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Aside: When I used to ride a motorbike, I found the combination exhilarating of the more severe consequences of an accident, with greater ability to be aware of
by 10ren 17y ago
Aside: When I used to ride a motorbike, I found the combination exhilarating of the more severe consequences of an accident, with greater ability to be aware of it and greater ability to deal with it. Unlike a car, a motorbike has a full field of vision, and you can also see over cars because you are higher. It's also more agile: you can turn, brake and accelerate more quickly, it being lighter; and of course you can pass through smaller gaps to get out of trouble.
It's incredible fun.
But I limited my riding to a year, because you can't avoid some accidents, and the consequences are severe: a friend worked in prosthetics, and half of the recipients are motorcycle riders.
- bigiain 17y agoA friend of mine was in hospital for a quite serious motorcycle accident (as in "lost half a leg" type serious), and was in a ward with 3 other motorcycle accident patients. The four of them had a lot of fun, whenever any visitors started questioning their intentions about continuing to ride, by pointing out the the _next_ ward had four guys all of whom had fallen off ladders. Yeah, motorcycling is dangerous - you're around 10 times more likely to be hospitalised or killed per kilometer travelled according to local (Australian) stats - but _life_ is dangerous, and not having fun isn't living...