Found at Roger L. Simon:

"Statistics show state motorcycle fatalities on the rise, with most involving riders 40 and older on bikes with the largest engines.

Nationwide, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's projected 2004 figures have motorcyclists 40 older involved in about 47 percent of 3,900 fatalities. They're also expected to account for more than 60 percent of the yearly increase in deadly crashes.

So the answer to having a midlife crisis is to cause an event that re-positions your life's mid-point to somewhere in your twenties?

Brilliant!

And you thought the sight of forty-something, white-bread oil execs in Harleywear was the most ridiculous part of all this.