As a motorcyclist, I don’t ride on the road...trees do not pull out in front of you...I learned my lesson when I was 14 doing a wheelie in the woods and hit a tree...
True... and again, when one rides long enough, one learns to anticipate most things that traffic, even stupid traffic, will do.
I even flashed my lights once at a police cruiser waiting at a cross intersection, rather than risking him not seeing me and running into me. He didn’t come after me, but if he had, I would have explained the safety rationale. Didn’t want him to fail to see me.
As for a wheelie... first time I went on the road, on a Bultaco Alpina 360, I wheelied. And I didn’t even know it until my riding buddy told me I had. That thing was light. 100 pounds wet. But powerful.