I think motorcycles tend to attract the more *ahem* adventurous drivers. Those knuckleheads probably drive like that in cars too.
I'm probably going to get a motorcycle sometime in the next year, and I'm an extremely safe driver. I admit, I drive faster than many people, but I get passed my share on the freeway, and I'm as careful and paranoid on the road as anyone I know. I haven't ever been in an accident that was my fault, and the one fender-bender I was in, I was 16 years old and had just gotten my license and didn't yet understand all the ways people can drive like idiots. I treat everyone on the road as if they're psychotic and potentially homicidal. It'll be even more so when I don't have any side impact zones to cushion my fragile bones.
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