Newport Beach Motorcycle Accident Lawyer

Newport Beach Motorcycle Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson

The Right Choice for Motorcycle Personal Injuries in Palm Springs and Newport Beach

There are motorcycle innovations in the pipeline to improve motorcycle riding safety and to protect motorcycle riders in an accident. The problem is that they’re still years or decades away. Until then, it is more important than ever to choose the right type of motorcycle for your abilities and where you intend to ride. The right motorcycle, like the right motorcycle attorney is about making the right choice, just as it is in choosing the right Newport Beach Motorcycle Accident Lawyer.

Choosing the Right Motorcycle To Prevent Common Motorcycle Injuries and the Right Newport Beach Motorcycle Accident Lawyer

While there are technological improvements in the pipeline to improve motorcycle rider safety, they are still a long ways off. Until then, a motorcycle rider needs to understand the risks and what type of injuries they face, and to make a wise choice in the type of motorcycle they purchase given their level of experience and where and how they plan to take their new ride.

Injuries Motorcycle Riders Commonly Suffer After A Motorcycle Crash

Once a motorcycle collision has occurred, these are the most common types of injuries that result when the bike collides with another vehicle or falls on its side:

1) Concussion and brain damage. Riders wearing an approved motorcycle helmet reduce their risk of death, but only by 37 percent.

2) Fractures of the elbows, shoulders, hips, knees, wrists, fingers, spine and neck. The most common fractures are of the shoulder and the pelvis. A fracture of the pelvis an damage to the lower spine can cause a rider to be paralyzed.

3) Soft tissue skin and muscle damage (road rash) as the body slides across the pavement.

4) Nerve damage in the upper arm.

5) Facial disfigurement when the motorcycle rider is not wearing a full-face helmet as the unprotected face slides across the pavement or smashes into a fixed object.

6) For male riders, the risk of injury to the testicles is also high.

Choosing The Right Type of Motorcycle For The Ride You Desire

The buyer of a motorcycle needs to choose the right type of motorcycle for their level of experience, where they intend to ride it, and the amount of power they’re looking for in a motorcycle.

These are some of the primary categories of motorcycles:

Cruisers are defined by Harley-Davidson and are the most common, but they are also made by Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha and Triumph, among others;

Sport bikes, emphasize speed and are often called crotch rockets. They are produced by Ducati, Kawasaki, Triumph, Yamaha, Honda, BMW, Suzuki, Aprilla, and Buell among others;

Super sport motorcycles (think faster) are like those developed by Ducati, Kawasaki, BMW, Suzuki, Yamaha, and Aprilla;

Touring (for longer distance) motorcycles like those made by BMW, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Triumph, Can-Am, Star, Ducati, Victory, Harley-Davidson, and Honda;

Sport Touring (a cross between sport bikes and touring bikes) are made by Honda, BMW and Kawasaki;

Adventure motorcycles which can take off-road conditions but are more comfortable for long distances than Dual-Sport bikes, are like those produced by BMW, Honda, Suzuki, KTM, and Kawasaki;

Enduro (motorcross or dirt bikes with a headlight and tail light, but no brake light) or Dual-sport motorcycles (also primarily for use off-road) are manufactured by Honda, Suzuki, BMW, Triumph, Kawasaki, KTM and Yamaha, among others; and

Standard motorcycles which are versatile and general purpose bikes. They are made by, among other manufacturers, Honda, Kawasaki, Victory, Ducati, Harley-Davidson, Triumph, Suzuki, Moto, BMW and Yamaha, among others.

What’s On The Horizon for Motorcycles and Motorcycle Safety

1) Cornering ABS – This will allow the central processing unit to calculate the optimal amount of pressure to be applied to the brakes. Additionally, it will distribute the ideal amount of braking force between the front and rear brake. With cornering ABS, a motorcycle rider can apply full pressure on the brake levers even while under a full lean while taking a corner. Instead of a disaster resulting, the act could still be a safe procedure.

2) Connectivity to Your Smartphone – With such connectivity, the ride can perform a great number of tasks using their smartphone, or a tablet. With connectivity, we’re also talking about more extensive infotainment systems with information being at the fingertips of the motorcycle rider.

3) Electric Motorcycles – Before these become common, battery technology will need to advance so the range of an electric motorcycle is competitive with a motorcycle using an internal combustion engine.

4) Networked Wireless Communications – Such a system could provide information to riders of dangerous road conditions ahead or on one’s route.

5) Self-Riding Motorcycles and Artificial Intelligence – These will allow the motorcycle to learn a rider’s behavior, to intervene if the rider makes a bad decision that could lead to disaster or even to operate the motorcycle from the start to the end of a rider’s journey.

In the future, we’ll probably also see more use of GoPro cameras and automatic emergency call systems on motorcycles.

Motorcycles In The Not So Very Near Future

Among the motorcycle concept vehicles which have been shown publicly or talked about are the Speed Racier Alien Motorcycle, the Honda V4, the Hlbo Duo-Wheel BMW, Suzuki G-Strider, Mach Ness, the I.Care motorcycle, the Victory Vision 800, Swordfish motorcycle, Yamaha Tesseract, Peraves Monotracer, Energya, and the Ghost Concept.

We’ve also seen photos of the Bombadier Embrio, the Jaguar M-Cycle, the Batpod, Scarab, the much talked about Dodge Tomahawk, Ferrari V4, the nUCLEUS, Magic Tricycle, the Honda CB750, and the Confederate Renovatio.

By the time you’re reading this article, some of these futuristic motorcycles may no longer be sufficiently futuristic, may no longer be a motorcycle actually being considered by the designers or manufacturers, or they may be in production and on the road.

One of the most exciting concept bikes for motorcycle enthusiasts and amazing technologies envisioned for the future are those envisioned for the BMW Motorrad Vision Next 100, a concept bike that will include zero-emissions, electric power, a flexi-frame, and most interesting of all a “self-levelling system” which BMW claims will make the bike uncrashable.

BMW believes that by combining self-balancing and digital technology, the bike will be able to protect the rider at all times and without the need for protective clothing or even a motorcycle helmet.

Besides having self-balancing wheels, and a variable tire tread that can adjust itself to different road conditions, the BMW futuristic bike will communicate with other vehicles and road sensors as self-driving cars do and which are already being tested and utilized in limited situations, to help the bike automatically or autonomously avoid crashes.

Instead of a helmet, the rider’s goggles with keep wind and bugs out of the eyes of a rider while also providing a display that provides the information the rider needs and which will change depending on the direction the rider looks.

Clothes for the rider of the BMW futuristic bike will warm or cool a rider as needed, provide support to help prevent fatigue and provide further information to the motorcycle rider in the event, for instance, if the bike is leaning too far.

The future for motorcycles is clearly an exciting one and one that will likely inspire car manufacturers as well to design more appealingly designed cars and other vehicles.

Motorcycles Will Be Safer, Just Not Very Soon

Motorcycle riding will always be more dangerous than driving a car, but with the coming advancements in safety and technology such as collision avoidance technology and cornering ABS, motorcycles may become much safer in the future.

Until such advancements are common on motorcycles and self-driving cars filled with sensors to look out for motorcyclists are common, it will remain up to the motorcycle rider to use every ounce of safety techniques to stay upright on their bikes when car drivers do crazy things.

Call Newport Beach Motorcycle Accident Attorney Sebastian Gibson, The Right Choice

With offices in Palm Desert and Newport Beach to handle motorcycle accidents up and down the coast of California and to the east, the law firm of Newport Beach Motorcycle Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson specializes in motorcycle accidents, truck crashes, bicycle and pedestrian injuries, car accident collisions and wrongful deaths for victims in Palm Springs, the Coachella Valley, throughout Orange County and all of California.

Call us today for a free consultation on the phone. Once we’ve analyzed your case and feel it can be won, we’ll come out to your home or hospital and take your case on contingency so you don’t have to pay anything out of your pocket. We advance all of the costs of your case and are reimbursed for our costs and paid our fees only if we obtain a settlement, mediation or arbitration award or a judgment.

If you’ve been injured in a motorcycle crash and need a personal injury lawyer for an accident anywhere in California for a motorcycle accident with a car, truck, bicycle or pedestrian accident, call Newport Beach Motorcycle Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson at (760) 776-1810.

Newport Beach Motorcycle Accident Lawyer Sebastian Gibson has been named a 2024 Top Lawyer by the prestigious Palm Springs Life Magazine for the 14th year in a row.