NW200: Rider airlifted to hospital after Superbike crash

[the stinking enigma]

not once it has already happened, no. but the danger and risk certainly is.

a twenty year old kid has no notion of risk, i'm sure he thought he was indestructible. do we have a duty to protect people from themselves?

[HeliX]

a twenty year old kid has no notion of risk

Perhaps you were a late bloomer.

[the stinking enigma]

i genuinely believed i was immortal at that age. genuinely.

[notwell]

People know the risks but it isn't something that can dominate your thoughts.

 

I don't watch bike racing for risks and crashes. Quite the opposite

[the stinking enigma]

would you watch if they were limited to 70 mph?. still a test of skill and riding ability

[the stinking enigma]

a twenty year old does not appreciate the risks of anything

[notwell]

I couldn't really be any clearer . I enjoy watching motorsport but it isn't because there is a chance I'll see a serious accident. I enjoy the racing.

[Monkey boy]

not once it has already happened, no. but the danger and risk certainly is.

a twenty year old kid has no notion of risk, i'm sure he thought he was indestructible. do we have a duty to protect people from themselves?

20 year olds do have a notion of risk - it just differs from our own. I like you was far less cautious at that age, it doesn't mean I didn't have a notion of risk. We're born with it.

 

Why do you think we now are more cautious? With age comes experience and perspective - protecting people from this experience is only going to have the opposite effect to protecting them from themselves, it would make them more dangerous & for longer.

 

I would agree that we should stop spending millions sending thousands of people this age & younger to their death in pointless wars in the name of defence (of an island that hasn't needed defending from anything in many hundreds of years) but we can't stop them making adult choices & their own well informed decisions on risky activities, even if it doesn't always end well.

 

RIP Malachi

[the stinking enigma]

is there actually a minimum age limit specifically for road racing?

[Lisenchuk]

is there actually a minimum age limit specifically for road racing?

It should be 65 for the senior race.

[ManxTaxPayer]

North West 200 chief tells of anguish after holding hand of dying rider Malachi Mitchell-Thomas

 

 

I'm not sure why it would seem more severe because this lad actually died on the track as opposed to shortly afterwards in hospital? It seems a case of being in denial up to now, and the reality of these incidents has just sunk in. I suppose that will be the case on the island too. It isn't the organisers who have to clean up after a death. They're protected from that to a certain extent. Maybe they should muck in too.

[Monkey boy]

is there actually a minimum age limit specifically for road racing?

I think you have to be 18 to get an ACU license.

[Monkey boy]

North West 200 chief tells of anguish after holding hand of dying rider Malachi Mitchell-Thomas

 

 

I'm not sure why it would seem more severe because this lad actually died on the track as opposed to shortly afterwards in hospital? It seems a case of being in denial up to now, and the reality of these incidents has just sunk in. I suppose that will be the case on the island too. It isn't the organisers who have to clean up after a death. They're protected from that to a certain extent. Maybe they should muck in too.

I think it's more a case of things being said in the immediate aftermath of a tradegdy. For example Ryan Farquar's "retirement" from road racing in the aftermath of the 2012 MGP. You started a thread about that too remember.

[ManxTaxPayer]

Did I? I don't remember that, have you got a link?

[Monkey boy]

http://www.manxforums.com/forums/index.php?/topic/52641-ryan-farquhar-quits-racing/?hl=ryan