TOPHEAVY? The top half of a van is mostly empty space. If you strapped a VW engine and transmission to the roof you could perhaps make the vehicle topheavy. Nonsense. Subject to buffeting by wind, because of being light, yes, but topheavy, no. Emphatically no.
HIGHER SPEEDS? Simply not true.
Nonsense squared. You’re right in your recommendation but totally wrong on facts.
I would suggest you didn't "wait" until you were 35 to learn to ride, you just didn't get around to it until then. You didn't make that decision in your 20's. I learned to ride in my teens and stopped in my 20's having survived (ooh, there's that word!) 3 crashes, one being vehicle-to-vehicle. Riding motor is not for me. Never took a training course; I would if I did it over again.
Just to catch you up on 21st century technology, yes you can use a cell phone on a motorcyle with a helmet, and you don't need an MP3 player installed on the bike to listen to your iPod. If you think people don't do this stuff you're kidding yourself.I wrote this in a thread about a bass player. Our bass player has a Honda Element. We can easily carpool with his amps and my kit.
It is indeed a small difference when you’re just making stuff up as you did with your 8 TIMES assertion. Where I live we have teenagers flipping Benzes and BMW’s all the time. They are presumably safe cars, but someone who is hellbent on effing up can crash them, usually with multiple deaths. Give me a stoner in a microbus any day.
I had a friend in 1981 that had a very bad accident while driving a 60’s VW bus. The accident should have killed anybody in just about any car but he had the ultimate protection, he was drunk. Deatails about the accident you ask, OK here they are, he hit a cow, a big cow, it came in the passenger door and went out the side door, friend spent about a month in the hospital with brain swelling.
What a wonderful story. You told it so well, and with such enthusiasm. Your “friend” hit a cow, the cow entered the vehicle through the passenger door, which last time I checked was on the SIDE of the vehicle (this entailed the cow opening the door and going up stairs under stress, something of which cows are not fond), then exited through the side door, which is on the same side as the passenger door. I’ve lived on a cattle farm and driven a VW bus, but nothing about your story is believable except that SOMEONE was drinking (and probably had to come up with a story on short notice). In short, I don’t believe you.
P.S. How did the cow open the side door? It’s really a marvelous story. Drinking’s fun, isn’t it?
Yes, it does indeed work that way. The people who survive are the people who know how to manage risks, or are just plain lucky. The people who survive are the ones you want to talk to. The ones who eff up and get killed clearly didn’t know what they were doing. Not to mention your made-up statistics.
I once owned an “Unsafe At Any Speed” 1961 Chevrolet Corvair. I did fit it with a camber compensator to prevent the rear wheels from tucking under the car on hard turns. I felt that the Corvair was a safer car in this time period than either the VW Beetle or the VW Microbus. I often wonder how Ralph Nader missed these vehicles, but hit on the Corvair.
I would love to have one. I had a Bug and could not justify the bus. Back in the late 60’s or early 70’s I would go for the Bus, but today those buses are not in condition for regular transportation. Too bad, learning to keep it running and doing all that work is good for a kid that age.
While I would not worry about the safety issue as much as most people do. It certainly is not as safe as a modern car, but it is also not as bad as many people believe.
Maybe when I move out to the west coast, I might be able to find one finally. However, it certainly would not be my daily driver. (Would love to have those opera windows.
No the cow did not “open” either door in the normal sense, it could be called forced entry(and exit). Your the guy that also does not know about 6% grade either, Zombie you have zero credibility.
I forgot to add that it is always such a pleasure doing business with you. Now if you could demonstrate a shred of technical knowledge perhaps you would be considered more than a troll.