Anti-bike propaganda
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, 16th August 2007 at 02:10 (2333 Views)
Yes, the VFR does 170kmh! And up a slight incline too.
The photo here is of the back of a taxi. Almost every second taxi here has one of these stickers on the back, and they really piss me off. Roughly, it says:
(Caution) Motorcycles!
Two-wheeler accidents! Frequent/numerous
And that's it - no particular mention as to the purpose of the sticker or any basis to the claim it presents. It seems that bikes and taxis are mutual enemies here. I can see why bikes don't like taxis, since my only two bins were thanks to a taxi, and my other two extremely close calls were also courtesy of swerving taxis. But I can't see what taxis have against bikes!?
I can understand that they are trying to make a living, but that doesn't console me much every time they suddenly swerve across two lanes to make a pickup, or slam on the brakes when their passenger says "Stop here".
I've half a mind to run off a few thousand of my own sticker mimicking theirs and give them to bikers.
The bottom of the sticker says 'Police Dept / Tokyo passenger service automobile association'. Somehow I think it has much more to do with the latter...