By Ray Henke, a motorcycle accident lawyer and member of Bikers of Lesser Tolerance, California

Freedom fighters joined to form BOLT of North Carolina and are currently bringing nonviolent civil disobedience and constitutional court challenge to the streets and courts of the state in response to the enactment of North Carolina’s new helmet law. (more…)

By Ray Henke, a Motorcycle Accident Lawyer, Biker Rights Advocate and founder of Motorcyclists Against Dumb Drivers

The objective of our motorcycling community should be first and foremost to attempt to increase our safety on our American roads and highways. The solution is first to identify the principle causes of motorcycle accidents, and then to arrive at means to reduce the incidence of motorcycle accidents resulting from those causes. What the largest study of motorcycle accidents demonstrates is that two-thirds of all motorcycle accidents result from the inattention and negligence of auto drivers, two-thirds of that number, or fifty percent of the total resulting when the auto driver pulls out from a side street into an intersection or turns left at an intersection into the motorcyclist’s right of way. (more…)

Quigley vs. CHP, the Constitutional Case Poised to Bring Down the California Motorcycle Helmet Law

By Ray Henke, Esq., Motorcycle Lawyer, Member, Bikers of Lesser Tolerance, California

As Don Blancet, Executive Director of ABATE of California, observed in a press release disseminated by the Motorcycle Riders Foundation, he expects that the Quigley v. California Highway Patrol case will pound the final nail in the coffin of the California helmet law. (more…)

Motorcycle accidents, unfortunately, often result in serious and catastrophic injuries. Some of the reasons are obvious, such as that motorcycles don’t have the surrounding metal cage, the safety designed interior padding, seat belts and air bags that protect auto drivers. Some of the reasons are less obvious, such as the “inattentional blindness” that impairs many auto drivers’ ability to “see” the oncoming motorcycle often leading auto drivers either to pull out into intersections from side streets or turn left directly into the motorcyclists’ path. (more…)