big v-twins are nice to tour on but they always remind me of fat-arsed accountants escaping from their wives on weekends. I smaak something nimble you can throw around in bends.
As to dying, ya for sure riding a bike is more dangerous than a car but its a hell of a lot more fun than your average daily runabout and i speed horribly, whether in my car or on my bike and i've never gotten fined on my bike, and i've never been caught when i've been chased.