Tim H
Well travelled
- Location
- Somerset UK
Is it that different over the pond?In my humble opinion and observations folks on my side of the pond who ride early on their motoring life tend to be better drivers than those who start out cars only.
The UK being more moto centric and more moto aware than the USA I can't help but think that bringing the barriers to riding back down to earth will yield big returns for you all in the years to come after.
I know that all my generation of boys and a fair few girls started on mopeds at 16 then onto a 125 or 250 at 17 simply because cars were out of reach. Most of us went on to take a bike test and then we could ride any size bike. Cars tended to come about the time we thought about serious relationships.
My mum and dad were both bikers, mum was one of 11 kids, only 3 didn't ride bikes. Grandad was a biker from the age of 14 when he started as an undertakers assistant carrying coffins on a flat sidecar attached to a flat tanker.
Certainly early years as a biker makes you more aware when driving a car and I believe a safer driver as a result.
Sadly now there are far fewer youngsters getting on bikes which is really sad, for us it was a way to explore, socialise, besides transport for work.
For new bikers it's difficult and expensive to get on 2 wheels.