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In my 4 decades of racing and riding, I have lost a lot of friends to motorcycles. Maybe 50. I still ride and race, of course, but every second is spent assessing, evaluating and calculating the lowest risk alternative for my next move, or the moves of others surrounding me. I ride as safely as I possibly can. These days I race a Ninja 300 with a top speed of 115 MPH. Its still possible to die, but the risk is much, much lower than racing a 250 GP bike.

In my early days, I crashed and totaled every single bike I owned. Probably the first 10. Fortunately, I survived. I feel very badly for the families of other young people who didn't have that luck.

“You live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life.”

- Marco Simoncelli