Motorcycles = smoking?

[Jonno.]

it's a good article that implies too many born again riders are dying and there are no ads targeting them where as cell phone use while driving gets ad time where 1person died last year. it is quite good. the quote is completely out of context

[awayatc]

AA?

worked for me......
Been only to a few meetings myself.......
But am still sober though.....


Mostly

[Drew]

it's a good article that implies too many born again riders are dying and there are no ads targeting them where as cell phone use while driving gets ad time where 1person died last year. it is quite good. the quote is completely out of context

You saying that there needs to be TV ads, telling 40-50 year olds not to get bikes again?

There should perhaps be an advanced handling course for someone who has been off bikes for a while, but it could only ever be voluntary. Were it funded by LTSA, (with the money saved from not bothering with ads that have limited success at best), methinks people would do it.

[jrandom]

Same thing is it? A safety authority ignoring your quest, and motorcyclists not getting involved.

It's not Katman's quest.

I think he's more among the percentage who prefer to back themselves to control where their bikes go than the percentage who shit their pants when they see things being built on the roadside that they don't want to crash into.

[gwigs]

I used to smoke and ride at the same time.....how dangerous was that....
I gave up smoking but I dont plan on giving up riding now I have returned to it
But Ive passed the 50 mark so I must be ok now then.
Also the AA report says 34 were killed ,they didnt say how many 40-50 yr olds
were among them.

[gijoe1313]

So if you are between 40-50, smoke and ride a two-storker smoker, you must be death incarnate!

I gave up my AA membership the day I got rid of the cage!

[Jonno.]

You saying that there needs to be TV ads, telling 40-50 year olds not to get bikes again?

There should perhaps be an advanced handling course for someone who has been off bikes for a while, but it could only ever be voluntary....

no. the point is targeting the wrong things such as speeding when it is not really the cause of many accidents where.as driving too fast for the conditions is.

[Dare]

no. the point is targeting the wrong things such as speeding when it is not really the cause of many accidents where.as driving too fast for the conditions is.

I don't think it has ever been put better than that. 130 on a straight open road with no traffic is safer than 80 on the bridge in todays wind.

[knottsav]

hear hear! In full agreement....a very sensible and insightful comment.

You saying that there needs to be TV ads, telling 40-50 year olds not to get bikes again?

There should perhaps be an advanced handling course for someone who has been off bikes for a while, but it could only ever be voluntary. Were it funded by LTSA, (with the money saved from not bothering with ads that have limited success at best), methinks people would do it.

[PrincessBandit]

I used to smoke and ride at the same time.....how dangerous was that....

Just got back from a week in Raro - over there you ride with no helmet, jandals and heaps of them smoke while they're riding......

[Bonez]

Just got back from a week in Raro - over there you ride with no helmet, jandals and heaps of them smoke while they're riding......

Did they wave?

[PrincessBandit]

Stop trying to hijack this thread to be a waving one!!!

No, they don't wave. You'd be doing the royal wave your entire ride as every 10 seconds you pass a vehicle of the 2 wheeled variety.

But judging by the state of most cars and bikes there (rust issue alone...) I can't imagine that WoFs would feature highly. Or if they are meant to comply to a safety standard it's either way different from ours, or most don't bother. Quite an eye opener to see kids who'd be barely 3 years old hanging on to the back of mum's teeshirt behind her on the scooter, legs dangling free, etc etc. Not to mention the other end of the scale with poor old scooters weighed down with an excessive amount of kilos from 2 large bodies crammed on board

[PrincessBandit]

Back on track though with the OP, motorcycling does not = smoking. Smoking is a disgusting habit therefore motorcycling does not equate with smoking.


My share of stirring for the day.

[Bonez]

But my motorcycle smokes?

[jafar]

passing comment in new AA directions magazine. comment or insult....

Road safety messages tend to imply public disobedience is to blame for our road toll. Public safety is not just about disobedience - it also involves providing information about what is and what is not safe, as we do for workplace and public health.

Take motorcycles - like smoking, perfectly legal and highly dangerous. The road toll features too many 40- or 50-year-old men who bought big machines and died on them. Of the 34 motorcyclists who died last year, only nine were not at fault.

http://www.aa.co.nz/aadirections/dri...-Analysis.aspx

This doesn't say how old the deceased were, are they all in the 40-50 age group? I'd suggest they are not & someone is being economical with the truth.
More media bullshit to sell their magazine perhaps ?