Kerbside Justice

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by Christofire, Apr 15, 2004.

  1. Christofire

    Christofire Guest

    What's this? An almost balanced TV program about bikes?

    On the whole, the program had a good theme - quick look at safety gear,
    the three born-again types doing some bike control tests and a couple
    of bits from plod.

    There was very little "speed kills!" and patronising "bikes - oooh!
    nasty!" type stuff. I'd only take issue with a couple of sentences
    from the presenter at the end[1], and one of the plod bits[2].

    Anyone else see it?

    [1] After some slow-speed manouvring tests where one bloke dropped his
    blackbird, he was asked "so you can do 150 but you can't do 1?"
    [2] Plod described how a guy had cut a right-hand corner on a
    hedge-lined road, into the bonnet of a car. Plod then went and rode
    the corner, taking a line where his tyres were just to the left of the
    white line all the way through. The rest of his bike, and him were on
    the "wrong" side of the road. Somewhat hypocritical, methinks.
     
    Christofire, Apr 15, 2004
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  2. Christofire

    ogden Guest

    How could you take issue with that? Sounds like a quality put-down.
     
    ogden, Apr 17, 2004
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  3. Christofire

    SP Guest

    ogden says...
    But did you see the programme? Absolute rubbish. If they wanted to
    assess the capabilities of the riders why didn't they do a road-riding
    assessment? Something that they could actually learn from, rather than
    the daft figure of 8 they had them doing. [1]

    And what about the part where the bike cop was saying about a particular
    stretch of road that a fatal had occurred on recently due to a biker
    being on the wrong side of the road. Then we get a running commentary
    from the traffic cop as he negotiates the same r/h bend on his
    bike..hugging the white line when he should've been over to the left.
    If that's the standard of riding they teach in Lancashire..

    [1] In the days of old, when you had to do a 2-part test, they had all
    the cones stuff, including slalom and a figure of 8. If you had
    something like a CG it was ok, if you had a small race-replica with
    naff-all steering lock you were still expected to perform the tasks with
    the cones at the same distance. But if you rode a scooter with ickle
    wheels they doubled the distance you had to perform the tasks in.

    --
    Lesley
    ZXR400SP
    SBS#11[with oak-leaf cluster]
    BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
    BONY#54P BOB#18

    Un-cork me to reply
     
    SP, Apr 17, 2004
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