The danger is often overplayed, when riding you just have to be very alert and defensive and you will be fine. I’ve been riding all my life and have yet to meet with an accident.
or else you wouldn’t be here to tell us about it.
In a car, you get into a minor accident (say a 20 mph frontal collision with another car), your car suffers cosmetic damage, you drive away upset. On a scooter, you get into the same 20 mph collision, you’re carried away in an ambulance to the nearest hospital, if not morgue.
Riding motorcycles and scooters is a dangerous extreme sport. It can be enjoyed responsibly under right conditions but I’d never switch from a car to a motorcycle just to save money on gas. It’s basically playing Russian roulette and I can’t put a price tag on my own life. I’ve seen too many crashed motorcycles on back roads of San Diego county. I personally met a guy who was paralyzed from the waist down because his motorcycle slipped on some piece of trash on a freeway on-ramp and he broke his back in the fall. I had a few close encounters myself, they happen more often than you’d think.
