Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

The difference with motorbikes is that you do it much faster and often use the whole road, getting close to the verge on the 'wrong' side of the road. Calculating the best line while taking all hazards into account at high speeds is a new skill.

Or you can just slow down, nothing wrong with that. But as you get more confident your speed may well increase. You could be one of the few bikers who doesn't break the speed limit. But you seem like one of the ones who will.

The electronic aids don't have a role to play in a high proportion of bad crashes. If there's a smidsy, ABS doesn't help if you freeze in terror. This is very common. If you pick the wrong line and suddenly realise you won't make the corner, the aids don't stop you panicking or allow you to lean past the point of no return.

Study other people's crashes on youtube and try to work out how the riders could have prevented them, especially when a car driver has made an obvious mistake. Bikers always say that drivers are trying to kill them and that drivers are to blame for this and that and the other, as if staying alive is a lottery or not in your hands. But you make your own luck. You have to factor others' possible mistakes into your riding. If you don't, you're also guilty of making a mistake. The driver is hardly ever the one who gets hurt, so if you want to live you need to be the responsible one who plans with everybody's mistakes in mind.