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Old November 7th, 2018, 07:48 AM   #3
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At my local track there has been a nasty accident two years ago in which a corner worker died.
The throttle body got stuck on the long straight, the rider panicked and jumped off. I guess he could have cut off the power instead. The bike went on straight and very unluckily hit the poor guy who later died at the hospital.

In this case, the lanyard would have very probably saved him.
And surely proper maintenance on the bike would have saved both, the corner worker from dying and the rider for a life long sense of guilt.

However, wearing the lanyard when you move from side to side on the bike would be a real pain, and probably kind of dangerous too if the lanyard gets stuck into something and cut the power unexpectedly.

BTW it's good practice to always turn off the engine with the right hand cut off switch instead of the key, so you build up the reflex to do it in an emergency.
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