I broke my neck in 1999 and had instrumented fusion (C6/7) followed by a discectomy and instrumented fusion in 2016 (C5/C6). The neuro surgeon simply said: “don’t do anything to ruin my investment in you, but live life to the full, without being reckless. So ride your bike, but don’t go racing”. He did also point out that orthopaedic surgeons and motorcyclists don’t make good drinking partners.
As Julie inferred, we make valued, quality of life decisions every day.
I used to do a lot of hangliding and the perceived thinking at the time was flying is not inherently dangerous, but We as humans introduce the risk/danger due to our behaviour. On balance I thinks that’s probably true about motorcycling too.
My wife’s a nurse too.