new playmobil motorcycles - a big security problem

[Playmoholics]

At least they have helmets. People in Indiana and Iowa are not required to wear helmets on motorcycles 

[Rasputin]

Boy, you cant sell chocolate eggs with toys, you can not ride a motorcycle with out a helmet and now you have to have gloves  what is this world coming too  Are motorcycle riders really that stupid and unsafe 

Joke in reference to other safety issues Link

[bonniebeth]

Don't remind me of that topic!

[tonguello]

It's a matter of translation, Martin.  Cachalote will have thought of his topic in Portuguese and written it in English and in Portuguese the word for "security" and "safety" is one and the same - segurança

yeah same in Spanish. "Seguridad" for both.
 

[playmogal]

5116 has a much worse problem than the lack of gloves  -- He can't see where he's going!

 

And it looks as if 5118 may be resting his foot on the wickedly hot tailpipe! I tried that only one time back in my biking days of college.
Definitely will be a run on gloves at the parts places!
I remember smashing about 4 helmets and trashing at least 10 pairs of leather gloves during my ten years of biking. Glad I quit while I still had most of my parts!

[bonniebeth]

When you wrote security problem, I though the bikes lacked an engine immobilizer or some anti-theft device. Lack of gloves is a safety issue. 

Lucky the new style gloves can be easily added. I dislike klickies with non-flesh-colored hands as it restricts their usefulness for customising.

Martin, in this case where you said "new style gloves," it should be "new-style gloves." When the two words together form a single adjective, it is hyphenated. I just thought maybe you would want to know, since you like to be so precise.

I agree that snap-on gloves are much nicer than colored hands! I want all klicky hands to be skin-colored.

[cachalote]

It's a matter of translation, Martin.  Cachalote will have thought of his topic in Portuguese and written it in English and in Portuguese the word for "security" and "safety" is one and the same - segurança

thank you playmofire - sometimes i do translate wrongly when i am in a hurry.
i should have said "safety" instead of "security".
  your portuguese is wonderful - very few people would have writen segurança as you did, with a "ç".
in 25 years i have had only 2 crashes on bikes and on both of them i thanked the use of a helmet and a pair of gloves.
in both cases the helmet and the gloves were ruined but my hands and head remained intact (although, in the case of the head, some people tend to disagree). 

[Martin Milner]

 

[Wesley Myers]

At least they have helmets. People in Indiana and Iowa are not required to wear helmets on motorcycles 

States without mandatory helmet laws have less accidents than states with.  In fact, states that have smartened up and repealed helmet laws have found accidents rates to have dropped quite a bit. 

Studies show the same things with bicycle helmet laws.

[playmofire]

States without mandatory helmet laws have less accidents than states with.  In fact, states that have smartened up and repealed helmet laws have found accidents rates to have dropped quite a bit. 

Studies show the same things with bicycle helmet laws.

Whoever did those studies was asking the wrong question.  Helmet laws for motorcycles and bicycles were not introduced to reduce the number of accidents but to reduce the number of cases where an accident led to fatal or incapacitating head injuries.  So the people conducting the studies were correlating two unrelated things - the use of helmets and the number of accidents.   By correlating unrelated items, pretty well anything can be "proved".  For example, that the increased use of refrigerators and the number of deaths from lung cancer are linked.