Given the amount of 18-20year old's dying the past few weeks that might be different this year.Originally Posted by Celtic_Sea_lily
Hardcore Biker
Given the amount of 18-20year old's dying the past few weeks that might be different this year.
Forum whore
yeah, since petrol breached $2 a litre a lot of young people have been forced to use scooters or trade their car for a bike
and promptly discover the hard way about road rash and how blind cagers can be
Scooter boy
fitting in that age braket i do agree with it. a few times after i stopd all that was going threw my head was WHY? why did i jst do that.
i have tonned down my riding consideribly but still have to tell my self to slow down some times.
for get about the mistakes. it took me three years to pass 5th form english,i did it in the end
Forum whore
The force is strong with this one - perhaps he is worthy??? (no seriously well done)
Forum whore
He may be "The One".
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Forum whore
yeah, from 15 through 18 i was pretty much teh same... now almost 20 and being much more responsible... although since riding safely i've had two bins doing itversus zero bins being an idiot
Forum whore
Don't make me dig out the research and make you cry.
It ain't bollocks. There is a significant and measurable difference in brain activity and hormone levels post-25 in adult human males.
Comparatively speaking there's sod all under 25s riding bikes, even with the recent increase in bikes. Now that petrol has dropped significantly, I'm sure that bike and scooter sales will drop accordingly. Until there's comparable numbers of Under-25s on bikes, you can't use the stats to compare anything, except to make the comment that motocycling still isn't a popular under-25 pastime.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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By observation, on week days there's more young riders than old ones. But on weekends (especially sunny ones) a whole swarm of wrinklies come out of the woodwork. Some on Harleys, some on big sprots bikes.
Some ride well. Some I suspect don't.
But I do believe that if you don't ride nearly every day, you lose (or never acquire) that fine edge that we call the spidey sense. Unfortunately none of the figures indicate any measure relating to annual mileage on a bike.
Forum whore
well aware of that
no, we can't....
which was my point - if we can conclude anything from the stats as they are, it's to ban riders over 25, not under. but we can't, nor can we simply ban riding under 25 because of a hormonal difference that could (does) lead to risk taking.
we could ban risk takers... oh wait, it's called dangerous driving and carries a hefty fine too
Forum whore
Gahh!
It's not hormones! That's only a small part of the equation.
It's actual brain development. Under 25 year old males are fundamentally brain damaged and are like that for a reason. The really brave, really stupid ones would do all the macho work when out hunting for food or fighting other tribes. That way the clever ones got to survive and become the information repositories, and had the inter-personal skills required to live in a Matriarchal society. Chicks are hard work.
One of the unfortunate drawbacks of a society that looks after people with special needs is that the macho under 25 population actually grows instead of being harvested and end up members of a society that frowns on risk taking.
I'm as serious about keeping under 25 males off motorbikes as I am about wanting a world where people like Sarge don't need to do horrible things so you can sleep quietly, secure in the illusion that your world is a safe place.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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With the associated costs of petrol rising and falling, the statistics will be modified in a reaponse to that.
That is the simple fact that has eluded the vocal wanker here. The more he spouts, the more attention will be given by the regulators, who will believe that they have failed with their previous laws. Simple result? More laws that do nothing.BANG ON DUDE
Its a fuck load easier to be self policing and be seen to be as such than have the heavies come in and do it for ya.
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Forum whore
Yep, and when you're meandering through a bend and it turns all gravelly and diesel (like it quite often does here) and end up dusting off your leathers (if you're lucky). Mr plod comes along and then does you for "careless driving" as you were clearly "riding too fast for the conditions"
$hit sometimes happens and unlike wot these statistics imply, I think $hit happens more than 3% of the time.
Forum whore
and if the dickhead i was behind today on the ducati monster is anything to go by,that is surely the case.so busy being stylish,hanging off etc,he didnt realise he was 10mm off the back bumper of the car in front.
until she braked and he overtook her on a blind corner to avoid a collision.
surprise surprise,he pulled in to the next pub carpark.
nothing like a cold beer to steady the nerves after some hard riding is there?
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Comfortably numb
Not quite! The 'crown' in the road cross section reduces on a corner with super-elevation (camber), with the outside lane gradually lifting as the corner tightens. This lifting continues until the crossfall of the roadway is one continuous gradient across the entire road width. On many corners this crossfall will steepen further, reaching a maximum at the apex of the corner.
The exception to this is that urban roadways (i.e. 50km/h zones) are not normally designed with camber.
Think I'd go with the less run-off space and optional head-on reasoning for this one.
Forum whore
uh, what?
i've seen many a non-urban corner with a nasty off camber, though the crown in the road usually has nothing to do with it
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