I need to add one thing: Not all riders and drivers are created equal. The lions share of motorcycle fatalities and injuries are young guys on 600 cc crotch rockets. And it isn’t just their age that causes it. Fact is, a lot of people do not have the hand-eye coordination and spacial reasoning ability to handle a bike safely. Older people know their limitations more than young people do. It is my personal forte. It is for a couple of other riders I know personally.
I’ve also seen guys on bikes that have no business riding. I watched a guy in front of me trying to adjust his helmet while riding around a corner and he went wide, straight into the side of a boat being pulled by a large truck. He had no business doing that on a corner. He had no business riding a bike.
Bikes are kind of a darwinian gene pool cleanser.
—— The lions share of motorcycle fatalities and injuries are young guys on 600 cc crotch rockets. -——
On a Virginia to Massachusetts trip, we passed 32 motorcycles. Actually, 30 passed us, at high rates of speed, as we travelled at 70 mph.
Of those, 28 were driving recklessly, weaving in traffic. Most were kids on Japanese bikes.
So my conclusion is that motorcycle riding isn’t inherently dangerous. The drivers are the problem.