3 reasons to as a car enthusiast/not to motorcycling
Posted on 17-04-2016 at 16:55 by Dizono – 130 Comments”
Car enthusiasts and motormuizen. Shared passion or two extremes? We highlight the arguments for both camps, which side are you on?
1. Motorcycling is more dangerous
Here, there is no pin between to get, compared happen with engines many more (fatal) accidents with cars. Up to eighteen times as much chance of a fatal accident per mile driven as in a car, according to European research. Where you in a car usually with scuffs or minor injuries come when someone else you have to overlook, which is on a motor soon disastrous consequences. With more than half of the serious motorcycle accidents is a collision with a car, often it is the rider overlooked. Something to be as a driver to bring so…
2. You are at the mercy of the elements
A car usually has a roof and so you’re sitting there nice and dry when it’s raining, you can turn the heat on when it is cold outside and you set the climate control to 20 degrees when the outside very hot day. All things that can’t be on a motorcycle. In the winter it is freezing cold and slippery, in the summer sweat you out of your leather motorcycle outfit. Driving is more comfortable than riding a motorcycle, once again, no pin between to get.
3. Engines are anything but practical
Depending on the motor varies, the storage space of a motor of three bags up to a rugtasje and a tankbag. Shopping at the well-known Swedish meubelboer is there so not at. Opposite to this, is that you with your engine between files can drive (the time is relatively limited, but the feeling is priceless) and you are in big cities almost anywhere you can park and not have to pay for.
Two valid arguments and a third that is only partly true. An engine is rarely the only motorized means of transport and also has practical advantages. From my own experience, I would say that especially the first argument is very much used and of course that is not entirely unjustified. It is also difficult to discuss, since the hard data is now not determined in favor of the motorcyclists speak. In order to have a lance to break for the bikers, here are three arguments in favor of the engine.
1. Riding a motorcycle is the ultimate driving experience
Where you in a car, often 1000 to 1500 kilos of steel and plastic with your meezeult, weighs a little engine around 200 pounds. No unnecessary things like a roof, extra wheels, windows and a radio, but a machine with but one goal: driving pleasure on offer, unfiltered driving pleasure. The sound and the acceleration, if the gas is full of open draws, the joy as you smoothly through the sequential gears, the satisfaction of a perfectly taken quick turn and the violence with which the wind at a higher speed against you with ease, the emotions that you are almost alone on a motorcycle experience.
2. Motorcycling is cheap
Of course, you can also be very expensive engines to buy, but generally speaking, motorcycle riding best affordable. You want as a car enthusiast to begin with riding a motorcycle, count on approximately 3,500 euros (from): 1500 euro for your lessons and exams, from 1000 euro for a nice beginnersmotor and an equal amount for a good outfit. Don’t save on that last, a good helmet and a ditto suit are all novice motorcycle rider is very important. For 1000 euro you can buy for example a nice Honda CBR 600 F2 with approximately 100 horsepower, a top speed of 240 km/h and an acceleration that even brand new Porsches and Ferrari’s makes it difficult. Insurance and road tax will cost you both around a tenner per month and 1:20 with most engines, simple to pick up. A little fun car for the weekend is so expensive!
3. Motorcyclists are better motorists
A bold statement for which I have no scientific evidence I can find, but I aandurf. Just because you as a motorcyclist is so vulnerable, it is important to anticipate and more aware with the traffic to be doing than you as a driver are used. Experience that you bring with you when you as a rider get in your car.
Yesterday was still about 10 things you should not say to petrolheads and this shows that a significant part of you anything but practical set. Driving is emotion and choices are more with the heart than with the mind. Precisely for that reason, I would expect that there are quite a few car enthusiasts, a motorcycle license or would like to get. But is that so, or weigh one or more of the first three arguments are still to heavy for you? Let the pro – and anti-motorrijdendiscussie but break loose (but keep it clean)!
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