In Reply to: I disagree. posted by laflafs on Friday, 10. December 2010 at 11:39 Bali Time:
Perth drivers must be the worst in the country so I guess it could be safer riding a bike/scooter in Bali than here, incredibly dangerous as it is in Bali. (I moved from Sydney to Perth when my son was a baby in a stroller - do you think anyone would stop for us even at a pedestrian crossing? No. It's a miracle he's alive. In Sydney it is different, drivers were & are far more courteous - I was there a few months ago).
Too many young people go to Bali & feel the need to get a scooter/bike when it just isn't necessary. I really don't know what, if anything, can be done about it. Whenever a young person posts here about getting a bike I advise against it. Too many young lives lost or impaired through rashness & we hear so little about it.