I’m honestly not worried about me. I’m worried about the rest of the morons on the road, not paying attention. I drive a Miata and an RX7, so both short cars. The amount of times I’ve nearly been run over, because someone doesn’t see me is crazy. A bike won’t be better.
Like I said, the lions share of motorcycle collisions is the rider running into something. With a motorcycle you’re exponentially more aware of other drivers and much more maneuverable. Once you think of EVERY car on the road as the moron trying to hit you, you can avoid it even if it was intentional. Which it never is, which means its even easier.
Take like 1 in-person motorcycle class and as long as you don’t hit something or run off the road you’ll be fine. Most insurance companies will even give you a discount once you take the class(my discount applies to my car as well)
talking statistically, not anomalies. I drive an ambulance myself, I legally run redlights every day. I understand youre talking about your perspective but im specifically weighing against my first hand experiences to be more realistic. I’ve had much worse encounters than being rearended, I’ve had a partner be hospitallized from someone hitting our ambulance. Your experiences are valid but they aren’t the whole truth. I still feel comfortable riding motorcycles. And yes I’ve worked motorcycle crashes. At some point perceived risk outweighs realworld risk. And if you can avoid hitting something and prevent yourself going off the road, then your real world risk is significantly lower than people think.
I’m not denyingmotorcycles are dangerous, but they are dangerous (almost only) when used dangerously
I’m honestly not worried about me. I’m worried about the rest of the morons on the road, not paying attention. I drive a Miata and an RX7, so both short cars. The amount of times I’ve nearly been run over, because someone doesn’t see me is crazy. A bike won’t be better.
Like I said, the lions share of motorcycle collisions is the rider running into something. With a motorcycle you’re exponentially more aware of other drivers and much more maneuverable. Once you think of EVERY car on the road as the moron trying to hit you, you can avoid it even if it was intentional. Which it never is, which means its even easier.
Take like 1 in-person motorcycle class and as long as you don’t hit something or run off the road you’ll be fine. Most insurance companies will even give you a discount once you take the class(my discount applies to my car as well)
I had planned to. It also waives you from the dmv test too.
I’ve been rear-ended three times in my car, twice while I had been stationary at a light for at least 5 seconds
Things like that are pretty much out of your control and go from annoying in a car, to injury or even death on a bike
talking statistically, not anomalies. I drive an ambulance myself, I legally run redlights every day. I understand youre talking about your perspective but im specifically weighing against my first hand experiences to be more realistic. I’ve had much worse encounters than being rearended, I’ve had a partner be hospitallized from someone hitting our ambulance. Your experiences are valid but they aren’t the whole truth. I still feel comfortable riding motorcycles. And yes I’ve worked motorcycle crashes. At some point perceived risk outweighs realworld risk. And if you can avoid hitting something and prevent yourself going off the road, then your real world risk is significantly lower than people think.
I’m not denyingmotorcycles are dangerous, but they are dangerous (almost only) when used dangerously