| Anyone on a powered two wheeler is "easy meat" in more senses than one. It only takes one or two "incidents" to prevoke a big backlash for any minority group. Anyone remember the backlash on UK handguns? A nutter shoots some people and the next minute hand guns are up for a ban.
It only takes a few headbangers to get a whole group tarred with the same brush. You won't remember the 100 bikes that you saw riding couteously, just the one that nearly took yer door mirror off at 120mph as they weaved through the traffic.
Today's reporting about WHO and road deaths is a another classic case. Anyone see Steve Berry on the morning news?, he actually put up a pretty good defence to the bikes are death traps brigade.
The most disturbing aspect of this "story" this morning was that WHO were saying that policies that might encourage people on to powered two wheelers shouldn't happen! They cited congestion charging as one example!
A biker will almost invariably come of worse than a a car or truck in a crash. Its a fact of life. Unless some noew technology come along that can change that fact then the nanny state is gonna get us.
Ray  |