Making motorcycling safer

[Blackbird]

I liken motorcycling to flying - they both require a high degree of skill, are both unforgiving of operator error and are both unforgiving of poor maintenance. And when either goes wrong, blood is spilt; whereas a car can have a major crash resulting in zero injury. Therefore I believe we can learn a lot from pilots.

When I stuck that bit of research from Nottingham University on several bike forums to to get feedback, the strongest positive response was in fact from people with flying experience. Competitive sailing also uses the same anticipatory skill sets as pilots and motorcycling. Well, motorcycling SHOULD use the same skill sets but the high level of derisory comments from other forums might indicate that testosterone is alive and well (and preventing continual upskilling)

[Genestho]

What does it cost to get a pilot's license?

[avgas]

Remove the helmet law - with any luck the dumb ones will die off quicker

[Usarka]

What does it cost to get a pilot's license?

Heaps, but you can your full licence after 50 hours.

[shrub]

What does it cost to get a pilot's license?

A bloody fortune. You need 50 hours, plus a lot of ancilliary costs, and instructed flight time cost around $120 an hour when I was flying (around 20 years ago). At the time I was between bikes (small children etc) and it dawned on me that the cost of a flying license was about the same as a good bike, and a bike I could ride whenever I wanted, I didn't need an airfield to ride it and if you think bikes are expensive to own, aircraft take it to a new league!

[p.dath]

I responded to a question similar to this a while ago.

To decide to improve things you first have to work out what you want the end result to be. Then you can take steps to get there.

For me, I started by defining what a good "road user" is. I found the answers where independent on what type of transport you used.

So if you asked me, all road users - not just motorcyclists - should receive training to help them achieve the attached qualities. Note that not many of these qualities are skill related.

This is, of course, my personal opinion.