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Buddy of mine from high school died in a motorcycle crash, my little brother's best friend also died in a motorcycle crash
Yeah cars are dangerous, but motorcycles... Those mofos are DAAAAANGEROUS
I met two people in the rehab hospital for brain injury, one from a motorbike and one one was from dirt bike. But anyway, they scare the shit out of me now.
Dangerous because they attract the wrong people who ride them.
I have been riding 46 years. You meet the dumbest people on motorcycles. I can tell just from a few miles of following a rider if they are going to get killed.
A friend of mine is a nurse in a neurological ward. She says the other nurses call people like that donor-cyclists.
I also used to ride, mainly touring in the UK and Europe, and I largely agree, but there's also an irreducible risk of getting killed or maimed by other, larger vehicles, regardless of all the precautions you take. I was extremely cautious and well-trained, but still had a couple close calls. Mitigated risk is not zero risk. And, as they told me during training, when you're on a motorcycle, the crumple zone is your own body.
The same is true of bicycling, but fortunately there are some good bike routes where I live where you're mainly separated from traffic.