People don’t drive motorbikes in the West because they are absurdly expensive, and because car-brained morons make them extremely dangerous to drive. There are actually countries where majority of people drive motorbikes (eg Vietnam), and given bikes are much more fuel efficient, less dangerous to pedestrians, take up less space etc., it would honestly make a lot of sense for Western govt.’s to encourage people to drive them alongside encouraging cycling instead of cars (not Harleys obviously but scooter type bikes), although it will never happen due to car brain. But I think plenty of people would be willing to take them up if (as another poster has suggested) China for example started mass producing cheap bikes for the Western market.
People don’t drive motorbikes in the West because they are absurdly expensive, and because car-brained morons make them extremely dangerous to drive. There are actually countries where majority of people drive motorbikes (eg Vietnam), and given bikes are much more fuel efficient, less dangerous to pedestrians, take up less space etc., it would honestly make a lot of sense for Western govt.’s to encourage people to drive them alongside encouraging cycling instead of cars (not Harleys obviously but scooter type bikes), although it will never happen due to car brain. But I think plenty of people would be willing to take them up if (as another poster has suggested) China for example started mass producing cheap bikes for the Western market.