Talk:Laconia Motorcycle Week

400,000?

The city's population is only 16,000, can it really recieve 400,000 tourists? I can't find any sources for it :/ 66.119.27.235 21:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

• It's 400k visitors over the course of the week, not at one time. The town published this number^[23] and I believe 2 or 3 years ago they estimated about 385k so the numbers still get up there. --Dave Marcucci^(talk) 17:37, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Accident deaths and the use of helmets

Mention of riders not wearing helmets in connection to accident deaths is standard practice in the news, and it is included in the specific source cited regarding the 2010 accident deaths. To suggest that not wearing helmets is "unrelated" to the frequency of motorcycle deaths contradicts widely understood facts. Not counting fringe theories, which do not and should not count. --Dbratland (talk) 21:06, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Fully agree. Thanks for reverting the edit as I did earlier in the week. --Biker Biker (talk) 22:19, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Right now the article has been fully protected, at my request, because of a couple of IP editors are pushing their anti-helmet POV on the article. New Hampshire is a helmet-free state and it seems relevant, given that the quoted sources mention the lack of helments, that this is mentioned in the article. Two of us, both regular contributors to Wikiproject Motorcycles and this article, agreed on that in November (as you can see from the two comments above) but obviously consensus needs to reflect all opinions. --Biker Biker (talk) 17:27, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Agree. And a better use of time would be to expand coverage in articles like Motorcycle safety and Motorcycle helmet to describe the existence and the beliefs of those who oppose mandatory helmets, training, and/or licensing, and the subset to actually ride without helmets. Similarly, the safety-related articles need to be reviewed to make sure they are describing, not prescribing, safety information presented governments, safety organizations, etc.

And keeping the fact that riders who died were not wearing helmets goes hand in hand with that neutrality. It is a well proven fact that not wearing a helmet directly increases the odds of death in an accident; and it is a near-universal practice in major media to include whether or not motorcycle accident victims wore helmets. Wikipedia's practice is to take our cues on the notability and relevance of facts from our sources, rather than decide that all on our own. --Dbratland (talk) 18:27, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Good point. Now that the article is unprotected, I reworded the helmet-related content to add some balance. --Biker Biker (talk) 08:02, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

One death in 2015?

Looks like a single death in 2015. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.187.41.187 (talk) 12:38, 2 July 2015 (UTC)