Bike speed v car speed
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GetCarter

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308 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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I've been working for a company that needs music for TV progs in the above category.

So have watched every 'cop/driving/police/bad'n' prog there is on the TV

Just wonder why, when bikes ride at 130mph they get a slap on the wrist and some points, and car drivers get a 3 year ban - and even a prison sentence. That seems REALLY unfair.

Any ideas why bikes are not seen in the same way in the law? Why can bikes do that speed and not cars?

Biker's Nemesis

41,410 posts

237 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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Bike riders are usually more skilful.

...And better looking, youthful, virile etc....

StuntmanMike

15,058 posts

180 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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Biker's Nemesis said:
Bike riders are usually more skilful.

...And better looking, youthful, virile etc....
And they have sweaty knackers.thumbup

ferrariF50lover

1,834 posts

255 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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That isn't anything like true. That's why it seems so unfair, because it simply doesn't happen.

A bit like if I asked why white people who are convicted of murder get a medal while black people get 75 years bread and water. Why is the law so racist? It's not, I've just made that up, in exactly the same way you have.

I wonder, does your employer/wife/friends know you're an habitual fantasist who simply invents a world full of injustice in order to complain of it on the internet?

Simon.

In case it isn't clear, don't take the insult seriously, I'm just having a gentle dig for our collective amusement. You're a big enough man to laugh along, I'm sure.

GetCarter

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Saturday 21st June 2014
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ferrariF50lover said:
That isn't anything like true
Very sadly, it is. Still, there is some hope with folk like you around.

I'd really like an answer to my original question!

DervVW

2,223 posts

168 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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Well I have not seen any real world examples - but I did see on TV shows bikers getting a telling off after being chased down by the police on their own undercover bikes for speeding by quite a margin. No tickets, just grief about how easy it would be easy for them to die.

Is this where the op is taking his example? I do remember seeing a police documentry where this happened.

GetCarter

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31,239 posts

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Saturday 21st June 2014
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DervVW said:
Well I have not seen any real world examples - but I did see on TV shows bikers getting a telling off after being chased down by the police on their own undercover bikes for speeding by quite a margin. No tickets, just grief about how easy it would be easy for them to die.

Is this where the op is taking his example? I do remember seeing a police documentry where this happened.
Have watched lots of bikes doing over 100mph being let off with a 'telling off'. Don't get me wrong, I think that was the best way to go, but car drivers never seem to get that break.


Biker's Nemesis

41,410 posts

237 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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GetCarter said:
Why can bikes do that speed and not cars?

DervVW

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168 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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GetCarter said:
DervVW said:
Well I have not seen any real world examples - but I did see on TV shows bikers getting a telling off after being chased down by the police on their own undercover bikes for speeding by quite a margin. No tickets, just grief about how easy it would be easy for them to die.

Is this where the op is taking his example? I do remember seeing a police documentry where this happened.
Have watched lots of bikes doing over 100mph being let off with a 'telling off'. Don't get me wrong, I think that was the best way to go, but car drivers never seem to get that break.
Maybe its because you can do more damage with a car? Completely guessing....

paranoid airbag

2,679 posts

188 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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ferrariF50lover said:
That isn't anything like true. That's why it seems so unfair, because it simply doesn't happen.

A bit like if I asked why white people who are convicted of murder get a medal while black people get 75 years bread and water. Why is the law so racist? It's not, I've just made that up, in exactly the same way you have.

I wonder, does your employer/wife/friends know you're an habitual fantasist who simply invents a world full of injustice in order to complain of it on the internet?

Simon.

In case it isn't clear, don't take the insult seriously, I'm just having a gentle dig for our collective amusement. You're a big enough man to laugh along, I'm sure.
hehe

Baryonyx

18,281 posts

188 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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Get a bike.

GetCarter

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31,239 posts

308 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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DervVW said:
Maybe its because you can do more damage with a car? Completely guessing....
Good point, but not at the speed they ride round here. SO SLOW.

I should point out that bikers come here from all over the world to drive this road... lovely folk all of them.... but why are they so slow? In 15 years of living on this road, I have never been overtaken by a biker, but have been held up by all?

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 21st June 16:38

Biker's Nemesis

41,410 posts

237 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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GetCarter said:
Good point, but not at the speed they ride round here. SO SLOW.
Excuse me I quite often pass your house at ludicrous speed.


chibbard

1,554 posts

289 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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I have never read so much bks in the history of reading stuff on Pistonheads....

chibbard

1,554 posts

289 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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I have never read so much bks in the history of reading stuff on Pistonheads....

GetCarter

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Saturday 21st June 2014
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chibbard said:
I have never read so much bks in the history of reading stuff on Pistonheads....
Agree.


jimbop1

2,441 posts

233 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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GetCarter said:
ferrariF50lover said:
That isn't anything like true
Very sadly, it is. Still, there is some hope with folk like you around.

I'd really like an answer to my original question!
It really isn't.

GetCarter

Original Poster:

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Saturday 21st June 2014
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jimbop1 said:
GetCarter said:
ferrariF50lover said:
That isn't anything like true
Very sadly, it is. Still, there is some hope with folk like you around.

I'd really like an answer to my original question!
It really isn't.
Why then, do they let the bikers off?

GetCarter

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308 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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Baryonyx said:
Get a bike.
Been there, done it. Caterhams are better and quicker wink

ETA: though 5 to 10 times more expensive!

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 21st June 16:58

Baryonyx

18,281 posts

188 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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GetCarter said:
Been there, done it. Caterhams are better and quicker wink

ETA: though 5 to 10 times more expensive!

Edited by GetCarter on Saturday 21st June 16:58
Drive a Caterham and enjoy your speeding tickets then.