Police interview - look out for motorbikes.

**Highlander** · 1st December 2010, 19:23

Originally Posted by BoristheBiter

I wish i could ride and listen to music but it distracts me and when a good song comes on the speed goes up and i don't need an incentive to do that.

You gotta do what works for you. I can tune in and out to the music (which is really only background anyway) and focus when I need to.

**scumdog** · 1st December 2010, 19:39

Originally Posted by Supertwin Don

- bikers already generally look out for other riders,

A statement of dubious accuracy in my experience....but it SHOULD be 100% true.

**Drew** · 1st December 2010, 20:10

Originally Posted by george formby

You would love it up here, shorts, jandals , t-shirt, missus on the back is the rule not the exception. These riders wonder why i won't join them on a jaunt. If their riding gear is any indication of how they actually ride I'm not missing much. I understand the point of individual freedoms but it's bloody selfish if in the event of a rider not at fault accident not to consider how much harder it makes it for the people who attend at the scene.

Enough from me, this is done to death.

Done to fuckin death by friggin hypocrites like yourself.

If you are so concerned about the EMS teams, then best you hang up your helmet and wrap up nice and safe in some bubble wrap.

Originally Posted by scumdog

A statement of dubious accuracy in my experience....but it SHOULD be 100% true.

How so dubious? Are we crashing into eachother out regularly or summat?

**scumdog** · 1st December 2010, 20:14

Originally Posted by Drew

How so dubious? Are we crashing into eachother out regularly or summat?

No, we don't actually collide with each other all that often - but that's more good luck than good management going by what I've seen on some group rides.

**piston broke** · 1st December 2010, 20:17

Originally Posted by BoristheBiter

I wish i could ride and listen to music but it distracts me and when a good song comes on the speed goes up and i don't need an incentive to do that.

same,i don't think i've ever listened to musuc on a bike,other than whats going on in my head.
i'd rather listen to the bike and what is happening around me.
do those of you that have music wear earpeices,i.e can you hear anything other than music?

**DMNTD:Me** · 1st December 2010, 20:17

LOL...Pete Marriott is a bloody good bastard and certainly knows how to pedal a bike
He's a 'real bloke' that happens to be a Cop...most certainly not a 'tax collector' in any shape or form. If you get a ticket from Pete, then you essentially deserve it

**Highlander** · 1st December 2010, 20:40

Originally Posted by piston broke

same,i don't think i've ever listened to musuc on a bike,other than whats going on in my head.
i'd rather listen to the bike and what is happening around me.
do those of you that have music wear earpeices,i.e can you hear anything other than music?

Can't pretend to speak for the others, but in my case I have the Plugz 4 Lugz moulded ear plugs with speakers. Can hear my bike and any others near me quite clearly even with the music playing, but like I say the music is back ground not turned up loud.

**Hopeful Bastard** · 2nd December 2010, 00:51

So they handing out them Booklets and dvd's and Fluro's down these ways?

I'd be keen on getting my hands on this lot!

Or are we just getting the "talking to" and then told to go on our way?

**DMNTD:Me** · 2nd December 2010, 04:49

Originally Posted by Hopeful Bastard

So they handing out them Booklets and dvd's and Fluro's down these ways?

I'd be keen on getting my hands on this lot!

Or are we just getting the "talking to" and then told to go on our way?

If you're after some, go into your local Dealer and ask for them as they should have had some delivered to them. If they haven't I'll have a 'set' sent to you

**North Harbour Yamaha** · 2nd December 2010, 14:40

Originally Posted by Groins_NZ

Nice work Dave, it's all good if it helps to save lifes. I still see a lot of bikers NOT wearing any protective clothing so it would be good if the message can go out to some of them.

The amount of idiots I have seen on the roads in the last few weeks with the hot weather wearing no protective gear is unbelievable

**nosebleed** · 2nd December 2010, 15:56

Can I cross-credit my previous encounters and subsequent road side lectures from both of these guys?

**cowboyz** · 2nd December 2010, 16:27

its like this really...

while everyone is praising the job the police are doing trying to herd the horses wouldnt it have been easier to lock the barn before it bolted?

Instead of spending fuck knows how much money preaching to the converted (who are the only ones who are really going to listen) why not take it back to the licence test and actually have compulsory training and proper testing before letting people drive/ride?

**Bald Eagle** · 2nd December 2010, 16:30

Originally Posted by cowboyz

its like this really...

while everyone is praising the job the police are doing trying to herd the horses wouldnt it have been easier to lock the barn before it bolted?

Instead of spending fuck knows how much money preaching to the converted (who are the only ones who are really going to listen) why not take it back to the licence test and actually have compulsory training and proper testing before letting people drive/ride?

Careful this is KB, can't have good sense suggestions now can we