re: Does anyone regularly ride a motorcycle? have you ever wrecked?

I used ride a lot and even did track days at Barbers. Ive low sided half a dozen times or so and fortunately the only time I high sided, I rolled and escaped injury.

The thing is there are people that are not meant to ride motorcycles. You have to be born with a spacial 6th sense of knowing where everything is around you at all times. Furthermore you have to be prepared for the worst case scenerio. Every car traveling in your direction can merge into you, slam on brakes or run over you while you are slowing. When stopped at a light, never be the only one at the light. Every car on side street can pull out in front of you so you must be prepared by covering your brakes. Every on coming car can left hook you (the single most dangerous threat to a rider). Always have an escape route.

As you can see from above, you can not relax with city riding. Motorcycles in the US, belong in less dense rural areas. Now that I have a family, I really dont think Ill get back into it until much later in life.