4 Myths you should not believe about Motorcycles

By Ben Labs

4. Motorcycles are dangerous and get you will get hurt

Instead of a myth, its the understanding idea that motorcycles are dangerous, with no air bag or seat belts, why would you ride one of these things even though the appeal for riders is there’s nothing between you and the road. Below I want to introduce you to some stats, According to the NHTSA’s national statistics and analysis in 2006, 13.10 cars crashes out of 100,000 ended in a fatal car crash, while the rate for registered motorcycles is 72.34 out of 100,000 that ended in a fatal crash. They also found that for every mile traveled motorcyclist are at risk of a fatal crash is 35x greater then an car. This sounds bad but lets break this down

A famous study Done by David L Hugh in 1981 found that 75% of accidents involved a motorcycle and passenger vehicle while the other 25% represented singular motorcycle crashes or rider error. This statistic shows that the predominate cause of accidents were drivers failure to identify a motorcycle and almost half those accidents involved alcohol. Motorcycles are dangerous but you just need to take proper precautions like always.

3. You cant ride a motorcycle in the rain

Contrary to popular belief its completely possible to ride your bike in the rain, not only that on a hot summer day a nice drizzle could help relieve some of the intense sun. Riding in the rain is not the best when it first starts because all the junk in the road starts to rise, but 30 minutes in when its calm and you just feel the patter of the raining falling down. It also trains you on all weather conditions and studies showed that 98 % of all motorcycle accidents don’t involve weather.

2. Motorcycles are cheap to own

Yes bikes are relatively cheap to own, but this hobby is defiantly considered a money pit, from tires to track gear, to more tools. After saying this you can defiantly get away with riding cheaper, but as you ride longer your addiction to this hobby will grow and start to say, oh maybe one little track day a week its only a couple hundred bucks or just one road trip on a new road, or maybe I do need that tool. Motorcycle riding can be as cheap as you want, but ends up being pretty expensive to ride. Your also getting more than 40 mpg on most bikes so you wont be spending as much there and this leads on to my last myth.

1.Motorcycles are impractical and you will want to buy a car

This one is a tough one because cars do have the inherent advantage over motorcycles here is that they can carry a bunch more stuff then you can on a bike. But there are plenty of riders out there that only own a motorcycle as a primary source of transportation. We also have to think about that motorcyclist’s in the states have an america first mentality when thinking about bikes and can skew the decisions. In the rest of the world many people own just a motorcycle it may not be by choice, but the whole world owning a car is to expensive. So saying its impractical to own a motorcycle is hard to say but its totally possible to own a bike and live your life.