[TylerE]

The gear is seriously good.

I don't ride, but I am a big fan of racing.

The MotoGP guys (wearing the best of all said gear) crash regularly at VERY high speeds. You'll see them eat asphalt at 150mph, cartwheel off into the gravel trap... and pop right up and dust themselves off. 5 minutes later, they'll have caught a ride back to the pits, get a new suit (if the airbag went off), and be right back out on track.

Not that there aren't injuries, sometimes severe, but generally the outcome is way way better than you'd expect if you aren't used to it.

Over the past 20 years or so, deaths have been pretty rare (roughly the same as in open wheel racing - F1 and similar). Almost all of the fatal crashes involve a rider falling off, and then getting run over by another bike.

[qzw]

All true in racing, but in the real world instead of loose gravel in open runoff areas, you have poles, trees, steel rails, massive cars, and other hard objects to run into. As the saying goes, it’s not the speed that kills you, it’s the sudden stops.