1) Get Divorce, 2) Buy Motorcyle, 3) Die?
Some middle-aged guys never get as far as the trophy wife. According to a new study:
An unusually large number of divorced middle-age men die in motorcycle accidents, prompting expert speculation that many chose to take up the often-risky sport of cycling as a symptom of midlife crisis.
… Dead motorcyclists are overwhelming male (90 percent) and disproportionately white (87 percent). Although teenagers and young adults are over-represented in fatal car accidents, motorcycle fatality victims are disproportionately middle-aged with 46 percent in their 40s or older.
… The Scripps Howard study found that 20 percent of cycling fatalities were men who were divorced at the time of their deaths, a divorce rate more than double the national average.
Don’t these guys know they’re supposed to buy a Corvette?
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June 9th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Academia is a bigger racket than Indian casinos. People get paid good money to state the obvious. Worse, they get government grants to do so. Which man is more likely to buy a bike, the married guy or the divorced one? Duh! And why is it a man can’t try anything new after 40 without it being labeled part of a “crisis”? In my late teens I got heavily into the beer bong. Was that part of my teenage crisis? I got into porn in my 20s. Was I having a twenty-something crisis? In my 30s I discovered donkey punch, but it sure didn’t feel like a crisis. But in my 40s if I buy a motorcycle or run a marathon or climb a mountain or sleep with my neighbor’s daughter then I must be in “crisis”. How silly is that?
June 10th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Your whole life looks like a crisis Cliff. Get some help.