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Originally Posted by Hugh R
A little late but, yeah, you will jump up to the No. 1 organ donor pool in the United States. I won't ride a motorcycle or bicycle on the streets in Los Angeles County. I've almost been killed (literally) three times in my life from being on a "Bike" motorized or otherwise. The first time involved loss of a testicle when a cab cut me off while in college in Boston/Cambridge and jammed the down handle bar on my 10 speed into my groin, coming out around my navel, cost me a couple feet of intestine as well. I'm told that they took me to the nearest trauma hospital (Mt. Auburn in Cambridge, MA) where they apparently gave me the Last Rites. The second time was in front of the Santa Monica City Library when I pulled out and a lady in a car turned the wrong way on a one way street and hit me and I hit the pavement hard and watched a UPS truck smoke his tires an stop about a foot from my head. The third time, I was in Venice and I was stopped at a light and this chick didn't see me and hit my rear end and propelled me into oncoming traffic and a car hit the front end of my bike and knocked me about 20 feet. On that one, all I got was road rash.
Sure ride a bike in LA. Just make sure you've got lots of life insurance for your kid. To not have it would be irresponsible.
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Sounds like at the very least bad luck. I know a few people who have had several accidents while riding bikes. It's never been their fault, but for some reason they manage to still get in accidents. On the other hand, I know several people with thousands, actually hundreds of thousads of miles and have never had a accident. Everybody shouldn't be on a motorcyle, some just have to crash alot to figure that out.
Actually, to not have lots of life insurance for your family should anything happen to you would be irresponsible whether you ride a motorcyle or not.