A few years back I was like the second or third car into an intersection after a motorcycle got t-boned. Well before the paramedics, everyone getting out to try and help. Protected left hand turn, the other driver blew a red at 11pm.
Motorcycle guy was very dead. I won’t get into details but it was gruesome. Car driver was distraught and freaking out but physically perfectly fine.
They’re fundamentally unsafe to have on roads with four wheeled vehicles. If the motor cycle driver had been in a car it would have been a bad night but almost certainly survivable. I had a similar wreck (t-boned during left turn) in HS and, medically, it was no big deal (car was totaled).
If people want to take the risk that’s fine, but acting like it’s just as safe as a car is crazy. A 30-40 mph passenger side t-bone isn’t a life threatening even for the driver in a car, and it’s a pretty easy situation to get yourself into through no fault of your own. On a bike you’re lucky if it’s just live changing injuries. And this is only one example of many that others have probably already come up with ITT.
Ride if you want to but good lord you have to at least recognize the safety issues.
