Originally Posted by
LeonOfTheDead
Think of a motorbike: even in high speed crashes, the chassis is usually intact, and it weights...don't know, 50 kg?!
In an accident a bike rarely hits anything square on, mostly glancing blows. The frame is also usually wrapped tightly around the engine. As for the weight, sports bike beam frames are usually around the 10kg mark, the trellis frames used on Ducatis, KTMs etc etc, sit around the 6-7kg mark.
And despite all that, bike's twist, crack and snap frames in crashes all the time.
Originally Posted by
Dino Scuderia
Well, I should have been more assertive in my previous statement. I travel the American highways every day....I know there are as many or more larger vehicles on our roads than small.
Which would be why smaller cars are less safe there. Do you have an stats showing injury and fatality in single-vehicle accidents only? That would be far more telling of the respective safety of the two types of vehicles.
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