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Originally Posted by *wookie*
The point is that the site is primarily dedicated to health information from the perspective of infectious disease and yet, out of all the other potentially risky health-endangering activities they elect to single out riding a motorcycle for particular attention. If I cared that much about it I'd probably go the 'strongly worded letter' route, as it is that seemed overly petty so I figured bitch about it humorously with potentially like minded people seemed better.
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Got lost in the very last sentence, "me no English", mind to explain it?
BUT if you ask why they single out motorcycling riding as a dangerous activity over other ones, so to be avoided when travelling, I'd say:
1) Many more people ride bikes (or pretend they can do it when they are abroad on a Greek/Thai island) than people rock climb skycrapers, so it reaches a bigger spectrum of travellers mentioning it.
2) Riding abroad is potentially more difficult: different habits, signs, "wrong drive side" (  ), etc.
3) In case of an accident, riding may be much worse than driving.
4) Being a US site, maybe they think it's good to advice "don't ride abroad" to avoid being sued? Don't know. I was astonished to see that wearing helmet was not mandatory in Florida, but that's a different story.
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