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cameras and no police

cameras and no police tis will be good can't wait

Go ride around a Track

There are a lot of us out there who have sport bikes and still ride then pretty legally. Why because we are responsible individuals who care about the consequences of our actions.

if you want to ride your sports bike at stupid speeds then go do it on a track not on a public road. No one is a perfect rider and when you have an accident its not just about you. What about the person that you kill or injure when you hit them. The emergency services who have to pick the pieces. the person whose hip replacement you just cancelled because they need the bed to patch you up.

Everything we do in life is potentially dangerous, but please think about others for once and not just you. There are plenty of track days where you can test the high performance of your bike, of course it costs money and if you don't want to pay for the fun, then don't own a sports bike. I agree the money could be much better spent but its obviously become too much of a problem now so you only have yourselves to blame.

I would like to thank the biker who only because of my skill did we avoid a collision when he got the bend all wrong due to speed and inexperience and ended up on my side of the road, If I had been driving my car and not my bike I wonder who would be here to tell the story.

fiddle is about right

Why is everything about speed and reducing it in this god awful country? Most of the speed limits on our roads are unchanged (except to be reduced) for 40 plus years, yet car and bike suspensions, steering and brakes are so much improved as to be almost unrecognisable! Surely better drivers/ riders is a better answer? the bike test is now a lot harder to pass (and yes i know there are idiots out there who take libities but they can be dealt with without penalising the rest of us) yet the standard of driving i see on a daily basis is definately getting poorer. Most car drivers dont seem to have any idea of proper lane discipline or be able to have any lights on without the lot being on - fog lights rear fogs etc etc. And dont even get me started on lane choice approaching roundabouts or junctions, using indicators etc. You need bloody ESP these days! Incidently all of the previous poor driving examples are offences, but try to get a poxy camera to identify and deal with rubbish driving! More cameras will mean less cops on the road. Cameras dont catch uninsured unlicenced idiots in dangerous cars either.

Oh and by the way, the A13 is apparently getting average speed cameras throughout. Apparently it's because drivers cheat and speed up between the old ones and then slow down! Fancy that! I wonder if its anything to do with the ludicrous 40mph limit on a pretty junction free 3 lane well lit road?

Still, the fines will pay for all those potholes to be filled in. Yeah, right!

Re: Muppets

Definition of a Muppet rider, for me is someone who rides too fast for his ability, or fails to take proper regard of the road he's riding on, whether that's because he knows there will be diesel, sheep shit, or quarry wagons in the middle of the road, or he's just oblivious to these and many other dangers.

I would like to be able to ride at 60mph throughout Derbyshire and perhaps a little quicker when no-one's looking and I feel safe to do so, (much like we used to be able to do before it became a knob-heads test track), however I find the bullshit bravado of the "I've got a blade so I can ride at 140mph with impunity" brigade frankly rather sad.

By being fools and killing yourselves you've brought about this speed camera society and I guess some of you won't see the light till there are no roads left, or bikes over 250cc are banned altogether, you only reap what you sow.

Still why should I worry, when you've all been banned for trying to beat the cameras by stopping every few hundred yards and still getting it wrong, there'll be more roads for me!! and don't flatter yourselves big boys, the cameras are there just as much for the boy racers and "daddies got a Porsche" brigade as they are for you, they just made it so they can catch you as well.

Crashes Cat & Fiddle

We watched a report on the local news. They were going on about bike crashes and how bikers are a problem. The reporter spoke to a local person who said he totally disagreed that the problem was with bikes and said the problem was the car drivers. He then showed his wall which had been demolished by cars many times and he was getting fed up with repairing it. They then showed pictures of crashes, and yes they were all cars! Funny how the report seemed to suggest it was only bikes that crash!