Originally Posted by skr00zloose

i look at it like this, i can jump off the bike if ned be to clear myself of an impending bad situation. it's alot harder to jump out of a car. factor in the fact that a bike will out manuever, out accelerate, and most importantly, out brake just about any car on the road, and it's a no brainer. not to mention the fact that i can see alot more on the bike, and i tend to be ALOT more focused on what's going on around me without the distraction of a radio, cell phone, etc.

it's not myself i worry about, it's the idiots in cages on the phone and not paying attention to what the hell they're doing. people tend to forget what kind of damage a ton of rolling metal and plastic can do when it hits something, and they're deffinatly not thinking abouty what it would do if it hit me and/or my bike.

Originally Posted by Stea1thy

+100000, thats what most people don't understand, I try explaining that to my friends and parents, but they've never ridden so there's no way for them to really get what I'm saying, and police too, like when I'm riding sometimes I get pulled over.... I know exactly what I'm doing and am riding well within my capabilities, but for some reason the law labels it as "reckless"

Originally Posted by skr00zloose

hence the quote "if you don't get it, you probably never will"

as far as what the law labels reckless, you have to take into account that they have to make the laws for the "lowest common denominator". meaning that not everyone is competent enough to drive above a certain speed, on certain road, or what have you. they have to base the laws on the people that CAN'T drive above a certain point without killing themselves, or someone else. it sucks for the rest of us. too bad the gov't doesn't believe in survival of the fittest, or cleansing the gene pool. they have to save the people who can't save themselves.