Are motorcycles dangerous?

Just read this answer to someone that asked the above question on yahoo answers :

In a serious bike accident you will be thrown from the bike and end up lying on the road where you can be picked up, put in an ambulance and taken to hospital. In a serious car accident the engine will be pushed backwards through the bulkhead, crushing and trapping your legs. You will be thrown against the steering wheel which will also have been pushed backwards. This will crush and break your ribs. Your unprotected head will smash against the door pillar leaving you with concussion. The door frame will be bent and twisted so the door will not open so you will have to be cut out of the car by the fire brigade. This could take an hour or more.
Bike rider to hospital - 20 minutes?
Car driver to hospital - 2hours, maybe more
I think I'll stick to the bike.

Haha, love the logic. The landing or initial impact is obviously completely painless then, not to mention any other what if`s and maybe`s on the way to coming to a complete stop on the road lol.

[yorkie_chris]

Ok so you hit a solid object in a car, you have a 3 foot crumple zone. Slide into the same object on the bike... you've got your face!

Some very sideways logic going on there. Bikes are perfectly safe, crashing is dangerous.

[ophic]

looks like complete cobblers to me. That may all be true for the car accident, and there's no guarantee of survival in either case, but being thrown from a bike can be a lot more serious than the implicated landing in a nice soft hedge. On any normal road you're gonna either hit the car in front or end up lobbed in front of oncoming traffic - and all this with a few millimetres of protection around you instead of a big metal cage with designed in crumple zones.

There's also a high incidence of bikers coming off with no other vehicle involved, heading for that nice soft hedge but it ain't so soft when you hit it. Harder branches can either impale or, if you hit it with your shoulder, tear all the nerves down one side of your body, leaving you half paralysed.

This is borne out by accident statistics.

Think your kidding yourself mate-
as for being thrown from the bike and picked up, same chance to be thrown from the bike into oncoming traffic.
i'd rather have an accident in a car than on the bike-i've had a major off on both the bike and in a car, in the car off, if it had been a bike i'd be dead, improvements in car design in recent years are such that at certain speeds your reasonably well protected, but hitting a tree at 90 in a car is gonna have the same outcome as hitting it on a bike.
You just a youngster yeh?

[the_lone_wolf]

LMAO

Some people are too deluded or stupid to be allowed out on a bike!!!

There's pretty much NO accident situation where you're going to fair better on a bike than in a car

Any impact energetic enough to push an engine into the passenger safety cell of a modern car would probably not only kill you instantly on a bike, but remove limbs/head

Carry on riding and accept the danger exists, do what you can to minimise it but don't ever kid yourself it'll never happen to you...

[yorkie_chris]

I do know a lad who survived a crash which would have been bloody serious in a car... he got highsided clean over a drystone wall.
Dumb luck.

There are some f*ckin mongs out there. Like the retarded americans who assure us that helmets are MORE dangerous than headbutting the floor at 100mph with your unprotected head. Or the retarded americans who surmise from their vast experience of motorcycle chassis design that front brakes are dangerous. Or the retarded americans wh...

[ophic]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Or the retarded americans who surmise from their vast experience of motorcycle chassis design that front brakes are dangerous.

The front brake on gfs cruiser is bloomin' dangerous! It don't do owt...

What this one,

[ophic]

You've been dying to post that pic haven't you?