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Bigvern72 |
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Rogerborg wrote: | Just wait a few years, Brussels will mandate them.
Not even JK, m8, mandatory for all new cars and light commercials from March 2018.
"MEPs also secured an obligation for the European Commission to assess, in the three years after spring 2018, whether eCall devices should be included in other vehicles, such as buses, coaches or trucks"
...or Motorrads, perchance. |
Luckily (or unluckily dependant on your politics) what Brussels say won't matter anymore ____________________ Tracer 700 (66) and Triumph America (65) - current rides
Yamaha xj600 diversion and Honda cb125f (65) - both 'retired' |
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Kal World Chat Champion
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stevo as b4 World Chat Champion
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I think there's a difference and difficult to define factor, between you or I out on an early Sunday ride in rural roads alone, where we might not be familiar with them, and as such we accidentally misjudge a bend, or come across an unexpected hazard or just poor obs while not trying to be a dickhead or twat.
Then there is the Sunday full race kitted hero out on his tweaked R1 who knows the rural roads well, deliberately seeks them out at quiet times, and knows the likely hazards as they use the roads alot when it's quiet, so that they can do 3figure speeds on twisty hill/mountain passes etc. They often know there can be several hundred feet of sheer drop off if they put a wheel over the tarmac onto the grass or gravel, but they don't care as they want to give a 180bhp superbike some serious throttle abuse, clutch up massive wheelies out of every bend and crest every blind crest at 120mph. Fast bikes style riding or TT racer wannabe etc.
I have zero sympathy for the second group, the mental crowd that are riding bikes too fast for the highway and in a way that's not only way into ban territory, but is dangerous for the public, and themselves if the slightest thing goes wrong or they run out of talent that one time they are doing 5mph more round the same bends trying for a PB etc. I wouldn't if I had the say want to send up air ambulance choppers to pick them up or the police to fetch their body parts from the road side.
Say an early morning farmer is pulling out of his field with a tractor and trailer onto a 60mph hilly mountain road, when all of a sudden an R1 comes howling round a bend and into view at 130mph on the back wheel. Not exactly the farmers fault there for the fatality is it?
I've ridden out with nutters in the past, and seen people ride roads like the Horseshoe pass like it's their personal race track, and I used to know a guy with a CBR 1100XX that would always try to hit 180mph on a short bumpy cattle grid length of straight every time he went out there on the bike.
If you can't enjoy twisty narrow rural roads at or below 60-80 mph I think your doing it wrong. I have no problem with speed, I mean empty A roads and motorways at night are almost begging for 3figure speeds when it's quiet/late at night etc.
But there's never a good reason for 120mph on narrow single track mountain roads where anything could be around the next blind bend, just so you can feel a bit Joey Dunlop inside at 6am on a sunny Sunday morning. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 66 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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