Summer biking ban?

Martin Watts wrote

Fings were a wee bit different 40 years ago.

There was only a couple of million cars on the road, there were a much
higher proportion of bikes/scoots, no nsl, no 30 limits through
villages, rubber compounds that make Chengs look like super sticky,
armour and helmets were nowhere near today's standards, A&E didn't have
the kit they do now. Something like a goldie could be persuaded to get
over a ton with a bit of tinkering. However no amount of tinkering
could ever get it to slow down again in a hurry if you needed to.

We rode faster because we could and fell harder because we did. All in
all not a recipe for a happy ending.

 

I think that those statistics are true(ish) for accidents with more than
one vehicle. Unfortunately the majority of m/c deaths are single vehicle
accidents.

 

Happy days, not forgetting disk brakes that didn't work when wet.