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I rode a CBR100 for a few years. I can say conclusively that the ability to accelerate quickly to speed has got me out of more tight spots than braking and slowing down.
Riding a motorbike does train you to watch other drivers, do head checks before changing lanes, make eye contact with turning traffic, position yourself where you can be seen etc etc.
My driving in a car has VASTLY improved, since riding a motorcycle.
Holier than thou? Definately not. I have driven heavy rigid trucks in the army, with equally heavy trailers with tanks on top, passenger coaster 50 seater deluxe coaches, four-wheeler ag bikes on farms and stations mustering cattle and sheep, 20 tonne Tadano cranes, forklifts, four wheel drive trucks and LRPV's, fire tenders. etc.
Through hazardous terrain, fires, peak hour traffic mid-city, wet, dry, lawless cities (Dili, East Timor, Melbourne).
None of this makes me an expert driver. I still make mistakes and never think I won't, or that I am better at driving than most.
Baz.
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