Quote Originally Posted by suhl
i think they are as dangerous. im not saying they should be illegal, but ive always thought get in a fender bender with a car, thats all it is. get in a fender bender with a motorcycle, there might be a dead body involved.

Usually depends on how hard you hit the car with your body. Hitting the road and sliding isn't dangerous if you wear your gear. Long as you're not being stupid and flying down the road much faster than the flow of traffic, there should be no reason you hit somebody that hard. Unless somebody pulls out in front of you, which did happen to me once. But since I wasn't hauling ass where I shouldn't have been, I missed the car.

from what ive seen the only real argument, which is still weak as hell, motorcycle people have is that no accident invlolving a motorcycle is the fault of the person on the bike, and that motorcycle riders are better at driving their bike than you are driving your car. gimme a break is all im saying.

I hear ya on that one. I'm not saying that. I'll be the first to tell ya it was entirely my fault. And that I can't ride well enough to do the things I do (or did) on that bike. And most people have many more years experience driving their cars than I do riding my bike. And that driving is much much easier than riding. So I won't claim that. And the people that are saying that are not the good bikers. Good, smart bikers do realize when they can ride and when they can't.

good for surviving though. makes that avatar seem pretty eery.
No kidding. Didn't realize that. Gives me a good reason to keep it.