Yes it’s possible with unfortunate circumstances. “Very easily die at 5 km/h” is demonstrably untrue, as though a significant amount of people that start up a bike die horribly. Yes bikes/mopeds/motorcycles are more dangerous than cars but it’s dumb to misrepresent reality like this.
The second half of your statement demonstrates how the bikers are acting unsafely in the first place.
My comment isn’t even really about motorcycles being extra dangerous. I ride every day that weather allows and have for over 30 years.
It is more about how remarkably fragile some of our bodies’ weak points are. Perhaps I could have worded it better. But to me ‘easily die’ just means unexpected stuff can happen when putting a bike down at all. Not that there is necessarily a high likelihood of it happening at that speed, just that it is easy.
Surely there is no nuance or inbetween option available. Surely they should just get the death penalty for such horrid theft and disrespect of the sanctity of physical posessions.
Not a comment on anything else but this is a ridiculous statement.
Let me know when you’ve got 100,000 km of saddle time and then we can have this chat again.
I’ve got over five times that and you’re wrong.
Motorcycles are known for sharing roads with other vehicles.
But yeah in isolation a broken ankle is far more likely at these speeds, not exactly life threatening in most cases.
You could be going 0km/h and fall off and die if you’re in the middle of the fucking road and someone hits you so like… yeah.
Yes it’s possible with unfortunate circumstances. “Very easily die at 5 km/h” is demonstrably untrue, as though a significant amount of people that start up a bike die horribly. Yes bikes/mopeds/motorcycles are more dangerous than cars but it’s dumb to misrepresent reality like this.
The second half of your statement demonstrates how the bikers are acting unsafely in the first place.
My comment isn’t even really about motorcycles being extra dangerous. I ride every day that weather allows and have for over 30 years.
It is more about how remarkably fragile some of our bodies’ weak points are. Perhaps I could have worded it better. But to me ‘easily die’ just means unexpected stuff can happen when putting a bike down at all. Not that there is necessarily a high likelihood of it happening at that speed, just that it is easy.
One wrong twist of the neck from a bad fall and you’re dead.
The bastard cops shouldn’t be doing this.
Yeah, the big meanies should just let them snatch all the phones they want and terrorise pedestrians.
Go fuck yourself.
You’re advocating summary execution for traffic violations.
Why are you absolutely convinced any fall on a motorbike is fatal? You’re absolutely everywhere in this thread making the same argument.
People fall off the things all the time.
Ah yes, the only to options:
Surely there is no nuance or inbetween option available. Surely they should just get the death penalty for such horrid theft and disrespect of the sanctity of physical posessions.
They actually do just run these twits over quite often, with massive public support.