Bike deaths rising

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip

I know. It's fucking Turnpike. Won't let you edit quoted text.
Spoilsports... ;^)

 

I started riding big bikes in 1983 as well.

Got my first 16 inch wheel BMX and entered my first race.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Thank you for your peril of wisdoom.

Afaic, once the cunts are taken out by trucks, it becomes much more
enjoyable.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Utter bollocks, there's always been the HP company for exactly that. I
remember several blokes of 17 18 19 running around on the fastest things
on the road at the time. Some of them wiped themselves out, but that's
life (or not).

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

You know, the quality and depth of point and counterpoint on UKRM just keeps
getting better.

 

It looks fine here on MacSoup.

 

It looks fine on google, and fine here. What's going on with yer
newsreader?

 

Stonge wrote:


Should perhaps read "very few" and certainly could read "not as many as
today"

 

(The Older Gentleman) struggled
to ejaculate:

[TOG's non-threaded posts]

Everybody else is out of step, obviously. If you look at the thread
view, you appear to have answered the same post several times - it
just doesn't look right.

 

Actually I agree, as a daily commuter [1], I see all sorts of crap
riding for the conditions.

However, there is a point I see with the figures quoted. Deaths can
quite easily measured, although they don't state the cause of the deaths
- rider/driver fault, sole vehicle involed or multiple vehicle incident.
All this is fairly relevant to understand what actions are needed to
reduce the deaths.

What I find puzzling is the 6% increase in journeys. How do they measure
that? Without that information the statistic is meaningless, unless they
attained both figures by the same means, then they are not comparable.

 

That should be mother-in-law-to-be.

 

Nigel Eaton wrote

Yes it will.

 

Champ wrote

1983 eh?


























Nope, not a sausage. I wonder if I enjoyed it?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

Oh bugger. Outwitted by Auvache...

<BANG!>

 

And insurance was a lot cheaper then, too.

 

Which just meant that they got themselves killed on small bikes.

 

It's impossible for man to live and breath underwater....

 

Indeed. You bought a bike, and then your parents bought you a car,
hoping you'd give up biking.

 

On the approach to seventeenth birthday I asked my parents if I could
have a bike. My Father said yes, Mother looked shocked...

Rather pleased with myself I showed Dad the obligatory Yamaha catalogue
pointing to the one I wanted.

"No problem, you buy it, you insure it you can have it... We'll pay for
lessons and your gear."

Knowing I had no job or prospect of one, this is not the response I
expected or wanted.

The challenge was set though, I bought a DT100 a few months later.

 

Er... didn't I just say that?