Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > we are all "Child killer`s"

[VanDaMauler]

As is, anyone who rides a Motorcycle, if you believe what has been reported in this weeks MCN.

BRAKE say`s
Anyone who rides a M/C is a child killer.
Anyone who rides a M/C will end up dead.
One in 20 M/cyclists will die in a crash (which contradicts the above statment)
Its the MOST dangerous thing you can do.
A child hit by a motorcycle will always come off worse.
A child is a vulnerable road user, a Motorbiker is a lump of metal going down the road.
A lot of Motorcyclists dont leave behind proper facilities, eg: life insurance for their spouses and children.

All of these statments are spouted out, without any research or proof of study.
Yet this "safety group" influence`s govenment policy and the publics perseption of motorcyclists.

What should be done about these crazy, ill-informed, over- emotional idiots?

[ducati]

and MCN are wondering why sales are droping

[Mr_S]

Originally posted by Bubbles
Anyone who rides a M/C will end up dead.

May as well say

anyone who breathes air will end up dead, so let's ban breathing.

Since we're all going to die at some stage, then any statement like this is true.

[antonye]

Originally posted by Bubbles
As is, anyone who rides a Motorcycle, if you believe what has been reported in this weeks MCN.

BRAKE say`s
...
Anyone who rides a M/C will end up dead.
...

Well at least they got one bit right - we all die in the end!

[psychlist]

Originally posted by Bubbles
What should be done about these crazy, ill-informed, over- emotional idiots?

Run'em over with your emotionless lump of two wheeled metal

[andyb]

After their recent run of headlines, i was going to run a pole on what the headlines would be this week. what words were in there?

Go on someone tell me..................

[keith_mann1959]

I've been bombarding Brake with e mails all day, yes childish i know but it makes me feel better.

[Ray]

Had a quick look at brakes site and couldn't see any reference to the motorbike stuff MCN are ratling on about.

gonna post a vid clip that proves speeding saves lives if I can tonight.

Ray

[antonye]

Originally posted by Ray
Had a quick look at brakes site and couldn't see any reference to the motorbike stuff MCN are ratling on about.

If you goto this page:
http://www.brake.org.uk/index.php?p=396

Click on the link about the press release sent to "Motoring" media.

A line in it reads:
For media enquiries and interviews with Mary Williams OBE, or parents whose children have been killed by bikers, call Aimee or Andrew at Brake on 01484 559909 or 07976 069 159

A bit strange that there's no mention of "bikers" in the rest of the document.

I did skim through another one, the national press release. It read:
Mandy Balmer’s 14 year-old son Martin was killed on 1 April 2005. Martin was crossing the road near his home in London when he was killed by a motorbike. Martin leaves behind a twin brother Michael and eight other brothers and sisters.

It doesn't give any other facts, like whether the motorbike was speeding, or the child stepped into the road without looking. And TEN kids! wtf!

I liked this one as well:
Jacqueline Wilson has personal experience of being knocked down when a child. When she was 14, she got off the bus at her stop and says she ‘was in a bit of a daydream, and was also waving to some friends who were still on the bus’. She wasn't concentrating on what she was doing and stepped out from behind the bus without looking and was knocked over by an oncoming car.

Maybe they should outlaw stupid daydreamers who don't look where they're going?

This lot would be on my list of going up against the wall come the revolution...

[Ains.]

Nnnnnnghh this kind of stuff makes my blood boil. Immotive clap trap. OK if said biker is one of those prats on a field bike, no crash hat and nowt else charging up the road, then fair do's, jail 'em and chuck the key away, but don't damn well mix all bikers in with said morons.

Any stats that puts children killed by 4x4's with bull-bars at any blo*dy speed against those killed by bikes?

Any stats as to kids knocked down after their stupid blo*dy mothers park up opposite the school on double yellow lines, then open the road side door and let the kids out to run across the road rather than get out the car and escort them across? No I don't suppose so. Seen it done loads of times having parked the car up 250m up the road in a side street and walked it the rest. Lazy sodding mares

I kid you not, outside my wifes school they start turning up 30+ minutes before schools out, so they don't have to get out their blo*dy cars to meet their own kids. They then wave their kids across the road between all the other cars, whilst other mothers drive off from the kerbside looking into the back seat of their car rather than where they are going.

It's an absolute frikkin' miracle that more kids are killed right outside their own school by their stupid blo*dy parents.

Ever seen any coppers just up the road from a school with a speed gun between 8 and 9 AM and 3-4PM? No I haven't seen any either.

Ever seen traffic wardens putting tickets on cars parked on double yellows outside school entrances? No I haven't either.

How many 20mph limits have you seen around town 200m either side of a school?

Ever seen double yellows on the opposite kerb to school entrance not just the entrance side?

Incidentally my youngest was knocked down by a car mounting the kerb doing a U-turn right outside my house.
The council stuck a post by the kerb to stop some other dimwit doing the same. The very next day the post was knocked out the ground by some other wan*er in a car with serious myopia!

About time we started lobbying for stricter application of eyesight tests. Traffic violation you get breathlised, so what about, now sir read that number plate.
And get some of those speed vans off country A-roads and into town.

Ains.