motorbikes or cars?

Question

What do you think is safer?

thank you :) following another question i answered the other day...that just confirms what i thought all along.However,if there were no cars on the roads bikes would be alot safer.

" I don't recall the exact story but apparently someone asked a doctor when it was likely they'd be getting a new donor organ, the doctor replied "Well, it's raining so it shouldn't be too long." "

it wouldve been amusingly ironic if that doctor happened to crash and die in his car on the way home.

yes im a pillion every other day,my bf has one,as do the rest of his family.

I think older people are safer because theyre more experienced,and know what they can and cant get away with.However,there are alot of mopeds on the roads driven by 16-18 who cant ride safe for Sh*t,although i dont class moped as motorbikes i bet theyre still included in the figures.

Answer 1

Will cars are obiviously safer... I love both... CARS and BIKES. I just love to drive hahaha

Answer 2

Cars, for sure.

Motorcycles leave the occupant too open. If you're in a car and get hit by another, you have at least some protection. On a bike, well, I really don't think leather/denim is a great protector against metal travelling at speed.

Yes, motorcyclists are known as Organ Donors in hospitals.

I don't recall the exact story but apparently someone asked a doctor when it was likely they'd be getting a new donor organ, the doctor replied "Well, it's raining so it shouldn't be too long."

Answer 3

I own both so i am able to give an honest opinion !
Motorbike`s are far safer than a lot of people think , every year you hear of someone being killed on a motorbike but i would say only a small percentage ( about 15% ) of them killed are actually rider fault !
the amount of time i have near misses by car driver`s not paying attention are to many i dare to remember , we have to put up with irresponsible farmer`s who herd their cattle through the country road`s not bothering about all the horse / cow s hit all over the road`s ( do they get fined for not picking this up ) or the idiot resident`s spreading gravel on the bend`s on country road`s so rider`s have difficulty controlling their machines or the .......i could go on & on but it`s getting late ,
My honest opinion is a motorbike IF other people were a little more considerate to us on the road`s !

Answer 4

As with anything It's up to the operator of the vehicle and not the vehicle itself.

Way too many answers are from people that have NEVER RIDDEN A MOTORCYCLE, so how valid are their answers?

Anyone with a pulse and two brain cells can drive a car (what's that say about the ones that can't?), but on a motorcycle YOU are part of the vehicle and how it handles. A lot of people don't understand that, and if you don't have the coordination and the patience to learn the proper way to ride you are just a squid.

For example, I GUARANTEE that I am less likely to be killed on my motorcycle than some car-load of teenagers all text-ing each other. I know how to operate my vehicle, I know my abilities, I wear FULL GEAR (not just a helmet), and I pay attention to my surroundings.

Answer 5

It an age thing, Bokes are much safer when ridden aggressively and flamboyantly by young people than cars but the safety does not improve as speed reduces, in fact a stationary motorbike is completely unstable, cars however are completely stable at rest but become unstable at high speed unless draggy spoilers which in any case prevent high speed are fitted, and again over 30 the average guy no longer has the reactions to ride a bike

Answer 6

You already know my opinion, I believe. The motorcycle of course. Most of the people who answered "car" have never been on one. I am not an organ donor. Car wrecks kill/maim more people than motorcycles ever have. As far as how smart we all are, well............. It is a proven fact that more people are cut using a dull knife. A sharp one cuts what it's supposed to. A dull one slips.

Opinions or facts, take your pick. They are usually at opposite ends of the spectrum. I am knowledgable about and skilled with everything I own. And I rode in the sleet and freezing rain today. Age, my eye.

Answer 7

You are 3 times more likely to be killed on a Bike compared to a car.

However; I ride 80-100 miles per day in LA traffic,(worst in the country), and I have never been in an accident in the 6 years I've been doing it. It depends greatly on who is driving/riding

Answer 8

depends on how you mean really a car is only safe when the moron who owns it is sat in doors. i have a car and a gsxr 1000 and i find on the bike you can get out of touble as you see it coming. in wiltshire last yr there was 534 accidents 9 were bikes.
cars are no safer then bikes in my opinion its down to whos in control. cars do more damage. i find those that moan about bikes are scared of them with out really knowing what they are like.my bike can stop quicker then most cars , i can pick an escape route if needed to avoid collision a car has no chance.
so called experts who dont ride dont know FA about bikes.

Answer 9

I think the question is answered.

At the college I once worked (800 students) we lost one student a year because of motorcycle accidents. At any point in time there would be three others walking around on crutches becasue of a motorcycle accident.

Then again, not many could afford cars.

Answer 10

Cars are safer of course!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can't fall off a car, well not normally, anyway when you drive it!

You're teasing us (to get lots of answers?)!

Of course cars are mainly safer,
but hey motorbikes are just so ******* class, have you ridden one? You will have to try one, or at least try pillion? It's amazing to ride any bike well! I have ridden and raced off-road motorbikes as well as road bikes and have toured to. Bikes are magic the (brisker) / better you ride them usually means the more fun you'll have. But if ridden too tamely it is then that you'll get chewed up or splatted, usually by some car driver.

Bikes are awesome there is nought better for me than a spin on one. But bikes are way more dangerous like a legal weapon, but so is a sharp knife and / however, if used correctly both will do what they are meant to do very well, the difference is you usually don't get knocked or fall off your sharp knife.
Bye........
PS get a bike, get a bike, get a bike and another one!

Answer 11

Cars are safer. It does not matter if there were no cars on the road, either. Solo wrecks are not uncommon on bikes, because riders hit curbs, wet patches, gravel, sand, each other, or they drive off the road because they think they can take curves much faster than they really can.