Bike deaths rising

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3835747.stm
That'll be my insurance premium up, then....

 

A 14% increase in motorcycle deaths is of concern but I wonder if there are
any other factors at play here? Anyone know if there was a significant
increase in the number of motorcyclists or the mileage collectively covered?

 

Or dogging each other.

 

Big Tony bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

And age, experience, type of two wheeler involved [1] etc, etc. It's
alrighjt bandying figures like that, but a breakdown would be good.

[1] As I'm betting that mopeds are included.
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One aspect has to be cars...

There are more car drivers on the road (increasing each year), and if 10%
are crap drivers (guessing, could be as high as 90%), then we have a big
increase in crap drivers. We need to make the car test much more difficult
to pass, and re-test every few years. Perhaps incorporate the advanced test
somehow, and how many people drive/ride with uncorrected vision (perhaps
without knowing)?

Of course there are loads of other factors, including us riders and bikes,
etc.

 

To some extent I agree, I spent my 16th year on an AP50, learning (the hard
way) how to ride and progressed slowly up the cc's as I was always skint.

There's too much money around now (and things are cheaper) and people can
afford bigger things when they are younger.

I know I sound old, but does that mean I'm wrong?

 

Ho hum, Sweeping Generalisations R us....

Lets do a few more shall we:
All german car drivers are cunts
women can't parallel park
volvo drivers wear hats

Sorry, but IMHO and IME you are talking bollox

 

Idiot. It's obviously either car drivers/other vehicle users. If it's not
them it's the power rangers. Or the DAS noobs or the BABs. Or it's diesel.
Coppers with radar- no gatsos, no: interfering civilians. Or hitmen waiting
behind the grassy knoll. Plague of frogs, death of the firstborn.

It's all god's fault.

 

what the **** is wrong with either of those things?

Let me guess - you're a fucking pauper, right?

 

Didn't you just post that it was car drivers that are to blame?

 

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No, it's the evil ducks.

 

TOG@toil, ,

but what's wrong with there being "too much money around" i.e. society
as a whole being wealthier. And what's wrong with things being
cheaper?

 

Slider bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

Badgers. HTH

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Cab :^) - almost as fast as G.i.n.g.e.
GSX 1400 - 'Tarts Handbag' (tm) Bike, dead 550/4 Rat
UKRMMA#10 (KoTL), IbW#015, Bob#4, POTM#3

P.S. Remove your_head from the cab. ICQ: 83023471

 

On 24 Jun 2004 04:41:35 -0700, TOG@toil,

Do motor insurance companies pay out when you get killed?

I actually fail to see why society should care if I kill myself on a
bike.

 

What about the cleanup expenses of the women throwing themselves to their
deaths in despair?

 

"trivial".

 

My point was that in 1983 things were different. No aged 17-21 could afford
large cc bikes.

 

I said that car drivers were one aspect and that there were many more...

 

Incisive. I like it.

 

explain your statement "there's too much money around now".