Plus you can help SoCal’s hospitals with their chronic organ shortage.

There are people who can get away with being bad drivers for decades who would have been dead a long time if they drove a bike. Especially in L.A. where it requires a good degree of both aggression and defensiveness to not become roadkill. I don't think it's too much of an exaggeration to say that motorcycling is a sport, and not just a different mode of transit.

Unfortunate though that L.A. doesn't have world-class bicycle infrastructure.

Not only that, but lane splitting is legal in California. That helps a lot in getting through standstill traffic.