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It's a morbid thought, but I'm fed up of reading about local bikers being killed or critically injured round here.

Thursday, there was a serious accident at a roundabout I'd used 12 hours previous. There are roadworks at it, and I don't know what happened but there were 'bits' on the road, gravel mud and the like... the stuff you find in roadworks tbh.

Just gone on the local BBC News site and there's a story about a Bristolian biker who's been killed last night. The guy he was following clipped the curb and went down.... he went over the bike, and was pronounced dead at the scene.

I do wonder how many of these incidents are people who have figured the weather is nice and got the bike out of hibernation. I bet if I go down the dealers there'll be the same, getting the latest gear...not swatting up on their riding techniques.

I not the greatest rider, just always have the view the drivers are out to kill me.

PLEASE..... just take it easy out there.

Cant agree more Gina,
the job I do I get to see most of the lads and lasses who get killed on bikes up here.
Most, if not all are weekend warriors with all the gear and no idea.
The one thing you can say about cruiser/custom bike riders is that they very rarely come to any great grief. There will allways be accidents but most walk away rather than the plastic rocket riders who get carried away and land on my desk on a Monday morning.

Ride safe everyone

Cheers

Chris

+ 1 as the better weather is coming "Take it easy out there" guys n girls..

Not only are the cagers out to get us, the folks who are supposed to take care of the roads are leaving us lots of obstacles. Sand, mud, gravel and other assorted crap on the road. About now is when we need to remind them that we're out there and expect them to not leave hazards on the road just because it's convenient.

Okay. Alright. Before I get on MY soapbox here, I'd like to know how fast this guy was goin' around that roundabout in order to attain enough speed to cause this fatality???

Now, I don't know what kind of SIGNAGE is required to warn folks over on that island nation that there is road construction goin' on ahead and thus WARN folks of any dangerous conditions before they arrive to it, but I'd say the guy had to goin' at pretty good clip in order to cause his death while goin' around that sucker.

And IF(and I say IF here, mind you) he WAS traveling at "a pretty good clip", then I'd say the issue of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY might've come into play here!

(hmmmm..."personal responsibility"...I like the ring to that)

I was filtering through traffic the other day and was waiting to join a roundabout and take the first exit. As I was waiting for the car in front to clear, 2 blokes filtered up behind me on scooters. Brand new scooters, brand new gear, obviously first time bikers because, not only did they pull up right next to me, they moved off with me, forcing me to cut across them to take the turn I wanted. I really hope they learned a lesson from it.

As an aside, the builder that we regularly use isn't 'allowed' to have a bike. His girlfriend makes prosthetic limbs and most of her clients are bikers.

well i heard on the radio today that the new bike test that was to come into force 6months ago does at the end of this month Only special centres offroad is were you can take a bike test and you have to go with a instructor cant go to it alone, reason for delay is that not engough centres were available at that time, stll only 20 odd i think at mo . they reckon in time it will be that you should have one within 45 min ride. the next 3 weeks eveyone is trying to get test in before the new and harder ( more aware of riding ) test comes in. lets hope it will help. But I still think it wont. they will always be people who think its like playing on a "X box wii"

Statistically, motorcycle accidents are always highest in the spring when all the casual riders are going through retraining. Also, I suspect people in cars are also less familiar with seeing bikes on the road. We all know how invisible we seem to be to them. I read a report online some years ago that, as I recall, was called the Hurt Report, that went through all the statistics for motorcycle accidents. Interesting reading.

Ther is a guy from town that is waiting for a lung transplant. Today I heard that his docter told him this is the best time of the year to be waiting for an organ because of so many fatal motorcycle accidents.

For some reason I found out that me and my crewmate do very few motorcycle incidents compared to others off our station.

The ones we tend to get though, way in excess of people on "proper" motorcycles are 16 - 19yr olds on mopeds.

For them it would seem that motorcycling gear consists of tracksuits and trainers and a borrowed helmet that is way too big for their tiny heads.

And the incidents seem to be stuff like going into the backs of cars, hitting the kerbs, not negotiating bends and trying to overtake when it's just not on.

A friend of mines husband just died here on Sunday. It was inexperience and a nice day. He just bought the bike a couple of weeks ago and was out in the country and took a corner too fast and hit a mailbox. He had not ridden in many years and decided he wanted to ride again.

He really needed to take a course or practice for awhile before riding out in to the country and trying to keep up with more experienced riders.

Your right Gina, let's all be careful, and have fun.

-Brent

That's terrible news, my condolences.

Went for a ride with a friend yesterday. We happened upon a driver and his missus slowing, speeding up, slowing; Braking heavily at bends etc. I spotted the silver hair and thought, ahh OK. Road was pretty twisty but my friend in lead managed to pass at a short straight. I got into overtaking position to try to catch him, half way rounding the next bend noticed the oncoming lane was clear, so went for it. Unfortunately hadn't seen the blind entrance just round the bend, which now makes more sense why the driver was driving like that, he was just looking out for his turn. Luckily he'd seen me and let me pass before turning... Experienced or inexperienced, these situations can quickly arise, try to expect the unexpected.