I wonder what the break down is on over 50 doing dumb shit/not dumb shit?
I remember how fun riding was after a few beers when I was young, and that's why I don't do that now, but biker gang culture, which is older doesn't care.
I suspect you're a lot like me and wondering how can it be that riding is so dangerous for us. I'm suspecting it's alcohol. They have poker runs all the time where each of the stations is at a bar - and people are drinking up. They end up riding bar to bar to bar to bar, drinking all the way. And they're riding in groups which tends to get things bunched up. I stay away from these events. They're just not my thing.
I don't know a lot of people who've died while riding, but for the couple I do they were riding late at night (wee hours of the morning) and were well over the legal limit for a DUI. One was a buddy of mine who was having a bit of problems in his personal life and went to the bar and got shit faced and left around 2:30 AM. Went riding home on a 4 lane rd here that has a 50 MPH speed limit and winding curves. He failed to negotiate a curve.
I remember how fun riding was after a few beers when I was young, and that's why I don't do that now, but biker gang culture, which is older doesn't care.