MAIDS-Motorcycle Safety Study

Several people emailed wanting a copy of the MAIDS study..here the link.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_rdsafety/documents/page/dft_rd
safety_035422.pdf

Tighten your helmet strap,your in for a rough ride!

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Mystro amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Maids should stay in and clean the house. They have no business riding
bikes.

 

That's the one I ordered - interesting reading if you've got the time.

 

At first read the conclusions seem OK.
- (p39) for multi-vehicle accidents, car drivers are the main
cause (>50%), mainly through right-of-way violations. (SMIDSY)
- (p29) scooter riders are really shit.
- younger motorcycle riders are danger-seeking cunts.
- older motorcycle riders are too.
- all riders need to practice more, especially cornering.
(I see a case for free track days for all motorcyclists
as part of "mandatory training" or some such thing...)

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Marc D

And you come up with this blinder of a manifesto just after nominations
have closed.

****.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
and Ducati Race Engineer.

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I feel much safer now that it appears that I'm only 16 times more likely
to have a KSI instead of the 22 I thought it was.

It says, in Scotland motorcyclists aged over 30 have accounted for an
increasing proportion of casualties since 1997. Must be the crap weather
putting the kiddies off buying scooters and skewing the results.