Bikers getting pulled over at Battle Hill & Featherston (15 February)

[riffer]

You seem to be setting up a strawman. My original post specifically mentioned [sportsbikes] as a possible subject for intervention. That would be perfectly possible. "From X date no motorcycle of > Y cc, or Z bhp may be imported". Done.

You can still have a motorcycle. Or a scooter. Up to 400cc maybe.

Could be setting up a strawman. Hadn't thought of it that way. However, I don't see a National government working in quite the same way as our previous lot. Banning things ain't their style.

[Ocean1]

But in government departments it works the other way round. The changes to be made are decided on, the conclusions necessary to justify those changes , to the Minister or the public, are worked out, and then the survey is used to gather data which, after any necessary adjustments , will appear to justify the conclusions.

So you did read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

[James Deuce]

Yeah Right. Name one country in the world where motorcycling has been banned.

France are working on it. Bikes over 100hp can't be sold locally and anything imported over 100hp is subject to a 15% tax on the purchase price.

Great Britain are build a tracking network designed to specifically track individual motorcycles and are installing the PoC on the Cat and Fiddle run. Traffic safety experts and senior Police have labelled all motorcycles toys and don't believe they are a valid transport option on Britain's congested roads.

[James Deuce]

Pfft. Lawbreakers....

If it is good enough for me, an upholder of the law for years now... it sure as hell is good enough for them to pull finger and get the learners, then the restricted, then the full bike licence, just like I had to do. But hey, if there was a shortcut, I'd have been in....

Speaking of shortcuts, CBTA was designed for that and it was a brilliant idea. It stimulated the economy by providing scope for training organisations who could provide employment and got "lawbreakers' through to a full license in a short period of time with a good attitude to riding on the road and an enhanced set of riding skills.

[Usarka]

I did a direct access course in the uk, and am a great fan of such ideas. One full week of training on a larger bike with an instructor continuously critiquing (?) your riding. The carrot is a full licence at the end.

You don't finish with many bad habits (if the instructor is any good).

[Hitcher]

Speaking of shortcuts, CBTA was designed for that and it was a brilliant idea.

Mrs H and I are CBTA graduates. The bureaucrats lost their nerve with this scheme in the face of complaints about bike shops stitching up deals with CBTA trainers. The solution would have been to register more trainers, but bureaucrats aren't that clever, particularly when such a scheme also runs counter to their philosophy of not supporting driver/rider training. It makes drivers/riders overconfident, you know...

Gits.

[Patrick]

Try http://www.wayodd.com/philippine-law...ghways/v/8708/


Motorcycles are banned completely in Beirut and Ghangzhou.

Pillions are banned in Pakistan

Beirut - motorbike bombs and assassinations....

Pakistan - assassinations..... probably bombs too...

Ghangzhou - crappy Chinese made bikes falling apart and taking out anything and everything near them....

Speaking of shortcuts, CBTA was designed for that and it was a brilliant idea. It stimulated the economy by providing scope for training organisations who could provide employment and got "lawbreakers' through to a full license in a short period of time with a good attitude to riding on the road and an enhanced set of riding skills.

Shame about that... a great idea really.....