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att:
.......After typing this out I am not wasting it.

I am a biker and have been so since the age of 15.
I have only been the victim of car drivers for the last 8 years.
Never used to get knocked off, cut up, or pulled out on like I have in the last 8 years...I had 19 years of mostly trouble free riding.

I ride a variety of machines from sports to tourers, I am lucky that I can afford to.

Car drivers in the UK are without doubt the most ignorant, rude and useless breed that I have ever encountered, give me france any day, they understand bikes in france and the drivers are educated.....Even Bangkok where the traffic is 10X worse than London the drivers at least have a bit more road sense than the selfish British.
I have ridden bikes all over the world, the UK is the single worst place in this world to ride a bike.

It is not the speed of the riders that is the problem it is the education of ALL drivers and riders that is the problem.

As a biker I dread the thought of having to go anywhere on the bike on a Sunday, the roads are full of Plastic Race Reps thinking they are Rossi & Co....I class these riders with the most stuipid of car drivers.

They will never limit the speed of any vehicle, only the scope for education of the drivers and riders with ill thought out policy and knee jerk reactions.

But, if they do, I will do my level best to eradicate Politicians from this country if I am still living here, and as each day goes by, there are less reasons to stay in a country governed by greedy, stupid and power obessed freaks and populated by rude, selfish inconsiderate people.

Delete if you so wish who ever you are..... :roll:

bezzabsa:
well said  :D

Lord Shagg-Pyle:
My response to a locked thread, which I found quite odd that it had been locked.
I have attended a great many 'incidents' where bikes have been involved in prangs with other vehicles.
From my personal experience of investigations of the incidents the scenario has usually been car/truck/bus/tractor or bike, has pulled out in front of oncoming motorcycle.
Most have been when a vehicle has been entering/leaving a main road from/into a side road and collided with a motorcycle.
The most heard excuse has been "I didn't see them coming".
Was speed the main factor? No. Speed has played apart in some, I will agree, but most of the times it has been a person not looking properly before carrying out a manouvere.
I have been driving Plod cars now for over 16 years, and I am always amazed at how people fail to see a large white car, with all lights and sirens going, and still pull out in front.
I'm sure that those bods on the M/C forum who drive ambulances and fire tenders will agree on the inability of some of the motoring public to think clearly, see clearly and react in a rational manner.

Do not get me wrong, speed does kill. But so does driving inexperience, poor road skills and bad driving.

I have never riden a bike on the road because I don't trust other road users.

These are my personal views.

Bulli:
sorry Mods, i could see this one slipping sideways.

Just one question how come its less for me to insure my highly tuned 1277 gsxr that CAN do 180mph+ than my 400 cc enduro bike which doesnt like 80?

its not because the faster the bike the more likely i am to have an accident now is it?

bezzabsa:
Be nice to know who locked it - and also why? especially when there have been longer threads - left running.... :?
Some nice comments BTW..

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