BBC bike article / tv show

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4511995.stm

This follows on from a show last night on BBC Scotland, about BAB's.
The usual stuff. Average age 38, high crash rates, mid-life crisis, etc.

Showed an experienced racer who was also an instructor who crashed
during a race at Knockhil, breaking his back - albeit slightly, IYSWIM.

Utter crap - vastly imbalanced, as we'd expect. So now Scotland's
finest are clamping down on bikers to "educate" them.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4511995.stm

Heard that one somewhere before

Obviously a need to show that experienced riders can also come a cropper.

Hmmmm,
Imbalanced...........No change there then.
Prolly sponsored by someone the same as the **** in the Times article DWB is
on about down there VVVVVVV
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Dave Jennings (Dave@envigour_yeahright_.com) wrote:
: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4511995.stm
: This follows on from a show last night on BBC Scotland, about BAB's.
: The usual stuff. Average age 38, high crash rates, mid-life crisis, etc.
: Showed an experienced racer who was also an instructor who crashed
: during a race at Knockhil, breaking his back - albeit slightly, IYSWIM.
: Utter crap - vastly imbalanced, as we'd expect. So now Scotland's
: finest are clamping down on bikers to "educate" them.

I watched that too ... It was just as I thought it would be.

Blair.
'97 CBR600

 

I copped it as well... complete pish, totally amateur bbc scotland
sensationalistic journalism it would be cheap to produce though.
It was aimed at having the blue rinse scone munching dearies believe that
these fast motorcyclists will have us all burning in hell. No mention of
how many dozy old car driving arseholes are involved in bike incidents or
any other external factors like farmers dumping shite and diesel and my
favourite the councils re-surfacing by dumping tons of gravel and tar all
over the roads and leaving the excess gravel to disperse.
Will the be doing a programme on teenage small car drivers that wrap
themselves round trees and have killed numerous people (passengers,
pedestrians).
IIRC there have been a spate of inexperienced car drivers either killed or
in court charged with dangerous driving etc.

Ras
Gt750 red, Gt750 dead (ish)

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crisis, etc.


It's all out of this thing:

http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_rdsafety/documents/page/dft_rdsafety_035423.pdf

The report conclusion is "Discouraging the use of public roads as a
form of entertainment should become a focus for policy makers".

 

FFS , so they actively want to encourage road use to become a miserable
unpleasant experience?!
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Bear says...

Having ploughed through the first 20 odd pages of the report it does make
interesting reading in places. Not so much in the 'stating the bleeding
obvious' department but the underlying attitude of the report writers.

Motorcycling is risky, some people find risk fun, how can we stop
you having fun, we know what's best for you...

 

Well!
If they are miserable, unpleasant people with no life, why shouldn't you
be.

 

When we can be arsed to get up off our arses and give the so called policy
makers a kick in the nuts?

 

Maybe when Labour realise they can't carry on doing wtf they like, safe
in the knowledge it'll all be forgotten come election day.

 

Bear says...

TBH I think the Safety Nazis will win. All the really big causes of
premature deaths have pretty much been dealt with with[1]. A lot of
what's left is the smaller more personal choice type stuff, and as
technology advances and population control becomes easier so the larger
our loss of personal freedom will be. All in the name of safety or
security and the 'greater good'.

No matter what you do in life somebody somewhere will want you to stop
doing it.


[1] Working conditions, sanitation, contagious diseases etc...

 

You're probably right, but on the other hand these types of 'fringe'
policies only tend to make it to the top of the pile late on during a
term in office, and the potentially unpopular ones only make it at all
if the government are fairly happy they'll have a few more years
regardless.

In other words, if we keep changing them every four years, they may not
have the time or the inclination to bother with the low priority stuff.

There is, but it involves organisation & effort. Demonstrations,
petitions & letter writing can work with certain issues if enough
people get off their lazy fat arses & do something.

 

That's Ramblers f**ked then.

 

ITYF most of their rambling is done on footpaths, bridleways & RTR
land, not roads. And they're the worst culprits for trying to ban
recreational use of roads anyway - selfish thick fuckers.

 

The web page says there where 26 bike-related deaths in Lothian over a 4
year period. That seems pretty low to me. And the number of deaths
actually fell by 33% in 2004.

 

Fucking Vogons!
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Krusty wrote

A few years ago I went to rural Kent for a dirty long weekend. A break
with a very simple theme of pleasant little country strolls/pub crawl
during the day, pleasant evening meal back at base and lots and lots and
lots of sex in between.


It seems that while we were there meandering around the footpaths an
hour or two from our base looking for lunch there was a group of what I
can only describe as "Power Ramblers" going in the opposite direction.


The first time we came across them it really was like something out of
Python. You could feel them coming for miles as the combined force of a
dozen properly shod pairs of feet hit the ground in unison. I thought
it was lost legion of Romans trying to retake Hastings.



After, literally, being driven from the road/path a third time by these
good hearted folk I had a little word with their leader about
selfishness and shit and was also able to put in a few good analogies
about biking to what was a car driving set.



They ain't that thick, they can be made to see reason if you can out
think them which ain't hard ime.

 

Well, I'm obviously a recidivist, serial offender on that score. But
even I find it hard to produce any sort of reasonable justification
for using the public roads for entertainment.

 

Didn't some car lobbyists run a go-slow on the M4 the weekend before last
in protest against the speed cameras. I recall hearing something about it
on the news. They were going to drive at 56mph in lanes 1 & 2 for a few
miles and then to the same the other way. I didn't hear anything
subsequently.