More Killed in Road accident
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thelastsuperpower
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Re: More Killed in Road accident
Yeah saw that the other day, always gives me a bit of a wake up call when you read about bike accidents. RIP dudes
Bikeless again :/
Re: More Killed in Road accident
its horrible aint it two guys went down on 125sb in the last couple of days its not good
rip guys
rip guys
my rides : chinky cafe racer rattler 125 (its a honda cg clone and ive been daring enough to mod it lol ) 28mm flatside carb , ts 125 inlet stub , fmf shorty powerpipe , cbr 400 rev counter,Cbr 400 nc 23 , current mods being striped down ,
Re: More Killed in Road accident
wake up call, rip
Rieju RS2 > ZXR400 L1 > ZX6R G1 > GSXR600 K1 > Z750 '04 > R6 '99 > ZX636R '56 > Ducati 748e > BSA Bantam D13 '67 > GSXR600 K7 > YZ250 '04 > KTM 250 ECX '00 > RMZ 250 '08 > ZX9R '99 > GSXR 600 K3
Re: More Killed in Road accident
Unfortunately this happens every year at this time of year. There always seems to be a bad weekend on the first good weekend of the year.
For months we have put up with the cold weather, poor road conditions, bad light and suddenly a weekend like this makes biking dangerous.
It seems to give the police a reason to stop bikers and for family/employers to worry and become anti bike.
A friend of mine was killed on his bike near Helston on Saturday.
The police have arrested the driver of the car involved. However, you will never really hear the outcome, surely the police & motoring organisations should concentrate on the consequenses of a moments careless/reckless driving - not only has a driver taken a life of a person, a father/husband/friend; the driver has to remain alone with sight of a mangled body and vehicles until emergency services attend, a sight that will stay with them; the driver will have months of not knowing if they will be prosecuted, sleepless nights, stress, nightmares; will they be sent to sent to prison leaving their own family & life with no income or support, will their family stand by them?
Perhaps we should hear more of the latter, shock tatic rather than instantly target the bikers for responsible speeding etc.
Sorry, rant over.
For months we have put up with the cold weather, poor road conditions, bad light and suddenly a weekend like this makes biking dangerous.
It seems to give the police a reason to stop bikers and for family/employers to worry and become anti bike.
A friend of mine was killed on his bike near Helston on Saturday.
The police have arrested the driver of the car involved. However, you will never really hear the outcome, surely the police & motoring organisations should concentrate on the consequenses of a moments careless/reckless driving - not only has a driver taken a life of a person, a father/husband/friend; the driver has to remain alone with sight of a mangled body and vehicles until emergency services attend, a sight that will stay with them; the driver will have months of not knowing if they will be prosecuted, sleepless nights, stress, nightmares; will they be sent to sent to prison leaving their own family & life with no income or support, will their family stand by them?
Perhaps we should hear more of the latter, shock tatic rather than instantly target the bikers for responsible speeding etc.
Sorry, rant over.
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number_two
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Re: More Killed in Road accident
RIP
I agree with Graham and quote Bill Hicks
"You never here of a positive acid news story, its always man dies
trying fly off top of multi story building"
"You never hear of the time when a young man drops acid and
realises all life is merely particles flowing at one with each other
and that life is just a ride and were just a small part of it"
If the press would release news stories from the flip side
maybe we won't all be tarred with the same shitty brush.
The press will only release what will shock us and stereotype bikers, they
won't say that a biker has had 20yrs experiance or the driver was 90 and
couldn't read a numberplate at any distance.
I agree with Graham and quote Bill Hicks
"You never here of a positive acid news story, its always man dies
trying fly off top of multi story building"
"You never hear of the time when a young man drops acid and
realises all life is merely particles flowing at one with each other
and that life is just a ride and were just a small part of it"
If the press would release news stories from the flip side
maybe we won't all be tarred with the same shitty brush.
The press will only release what will shock us and stereotype bikers, they
won't say that a biker has had 20yrs experiance or the driver was 90 and
couldn't read a numberplate at any distance.