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I hate to burst your bubble, but maybe it depends on where you live.   
As I've said, I have a foot in both user groups and I know WAY more  
people who have been permanently injured and/or killed on horses.   
Now, let me give this caveat:  I also don't mean to disparage certain  
motorcycle users, but it truly depends on if you're talking about the  
Harley crowd that rides from bar to bar with no helmet on or the "kid"  
who buys a new super bike and has never ridden a motorcycle of any  
kind until then or even worse the mid-life crisis guy who buys a bike  
that is more powerful than anything he's ever driven in a car and who  
has no training or experience with motorcycles, etc.  The motorcycle  
folks I "hang out with" grew up riding dirt bikes, they learned how to  
handle turning, gravel, etc.  They all wear helmets and protective  
gear.  They competed in off road events of all kinds.  They do things  
like ride on their BMWs to the Arctic Circle or the length of Mexico,  
etc.  Do they occasionally have wrecks...you bet, but that's the  
exception, not the rule.  And, the worst wreck many of them have been  
in involved things like a car driver turning in front of them or a  
deer running into the highway and wiping them off their bike.  Many of  
them are riding into their 60s and even 70s.  Anyhow, one of my best  
friends is an ER nurse and she can tell you that although she has seen  
some horrible and stupid motorcycle victims, she sees WAY more horse  
accidents.  BTW, my motorcycle friends all think think that what "I"  
do is WAY more dangerous :)  Cindy

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