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Originally Posted by torana68
unfortunately your there and the difference between you and the idiot seen in the area speeding is ? (not saying it was you) "riding too fast" and riding at 200k's are 2 different things one is a 'woops' the other is antiosocial behaviour that can and does end in death, death being fairly serious I would expect mr plod to enquire as to whats what if I was there, Id be quite happy to tell him and I doubt I'd get a defect or be bullied. They are there because of the actions of other bike riders, do you actively discourage the idiots who are the ones bringing all of you into discredit?
was your bike defected ? did you have to tow it? how exactly were you "bullied"?
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No roger, I wasn't there on the day. The comment I made in the previous post was simply a scenario. But that scenario did happen to many riders. As I noted, there were well over 100 bikes there on the day. A typical Sunday lunch time.
The difference. I suppose the same difference as every other rider who was present that also did not commit the offence. Too often I have heard non-riders say "it's a bike, who cares, they probably deserved it".
The information I have is via approx 15 riders who are friends of mine who were there on the day. 3 of them were
incorrectly defected as they have totally 100% off-the-shelf bikes. No modifications or adjustments at all.
1 of them ended up having to get his tank resprayed due to the paint damage caused by the defect sticker glue. Needless to say he is extremely annoyed.
The cost of this was less than his insurance deductable & so didn't claim it. If he had claimed it I'd like to see how the insurance company went about getting their money back form the Police dept.