Motorcyclists Wanted - Queensland

[Moxy]

Ha, the "have a selfish attitude toward family and friends" requirement is a bit off. A selfish rider wouldn't be doing anything dumb in the first place; since poor risk-management is acting against self interest.

It clearly implies all motorcyclists enjoy excessive speed, etc, etc.

It's only pointing at enjoying "excessive speed in built-up areas" - it excludes highways, country roads, etc.

[lealand]

Hurt biker's condition critical www.stuff.co.nz taranaki paper ;-(
"He has done about as much damage to himself as you can do and still be alive,"
On a simple bit of road ;-)

A mate last night said to me about a "guy we know" dont ride with him hes a total dickhead on a bike........



I was out riding yesterday did maybe 300 ks distance during that time a mate dropped his bike ;-(
kinda showed me how a simple movment and BANG lucky I was there to pick the bike off him ;-(

You know guys how come most women I have been riding with are impresive riders they just make riding fun and you dont come home fryed out of your brain from blasting along at time to think >>>

Bevin

[JMemonic]

Having just (02/02/08) returned from a holiday that took me to various parts of Australia, I saw what I feel to possibly be the major cause of serious injury and perhaps death to motorcyclists as blatantly obvious I will come back to this in a minute.

Whist in Surfers for some two weeks the majority of "bikes" I saw on the road were rental scooters and obviously tourists on Harley's, when out on the bus travelling to the theme parks and the trip from Surfers to Brisbane I saw a few locals but they shared the obvious fault I will get to with the vast majority of Aussie motorcyclists I observed.

Queensland, particularly Surfers suffers from an abundance of rental bikes and I include scooters here as joe public does, the scooters being cheap to hire and only needing a car licence to do so, and to see folks driving these things with their lack of respect for the rules or perhaps its just a misunderstanding of them, even seeing a couple of scooters trying to take on the motorways does make me wonder if there is any separation of statistics on injury's and deaths due to tourists on rented bikes or are they just lumped together.

The Queensland government offers a subsidised rider training programme for those interested in taking it and I am sure the responsible riders out there and those belonging to vocal forums and groups making comments about this advert will all either have been on one or be going to do one (Tui ad).

As to the problem I saw, its attitude to safety, the most obvious symptom being the lack of gear, tee shirts, shorts and sandals seem to be the norm, and if a helmet was not compulsory I doubt most would wear one.

In surfers I saw a bloke wearing little more than speedo's and jandals, riding a very nice Ducati Monster, at speed I might add.

In WA I was offered a bike for a test ride, I was in what appeared to be standard safety apparel locally when I said I did not have any gear I was told they would lend me a helmet, must have been the glare off my lilly white legs that confused the bloke on what safety gear meant.

[Ocean1]

As to the problem I saw, its attitude to safety, the most obvious symptom being the lack of gear, tee shirts, shorts and sandals seem to be the norm, and if a helmet was not compulsory I doubt most would wear one.

N Zud is similar in this regard only to a few European countries. Certainly the US is similar to what you describe. As for Asia? China is an eye opener.

The concept of safety apparel in Malaysia seems limited to wearing ones rain jacket backwards, mostly to allow the local small calibre machinery to attain the minimum 120kph required to stand some chance of avoiding being used as traction by one of the seriously balistic cages.

[Qkchk:Me]

New Zealand's Dept of Labour (OSH) have got something similar........