Originally Posted by
SpeedJunkie
Not trying to argue with you... however there is a flaw in your stats. You make the assumption that a registered motorcycle means a rider... It does not, I am sure more than a few have more than one motorcycle. Not to mention the people that have bikes just sitting in garages that never get ridden but are registered.
It goes both ways however. There are people who ride motorcycles and crash or die that are not registered in VA or at all. Granted it might be a smaller preportion of non registered riders than registered riders who do not ride. Another thing I have not taken into consideration is the number of people who crash and simply don't report it because they only have liability coverage and it happened in the middle of no where (I am one of those statistics). Regardless of the margin of error my general point is that the chances of dying on a motorcycle in VA are not as alarming as people are making it seem.