I can certainly agree some people should not own a motorcycle.
A few weeks ago, a 30s something guy in our neighbourhood called me to see if I would repair his damaged trailer. I of course, after seeing all the damage, had to ask what in the heck happened. He said he bought a brand new 2025 Indian 1200 cc motorcycle. I checked out the bike, and it was absolutely gorgeous. He has never been on or driven a motorcycle before. He says he was trying to learn how to drive it on his windy 150 foot driveway, and his mother was taking a video of him.
Somehow, he panicked while coming up the driveway, ran into his mother, who now has a huge chunk missing from her lower left leg, and is wearing a wrist brace. He then kept going, veered to the right, and ran into his 6x12 enclosed trailer. That caused him to rip a gash in his trailer side door, glanced off of that and then with the front bike tire hit the right fender so hard that it buckled the light aluminum trailer fender into the trailer tire so hard that it also bent the spindle back about a 1/4 ". This is a 3500 drop axle, not a flimsy lawn trailer. I just finished up replacing 2 fenders, so they would both match, had a new custom axle built and installed, and repaired the door with a new section of checker plate. After giving the bike a quik look, I,m guessing there will be several thousands of dollars damage repair on the front end of that as well. He is eventually going to trailer it back to the dealer he purchased it from, which is a couple of hundred miles from here, and have them go thru it to make sure it is repaired 100 % back to original. I asked if he had it insured, and they said they would not insure it until he has his licence. His trailer is only insured while it is hooked up to his truck. I wouldn,t be one bit surprised if this is around a 7K in total accident. I have a very bad feeling about this young man ever being a safe bike rider. He lost his dad a couple of years ago, so I,m trying to help him as much as I can. In hindsight, I wished he would of asked me for my opinion about him purchasing a bike, but he didn,t, not that he would of listened anyways. I,m 76 years old, and have owned and driven many very powerful bikes over my years of owning them. I have never had an accident, or even any incedent I would say was a close call. I was a very very cautious and alert driver, always leaving enough room so i had an escape area of some kind, even while driving in Montreal. At some point soon I am going to have a chat with his mother, to express my feelings and opinion to her, hoping she will understand my concern of this young man owning a motorcycle. The good thing is he won,t be getting his licence to be on the road for at least another year, so if I am lucky, his desire of ownership will fade while making huge payments on something he cann,t ride or enjoy. I am going to suggest he starts calling around for bike insurance quotes for a brand new driver. Hopefully that will be high enough to help him decide he made a huge mistake, and cut his losses and stick to driving only his truck.
(he broke his back at some point so he has back pain plus the monkey is not the most comfortable bike) anyhow she failed him because he was ''driving like a drunk'' her words... I though it was pretty funny but so now he quite the process before completing it and he his selling everything.