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Originally posted by bradders
Quote: Originally posted by Ray
What can the biking community do to improve their press?
Ray. |
difficult one Ray - who says we can do anything?? All we can hope is that the media have another target soon......but as they have portrayed negative images of bikes for 50 years, I won't hold my breath! |
The media, especially the BBC, are past masters of misrepresentation. I saw a documentary about their coverage of the miner's strike quite a few years back. The coverage depicted the strikers lobbing stones, etc at the police and the police launching a horseback charge in response. The reality of the situation though was that the police had charged first, and the miners responded. A subtle manipulation of events, and their effect on the viewer, I thought.
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| And I dont think speeding nutters are the probelm - its people like us (me, dont know about you) who have loud cans and SOUND like we are speeding. 40 thru a village in 4th rather 30 in 1st will not cause as much problem, hence why complaints are not as prfelent for cars which often go as fast or faster. |
Absolutely. And it's for this kind of reason I will not fit noisy pipes - I want to retain as low a profile as possible, so far as complaints are concerned, and I'm yet to be convinced of the argument that extra-loud pipes save lives.