Are motorcycles dangerous?

[tinpants]

Don't sit on the fence Loz, say what you really think!! lol




As it goes, I happen to agree with you.

[Jayneflakes]

I had an accident in a car once, but it went away with a little pill and a glass of water!
Would be a lot harder on a bike, you would probably fall off...

[dizzyblonde]

hmmmmmm let me see now.

BOLllox.!

I am less likely to injure/cause injury on my bikes than I am in this humongous damn truck I've started driving. Its bloody lethal, I really wouldn't like to be squished under it.

Fact - the chances of surviving a 40mph bike accident without some kind of injury are slim. In a car you'd be much better off. At much higher speeds it becomes a different matter - in a car you'll be injured, on a bike you'd be so battered you wouldn't really give a toss as long as someone turned the pain off or ended it all for you... if you were still concious.

Cars are safer in crashes, which is great because it means I can get my danger and adrenaline fix on my bikes. I don't want biking made any safer than it already is tbh, it'd take half the fun out of it. By safer I mean gadgets that stop a bike sliding and throwing you off, traction control, and anything that takes the skill needed to survive out of riding. But... I do like having ABS on a bike for those "Oh Christ, he's pulled out on me" moments

Motorcycles are 100% safe in their own right , it`s the moment you put a key in the ignition where the safety aspect gets a bit blurry .

[BanannaMan]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

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...

Have you been here???
Sadly all of that is true.

Had a bloke tell me the other day that full faced helmets were much more dangerous than his 'brain bucket' lid because they would break your neck in a crash.
I asked him if he ever watched WSB racing on TV.
He didn't get the connection though.


And yes most Harley riders claim to never, ever use the front brakes.

Originally Posted by Supervox

Let's get one thing straight here - MOTORCYCLES ARE NOT DANGEROUS !!

If you sit and stare at one it's not going to leap up and beat you about the head, or spontaneously decide to run you over.

Motorcycles - like most other things only become dangerous when in use & interacting with other people or things.

As for the OP's 'logic' - not quite in the same class as Aristotle, Plato or Socrates is it ?

Spot on, my thoughts exactly

[Stu]

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

lmao

some people are too deluded or stupid to be allowed out on the internets!!!

efa

[BanannaMan]

Originally Posted by Stu

efa

Just say it.

Originally Posted by husky03

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?

Not my views, i just copied and pasted from yahoo answers.
and nope, unfortunately im not that young anymore and have twice been very lucky myself when coming off a bike not to off hit something