To be blunt...

[AD345]

When you fucking up fatally adds ammunition to their efforts to get rid of us then it very much is my business.

Y'think so?

So whadda ya gonna do?

[peasea]

Motorcycling is brutally Darwinian, if you fuck up - you can die. Not only that, but if someone else fucks up - you can die then too
Fortunately for my own piece of mind I don't give a fuck.
Should I fuck up fatally - it is not your responsibility.
The reverse is true as well

I like your thinking, we should have a beer.

[peasea]

When you fucking up fatally adds ammunition to their efforts to get rid of us then it very much is my business.

But not your 'responsibility'.

[Katman]

But not your 'responsibility'.

Yes, I probably should have added this bit to the quote.

What it was not was anyone elses fucking business.

[AD345]

I like your thinking, we should have a beer.

Something encouraged me to be blunt - not sure what......

We are trying to get a few of us from the club to tour down your way come the summer.


You might want to alert the press.

[AD345]

Sorry Katman - its still not your business

Just cos someone else (the omnipresent "they") want to make it THEIR business (which it isn't either) doesn't make it yours.



Katman - I absolutely understand your fears and fustration but there is not a blind thing you can do about my riding nor me yours.

Your intentions are honourable, your method is - interesting - but I think you are just going to get an ulcer.

[Katman]

Y'think so?

So whadda ya gonna do?

If we continue to bleat "It wasn't my fault - the bastard didn't see me" all that will happen is that the government will issue a law stating that motorcyclists are require to wear hi-viz vests.

What are you going to do about that? Continue to ride without one? It would be rather a harder offence to hide from the police than not having any rego.

So what if the government says "three tickets for riding without your hi-viz vest and we'll impound your bike for a month"?

What if they then turn around and say "after three times of having your bike impounded if you're caught riding without your hi-viz vest again we'll crush your bike"?

Perhaps we should stop fucking crying about not being seen and concentrate on making sure we see others.

[peasea]

Something encouraged me to be blunt - not sure what......

We are trying to get a few of us from the club to tour down your way come the summer.


You might want to alert the press.

The last people I'll be talking to will be the local press. Fuckwits, the lot of 'em.
Ahh summer, bring back summer.

[AD345]

If we continue to bleat "It wasn't my fault. The bastard didn't see me" (even though we actually saw them) all that will happen is that the government will issue a law stating that motorcyclists are require to wear hi-viz vests.

What are you going to do about that? Continue to ride without one? It would be rather a harder offence to hide from the police than not having any rego.

So what if the government says "three tickets for riding without your hi-viz vest and we'll impound your bike for a month"?

What if they then turn around and say "after three times of having your bike impounded if you're caught riding without your hi-viz vest again we'll crush your bike"?

Perhaps we should stop fucking crying about not being seen and concentrate on making sure we see others.

You don't hear me crying

But that's not your point. What I am going to do is continue to do what I'm already doing. Fight wherever I can against unnecessary government intrusion in my life.

Like random traffic stops

You're against those too right?

[Katman]

Fight wherever I can against unnecessary government intrusion in my life.

Good luck with that.

[AD345]

Good luck with that.

Likewise

[fuknKIWI]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3731...g-bikers-lives

Just like every boy racer is responsible for anything that happens while they are in control of their vechile, The same goes for everyone on a bike, irrelevant of cars that don't look, patchy roads or whatever else everyone blames.

He says with toungue glued in cheek.

[scumdog]

You don't hear me crying

But that's not your point. What I am going to do is continue to do what I'm already doing. Fight wherever I can against unnecessary government intrusion in my life.

Like random traffic stops

Oooh, bound to win there....

[fuknKIWI]

I like your thinking, we should have a beer.

Before a fast ride.

[Genie]

The last people I'll be talking to will be the local press. Fuckwits, the lot of 'em.
Ahh summer, bring back summer.

I second that...this is the crappest weather and I don't like it. Where has the sunshine gone but i'm glad i'm not in Oamaru today.