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[quote=Anonymous]I'd love to get a motorcycle but they are dangerous.

The greatest danger with motorcycles is that drivers don't see them.
That sounds impossible but there is a real scientific phenomenon that the mind's eye can't see what it does not expect to see.  Drivers are expecting to see cars and trucks, but not motorcycles.

Probably the largest number of motorcycle occur from cars making left hand turns right in front of motorcycles.

The two vehicles are approaching each other from opposite directions.  The driver of the car sees an open road in front of him and begins to make a left hand turn.  What he did not see was an approaching motorcycle travelling at normal speeds.  He makes the turn right in front of the motorcycle and the motorcycle broadsides the car usually killing the motorcycle driver.

This happens somewhere in the US everyday.  For years I've wanted to buy a BMW touring bike and travel the American northwest and maybe Alaska too.  Maybe I will someday, but unfortunately no one just walks away from a motorcycle accident.

So, I want to do it too, but even the safest motorcycle driver get killed in accidents every year.

Tell us if you do it, maybe it will give me the courage to do it too.[/quote]

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