My wife works at a hospital. All the nurses and doctors there call you guys who ride scooters and motorcycles ORGAN DONORS
because unfortunately, quite a few of you end up that way.
Guess the family can put on your headstone, “He saved a coupla bucks on gas”
LOL. The tank on the thing is about 2.5 liters. We fill it up so seldom that we literally forget to gas it.
We call them organ donors where I work too and call the helmets “brain buckets.” When you’re hit by a full size vehicle at highway speeds, ejected and your head plows into a concrete barrier the helmet is useful for keeping all your parts together. We also see a lot of guide wire amputations from these human missiles.
While nobody will argue that motorcycling is truly safe, there have been great advances in safety gear in the last 5 years alone. There are now airbag jackets and soon full suits that make you look like the Michelin man in the event of an accident. They’ve saved a number of pro riders from nasty crashes lately.
Also, MOST of the idiots that end up dying in a crash weren’t wearing full gear.
Wear all the gear, all the time.
By the way, still safer than getting pinned in the wreckage of a Geo Metro while you bleed out, or in a Prius as the battery pack shorts through the chassis... and you.
My wife also works at a hospital, and WE RIDE with other doctors and nurses. Cower in hole and you won’t live one moment longer.