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http://www.motorcycleforum.com/showthread.php?t=123925
1. I really did not like you steriotyping bikers. I used to ride my bike fast. but I never compromised on safety. I should've been dead twice if not for the gear.
2. bikes being unsafe is not an excuse to not wearing a seat belt or not having safety features in the car. (your argument is immature.)
3. even the newer bikes are coming with ABS. the technology is slowly maturing... just because you cannot pull an abs from car and fit it to a bike. does CBR 250 sound familiar?
which universe?
So did Senna. does that make all cars unsafe?
PS: at 120kmph the chance of survival in a car are
zero if you don't wear seat belts. same as on a bike if you dont wear helmet and riding gear.
As for the image, I take it with a pinch of salt.
1: I'm myself a biker, and a soon to be big bike biker at that. So I talk from personal experience. And I'm talking of the inadequacy of riding gear to completely save you from a crash at 100 km/hr.
2: Please tell me how it is immature. Both are motorized vehicles. Both do the same speed. Both carry you.
3: Yep. They are. And if there is an option, I'd blindly tick it. But then how many Indian bikes offer ABS. 3 (Apache 180 ABS, CBR250R and 390). Even the Ninja 650 doesnt have ABS.
Thats the speed a city car would do. But even on the highway, the puny hatches with tiny 1.2 engines dont do beyond 140. Most of them do about 120.
Senna died decades ago. Talk about gutierrez crash vs simoncelli crash for a fair comparison.
The chances of survival on a bike crash at 120 are close to zero anyway, gear or no gear. You can have a crash at 120 and then the vehicle behind you can run you over, because reaction time is fraction of a second. In car I dispute that claim. Most of Indians wear seatbelts just to avoid challan, and in the city. Once they are on the highway, they open them to let their paunches breathe more freely. And in crashes, they do survive, dont they?
PS: My current car is a Skoda Fabia 1.2 elegance. It has ABS and Airbags, both of which were insisted by me. But now in the next one, I'm not quite so sure.