{"id":519,"date":"2009-03-19T11:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T17:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2009-03-23T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T15:41:09","slug":"why-is-that-motorcycle-glaring-at-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/why-is-that-motorcycle-glaring-at-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is That Motorcycle Glaring At Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An angry face is staring right at you; do you notice it? You bet you do.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/images2\/BikeFace.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"the face of the bike\" \/>What if you&#8217;re driving in your car and the angry face is the front end of a motorcycle that you&#8217;re just about to turn in front of? Do you see it and stop your turn? Apparently there is a good chance you will.<\/p>\n<p>Time for a paradigm switch perhaps. &#8220;Loud pipes save lives&#8221; may soon become &#8220;Pissed off bikes protect riders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What the heck am I talking about? I ran across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/news\/cns_writers\/story.html?id=fbef48f4-354a-4707-94b0-84ce69ce9d44&#038;k=30648\" target=\"_blank\">this article about how Honda researchers<\/a> are finding that the more a bike looks like a human face, and in particular an angry human face, the more likely it is that other drivers will see it. So they&#8217;re starting to deliberately make bikes look more human&#8211;and angry.<\/p>\n<p>So welcome to the future. Let&#8217;s hear it for pissed-off bikes!<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don&#8217;t know if other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal &#8211; there is a soul&#8221; -Valentino Rossi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An angry face is staring right at you; do you notice it? You bet you do. What if you&#8217;re driving in your car and the angry face is the front end of a motorcycle that you&#8217;re just about to turn in front of? Do you see it and stop your turn? Apparently there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety","tag-conspicuity-enhancement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}