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[Monty]

My reply-sent!

What a wizard idea-ban motorcycles- and while we are at it since lots of pedestrians get killed and injured lets ban them too. Then of course there are cyclist's-nasty dangerous thing cycles-ban them. Horseriding, that will have to go obviously since there are more people killed or seriously injured each year riding horses than motorcycles, In fact since the only common factor in any motor accident is the movement lets ban all motorised transport-a good spin off of this would be that people would have to walk more which will improve their health. When the journey is too long for walking they can use public transport-oh but hang on-that'll be motorised again won't it, and it moves so using the above logic we had better ban that too, and trains since when they crash they kill lots of people at the same time which is very distressing. Aircraft are obviously out since they fall out of the sky occasionally, and since we have banned all other transport no-one would be able to get to the airport anyway.
So following this logic we come to the utopian society before the wheel was invented-is that REALLY where you want to go.
As you will have guessed from reading this-that is if you have bothered to get this far-I ride motorcycles, have done for 40 years in fact, I also drive about 40,000 miles a year in a car on business. The thing that will most improve the situation for motorcyclist's in this country is better training-for car drivers! I have been knocked of a motorcycle 3 times, twice involving trips to hospital and broken bones, and in each case the same refrain was heard "Sorry mate I DIDN'T SEE YOU!" If car/van/bus/lorry drivers would bother to LOOK then they might see motorcyclist's and stop knocking them off.

In fact having had a good think about all this it seems to me that there are massively more people killed or seriously injured each year in cars, and most motorcycle collisions involve cars as well-I'm sure you can see where this is heading, but I will continue-if we just ban cars we will reduce the carnage on the roads at a stroke, save loads of lives, and make the car drivers healthier as well since they will now have to do a small amount of WALKING.

I agree-he will shite himself, especially if he thinks a load of hairy arsed bikers are going to come calling..

Might be worth sending a few replies to the Times as well?

John