I’m with Psycho on this one. No, two years does not make you an expert, but it’s not like the kids coming on here saying they want to ride before they’ve ever driven. Some people become very competent drivers in a few years, some-driving texters for example-never will.
His attitude, at least in the way he presents himself online, seems to be in the right place, and honestly I’d have been offended if I was told to “burn fat not fuel.” Certainly bicycles have their place as both a means of exercise and transportation but to tell someone not to ride, implying they’re lazy, is pretty damn insulting. Bicycles and motorcycles both have two wheels, that’s where the similarity ends, different tools for different jobs. Again, I’ll come back to one of my pet peeves, it is NOT a matter of when you’ll crash your car or bike, it is a matter of IF, and I think to say that “without the experience of dealing with stupid driving behavior, your survival rate on a motorcycle in public roads is very slim” is being alarmist, and in a way elitist-“THIS is how I did it, this is the way you should do it or you’re probably going to DIE”. You also seem to think that if you haven’t crashed a car you don’t know how to drive? “until you do crash, you have no clue what you might be doing wrong.” That is truly asinine. With experience you learn what you’re doing right and wrong without necessarily putting it into a wall. I’ve been driving for 30+ years, had a few minor accidents in my teens and 20’s from which I probably didn’t learn a whole lot and have been totally accident free, including fender benders-with probably about 50,000 of those miles in NYC-for the past 25 years or so. Did my early accidents have anything to do with that? Absolutely not. Maturity, a willingness to learn, and a little luck all come into play. That’s not to say you cannot learn from a crash but to say that’s the only way to learn??? No way!
Look, nobody is going to deny your main point, that the more experience that you have on the road the better. Most of us probably won’t even disagree that most-though not all-17 year olds are probably not ready for a motorcycle. However making ridiculous statements like “your chances of survival are slim”, “you can only learn from crashing” or that a 6’2″ 255lb. 17 year old needs to burn fat, does nothing but destroy your credibility with the OP and the rest of us, leaving us to discount the sensible advice that your post may contain.