Stay a hero, stay safe......

[CaNsA]

Ripped from MCN

[27cows]

All road awareness stuff is total cobblers, IMHO. Most of us stay in one piece with a combination of experience, defensive riding and luck. With the latter being the most important part of not getting caged into oblivion.
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[Martay]

It certainly wont stop cagers pulling out on ya, but aimed at a biker id say it was pretty powerful.
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[Sham]

Dear me, was that made by Sussex, USofA......Schmaltz or what? Gave me toothache!

[dragstaar]

I disagree CaNsA, I thought it was a brilliant ad. I remember I posted on here a whil back about having cagers pull out on me all the time. And the general consensus was that *I* must be doing something wrong. My riding style must be wrong for it to be happening so often.

I thought it was bollocks at first, but then I decided to change my riding style, to a more defensive one. Yeah, I shouldn't have to, Mr SUV should look out for me, but that ad is aimed at riders, telling them to change their riding style to a more defensive one. Works well.

Only thing is though, I've noticed that this message is nothing new to Dads. I know a couple of daddy riders, and they ride safe not for themselves, but for their families. There needs to be an ad aimed at younger boisterous riders (myself being one of them!)

[salty21]

i'm not even sure what the message was behind that

Are they saying dont go out, just make do with what you have in the garage? or kids do what their parents do?. Dont get it at all TBH
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[27cows]

You've got to ride defensively. I guess that should be rammed home to newbie riders, particularly those who have driven a car prior to riding a bike. If you expect drivers to see you or respect your position on the road like they do when you're in a cage, you'll be in a for a nasty surprise.

These days I don't get many cars pulling out on me. Or least not in a way which put me in immediate danger of actually coming a cropper, from which I have to conclude that I must be riding in something like a reasonable manner. But that was a lesson I learned over time. Nothing anyone said to me when I was 17, 18 would have made me ride sensibly

If anything, some bellend preaching safety is likely to make you want to jump on something big and fast and ride like a maniac when you're young and rebellious and foolish.
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[Teflon-Mike]

so the message is?
Dont leave your kids on thier own and the garage unlocked when you go out for a ride...
Or you'll come home to your preciouse, haviung flattened the battery in your miners lamps and put holes in your brolly, and made a mess of the garage!
They spent money on that bit of footage?
Nice to know the GATSO money gets put to such good use!

Hmmm... bikers are killing themselves on our roads, I know, lets do a 'think of the kiddies' advert, that'll slow them down!?!?!?!?!!?!
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[N cee thirty]

did i just watch the wrong vid?

most people are retarded,so whats that video got to do with telling them not to drive with eyes on there ballbag
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[Hyaon]

shit video..watching footage of bike crashes on youtube educated me more than this crap... motorbike riders aint heros, we're cowboys :p
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[mistergixer]

If i came home to find one of my kids making a mess in the garage he'd get my foot up his arse, not a sickly smile.
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[stinkwheel]

What do kids want to know about a motorbike?

a) How fast does that go mister?

b) Can you do wheelies mister?

Therein ends their interest.
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[Doovy]

For anyone not understanding the message:

It's aimed at bikers riding responsibly, telling 'us' (and i use that word in a very loose way) that we should stay safe, and in that way our kids will grow up with us around them and not as a dead father/mother from an accident.

They would rather our kids look up to us for being safe (on a motorbike) than us not being there at all.

take from that what you will.
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[Devans]

The vid tries to put across the message that riding safely means you can get back home in one piece for your family.

At first it's as if the kids pretending to be his dad, as he's died etc. But the upside being his dad rode safely and returned home

It's aimed at your emotions!

In todays society where my taxes etc pay for fucking everything and every lazy cunt, i'm really not arsed that some of it's been spent on the biking community.

[Vin]

It doesn't apply to me.

I don't have kids so I can what I like
I'm pretty sure that was the message intended.

[pits]

So I'm supposed to get all my gear on, fuck an umbrella up, mount shit to my push bike and set a fan up to make it seem like I am on a motorbike, when in essence I look like a tool when someone with a Duke turns up looking awesome?

[johnsmith222]

I can relate with umbrella kid more than the guy with the ducati tbh.

[DrDonnyBrago]

If you can't see the "message" of the advert then you are retarded, it's not exactly complex. If you feel it applies to you, or is effective at reaching you/a larger audience or will have any effects on anybody etc etc is another matter, the intended message pretty much slaps you in the face.

[thx1138]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiVuHEv2VZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkyWNykoVto&NR=1

don't make them like they used to

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[Kris]

I actually thought it was an ok video which probably targets a decent percentage of the demographic riding fast through Sussex. Whenever I park up at biker cafes I have a wander round the bikes and would have to most of the fast boys are late 30's - early 40's and presumably most have kids...

Also, much as I think it was okay, I would still rather they spent their money on:

o - Improving road surfaces
o - Educating drivers on pulling out of junctions and lane discipline
o - Educating drivers on country road driving
o - Removing unnecessary road furniture
o - Free bikesafe 'Mega days' in summer


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[Sham]

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[Andy J]

I'm sorry but wtf was that?