Right Royal contradication

[mentalboy]

Somebody should make his mind up!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337994/Prince-Charles-fears-motorbike-loving-William-Harry.html

versus this, where it has been reported that Charles stated 'This helmet law law must at the very least be reformed to exempt certain riders'.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/9648504/Prince-Charles-gets-on-his-bike-to-support-Poppy-Appeal.html

When pressed by journo's on just which riders should be exempt he replied 'anyone who don't want to wear the beastly things'
( is it just me or does that sound like our, possible, future king needs a grammar lesson?), adding 'the law requiring adults to wear helmets or be beheaded was truly appalling'.
When offered a lid for the photo shoot he dismissed the courtier with 'Take that bauble away from me'.
A Palace spokeman pressed for quote stated' Helmet laws suck, OK!'


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[krarkol]

"prince harry on his ducati 848 which has a top speed of 166mph" yet he's sat on what is clearly a triumph daytona 600 don't even need to be into bikes to read the big labels on the side!

and i'm sure that i've read somewhere that he rides a blackbird or did?
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[cimbian]

[bikertomm]

Love how they need to quote the top speeds of the bikes to make the public potato themselves.

Saw this comment and facepalmed hard.

'These death-traps should be banned outright. The amount of lives wasted and the cost of dealing with motorycle-related accidents is too great for society to bear. They are mostly play-things for middle aged men. They should grow up and stick to cars, or if they want to be on two wheels - a bicycle is much healthier and safer. Motorcycles - one of the most pointless items on this earth today (a bit like Harriet Harman in that respect).'


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[mentalboy]

Regardless of the machine, I wonder what daddy's reaction would be if said helmet law were to be repealed and Harry or Wills turned round and said 'I'm not wearing my helmet'.
I suppose it's ok for them as their heads are probably the body part least affected by a bash!
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[cimbian]

[krarkol]

The top speeds have nothing to do with the dangers at all, they go as fast as you make it! Your bike might be able to do 10000000 mph but you can still get knocked off at 30mph by a blind car driver

If top speed comes into it then why aren't there articles about clearly incompetent drivers getting things like BMW's which are restricted to 155mph? That's not exactly slow!
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[mentalboy]

[krarkol]

That's what I mean though, he's saying he's bothered about blind drivers yet the daily mail make it seem like it's the bikers fault for having such high performance machines

No matter who's at fault, bikes are evil!
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[Teflon-Mike]

I wouldn't give much credance to what the press say; even less how they choose to quote or misquote old Charlie.

Bloke, when listened to in full, does seem to have some pretty interesting and inteligent ideas about stuff; and seems a quite pragmatic chap, with some very practical as well as innovative ideas about things; but then the press get hold of it...

Seem to recall that a rather lengthy and very inteligent talk he gave on modern farming practices, and the influence of the large super-market chains, tended to be bad both for farming and the consumer, restricting choice and discouraging innovation or re-innovation, of 'old' farming techniques... which all made an awful lot of sense.... but comment about how super-markets only stock lamb, and how breeding sheep up to mutton, has many agricultural merits and environmental benefits, and how there were many traditional mutton dishes no one could make any more.... got translated to the tabloids as him going on some crazy crusade to take farming back three hundred years and make us all eat sheep!

They did a similar job on him over the talking to trees thing, I seem to recall!

As for contradictions... well ignoring any tabloid distortion; its a skew argument.

Having a 'liberal' attitude to motorcycle safety in general does not necesserily contradict having personal concerns for one individual motorcyclist!

I dont agree with the compulsary helmet laws either...... My eldest Lad on a motorbike scares the SHIT out of me! He's a complete LOON! Crashed more times than Alpha he has! Is that a contradiction? Is there any hypocracy there?
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[Rogerborg]

I think the answer to "What bikes do the 2nd and 3rd in line to the throne currently ride?" is "Whatever they want."

That said, there's several pictures of them out and about in pedboi gear. Maybe they can't afford anything better, aw, bless.

Royals are forever patronising things - I wonder if either of them will ever get on board with MAG, BMF or a similar rabble.
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