Stuck in second?

Becoming a bit of a trend lately in Qld...



A young motorcyclist will appear in court later this month after he
was caught travelling at more than 130km/hr on a suburban street.

The 21-year-old Enoggera man was charged with dangerous operation of a
motor vehicle after police intercepted him on Staghorn Street at about
3pm yesterday.

Police said he was clocked travelling in excess of 130km/hr in a 50km
zone.

He was due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on August 27.

 

Inappropriate speeding's not the only silly thing out there, and it
certainly isn't confined to Qld, unfortunately...

I spotted a learner rider going down one of the main streets in
Belconnen the other day - plenty of traffic and traffic lights, 6 lane
road, and he's riding along, no hands, tapping some sort of beat on
his bloody petrol tank. Couldn't tell whether he was wearing a
backwards baseball cap under his helmet, but i did wonder whether this
is what happens when your average Doof Doof cager boy gets a bike and
an iPod???

betty

 

....and, of course, you're mentioning this because, obviously, this lax
attitude towards piloting his motorbicycle safely led to his crashing
horribly and skinning his knee before your very eyes.

 

No, I'm mentioning it because I thought it was a dumb thing to do on a
motorcycle in traffic on a main road. I wouldn't give a rat's arse
about what he did while riding his bike on an empty road, where the
only person he might pose a threat to is himself. Other road users
often don't see us, often behave unpredictably or just badly, and
unless this guy is some kind of superman with split second reaction
and avoidance skills, I think he's taking unnecessary risks. Of
course, I suppose it IS possible that his reaction time and hazard
perception skills are so vastly superior to everybody else's on the
road that he posed absolutely no risk to himself or anybody else by
behaving like that. Seems to me that staying focussed on your riding
and what's around you is the best way to stay alive on a motorcycle
though.


betty

 

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