[Blarg]

This is kind of how I look at it. I haven't ridden anything since my mini-bike days as a kid and my friend's real one around the parking lot years ago, but loved the heck out of it. And I've also had enough odd and disastrous harmful things happen to me that I figure a motorcycle would get me killed. Especially with the outrageously terrible and aggressive drivers in L.A. Heck, the first week I got a bicycle here I almost got killed and wound up in the hospital.

A motorcycle seems like it puts you in those terrible situations in life where your well being comes down not to your own skill and attention, but to the lack of idiocy in others. I have never found others to be reliable in this regard.