I’m not entirely sure that horse riding is more dangerous, I’m not that experienced with motorbikes, but I ride horses all the time, I reckon you might fall from a horse more often, but it’s usually a fairly simple thing, not going too fast or anything. Unless you’re talking about horse racing which is quite dangerous, but most riders do other, much safer thing on horseback.
That said, I live in rural Ireland where from what I understand, the roads are significantly more dangerous for motorbikes do that might be skewing my perspective.
Though random fools telling you that what you’re doing is dangerous are, to me, overstepping. As long as you’re not putting others in excess danger you should be left alone.
I think it’s fair to say that horse’s have a wider range of personalities or temperaments than motorbikes do. A bike won’t throw you off if you’re doing everything properly. A horse on the other hand can just not be arsed carrying you anymore or get spooked by something passing by.
All that said I don’t think it would be easy to build a credible frame of comparison between the the two forms of transport. I wouldn’t be surprised if either could be ‘proven’ to be more dangerous given the amount of thin air that the frame of reference would be resting on.
You are not accounting for all the assholes around you in the traffic. All it takes is either some light road rage or just glancing away from the road for a few seconds, and then you go flying.
I’m not entirely sure that horse riding is more dangerous, I’m not that experienced with motorbikes, but I ride horses all the time, I reckon you might fall from a horse more often, but it’s usually a fairly simple thing, not going too fast or anything. Unless you’re talking about horse racing which is quite dangerous, but most riders do other, much safer thing on horseback.
That said, I live in rural Ireland where from what I understand, the roads are significantly more dangerous for motorbikes do that might be skewing my perspective.
Though random fools telling you that what you’re doing is dangerous are, to me, overstepping. As long as you’re not putting others in excess danger you should be left alone.
I think it’s fair to say that horse’s have a wider range of personalities or temperaments than motorbikes do. A bike won’t throw you off if you’re doing everything properly. A horse on the other hand can just not be arsed carrying you anymore or get spooked by something passing by.
All that said I don’t think it would be easy to build a credible frame of comparison between the the two forms of transport. I wouldn’t be surprised if either could be ‘proven’ to be more dangerous given the amount of thin air that the frame of reference would be resting on.
You are not accounting for all the assholes around you in the traffic. All it takes is either some light road rage or just glancing away from the road for a few seconds, and then you go flying.