New licence system

[The Pastor]

Exactly right. If you are not enjoying your 250, it's not the right 250 for you.

I do however find it strange that all these new regulations are being introduced to improve safety.

In general, it is not the riders who follow the old or new rules that will have the accidents. Surely introducing higher standards of training to pass the test would be a better way to improve safety and reduce accidents?

This point was rasied at a road safty meeting i attended a 1 or 2 years ago.

The cop at my table said this "if you train people to drive they will drive faster and have more accidents"

Its a load of ball sucking dick shit.

Why do Pilots, taxi drivers, buss drivers, train drivers, skippers, etc, have extensive training? Because driving is a technical matter, it is not easy or safely learned by experiance AND IT PUTS PUBLIC SAFTEY AT RISK.

yet car/bike divers/riders make up the majority of road users, the literlary come in contract with 1000's of other motorists every single day. Yet they have NO technical training on how to operate the vehical at which they drive.

Now apparently the new optional defensive driving cource has a practical component to it.

I can't speak from experiance but I'd bet that it only focus on how to look for problems. Not how to drive/operate a motorvechical.

the Basic handling tests for bike riders isnt very good, but its a start on what should be done for all motorists.

It wont be done, because its expensive.

[clint640]

Oscar? Nordie? Merv? Motu? Should we tell him? Or keep our secret. We don;t want the masses finding out about it after all

Shhh... Repeat after me: Dirt bikes are shit on the road.

That time I saw a bloke on a DR650 pass about 20 sprotbikes in 10km of twisty road was a total halucination

Clint