idk if that's true, but I know from Bret Tkacs videos that something like 80% of motorcycle crashes are single-vehicle incidents ie high siding or hitting a wall. Bikes just have a lot less room for error than cars, full stop.
I actually remembered the stats completely backwards. Here's the relevant quote from the Hurt Report
Approximately three-fourths of these motorcycle accidents involved collision with another vehicle, which was most usually a passenger automobile.
Approximately one-fourth of these motorcycle accidents were single vehicle accidents involving the motorcycle colliding with the roadway or some fixed object in the environment.
I think that's technically true just cause so many new motorcyclists just make life threatening mistakes before they're fully comfortable on it, but the real danger is that even if you get over that learning curve, no matter how good you are, you only have to share the road with one bad or even just momentarily absent-minded driver in a car to be killed or permanently disabled.
motorcycles are pretty safe if you survive the first two years of riding one
(I heard this on the internet and it feels clever so I did not fact check it at all.)
idk if that's true, but I know from Bret Tkacs videos that something like 80% of motorcycle crashes are single-vehicle incidents ie high siding or hitting a wall. Bikes just have a lot less room for error than cars, full stop.nope, see my correction below
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I actually remembered the stats completely backwards. Here's the relevant quote from the Hurt Report
I think that's technically true just cause so many new motorcyclists just make life threatening mistakes before they're fully comfortable on it, but the real danger is that even if you get over that learning curve, no matter how good you are, you only have to share the road with one bad or even just momentarily absent-minded driver in a car to be killed or permanently disabled.