I thought you came across better on TV than with the above load of bullshit.Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback
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I thought you came across better on TV than with the above load of bullshit.
Unexpected Spanish inquisition
After reading your post a couple of times, I'm assuming you are referring to the previous post you quoted, as opposed to the quote you posted from me?
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ...He's a mile away and you've got his shoes
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Fixed.After reading your post a couple of times, I'm assuming you are referring to the previous post you quoted, as opposed to the quote you posted from me?
Unexpected Spanish inquisition
All good!Fixed.
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ...He's a mile away and you've got his shoes
yes Sir!
I have no idea what the point of that was.
They didnt really make any points, in my opinion all they did was bag motorcyclists!
The main guy in the first half of the program seemed to be busy bagging harleys.
The death they reported on was a guy who hit diesel(although if you look at the road shown, there was a VERY NASTY looking line of tar bleed), and crashed. What relivance does that have to born again bikers crashing? Did they not have tar bleed/diesel in the "70s?
In the second half, it seemed the presenter was just sucking Phill G's nob...
Anyway, im going to enjoy sitting here being notoriously difficult to educate, wondering why wont they wont show some bike racing, eg Paeroa, on their news show.
Whip it, whip it good!
It is annoying when you have to spread yourself around at times
LOOK.. ZOMBIES!
preach it brother!
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75% of fatal motorcycle accidents in NZ are rider error, yet you want to educate car drivers to fix the problem...???
Cap, Shirt, Bata Bullets...Go
Things I learned while watching that piece'o'shite puff piece...
1) I am notoriously hard to educate. Ask the wife, she knows.
2) Every wannabe biker needs to sit down with a berating psychologist who doesn't have the first idea what the hell makes a biker tick.
3) Phil Goff has no taste in bikes.
4) Crasherfromwayback (Pete) looks good on camera
5) Paul Henry is a dick...oh hang on, I knew that already
"Atomic batteries to power...turbines to speed..."
- Page 14 of the Buell Owners Manual
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When you are riding along and a big hunk of frozen urine from a jet-plane hits your bike causing you to fall off - that's 'shit happens'
A diesel spill around a blind corner - unfortunately 'shit happens'
A try-hard on a bike on the wrong side of the road on a blind corner - that's not shit happens - that's some fool biker being a shit.
I've watched the article online twice - not really sure what you are all getting your nickers twisted over - they stated clearly it was possibly a diesel spill that caused the rider to go down, they also stated he'd been riding all his life. He sounds like a decent, well respected chap. He was just an example of a almost 40 year old biker dying, as they appear to have been once every 5 days this year. Plus they stated that about 50% are caused by other road users.
That's some pretty shit statistics regardless how or why it is happening - and the KB community is aware of it - do a search for 'biker down'......
Mid-life crisis - probably true of lots of riders, so what, who cares why you get back into it, it's farking great. The point was maybe don't go straight back onto a big bike or first do a rider training course.
Bikers being a notoriously hard bunch to educate - classic comment - I may get T-shirts printed
Harleys - pretty much the only comment I objected to in the article was the 'don't go around corners' one.
Goff - respect gained, mental bling given - just don't fall off the bastard or the media will slaughter us all!
I'll be out for a hoon this weekend, there is bound to be some speed involved, but I'll be watching both sides of the road pretty sharply.
Best of all I'll have a smile on my face.
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How often do the Monday morning papers read... "6 killed on the roads over the weekend, 3 of which were motorcyclists"
Much too often. It doesn't take a genius to work out that if a small minority of road users are making up 50% of the road fatalities weekend after weekend - that some aren't going to take a closer look.
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Yes there are.
Nowhere near as much. In fact ACC and the MOT mention this as well. Female riders are dramatically underrepresented from motorcycle accident statistics even though there are lots of female riders.And how many of them crash and kill themselves?
This suggests that the problem is largely male dick measuring ego bullshit that is getting the male riders killed.
Better Red then Dead...
56 bikers killed last year i think the stats they quoted... thats not half the road toll...
How often do the Monday morning papers read... "6 killed on the roads over the weekend, 3 of which were motorcyclists"
Much too often. It doesn't take a genius to work out that if a small minority of road users are making up 50% of the road fatalities weekend after weekend - that some aren't going to take a closer look.
so fuck all times bikes are making half the road toll each weekend
but yes there has been a bad run since christmas so far this year
Unexpected Spanish inquisition
That's the thing about statistics and why the media love them, depending on how you quote them and depending on what information you neglect to quote, they can pretty well say whatever you want them to say.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? ...He's a mile away and you've got his shoes
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But a lot of bikes only get taken out and used on the weekends.
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