle or motorcycle," he says, apparently referring to plans to plant a bomb.
I've had some troubles during my everyday walk, either because of motorcycle interruption, or because of the street vendors that occupy pretty much the entire space for pedestrians.
The study was primarily designed to examine the role of attention set for color: Participants responded to colored signals telling them which way to turn, and the motorcycle either shared the attended signal or matched an ignored signal color.
Zen became the biggest-selling philosophy book ever, despite Pirsig pointing out that it bears no resemblance to "that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice", adding: "It's not very factual on motorcycles, either".
Not all the riders belonged to motorcycle clubs either, though members of the venerable Boozefighters club were in attendance and wearing their colors, as were hundreds of members of the Harley Owners Group, or HOG, clubs from many California communities.
Motorcycle users (either passengers or drivers) accounted for the highest percentage of deaths (58%), followed by transport users with no specified vehicle (25%), and pedestrians (11%).
Everyone I knew lost some skin and we broke the occasional bone, but for the mileage we must have covered in a busy, dangerous environment we were either brilliant, lucky, or motorcycles get some bad safety press.
