HJ and Mark The Moderator with your indulgence.
This year North Yorkshire has suffered a massive increase in the death of Motor- cyclists using the scenic and popular roads of The Dales, North Yorkshire Moors and Coast roads. So far an unprecedented TWENTY bikers have been fatally injured in road accidents within the County.
North Yorkshire Police after consultation with other Road safety agencies are to mount "Operation Victory" this Bank Holiday weekend and others later when resources will be specifically directed towards rider behaviour and to rigorously enforce the rules of the road.
If any of you in the Forum plan to visit the County this weekend or know of any two wheeled friends intending to do so, please pass on this information and ask for some moderation in riding.
We love to see you come, better still that you leave in one piece upright and still on two wheels.
DVD.
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their oath of office includes the words "without fear or favour", and the favour bit means they are supposed to treat all groups equally
sadly the are picking on motorcyclists for their own petty polically correct labour anti-motorists reasons, I'm prepared to bet most of the prosecutions will be for minor speeding, and not driving too close, or driving without lightis in fog - or the 101 other reasons that are more realistically the real causes of such road deaths
it could be argued that they are in breach of their oath of office, which would be a discipliary offence at the least
however as that black bishop said in the paper the other day "the most upsetting thing I found with the UK police was how differently they treated me once they found our who I was" (or words to that effect)
they shouldnt be allowed to ruin the good name of a british warship by using it in such a context
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Meanwhile, those poor souls who innocently live on or near the routes, or like to visit for the peace of the countryside, favoured by the band of bikers who think they are on a racetrack, have their quality of life and relaxation ruined.
The people in their cars will probably be done by a Policeman or camera for doing, say, 70 in a 60 limit, but the bikers, because you can hardly read legal number plates, let alone the very commonly used small illegal ones, will get away with everything scott free - the noise of non-standard/tarted up exhausts, the 100mph plus speeding and the red/pink/green/blue headlight covers.
It is dreadful when bikers come a cropper and hurt themselves or worse, but hey, they know what they are doing. That's the impression they give anyway. Trouble is, we all end up paying for their mistakes.
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yea ive seen bikers evade a police request to stop and disappear so far and so fast that the police didnt even bother writing their numbers down or radioing it in
which upsets, cos i would have stopped and been gived a taxation ticket for being 5 mph over some limit dropped recently by some politician with no advanced driving knowledge
however on the other side of the coin, me good old dad would drive up the same road at 40 in both bike and car, and only ever got a ticket on a bike - the odds are very much against the ordinary bikers who stop when asked compared with car drivers driving in exactly the same way
as for people in the countryside, if there is a road there, then you can only expect people to use it, youre not one of the locals at glastonbury complaining about all those people enjoying themselves dancing in a field ? get a life
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DVD,
You are, of course, welcome. But I fear your plea will get lost and the thread will degenerate into a "discussion" on the Police themselves.
Still, since we don't yet have a general note for the subject, I shall probaby compound it by pushing all such discussions to this thread.
To the others - surely the point of DVD's note was the 20 dead bikers rather than the intended police enforcement of traffic laws ?? Or wasn't it as much fun to read that bit ?
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DVD, degenerate
The shock of it!
A back room thread running off topic.
Well I never...
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Parp, Parp!
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>>Well I never...
Oh yes you did........
p.s. Your Mother wants to know when you will take all the windsurfing stuff out of her house, now that she has finaly got rid of your brother's car.
p.p.s. Father loves the car. Its very sad, a MB E300 in the drive and he travels everywhere in the Daihatsu.
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p.s. Your Mother wants to know when you will take all the windsurfing stuff out of her house, now that she has finaly got rid of your brother's car.
Sounds very much like her.
p.p.s. Father loves the car. Its very sad, a MB E300 in the drive and he travels everywhere in the Daihatsu.
I thought it would be a success. Cracking vehicle, wish I'd had a use for it; my bro was mad to accept the Mav.
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Parp, Parp!
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How many of the deaths were born-again, weekend bikers on a Fireblade/R1/etc? It all comes back to training. I think North Wales Police have been doing some weekend training lately, which is the most sensible thing I've heard from that region recently. There are no end of track days for those that want high speed thrills.
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Thanks Mark RBLS
I posted the thread not because of the enforcement aspect but to try and bring home the sheer waste of human life.
Thankfully not many of you have been involved in a fatal RTA or even seen one. So needless, to scrape up the bits of the body, the pain and hurt caused to the next of kin etc.I could go on and make your stomach churn.
All for the sake of a bit of limp right wrist and exercise of the grey matter which could resolve.
DVD
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