[deadseasquirrels]

As I posted a couple of weeks ago I dropped my bike, for the second time, in two days, because I left the bike stand down. I felt like such an idiot. But ever since then, experience the total lack of control of the bike when it gets mechanically caught up, I've been riding with this nagging voice in my head. It's just this super cautious, thinking negative thoughts. I'm not so much afraid of making a rider mistake, but now I'm overly anxious of mechanical failure.

Any little noise and I start thinking negative thoughts. I guess I'm just starting to think that if a wheel blows or something gets caught in the sprockets, or whatever, I have absolutely no way of being in control, and that kind of scares me.

So I was wondering, do most motorcycle accidents occur due to riding error, or mechanical failure...like the brake locks, or a tire blows. What are people's opinions, or better yet objective facts?