RE: I'm an arrogant sod with a beemer (was Symantec - Virus Warning Bulletin)

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Agreed.

Thats *even more* of a worry, but I know of at least one chap I used to
work
with: Bought himself a fireblade aged 23 having passed his test three
weeks
previously, and wrapped it into a volvo on the windy backroads between
here
and Edinburgh. He died (was thrown into a garden and broke his neck on
a
stone pillar) but also managed to kill three out of the family of four
in
the car when the blade's fuel tank ripped loose and went through the
windscreen of the car.

As you know, there's always an element of risk involved in biking, but
allowing someone to ride such a powerful machine without the
"breathing
space" of a noddy little 125cc seems like insanity to me.

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alancc [mailto:alan.cc@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 May 2002 12:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] I'm an arrogant sod with a beemer (was Symantec -
Virus Warning Bulletin)


I done the Direct Access a few years back and found the guy who run the
course to be very good, he doesn't do quick fix courses, the lessons
are
spread out over a two week period rather than the crash type courses (
not
that type of crash :-) ). I think the problem with the middle aged bikers
is
more from the ones who took their test years ago on older machines who
the
buy a knee scraper and can go straight out after not riding for maybe
20
years, they haven't even done their CBT.

Alancc


>
> As a biker turned car-driver, I find the whole notion of passing a
driving
> test, then "pop" legal to drive everything just a nonsense.
I think it was
a
> big step *backwards* When direct Access for 21+ was introduced (for
those
> unfamiliar, the government allowed   guys with middle age
crises to go out
> and buy any bike, including today's 200mph+ machines after a
simple
> one-stage) and it's had the expected effect: lots more fatalities etc
in
> this age group.

> Ian.
>



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