The system was set up by lawyers, for lawyers. They are always the winners. Like you I learned about the “features” of our legal system when I was in a 3-year suit as executor of an estate. That is a long story.

When you won, did their side cover your legal costs? Did you lose anything out of pocket? Have your injuries healed? Did you get a new bike?

I ride but am single without family and have been lucky in that nobody has hit me. If I had a family to take care of I might reconsider riding these mean streets (see the SUV discussion and how smug people are that they won’t be hurt when they cause accidents from behind the wheel of their suburban).