Put the crack pipe down. There is NOBODY in this world that can back up that claim with facts lol! A bike is never safer than a legal race car...at any speed.Originally Posted by simontibbett
Racing bikes at high speeds is safer then cars, even pro superbike racers agree with that.
All the AMA riders I talk to and other riders such as WERA and such swear they will never get in a race car. I use to think the AMA guys were crazy but they're really not.
Talk to the AMA/WERA riders that used to race cars, or the ones that switched from bikes to cars...they will tell you.
Just as an example, the last time I can think of someone that died in a car at Road Atlanta was Bob Akin at the 2002 Mitty in a 1988 Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo. Since then there's been several cart and motorcycle deaths, including one decapitation.
To put it into perspective, 227 motorcycle riders have died at the Isle of Man since 1907 yet only 48 have died on the Nürburgring and the most deadly track is Indianapolis with 56. Hell, add up all the automobile deaths of the top 5 most deadly tracks: Indianapolis, Nurburgring, Monza, Daytona, & Le Mans equals 182 which is still 20% less than just the Isle of Man alone...
Well when you go into detail on TRACKS that's different, Isle of Man is a death trap anyway.
Obviously the risk factor to DIE on a bike is higher then a car.
They also don't release all deaths to the public, the Nurburgring has many street car deaths per year. Karts aren't bikes they're cars without a seat belt. lol
I'm just saying most I've talked to have always said they feel much safer on a bike then in a car strapped in a metal cage and Tnmound or whatever keeps throwing out he tracks a bike like we should be impressed or think he has big balls or something. lol
You ever ridden a bike on a track? Since the last time I checked, there has never been a neck or back injury with anyone wearing a Hans device, not once, since the early 90's (Yet NASCAR drivers refused to wear them for like 8 years until the light bulb came on but that's a totally different story). You're just about guaranteed one on a bike every time you go down. If you're lucky you just slide and don't high side it throwing you around like a rag doll...hopefully not hitting anything solid or getting hit by another bike in the mean time. In a car it is highly unlikely you'll be injured as long as you have your safety devices properly fitted, even when you get hit by another car.
You'll have a tough time finding a rider that hasn't had serious medical bills but most professional car drivers have not had anything other than checkups after incidences. Motorcycle riders are crazy, you have to be, but it comes natural for most of them because they've been riding since they could walk. If I was given the chance I would race bikes though lol!
MY INJURIES RACING CARS:
-bumped head w/o helmet getting into car
MY INJURIES RACING SPORTBIKES/MOTOCROSS/SUPERMOTO:
-11 dislocated shoulders
- broken pelvis
-9 or 10 broken ribs
-3 broken ankles
-3 broken wrists
-1 broken vertabrea
-1 broken collar bone
-1 broken knee
-1 collapsed lung
-1 punctured lung
-1 broken nose
-1 broken hip
- countless broken fingers
- 100 plus stitches
- 50 plus staples
- 1 fractured skull
Well either you're doing it ALL wrong or something is just really messed up. lol.
I've never been able to scare myself on a bike. Only things I've done that was really scary was when I tested a superkart.
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