JA Genter cycles in labour to hospital

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Great in theory but like many people I prefer the protection of a bit of bodywork around me. I've survived enough years riding motorcycles to appreciate the decrease in vulnerability that a car offers over 2 wheeled vehicles.

Every car is just adding to the problem.

But it seems wasteful to me to use 1500 kg of steel and plastic to move 80 kg of person. And statistically it is much safer cycling. Perhaps emotionally it is more dangerous.

And it is much more dangerous riding motorcycles, you are going much faster and are more vulnerable. I also am a motorcyclist and former motorcycle racer and have had my fair share of crashes.

Motorcyclists have the advantages of rapid acceleration and (for the wise ones) protective clothing. The thing that was a major factor in my getting rid of mine was the amount of tradies using their cellphones on the rural arterial roads I often rode on. Sooner or later one of those pricks was going to spell doom for me!