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RE: DOES ANYONE STILL RIDE MOTORBIKES?
Although I'm quite liberterian, I agree with that:
But the New Zealand government decided that like marijuana, and cures for cancer, motorbikes needed to be outlawed out of existence.
Some weeks ago a 17 year old son of my collegue Heiko died by accident on a motorbike. The risk of beeing injured or killed is too high. Motorbikes are not secure. Even cars are not, but compared to motorbikes they are quite save.
Sorry to hear that - yes they certainly are dangerous - I started racing off road when I was 17 and developed a lot of riding skills, but I never felt comfortable riding them on the road. I did ride a bicycle every day though and had a few crashes doing that.
NZ used to have a big motorbike scene, but now there are very few, and over 3x as many cars as there were 30 years ago. When I was a baby my parents put a sidecar on their Triumph Tiger 650...