Motorcycle riders around the Quad Cities took advantage of the spring weather this weekend to hit the road. But some bikers chose to delay the long-awaited spring ritual for a very timely message.
On Saturday morning, bikers with District 15 of A.B.A.T.E of Iowa - A Brotherhood Aimed Towards Education - rode their bikes, motorcycles of different types and makes, to Genesis Medical Center, parking at a lot on the East Campus to set up a 'motorcycle lab.'
"We show various bikes and teach the first responders if they would come to motorcycle accident the mechanisms of a motorcycle," said Al Sly Schafer, assistant coordinator for the not-for-profit organization. Bikers raised money throughout the year to organize the annual Two Wheel Trauma class. For some emergency medical service providers, nurses, firefighters, doctors and chiropractors, it was their first opportunity to get a close up look at how these machines work.