Look I’m as much “fuck cars” as the next guy but riding a motorcycle on a highway is unironically suicidal. I personally know a guy who got in a bad crash on one but miraculously survived; he had a year long recovery period but will have various pain and dysfunction in his body for the rest of his life. I also know some people who did pathology rotations (state medical examiner office, autopsy basically) and the big three categories of bodies coming in were drug overdoses, suicides, and motorcycle crashes.
One of the facebook comments links to a seventh person who died a few days before these on June 18th: https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/motorcyclist-killed-sr-530-crash.amp
Thank you for this fascinating information.
I have a bit of a morbid curiosity about outlaw biker gangs. Most dudes in them are pretty comfortably in the middle class (though usually the lower, more rural, more “redneck” subsections of it), yet they get involved with this rather complex organizations of drug smugglers and arms traffickers, not out of economic need or desperate survival, but like… they just kinda dig the lifestyle.
It’s like a very Boomer version of organized crime, a bunch of mediocre white dudes hang around drinking brewskies and doing macho shit, but unlike most LARPs it evolved into them moving meth across international borders and selling M16s to the cartel.