Comments on: Transportation Secretary Mary Peters Rides a Harley

By: I Could Be Wrong « Northwest Harley Blog

I Could Be Wrong « Northwest Harley Blog — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:47:18 +0000

[...] rights advocate we might have been looking for, huh? Ken Bingenheimer at the Passes and Canyons blog has done a great job writing about Peters. Check it out if you want more [...]

By: Duane

Duane — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:59:55 +0000

This is silly, some woman rides a paint shaker and falls off now wants to cut funding from rider education? That’s fuggin retarded…

People NEED the MSF courses to learn proper techniques, and at least get them pointed in the right direction of actually learning how to ride and ride well…

Whether one chooses to wear a helmet or not is a risk they take unto themselves, same as riding a motorcycle in the first place…

If you’re an adult, and don’t wear a helmet, either you know the risks, or you’re not smart enough to survive anyway…

By: Passes and Canyons Blog » Blog Archive » DOT Sec. Mary Peters Good for Bikers, Wrong on One Priority

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:56:13 +0000

[...] little background. I wrote about this first in this post after reading about it in American Motorcyclist, the monthly magazine of the American Motorcyclist [...]

By: Passes and Canyons Blog » Blog Archive » Follow-up on Mary Peters, Secretary of US DOT

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:36:24 +0000

[...] what’s the issue? Well, as I reported in an earlier post, Sec. Peters has proposed that money earmarked for rider training programs be diverted to efforts [...]

By: Passes and Canyons Blog » Blog Archive » Revisiting Mary Peters, Biker and DOT Secretary

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:25:43 +0000

[...] wrote an unfavorable piece about U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters that you may recall, about her efforts to divert money earmarked for rider training to promote [...]

By: Randy Bingner

Randy Bingner — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:54:18 +0000

I suggest step back from your focus on helmet laws and look at everything Mary Peters is doing for the motorcycling community. It is very difficult to be critical when you look at the big picture.