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RIP - Irony defined... Electric Moto entrepreneur killed by Prius

Started by Jaman, August 31, 2010, 06:30:02 AM

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Jaman

August 31, 2010, 06:30:02 AM
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/31/2994828/santa-rosa-electric-motorcycle.html

Santa Rosa electric motorcycle entrepreneur killed

The Associated Press

Published: Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 - 5:53 am

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- A Santa Rosa entrepreneur who was working with a business in India to promote electric motorcycles in that country has died in a car-motorcycle crash near a California shopping mall.

Santa Rosa Police Sgt. Doug Schlief says 29-year-old Matthew Dieckmann was riding an electric motorcycle near the Coddingtown Mall at about 10:40 a.m. Monday when a Toyota Prius collided with the cycle.

Schlief says Dieckmann hit the car's passenger side. He died at the scene.

It wasn't immediately clear whether Dieckmann was wearing a helmet. Schlief says investigators are still trying to determine who may have been at fault.

The Prius driver, 71-year-old Gilbert Dorame of Santa Rosa, wasn't hurt.

Dieckmann was the founder of Santa Rosa-based Electric Race Bikes.

ducatiz

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August 31, 2010, 07:13:02 AM
Quote from: Jaman on August 31, 2010, 06:30:02 AM
Schlief says investigators are still trying to determine who may have been at fault.

The Prius driver, 71-year-old Gilbert Dorame of Santa Rosa, wasn't hurt.

DO WE REALLY HAVE TO ASK?
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"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

Speeddog

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August 31, 2010, 08:31:06 AM
"It wasn't immediately clear whether Dieckmann was wearing a helmet."

Say what?
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Howie

#3
August 31, 2010, 09:12:26 AM
Quote from: ducatiz on August 31, 2010, 07:13:02 AM
DO WE REALLY HAVE TO ASK?

I WILL BE 64 IN A FEW DAYS >:(










youngfukinwhippersnapers

Popeye the Sailor

#4
August 31, 2010, 09:14:35 AM
Loud electrons save lives!
If the state had not cut funding for the mental institutions, this project could never have happened.

duccarlos

#5
August 31, 2010, 09:20:16 AM
Quote from: Speeddog on August 31, 2010, 08:31:06 AM
"It wasn't immediately clear whether Dieckmann was wearing a helmet."

Say what?

First thing I thought after I read it.
Quote from: polivo on November 16, 2011, 12:18:55 PM
my keyboard just served me with paternity suit.

Raux

#6
August 31, 2010, 09:33:24 AM
hmmm 71 years old. maybe bad eyes and or bad hearing. small quiet bike... add possible no helmet

this was a lot of bad potentials all come together

Speeddog

#7
August 31, 2010, 09:51:24 AM
Just FYI, for folks not in California, there is a helmet law.
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ducatiz

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August 31, 2010, 09:53:40 AM
Quote from: howie on August 31, 2010, 09:12:26 AM
I WILL BE 64 IN A FEW DAYS >:(










youngfukinwhippersnapers

64 and 71 are totally different.

when you hit 70, you better get your sight and reaction times tested, especially if youare driving a prius.
Check out my oil filter forensics thread!                     Offended? Click here
"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

Raux

#9
August 31, 2010, 10:02:59 AM
is there a different requirement for different types of vehicles?

Speeddog

#10
August 31, 2010, 10:29:04 AM
Quote from: Raux on August 31, 2010, 10:02:59 AM
is there a different requirement for different types of vehicles?


AFAIK, if it's got an engine or motor, and it's got 2 wheels, helmet is required.

Here it is:

California VC 27803.  (a) A driver and any passenger shall wear a safety helmet meeting requirements established pursuant to Section 27802 when riding on a motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, or motorized bicycle.
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ducatiz

#11
August 31, 2010, 10:30:45 AM

And in Cali, a bike w a sidecar is not a motorcycle under the law.  Props to Gov Ahnold.
Check out my oil filter forensics thread!                     Offended? Click here
"Yelling out of cars, turning your speakers out the window to blast your music onto the street, setting off M-80 firecrackers, firing automatic weapons into the airâ€"these are all well and good. But none of them create a merry atmosphere of insouciance and bonhomie quite like a revving motorcycle.

Howie

#12
August 31, 2010, 12:33:58 PM
Quote from: ducatiz on August 31, 2010, 09:53:40 AM
64 and 71 are totally different.

when you hit 70, you better get your sight and reaction times tested, especially if youare driving a prius.


If I am driving a Prius I will be getting more than sight and reaction times checked ;D

Speeddog

#13
August 31, 2010, 01:07:39 PM
Quote from: ducatiz on August 31, 2010, 10:30:45 AM
And in Cali, a bike w a sidecar is not a motorcycle under the law.  Props to Gov Ahnold.


California VC Section 400 Motorcycle
Motorcycle

400.  (a) A “motorcycle” is a motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider, designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground.
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Speedbag

#14
August 31, 2010, 02:02:10 PM
Wow.

Not to make light of the subject, but the events up until the crash itself were probably eerily silent. And this may (or may not) have been a factor.

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