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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." |
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Training, education - not helmets - will save motorcyclists' lives You see, it's like this: If you stick a monkey on a motorcycle, without any skills, he's going to crash and die. But if you educate the monkey through motorcycle training and teach him how to ride, he'll live be happy and won't end up someone's hood ornament. Then you have the people who think that by dressing the monkey in brightly colored reflective clothes and adding a helmet, the monkey is now safe. |
| Website Improvement This website has significantly improved and reorganized the legislative information pages. You can now easily view current and past legislative updates, calls to action, as well as quickly find your district number, and legislators' addresses and phone numbers. Click here to enter the legislative information section. |
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to view a helmet law map of the US.
to view chart on total motorcycle registration information.
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) is the best organization representing bikers nationwide on the federal level. ABATE of the Garden State encourages all bikers and supporters to join and support the MRF.
for information on joining the MRF.
for links to to other motorcycle rights websites.
(Courtesy of ABATE of SC)
Florida Economy Boosted by $3 Billion Since Repeal of Mandatory Helmet Law
This is almost three billion dollars in five years that has been put into the economy of the State of Florida , and this is a low figure as it doesn't include antique motorcycle or mopeds that are licensed differently in Florida . Over one hundred eighty million dollars in taxes went directly into the state treasury for the general fund. This does not include the tourist money that has increased because of Florida being a freedom of choice state. In the past five years over 3 billion dollars has been put into the economy in general from Bike Week and Biketoberfest.
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| August-Sept Newsletter The August-September issue of the ABATE newsletter is now available. There are many new articles and this issue is just loaded with information. Click here to download. |
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Rep. Joe Harrison, R-Napoleonville, Louisiana |
| Online Membership Membership in ABATE can now be paid for online using a credit card or PayPal. Click here to join ABATE or renew your membership. |
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| Do you know how a bill becomes law in New Jersey? Click here to see the steps neccesary to move from an idea to a law. |
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| NTSB calls for mandatory helmet laws in all states! Here is an agency that has just focused solely on helmets while totally ignoring cell phone use by auto drivers, cookie cutter guard rails on our highways, driver awareness, rider training, ignoring right of way violations, and other issues that could save far more lives than helmets. The NTSB website states that helmets should be required right at the top of their home page! Click here for the MRF response to this issue Click here for the AMA response to this issue Click here for Long Distance Rider response to this issue. Click here for Street Bikers United Hawaii thoughtful response to this issue. Click here to write the NTSB with your thoughts on this. The NTSB has no experience with motorcycles, has totally ignored them for over 4 decades. So whose agenda are they advancing? Now they make broad pronouncements on their safety that take away our freedom to make our own informed adult choices. The NTSB has investigated 124,000 airplane tragedies, 10,000 other surface transportation tragedies, but only 6 motorcycle tragedies in the last 40 years. They should stick to investigating airplane crashes.. |
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| Click here for the results of the ABATE survey where you voted on what our priorities should be. |
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| Have you ever had someone discuss motorcycle issues with and you find yourself at a loss of what to say? Click here for talking points to use to bolster your arguments for motorcycle rights. |
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"There’s more head injuries for bicycle riders, snow skiers, water skiers, skateboard riders, gymnasts and cheer leaders than there are for motorcycle riders, should we have the state indemnify all of them?"Click here for US motorcycle registration figures.
Source: US Department of Transportation, 2004 figures.
NJMA has legally registered to start using the name, American Bikers Advocating Training and Education. We will be using A.B.A.T.E. of the Garden State. ABATE / NJMA plans to increase our presence, broaden our scope in New Jersey and align our state with the 38 other states with ABATE organizations. We welcome all New Jersey motorcycle Rights Organizations (MROs) and riding clubs to join us and encourage motorcycle rights minded riders to form new chapters throughout the state.
To enhance and protect the motorcyclist riding rights in New Jersey. To enhance the common good and general welfare of New Jersey ’s motorcycling community by promoting education, awareness, safety concerns and to foster a general understanding by motorcyclist and motorist alike. To make our voices heard on legislation affecting riders in New Jersey on a local, state and national level by creating a united community of motorcyclists connected through our organization. Furthermore, we address any legislation concerning motorcyclists locally, statewide or nationally. Finally, we will engage in charitable activities benefiting our organization, the motorcycle community and society at large.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead
We too, born to freedom, and believing in freedom, are willing to fight to maintain freedom. We, and all others who believe as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1882 - 1945),
32nd President of the United States
How I Fought Big Brother and Won A few months ago I got a surprise in the mail--a lovely packet of information about an alleged traffic violation in which I had turned right on red at one of those ubiquitous signals that features an automated traffic enforcement set-up. Two sheets of photos of me making the dreaded right on red movement, links to the video footage of me doing the same, and scary legal language about bail and appearing in court, and I better hurry up and pay the—get this—astronomical fine of $371 in order to avoid all that ugliness. So did I lie down and let the city roll over on me? Am I a well-behaved woman? Hell, no. Not in this incarnation, anyway. |
Safety rally motivates 300 bikers to ride through streets of Warner Robins, Air Force base Seeing a motorcyclist is key to saving the biker's life. "That's the important part," Johnson insisted. "There's not a whole lot of margin for the cyclist when a crash occurs.""Making car and truck drivers more aware saves our butts," he suggested. "Bikers can do stupid things. Of course they can. But the majority are law-abiding and just out to have a good time and enjoy themselves." People along the cyclecade route were waving, laughing, smiling, giving thumbs up, Johnson said. "Unfortunately, it was not publicized enough to get a whole lot of people out," he said. "It was good but we can do better." |
Motorcycles And The Culture They Inspire 1868-2017 Taken from a history book in the year 2095…Motorcycles started out as steam engines strapped on to bicycles in 1868. Soon after the gas engine took its place in the 1900’s there were Motorcycle shops and Dealers all over the World. For awhile, Motorcycle were simply used as transportation. In 1907, when Henry Fords, Ford Motor Company, released the Model-T at a price everyone could afford, the Motorcycle soon went from a necessity to a luxury item. In the 1940’s, the Motorcycle Culture really took off. An organization called the American Motorcycle Association (AMA) held races and events all over the United States of America. In 1947, held an event in Hollister California. |
Blinking lights would help cars see bikers There is a device called a modulator that flashes the headlight from low to high beam to make a bike more visable. Of course if someone is busy texting, reading, eating, playing pocket pool or whatever people do when they are supposed to be driving, it makes no difference what you do to increase visability. If they don't pay attention nothing will help. |
Kill a biker and go to jail This article shows that going the extra mile and fighting it out in the trenches can result in a win. Although a stiffer penalty should have been imposed, this was a much better result than a dismissal. Bikers around the country should learn from ABATE of Wisconsin’s persistence and the dedication of these officers and members. Tony “Pan” Sanfelipo |
Number of motorcyclist fatalities continues to rise Unfortunately, motorcycle fatalities continued a 10-year increase, reaching 5,154 in 2007, the highest number since the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration started collecting fatality crash data in 1975. Motorcycle fatalities now account for 13 percent of all traffic deaths and, in 2007 alone, the number of motorcycle riders or passengers killed on the nation’s roads increased 6.6 percent over the previous year. Injuries from motorcycle accidents are also on the rise—there were 103,000 in 2007 compared to 88,000 a year earlier, an increase of 17 percent. |
What cagers don't know about motorcycling You never realize until you get on a motorcycle just how many odors there are out there as you drive along. You also have no idea about the micro-climates you drive through all the time. Cruise down into a bit of a gully, across a creek, and up the other side and the temperature difference at the bottom can be 10 degrees. Very noticeable if you're not buffered by the heater or A/C. |
Ride through Pakistan for peace  Despite the fact that I have faced an aborted attempt on my life, I am again here to defeat religious fundamentalism. I am on a mission, as my country needs peace badly. There is discrimination and hate prevailing among the masses. This is high time to work for settlement of disputes and misunderstandings. With a view to countering terrorism and extremism, Jalal Javed on Sunday embarked on a countrywide tour on his motorcycle to promote love, peace, unity, harmony and patriotism. |
Here is a list of helmet’s that failed because of performance  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has the statutory authority to issue Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) applicable to motor vehicles and items of motor vehicle equipment, including motorcycle helmets. The law establishes a self-certification process in which the motorcycle helmet manufacturers certify that their products are in compliance with FMVSS No. 218, which establishes minimum performance requirements that the products must meet. |
Bruce Arnold Needs Your Support To Stay Online And In The Saddle Every year, I devote hundreds of hours of my time fighting for your rights and safety as much as my own. That time is not free. The trade-off is I have less time available to earn a living, less income because of that, and lower reserves because of that. Still I get by, so long as no major problems arise. But now, an emergency has arisen: |
Electric bike offers green urban commuting option This feels very strange. I'm riding down an alley in San Francisco, pedaling as you would on any bicycle. Each time I put my foot down, the bike presses on a little further. It's all very normal. But then, with the flick of a switch on the bike's handlebars, it shoots forward with a strong, smooth, motorized thrust. Quickly, I've hit 20 miles an hour. This isn't normal anymore. This is Ultra Motor's A2B, a $2,500, zero-emissions scooter that just happens to also be an electric bike. |
| Who really made the first motorcycle? |
Life Flight gears up for the Sturgis Rally After purchasing a new helicopter in May, Black Hills Life Flight prepared for the coming Sturgis Rally by taking on a second helicopter for eight-day duration of the Rally. “The helicopter program is relatively new,” said flight nurse Kim Bugby. “It’s been in use about five or six years. “They’re very expensive to fly. We thought there wouldn’t be any need for it, but it’s been used twice as much as the fixed-wing” plane Life Flight uses for longer trips, she said. |
Driver who killed 2 cyclists fined $200 Andrea Lemons faces $200 in fines and will lose her license for 30 days in a sentence handed down Wednesday by the Monroe Township Municipal Court for hitting and killing a husband and wife riding a motorcycle last Thanksgiving Day. Monroe Prosecutor Robert Smith said Judge Nicholas Lacovara's sentence is the maximum available for Lemons' plea of failing to stop at a stop sign. An examination by the Gloucester County Prosecutors Office following the accident showed Lemons, who was 29 at the time of the accident, could not be charged criminally. |
Kill 2 bikers and get a $200 fine and lose your license for 30 days The sentence was the maximum allowed by law for Lemons, who pleaded guilty to careless driving and failure to stop, but was not found criminally liable for the death of Mark and Debora Shiplee. This sentence shows clearly the need to increase the criminal penalties if a driver violates someone's right of way and then injures or kills them as a result. ABATE is working to correct this glaring defect in our laws. |
Andrea Lemons was sentenced to a 30-day loss of license and $200 in fines for her role in a Thanksgiving Day accident that resulted in the death of two people, a husband and wife on their way to a charity motorcycle ride.
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