Rosalyn Olivera: It is bad to feel safer because it is not safer.Motorcycles are somewhat more dangerous for anyone, but especially anyone who feels safe on them. I recommend anyone under 25 avoid driving anything where they feel safe, because a feeling of safety tends to lead to carelessness. It is better to drive something that does not feel safe, so that you will be more careful.Cars are safer than motorcycles even for a person who correctly feels less safe on a motorcycle. For someone who feels safer on a motorcycle, it is even less safe than for a normal person....Show more
Alecia Kaehler: Frankly, yes it is very "bad" for you to feel safer on a motorcycle. There is no such thing as a fender-bender on a bike; every accident is serious for the bike and usually for the rider. Your car cannot fall over, but your bike certainly can. There are countless more single-vehicle accidents on motorcycles compared to cars, indicating rider error contributes to many more ! accidents for bikers than drivers of four-wheel vehicles.I do not ride my bike "scared" as some riders do, but I am hyper-vigilant. I constantly apprise my surroundings, other vehicles, road conditions, upcoming cross-streets and railroad crossings, cars turning in front of me, and so on. That is the only way to ride, in my book. If you remain vigilant throughout your rides, you will be tremendously safer, but it takes effort. This vigilance can even be fun, as it should really be a part of the ride.I suspect you feel safer on your bike than a car because the bike is much more maneuverable, and you can perform maneuvers within a much smaller space. I cannot argue with that. But you are many times more vulnerable on a bike than a car. For example, over the last year three cars almost sideswiped me when they quickly went into my lane. I was able to avoid them only because I always assume the idiot just might to it----and he did. If I had been not concentrating, I probably wou! ld have been thrown through the air and then dead, or wished I! was.Ride safe or don't ride, is my personal opinion and suggestion....Show more
Clifford Gombos: Actually yes because the safer you feel means you will ride it faster take curves faster try stunts and tricks on it.
Freeman Rutkin: Statistically motorcycles are definitely less safe. You are statistically more likely to have an accident, and of course accidents have worse consequences.But I know what you mean. When I'm on my motorcycle I seem to feel more aware of what's going on around me, maybe just because it's so dangerous. I don't take the same chances I'd take in a car. I've learned to be paranoid, to assume people in cars just don't see me, and I'm always almost expecting them to pull suddenly into my lane or make a left turn across my path or whatever. In fact some safety habits I've learned on the motorcycle, I take to the car too, like keeping a 2-second distance from the car in front.When I'm planning a long ride, I lie in bed the night before, th! inking it's crazy to do this, it's just too dangerous to ride a 400-lb missile at 75 mph within a few feet of cars going the same speed. It just seems really dangerous and stupid. But in the morning, when I'm actually ON the bike, I feel a lot safer, a lot more in control. And I have a very good safety record to look back on, not having had a serious accident in literally decades.But I think we bikers have to admit that biking is dangerous. We have to 'take ownership' of the danger and realize that WE make it safer by riding more carefully and responsibly....Show more
Asley Quickle: Statistical, a motorcycle is more dangerous.There are three types of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.Motorcycles dangerous because risk takers and speeders like motorcycles, because it is cheaper to ride a $4000 160 mph motorcycle than a $40,000 160 mph car.The fact is, a motorcycle is safer than a car. A motorcycle is smaller, quicker. A motorcycle has no blind spots. A moto! rcycle can move out of trouble that a car will be caught.I started driv! ing a car in 1962. I started riding a motorcycle in 1964. I have had one accident that disabled a car. I have had maybe a dozen bumps that dented cars, trucks, and vans. I will have admit that I have fallen on a motorcycle, at very speed or at a full stop. I have actually scraped an elbow, once, about a nickle-sized rash. I have *never* bumped my head when motorcycling. I have never crashed into something while riding. No one have ever managed to crash into my motorcycle.My last collision, about 8 years ago, was in my work van. I came off the freeway onto a street, into into a red stop. Vehicles stopped in front of me and both sides. I was standing there, stopped. I watched a school bus behind me not stopping. *IF* I had been on my motorcycle I could have slipped in between the lanes and avoid the collision. Instead I could not anything other than let her hit me.I *KNOW* that a motorcycle is safer than a car....Show more
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