You wrote,
"I don't mean to be rude but I spent hours reading about this before I even considered doing it myself. Its like finding out that cars are in fact safer than motorcycles, going out and buying a car without actually having any lessons."
Well, I don't mean to be rude either, but if you have a motorcycle license, then you know how to drive better than 95% of the car drivers on the road... so going out and buying a car to be safer actually makes perfect sense... Sorry to blow a hole in that analogy.